From britdisc-owner@csv.warwick.ac.uk Mon Sep 28 17:14:08 1998 Received: (from daemon@localhost) by pansy.csv.warwick.ac.uk (8.8.7/8.8.8) id RAA27884 for britdisc-outgoing; Mon, 28 Sep 1998 17:02:19 +0100 (BST) Received: from ntintel1.webleicester.co.uk ([195.146.160.4]) by pansy.csv.warwick.ac.uk (8.8.7/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA27875 for <britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk>; Mon, 28 Sep 1998 17:02:17 +0100 (BST) Received: by NTINTEL1 with Internet Mail Service (5.0.1460.8) id <TVCX3SSY>; Mon, 28 Sep 1998 17:03:07 +0100 Message-ID: <A039D4ADFE34D2118B5800E0290F429903C35A@NTINTEL1> From: Ian Scotland <Scott@webleicester.net> To: britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk Subject: Open Results 5-8 Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 17:03:06 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.0.1460.8) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-britdisc@warwick.ac.uk Precedence: bulk I think like most people playing at the tournament like myself only really got to see what was happening in their section, so my brief report is about the 5-8 placings. Equally, as tight as the top four the 5-8 bracket existed of two sudden death games for Red against Druids and First Touch. In the 5-8 semi's, First Touch met Headrush in a game that was delicately balanced at the end of the first half with First Touch just pipping it 9-8. The half abviously did Headrush a great deal of good as they came out firing and ended up shutting out First Touch in the second half to take the game 13-9 (the report on this game is second hand, so any Headrush/FT players that can inform differently, please do!). With places at the World clubs almost gauranteed for the top six this meant Headrush had booked their place. In the other 5-8 semi, Red met Druids, a match up the Red had never won. We (Red) started poorly, a hang-over from day 1 and slipped to an 8-3 defecit. At this point I must admit to having something of a barny at my team, which for once had some impact, the concerntration level improved, we started throwing and catching and managed to pull back to 9-8 (Druids) by the half. The weather conditions were a major factor in a game which saw both teams employing the zone (for the whole game in our case) and more than the average number of drops I would expect from either team. After the half both teams picked up their game and traded untilt the time cap came into force at 13-13. Both teams scored on their possession, then we had to pull to Druids for the sudden death point!! Making abosutely no attempt to play the disc down the pitch, Adam hucked straight of the pull (a tactic that had failed to work convincingly all game) straight to our big defender Neil who made a tremdous block just to see the disc sail nicely into the hands of a purple shirted victor. BUM! Druids then went on to the 5-6 play-off, which it sounds like Headrush weren't up for having already achieved a worlds qualification place. Druids ran out easy victors to finish 5th with Headrush 6th. Our final game turned out to be (potentially) more important than we thought, with the demise of Shotgun, an extra worlds qualifying slot opened up! Both teams were very tired after a long tournament, but still put everything into the last game.... We opened up an early lead, which by half had been overturned by some patient play against our zone by First Touch taking the half 9-8 (I think). We got fired up by convincing ourselves that First Touch wouldn't score in the second half as against Headrush, and as it turned out played our way to a 14-11 lead by the cap (Okay they scored a few!). First Touch never gave up and played hard turning us over twice on our own endzone line to pull us back to 14-14. Having learnt from Adams (Druids) example we made no attempt to play the disc down field and hucked from the start. Of course it didn't work, but fortunately we got a second chance and put in a short pass for the game. Phew! Thanks to Ian Stebbings for arranging a great tourney at short notice, and everyone who has contributed to the tour, organising and playing. Fairwell and thanks for the memories to Shotgone. Scott (EX-BUF National Director) ======================================== Ian Scotland - Web Design Manager, WEBLEICESTER E-Mail: scott@webleicester.net http://www.webleicster.co.uk/ Tel: 0116 2230074