From britdisc-owner@csv.warwick.ac.uk Tue Apr 30 18:23:12 2002 Received: from snowdrop.csv.warwick.ac.uk (root@snowdrop [137.205.192.31]) by pansy.csv.warwick.ac.uk (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g3UHNBI12995 for <suaaz@mail.csv.warwick.ac.uk>; Tue, 30 Apr 2002 18:23:11 +0100 (BST) Received: from agave.csv.warwick.ac.uk (root@agave [137.205.192.52]) by snowdrop.csv.warwick.ac.uk (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g3UHB1t05786; Tue, 30 Apr 2002 18:11:01 +0100 (BST) Received: from agave.csv.warwick.ac.uk (daemon@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by agave.csv.warwick.ac.uk (8.12.0/8.12.0) with ESMTP id g3UH8aQR027134 for <britdisc-outgoing@agave.csv.warwick.ac.uk>; Tue, 30 Apr 2002 18:08:36 +0100 (BST) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by agave.csv.warwick.ac.uk (8.12.0/8.12.0/Submit) id g3UH8abE027133 for britdisc-outgoing; Tue, 30 Apr 2002 18:08:36 +0100 (BST) Received: from snowdrop.csv.warwick.ac.uk (root@snowdrop [137.205.192.31]) by agave.csv.warwick.ac.uk (8.12.0/8.12.0) with ESMTP id g3UH8ZQR027128 for <britdisc-real@majordomo.csv.warwick.ac.uk>; Tue, 30 Apr 2002 18:08:35 +0100 (BST) Received: from mail-srv1.south-nottingham.ac.uk (mail-srv1.south-nottingham.ac.uk [194.83.198.7]) by snowdrop.csv.warwick.ac.uk (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g3UH8Zt05487 for <britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk>; Tue, 30 Apr 2002 18:08:35 +0100 (BST) Received: by MAIL-SRV1 with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id <JV42L15J>; Tue, 30 Apr 2002 18:12:49 +0100 Message-ID: <BDF38B1649CDD51195990002B3364E8A54E4E1@MAIL-SRV1> From: Samuel Rey <reys@south-nottingham.ac.uk> To: "'britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk'" <britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk> Subject: Mixed Tour One Report Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 18:12:48 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-britdisc@warwick.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Mixed Event - 27 & 28th April 2002. Friday & Weather Thunderous heavens & high winds were the order from God! Despite repeated attempts to cut a deal, the highly mounted one supplied only limited sunshine thru the rain and the hailstones weren't up to expectation. Maybe we should have sent a complimentary bottle of JD to the weather prophets or something. Saturday Nite Was full and fatigued, the rain had taken the umph out of mast players and the chilled selection of cheesy SKA didn't lift their poor souls... when finally the bar closed at 11 the DJ (Highness Sounds) announced a meeting in the COPA Tent and with a couple of mates, moved the entire sound system down and out, thru the wind and rain and was set up again within 15 minutes. The DBs pounded the night air until 3am, Tom & Arun made the most valiant effort to enthuse this dishevelled crowd into drink the game away, then later, as people filtered away to their tents the chill came on and shattered and battered bodies curled up to the sound of rainfall and heavy dub baselines. Fly v Fly The local highpoint was the game between SuperFly of Nottingham's highly coloured past (and girls from the delectable Mavis) and the current FlyghtClub All Star Co-ed posse! The toss went to Super and Flyght could do nothing but battle with the wind in an attempt to stay in the game... Not that SuperFly could push ahead at any point. Combined forces of Wind, driving Rain and Hailstones, contrived to deplete the game of finesse and energy (as with so many others) finally, the buzzer came and the score difference was just the one. Spoon Red brought up the rear (no pun), keeping the spoon chaser running. Although they won the crate of beer, they laft before the ceremony and an eager COPA Tent Crewman plundered the prize for the harder working members of FlyghtClub. Plate Shocker! Rising meteorically from the depths to just miss out on the opportunity to go higher. All the way from 17th to 9th, taking the Plate in the process; prying it from the cold dead fingers of the 'wind torn' Inbred Kinfolk. Again the Wind Rain and Hil battered everyone, but Shocker! Undeterred and unwilling to let go, battled hard producing one of the few upwind points magnificently. Sadly though Inbred tried, and Shocker! Too, no-one could reproduce that kind of endeavour. Not on that pitch at least. Final Unexpectedly, Chevron, tipped to win had a hellish Sunday, guess they spent too much time with Raj maybe... Anyway... Grazed and Confused (Wage), burst forth with an early flurry of points. Flurry, in that weather you ask? Actually they forced themselves against Easy Tiger (Poughkeepsie-esq) and the wind. And proved they wanted and deserved that tough lead. Although the Tiger came bounding back, against that torrential blizzard of hail, the scarred and hassled Tigers never quite reached the decisive and dominating force of the not so Dazed or Confused posse. Having not actually seen the finals I hope someone else will make comment on the game, and tell this story of domination, pain and plight.. Hokey, the scores on the doors as it were... 1. Ea... Grazed & Confused - WINNERS 2. Gra... Easy Tiger 3. Cyrille 4. Excess Bee 5. Li'l Shef 6. Blue Arse Flies 7. Chevron Action Flash - SPIRIT 8. Maiden Bungle 9. Shocker! - PLATE 10. Inbreds 11. Yorkie Bar Kids 12. Zoo 13. SuperFly 14. Salt n Sauce 15. Flyght Club 16. We've Got Guns (so you better...) 17. Red - SPOON....? 18. Martha and the Mootones 19. SkuMy 20. Discophilia MVPs from the final were; Harry & Aura Party Animal award went to Arun and Tom... respect! Further Appreciations Thanks to all the campers for making sure they used the bins and for the cleanup afterwards. Most appreciated. Major thanks go to SuperFliers - Dani 'Décor', Dene***, Big Boy***, Neil***, Badelf***, Ant***, Richenda (the under-appreciated masseur), Alex***, Sleepy/Rafiki/Kev of 'Highness Sounds'***, Jonah and Dave (Security). Griff/Vicky/Alan of Highfields for making troubled water seem soooo smooth. Nottingham City Council... for being helpful. And specially the girls and guys who stayed to help with 'dropping' that Marquee. Maximum Respect