From britdisc-owner@csv.warwick.ac.uk Wed Oct 30 18:08:30 1996 Received: from thistle.csv.warwick.ac.uk by clover.csv.warwick.ac.uk with ESMTP id SAA29935; Wed, 30 Oct 1996 18:01:46 GMT Received: by thistle.csv.warwick.ac.uk id RAA19031; Wed, 30 Oct 1996 17:35:12 GMT From: dmurray@soton.ac.uk Received: from beech.soton.ac.uk by thistle.csv.warwick.ac.uk with SMTP id RAA18880; Wed, 30 Oct 1996 17:32:17 GMT Received: from oak.soton.ac.uk (oak.soton.ac.uk [152.78.128.89]) by beech.soton.ac.uk (8.6.12/hub-8.5a) with ESMTP id RAA28617 for <britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk>; Wed, 30 Oct 1996 17:32:07 GMT Received: (from dmurray@localhost) by oak.soton.ac.uk (8.6.10/client-8.8) id RAA08210 for britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk; Wed, 30 Oct 1996 17:32:04 GMT Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 17:32:04 GMT Message-Id: <199610301732.RAA08210@oak.soton.ac.uk> To: britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk Subject: nationals X-Sun-Charset: US-ASCII Sender: owner-britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Status: RO sorry do not know most results I am a dozy little bugger who lives in his own world can however give a brief summary from UTI's point of view Saturday started on familiar ground iron man for the start of the first game our numbers soon swelled and we managed to fight of chevron (17-5ish) now up to 14 players, a team record, we played headrush with the winners guarenteed a spot at worlds. Headrush started the belief, that continued all weekend that UTI hated zone and zoned us both ways initial problems were sorted out and we won 17-7 rumours came across that STAN had pushed shotgun close losing by 2-3 points and on the next pitch mush noise resulted in violently happy winning over catch 22 in overtime. finally to our big match Druids to decide who had to play shotgun in the semi's a close game what can I say we messed up we even had the chance to score to win but it was not to be at least we proved we were not as bad at playing zone and in the wind as everyone thought we were final result druids 16 UTI 15 so to Sunday and what a day gale winds and rain we had nothing to lose against shotgun and went out happy and relaxed and little bad luck upwind let shotgun take a 10-3 lead but then the rea incentive came by instituting football style team celebrations for upwind scores including ravenelli tshirts, klinsman dives and the aylesbury ducks we suddenly had something to play for 5 upwind scores in a row and suddenly it was 13-10 total disrespect for the wind and shotguns zone upwind hammers and hucks kept us in the game but the lead we had given them was too much finally losing in the cap 18-16 3-4th play off against stan another epic in strong winds STAN's experience and throwing pushing all the way but the youngsters won through in the end winning 17-16 one of the most fun tournaments I have ever played in spirit and competition was great Shotgun won, beating the druids easily in the final underdogs twin peaks won the womens final against bliss err catch took 5th place to earn a spot at worlds (STAN are masters) monks came 6th in a cunning plan to win a trophy firstly lose at regionals to drop seedings heavily then fight back at nationals to try and get a trophy for climbing the largest number of seedings after that I am not sure what happened sorry dave