From britdisc-owner@csv.warwick.ac.uk Tue Jan 23 15:59:44 2001 Received: (from daemon@localhost) by pansy.csv.warwick.ac.uk (8.10.1/8.9.3) id f0NFsiW29632 for britdisc-outgoing; Tue, 23 Jan 2001 15:54:44 GMT Received: from snowdrop.csv.warwick.ac.uk (root@snowdrop [137.205.192.31]) by pansy.csv.warwick.ac.uk (8.10.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id f0NFsgD29620 for <britdisc-real@pansy.csv.warwick.ac.uk>; Tue, 23 Jan 2001 15:54:42 GMT Received: from hotmail.com (oe32.law10.hotmail.com [64.4.14.89]) by snowdrop.csv.warwick.ac.uk (8.10.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id f0NFsYc10702 for <britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk>; Tue, 23 Jan 2001 15:54:34 GMT Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Tue, 23 Jan 2001 07:54:24 -0800 X-Originating-IP: [212.140.165.130] From: "Kevin Lowe" <Kev_lowe@hotmail.com> To: "Britdisc" <britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk> Cc: "Youth Ultimate" <youth.ultimate@listbot.com> Subject: National Junior Indoors 2001 - Results Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 15:56:02 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Message-ID: <OE32xT5nwZvIPNTAbAW00003201@hotmail.com> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 23 Jan 2001 15:54:24.0078 (UTC) FILETIME=[C1C11EE0:01C08554] Sender: owner-britdisc@warwick.ac.uk Precedence: bulk This weekend saw 14 teams compete in the National Junior Indoors in Grantham. This event hadn't happened for the last couple of years due to a lack of junior teams, but that has thankfully changed, and most juniors competing were playing in their first tournament. With 13 junior teams (and one Old Gits / Giffers team), this event equalled junior nationals of 97 as being the largest junior event seen in the UK. Apologies if any of the information is wrong, especially the final placings. This is all from memory, and there may be an official report coming from the organisers later. The tournament was hosted by Grantham College and brilliantly run by Paul Unwin and his students (Dave, Kim, Sammy, Rob et al). The pitches were a touch on the small side once the hall had been divided into two courts, but teams soon adjusted and preferred to have far more games than would have been possible on a single large court. The teams were split into two pools of 7 to play Round Robin. Pool A saw Thundercats and Kamaya maya (alias GBH) dominating, with Kamaya winning the rather heated head-to-head 7-5 to top the pool. KFC were the only team to not win a pool game and headed straight for the plate. Pool B saw Muppet Babies and St. Peters draw their opening head-to-head game, and then both won all their remaining games. St. Peters ended top on goal difference. Old Gits lost all their games by default, but did beat every team in the pool and felt very old and tired against the top two teams. Cross-over games between the two pools to decide who made the top 8 all went according to seedings, but with El Niņo just losing out, Whoosh 1 and Mange Tout celebrating making the top 8. Saturday night was spent celebrating Stig's birthday, playing pool, table football, hack volleyball, crab football, dancing, and everything else that you associate with Ultimate, but with a little less alcohol. On Sunday, the bottom 6 consisted of St. Peters 2, Whoosh 2, KFC, Giffers, El Niņo and Hint of Lemon. These teams played Round Robin on the Sunday having carried through their Saturday results. Hint of Lemon and El Niņo met knowing that whoever won would win the plate, and having started very close, El Niņo pulled ahead to win. It's worth noting that all five junior teams in the plate were co-ed, with girls often out-numbering the boys on pitch. Whoosh 2 and KFC met knowing that the loser would walk away with the spoon, and with Whoosh down to just 4 players (and none of them injury-free), they offered to concede the game. Following some frantic persuasions from various coaches and spirit from KFC, they agreed to play 5 on 4. Whoosh proceed to learn a zone in about 30 seconds, and after some frantic play, pull away to win 13-3. A bit tough on KFC but they are very young, and a great prospect for the future. As for the top 8, Sunday morning saw the quarter finals. Due to a communication cock-up, Thundercats due on court at 9 were still waiting for a lift, upsetting the schedule. Banbars decided to concede their quarter against Muppets feeling that they wouldn't win, and thus helping to get the schedule back on course. Muppets reluctantly accepted the win, but really would have preferred to play (such naivety is sweet). Great spirit from both teams though. Top two teams from both pools go through to the semis largely untroubled. In the first semi, St. Peters 1 met Thundercats. Thundercats had been very impressive at reaching this stage, and looked like they could run out easy winners, but St. Peters shocked them and soon had a 4 point lead. Both teams suffered a bit from not looking where the outside lines were, both when catching, and when marking. Calls were spirited though, and the crowd often asked for its opinion (and rightly ignored sometimes). As time ran out, Thundercats had drawn level and we entered sudden death. St. Peters had three opportunities to score but squandered them all with throw aways, and Thundercats celebrated. In the other semi, Kamaya maya built up a massive lead of 10-2 over Muppets before they got their act together. Final score was 10-5, but Muppets knew they had been out-played having failed to shut down Raj and Mike. Before the final was an exhibition match, where each team nominated one of their players to play. Muppets somehow managed to sneak on a couple more of its players, but their arrogance and skill made a better spectacle, with the opening point of dump, hammer, layout score being fairly typical. So to the final, with both teams psyched up. 30 minutes on the clock, and Kamaya maya having played all weekend without any subs. Rory Underwood was there to watch the final and to present the prizes, and he seemed fairly impressed with the level of play (he'd previously seen Ultimate on Sky). Any chance of a repeat of the not so spirited first meeting of these two teams was quickly diffused when Thundercats score first but their player landing on the sideline. After a brief discussion, Raj concedes the point, and both teams relax into a very spirited final. Kamaya built an early lead of a couple of points, and then traded throughout, not being phased by the bigger pitch or the lack of subs. Final score was (I believe) 12-8 to Kamaya maya. Spirit ended up being extremely close with 5 teams receiving 2 votes, but eventual winners were El Niņo. There were the inevitable injuries, with three casualty runs, each time for badly sprained ankles that needed x-rays. Overall, it was a great tournament, with so many new teams, and so much promise for the future. Let's see how many attend the junior outdoors. Final Placings. 1 Kamaya Maya (Stourbridge) 2 Thundercats (Leicester) 3 Muppet Babies (all over) 4 St. Peters 1 (Exeter) 5 Hint of Lime (Gosport) 6 Banbars (Banbury) 7 Mange Tout (Grantham) 7 and 8 may be the wrong way round. 8 Whoosh 1 (Hammersmith) 9 El Niņo (Carlise) 10 Hint of Lemon (Gosport) 11 St. Peters 2 (Exeter) 12 Whoosh 2 (Hammersmith) 13 KFC (Milton Keynes) 14 Giffers (coaches / ex-juniors) Spirit (El Niņo) Table Football (El Niņo) Pool (Grantham I think) Kevin. --- | Kev@cheerful.com Tel: 07968 249437 | The enemy isn't the other side, wherever they draw the line | The enemy is the ruling class that draws the bloody line. |--- | If you have an Orange or One2One mobile and never | want to pay more than 3p per min, or if you're with | BT and want 33%+ savings on all calls, email or visit | http://x-stream.fortunecity.com/coderscl/155/telco