From britdisc-owner@csv.warwick.ac.uk Mon Dec 2 10:41:25 1996 Received: from thistle.csv.warwick.ac.uk by pansy.csv.warwick.ac.uk with ESMTP id KAA26310; Mon, 2 Dec 1996 10:41:21 GMT Received: by thistle.csv.warwick.ac.uk id KAA25402; Mon, 2 Dec 1996 10:33:53 GMT Received: from pansy.csv.warwick.ac.uk by thistle.csv.warwick.ac.uk with ESMTP id KAA25397; Mon, 2 Dec 1996 10:33:47 GMT Received: from dryctnath.mmu.ac.uk by pansy.csv.warwick.ac.uk with ESMTP id KAA25218; Mon, 2 Dec 1996 10:33:45 GMT Received: from ghondr.mmu.ac.uk by dryctnath.mmu.ac.uk with SMTP (MMTA) with ESMTP; Mon, 2 Dec 1996 10:33:26 +0000 Received: from MMU-HSS-GHONDR/SpoolDir by ghondr.mmu.ac.uk (Mercury 1.21); 2 Dec 96 10:33:52 +0100 Received: from SpoolDir by MMU-HSS-GHONDR (Mercury 1.30); 2 Dec 96 10:33:30 +0100 From: Lawrence PAULSON <94853843@mmu.ac.uk> Organization: Manchester Metropolitan University To: britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk Date: Mon, 2 Dec 1996 10:33:25 +0100 Subject: BD: Toilet Roll Tournament Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.42a) Message-ID: <3C3721359F1@ghondr.mmu.ac.uk> Sender: owner-britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Status: RO Dear All, Here's an UNOFFICIAL report on this weekends Midland Student Indoor Regionals at Sheffield from a vaguely Fingerish perspective. I'm sure Simon or somebody will post the full listing but here's some results that I remember. Qualifiers: 1.Bears 2.Jesters I 3.Phat'Eds I 4.Fingers 6 I ---------------- 5.Superfly (Plate and Spirit) 9.Purple Haze II (Spoon) We (Fingers 6) had 2 teams at this tournament, as did Bears, Jesters, Phat'Eds and Purple Haze with Superfly and Hot Stamp Rejects making up a total of 12 teams. This meant that all the games at the rather smashing Hillsborough Leisure Centre were good and long, and the pitches were a good size, even with the sports hall divided along it's length by a wire festooned (if I can be so bold) with strips of toilet roll (apparently the centre had no facilities to divide the hall along the way they wanted it, and so showing great initiative the tourny organisers applied their improvisational skills- hence the bog roll curtain). Fingers had 2 teams (Guides and Brownies- in salute to the Bears 2nd team; Cubs). In the first team we swept the board in our group- a feat unprecedented in Fingers 6 history, giving us a 5-0 winning record on Saturday evening. Our 2nd team faired slightly worse, having to play both the eventual finalists (Bears and Jesters) in their first 2 games and losing heavily, but managed to end the day with a win over Rejects. The party, featuring Diamond Dave's Diamond Nights Disco (or something), was held at a small hotel somewhere in suburban Sheffield. Living up to their glorious history Rejects were triumphant in the beer races. The weirdest thing on Saturday night, personally speaking, was being unable to get to sleep for the nervous excitement I was feeling about play on Sunday. As I said, it was the first time I had ever been playing for a team which topped it's group on Saturday at a tournament and suddenly we were 2 games away from the final. Although Bears were the favourites, they had been held to a draw by Phat'Eds proving that they were human after all, so if ever a tournament was there for the taking- this was it. Sunday then, and our first game was the make-or-break QF against Cubs (Bears II). Win, and we qualify for the finals. Lose and you don't. Simple as that. Fortunately, we won. We even debuted a new call (Trainspottingesque) which seemed to go down (literally) quite well. Next, we met Jesters in our Semi and finally met our match. They totally trashed our D, and made it very difficult for us on O, although we rallied towards the end and brought it back to 10-8 at time. Our final game was the 3/4th against Phat'Eds- by which time our lack of subs began to tell, and we frankly played awful- but credit to Phat'Eds they were mad for it, particularly with Fantasy Frisbee points on offer, and ran away comfortable winners. Elsewhere, Fingers II, managed to make their way to the spoon final, but were beaten by Haze II- but the good thing was seeing how much all the 2nd teams improved over the weekend. The final was a close affair between Jesters and Bears, marred by a horrific head injury to Jesters' Neil. He did manage to walk off the pitch, after a posse of leisure centre staff arrived (to have a good nosey by the looks of things), so hopefully he's OK. The result couldn't have been closer. With 1 minute to go Jester pulled level at 6-6, Bears worked it up the pitch with the clock ticking down, until just when it looked as if we'd have sudden death overtime, with the clock at exactly 2 seconds, the pass went in and was caught with 1 second remaining. Bears win 7-6. So to sum up.. Another great tournament to add to the collection. The organisation was spot on- full marks to Simon and the Phat'Eds and the venue excellent. Everyone played really hard, and spirit was good throughout and Superfly won the Spirit vote. Any gripes? Well no not really- maybe I'm getting old and more philosophical. Ho hum. Finals, here we come.... Love and Luck, Lawrence PAULSON. Chair, Fingers 6 (Manchester,UK) Ultimate Frisbee Club. Tel: (0161) 882-0560