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From: Lawrence PAULSON <94853843@mmu.ac.uk>
Organization: Manchester Metropolitan University
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Date: Mon, 2 Dec 1996 10:33:25 +0100
Subject: BD: Toilet Roll Tournament
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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
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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