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From: Lawrence PAULSON <94853843@mmu.ac.uk>
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Dear All,
As nobody else seems to be bothered I guessed I'd give my personal
account of what happened this weekend in Boston Spa at the North and
Midland Regionals. The first thing I should say is that there's an
easy and rather obvious solution to all these bickerings about caps
and half-times- lose all your games by enough points to make these
things academic, or, if you really must, win them by an equally huge
margin! Simple and effective!
But seriously though... As a relatively inexperienced team Fingers 6,
and no doubt many of the teams this weekend came up against the
hardest d-team of them all- the weather. We got an early trousering
from our Manchester colleagues Chevvy AF (Scott- their name is
CheVRon NOT CheRVon as you insist on calling them), and then lost
tight games to Celts (nice shirts) and the auld enemie Purple Haze
(nice shirts) in which the scoring of an upwind point was the
deciding factor, leaving us bottom of our group of 4.
Because of this we didn't have a final cross-over game so instead we
finished the day with an impromptu pick-up game with members of the
Sneeekys 2nd/3rd teams- now that's what I call dedication, you lose
every game, you're knackered as hell, you're pissed off with the wind
and still you wanna play Ultimate. Nutters.
Saturday evening was at Leeds Uni. Union- a strangely subdued affair-
with no music (so no embarrassing dance-floor incidents) and the
absence of some of the major teams (Chevron AF for one), who are now
too grown-up and serious to stay out late.
On Sunday we had much more fun. The rain came down but at least the
wind abated. We had 3 awesome, close games- firstly against Phat'Eds
2 who came back from a 7-1 deficit at 1/2 time to just miss out and
lose 9-7, then against Disciples which was standing at 11-11 with cap
at 12, when we won the final desparate point, to set up a spoon final
against Jesters in which we were 7-1 down at half time but gave them
a better game in the 2nd half but still lost 9-6.
I'm afraid I was oblivious as to what was going on elsewhere in the
tournament, as I was too busy running my little legs into the ground
and trying to keep warm to take much notice of anyone else. I know
Phat'Eds 1 won the Plate, Stan won the final against Catch 22 and
Purple Haze won the Spirit of the Game award.
One point raised during play on Sunday- how's about a Finals
tournament for those teams who didn't qualify for the Hitchin final.
It's getting to the stage where we're playing the same old teams all
the time and never getting to meet any of the southern teams, in fact
I don't think I've ever played against half the teams from the SE-
and withthe student make-up of our team meaning we're generally weak
over summer and autumn, I don't think we ever will.
On a similar divisive theme I, overheard at the w/e a mention of a
summer league next year featuring an elite top 8 teams. Can anyone
fill me in on this because it seems to have been kept strangely
silent to the so-called lesser teams who won't be involved- and I
personally might have something to say on the subject.
Anyways, cheers to Rich Parkes, Si Hill and everyone from Leeds for
putting on such a well-run tournament- apart from the weather (I
think Si and I were at different tournaments) everything went very
smoothly, and I for one thoroughly enjoyed myself.
See you all soon (if you live in the North),
Love and Luck,
Lawrence PAULSON.
Chair, Fingers 6 (Manchester,UK) Ultimate Frisbee Club.
Tel: (0161) 882-0560