A couple months back, I got an email from a member of my first ever iO team, Quincy. Most of us went through classes together and we performed at the theater for two years before getting cut, longer than most teams there. My teammate was writing to see if anyone would be interested in entering Battleprov, a show at ComedySportz that pits their house teams against different groups from around Chicago. I thought it would be a disaster; we had't played together in over a year and I figured we'd be rusty as hell.
The show was last night. K. and I rode our newly-purchased bikes about thirty blocks and still made it in time to have dinner in the old neighborhood. As we were riding home, I commented on how amazing it is that when you're a kid, it is so daunting and difficult to learn to stay up on a bicycle, but once you've got it down, you never lose it. It's been years since my last bike was stolen, but of course I had no trouble riding the new one (getting it assembled was a different story).
Anyway, my show last night was the same way. We whooped the other team's ass almost two to one. The vote was something like 37-19. We didn't rehearse, we didn't warm up before the show, we didn't spend more than five minutes discussing what we would do, but we had a great show. It felt really good.
Unlike iO's Cagematch, Battleprov is not a tournament. We will not advance in a bracket, but we would like to do some more shows together. It takes such a long time for an improv team to build chemistry that it would be a shame for us not to perform together.
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