Get the Football game started!

Tycho Aussie went to the mountains of central Armenia, about 40 km north of Yerevan, where we spent the week with scientists and seismic analysts from throughout countries of the former Soviet Union. Part of the tradition of the annual Seismological school is a football tournament, which pits the seismic networks against one another. Since I was recovering from an acute case of food poisoning, I was not in any position to run about the playing field to kick a soccer ball. That, and I didn't have my knee brace. Ah, excuses, excuses! One excuse that was removed was the loss of my luggage: It had been lost for five whole days, and it showed up just an hour before this photo was taken. Enclosed within my long-lost luggage was the majority of my fursuit, so it was with joy and relief that I was able to don Tycho and become the mascot for the games. These men here are the directors of seismic networks and organizations from Great Britain, to the far-eastern regions of Russia. That's an area encompassing half the circumference of the world.