Holla, KickBALLAs
By vanessagene
So last Friday, we (from left: Will, Lincoln, Saadiq and Vanessa) played some kickball against a bunch of other NYC tech startups. We also discovered that here at Hot Potato we’re kinda awesome at kickball. Who knew?
Hosted by Image Space Media, the first annual Internet Week Kickball Tourney turned out to be a ton of fun and a really nice opportunity to meet fellow techies (check out our Hot Potato event for some play-by-plays). Playing in Chelsea Park, we joined forces with Next New Networks (also kinda awesome at kickball) to create The Ball Crushers. We didn’t take home the big gold, but we did win all three of our games and Best Team Name. Though it should be said that those teams we played — drop.io, Mashable and Howcast — made us work for those wins (where the heck did Adam Ostrow learn to kick like that?). Good show, guys!
Oh, and just because we really liked it: Check out this amazing sign made by Evan, one of our teammates. Evan stopped by the office earlier in the day for the Walkabout NYC open house. We liked him so much, we invited him to play kickball with us as an honorary Hot Potato. He was a really good sport and did his best to psych out the competition with his creation. Spelling shortcomings were more than made up for with enthusiasm:
Thanks to everyone for participating and making the tourney happen — we’ll see you next year. BRING IT.
