From britdisc-owner@csv.warwick.ac.uk Tue Mar 18 11:59:17 1997 Received: by pansy.csv.warwick.ac.uk id LAA28565; Tue, 18 Mar 1997 11:24:14 GMT Received: from goole.octacon.co.uk by pansy.csv.warwick.ac.uk with SMTP id LAA28559; Tue, 18 Mar 1997 11:24:10 GMT Received: from mailgate.pantek.co.uk (post.pantek.co.uk [194.176.73.2]) by goole.octacon.co.uk (8.6.9/8.6.9) with SMTP id LAA08501 for <britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk>; Tue, 18 Mar 1997 11:24:10 GMT Received: by mailgate.pantek.co.uk with NT SMTP Gateway ver 31 id <332E7B49@mailgate.pantek.co.uk>; Tue, 18 Mar 97 11:23:53 G From: "Williams, Mark" <markw@pantek.co.uk> To: "'britdisc'" <britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk> Subject: Wolverhampton Indoors Report Date: Tue, 18 Mar 97 11:19:00 G Message-ID: <332E7B49@mailgate.pantek.co.uk> X-Mailer: Microsoft Mail V3.0 Sender: owner-britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk Precedence: bulk As Rich has already posted the results I won't go into that again but will try to remember some of the weekends highlights. The tournament started well on Saturday morning with Fingers6 and Purple Jedi both no-shows leaving Rich and Martin with the headache of rewriting the schedule for 10 teams (ever tried this?). The teams were divided into 2 groups of 5 for the Saturday, Chevron seeded top in Group 1 and Blue Arse Flies seeded top in Group 2. Blue Arse Flies quickly established themselves as the team to beat by winning their games AND managing to pick up for Nuns (something they did all weekend, even in the game before the final!) Chevron got off to a good start, beating Rejects and The Snobs quite convincingly and the other team to show promise were Flying Lims, a new team from Northern Ireland including two old Sneeeky's (no offence Barry!) At this stage SFA had divided themselves (all 10 of them!) into two teams The Snobs and The Toffs and were showing great spirit playing in dinner jackets and dresses (think about it!) and shouting "Ra Ra Ra we're going to smash the Oiks!", results for them were mixed, possibly playing in full dress attire had something to do with it!! Chevron decided to go and watch the rugby in the local pub and, after a few pints and a pool disaster for Kenny (something to do with "beaten by a girl") we emulated our esteemed pool player by losing to Blue Nuns in a closely fought game. Blue Arse flies were meanwhile carrying on to an unbeaten record on Saturday and Chevron beat Flying Lims in the last game to finish top of Group 1. Saturday night and most of the teams descended in party atmosphere on an unsuspecting Wolverhampton, ending the night at Wolverhampton Civic Hall (2 dancefloors and relatively cheap beer - a deadly mix!). Sunday dawned in the impressive Molineux Centre with the realisation that a hungover Chevron had to play a spritely looking Blue Arse Flies (aptly named!), Martin and Harry G, in a drunken stupor, had devised a system where the top three teams from group 1 played the top three from group 2 - with the points from yesterday still counting. The game against Blue Arse couldn't have started worse - Chevron being 4-0 down in the first 5 minutes but rallying to lead 6-4 before finally losing 7-6, someone who shall remain nameless having THREE chances to tie the game in the last point (Oh, OK it was me!). The Toffs meanwhile saw off Flying Lims and Blue Nuns to set up a tense "semi final" with Chevron. In the Spoon section my old team Hot Stamp Rejects (great to see them back) were playing some neat Ultimate and Nads were performing well with some promising youngsters (and I mean young!). Chevron saw off The Toffs and prepared for an unbeaten BAF, Nads beat HSR in a closely fought Spoon Final and Blue Nuns triumphed over Mad Kows in the Plate. The final was expected to be a close affair and that proved to be the case as Chevron and BAF traded points throughout the 25 minute game and entered the cap level on scores at 10-10, Chevron scored first but BAF rallied and had the disc on the endzone line at 11-11, a layout in the endzone was narrowly missed and Chevron worked (oh alright, hammered) the disk to the opposite zone (great take by Harry), called a timeout and scored against some zone marking. Both teams were knackered after a well spirited and exciting final (from a Chevron point of view - watch out for BAF in Edinburgh!!). If anybody has managed to get this far through this mammoth report, let me assure you I have not written this all at once and it only remains for me to thank Martin Lucy and Rich Parkes for an excellent tournament - oh and Sneeeky's and Flying Lims won a joint spirit prize. See you in Edinburgh Mark Chevron.