From britdisc-owner@csv.warwick.ac.uk Wed Mar 5 11:21:31 1997 Received: from thistle.csv.warwick.ac.uk by pansy.csv.warwick.ac.uk with ESMTP id LAA15184; Wed, 5 Mar 1997 11:21:27 GMT Received: by thistle.csv.warwick.ac.uk id LAA27204; Wed, 5 Mar 1997 11:16:08 GMT Received: from pansy.csv.warwick.ac.uk by thistle.csv.warwick.ac.uk with ESMTP id LAA27198; Wed, 5 Mar 1997 11:15:45 GMT Received: from ursa.cus.cam.ac.uk by pansy.csv.warwick.ac.uk with SMTP id LAA13984; Wed, 5 Mar 1997 11:15:40 GMT Received: from caj1.arch.cam.ac.uk [131.111.34.20] by ursa.cus.cam.ac.uk with smtp (Exim 1.61 #3) id 0w2EfW-0004p4-00; Wed, 5 Mar 1997 11:15:35 +0000 Date: Wed, 5 Mar 1997 11:18:40 GMT From: "Dora A. Kemp" <dak12@cam.ac.uk> To: <britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk> Subject: Midlands Regionals X-Mailer: Mulberry [1.0.1, s/n #10001] X-Authenticated: dak12 by imap.cus.cam.ac.uk X-Licensed-To: University of Cambridge MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <E0w2EfW-0004p4-00@ursa.cus.cam.ac.uk> Sender: owner-britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Midlands Regionals (from the perspective of Strange Blue) Thank you Merrick for hosting a fantastic tournament in Cheltenham this past weekend. The venue had two pitches (with a very useful waist-high wall on one side), a great viewing stand, cafeteria and gorgeous hot showers in the swimming pool area. And to top it all off we all stayed in a hotel(!!) which was within walking distance by the famous racecourse and included a full English breakfast, a great start to Sunday. I am afraid I do not know the total results of the tournament because we were concentrating on trying to qualify but I shall do my best. The top 6 go to Edinburgh. 1. Red 2. STAN 3. Blue Arse Flies I 4. Bears I 5. Strange Blue 6. Superfly ------------- 7. Twin Peaks (Plate) 8. Blue Arse Flies II 9. Mad Kows 10. Bears II 11. Funky Nuns (Spirit) (9th and 10th could be reversed) Two teams had unfortunately dropped out at the last minute (Bears III and Jesters) but that meant there was plenty of opportunity to play pickup games. The great thing about this tournament was that there was plenty of playing time. Strange Blue played 9 games (5 of 23 minutes and 4 of 27 minutes) and won 8 of them!!! We only lost to Stan and that game was 12-9. So why were we only 5th you may ask? Well with 11 teams it was difficult to decide on the crossovers on the second day. We drew STAN and had a fantastic game trading points. In the end their experience got the better of us. Ironically it worked out that despite us beating Bears I they ended up above us yet again. Revenge! :) The final between Red and Stan was very exciting. They traded points with Stan being slightly ahead all the way along. It was evens by the buzzer, and stayed that way through 2 minutes of overtime. Red then made the crucial D and tight score in sudden death. I saw a video still of the final point (courtesy of a Mad Kow) and there was Duncan, back foot in the end zone front foot out and above the ground and disc in hand. Fantastic shot. Scott to Duncan streaking to the forehand corner was the key scoring strategy they used to equalize the game 2 or 3 times. A great, intense match to watch. Cheers to the Blue Arse Flies for one of the best tournaments I have been to. I am sure they have the full scores as we were required to write them down on forms and a member of each team had to sign them. I know Merrick is not on email. Does any Blue Arse Fly have the full scores and can put them on britdisc? Dora Kemp Strange Blue Whatever does good should be held in honour, and the only shame is in doing harm. - Plato McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research Downing Street, Cambridge, England, CB2 3ER (01223) 339336; (01223) 333536 (FAX)/(01223) 339285