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From: "Simon Weeks" <GGA95SEW@sheffield.ac.uk>
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Subject: National Student Outdoor Finals 1998
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Hello everyone. Here is the long awaited tournament report of the
1998 National Student Outdoor Finals.
Last weekend saw the biggest (to my knowledge) student outdoor finals
ever held. 28 teams in all were due to play although by the end of
Sunday only 26 remained. The Skunks had to pull out during
Saturday due to injuries, a broken down car and a driver who had to go
home. As a result the pick up team was also disbanded to keep a nice
round number of teams. All this made for some interesting rescheduling
and tested the bottom ten teams fitness levels to the limit. Well done to the
likes of No Frills who had to play 5 games on the trot on the Sunday.
To compensate for that hiccup the weather on both days was
unexpectedly good. Clear blue skies were complemented by a stiff wind
on the Sunday to sort out the wheat from the chaff. It certainly
aided Mohawks four man cup that they had clearly been practicing.
All of the big guns, Sorcerers, Jedi, Mohawks, Ow!, Mythago, Sneekys and
Bears made it through their pool matches and the only major upset was
Phat 'Eds stealing the sixth seed spot away from Far Flung. The indoor winners
and number one seeds, Flying Sorcerers, were severly understrength though and
playing iron man due to the weekend coinciding with a major social event in
the Scotland calendar.
All was nicely poised at the end of Saturday and all that remained
for the day was to get thoroughly bladdered. A few teams opted to stay in
drinking milk and eating quiche, but the party had a big turn out. Prior to that
in the Dry Dock there was even the traditional three pint challenge to get the
heads spinning early on.
On the Sunday again the results tended to follow the seedings with Sorcerers,
Jedi and Mythago (the top three seeds) proceeding to the semis,
though not without some good battles in the quarters. The tie of the
quarters was expected to be Ow! versus Mohawks in the 4th v
5th quarter final. However, Mohawks showed they really meant business
as they disposed of Ow! without too many problems.
Mohawks' mood continued in the semi as they also put an end to Sorcerers
bid for indoor and outdoor success. Mythago joined them in the semi, but it
seemed that their, by now, seven man squad, were struggling after
tough quarters and semis and could not halt the Mohawks domination as
they cruised to victory in the final.
Elsewhere Picnic in the Sky overcame Toxic Nynja Atack in an epic plate
final (after they failed to here the hooter that was supposed to end
their confrontation). And topping the bottom 10 in their first ever
tournament was Northern Lights who seemed to cope best with number of
games expected of the bottom 10 on Sunday.
I would also like to mention the fantastic spirit. It was summed up
for me when at the end of the tournament, when I was approached by the ice
cream vendor who confessed that he could not understand how it was
possible that so many teams could play so competitively without ever
saying a cross word to each other.
Special thanks must go to Kieran Taylor for organising all the
Leicester side of things, to all of the Jesters team for providing
accomodation and helping with setting eveything up and also to Chris
Hughes and Sarah (Bears) for help with the schedule both before and
during the tournament.
Most of all I would like to thank everybody who attended and hope
that you all had a fun weekend.
Simon Weeks
Student Co-ordinator
Final Finishing Places and Lost Property follows:
The Final Placings were:
1. Mohawks (Sussex) WINNERS
2. Mythago (Bristol)
3. Flying Sorcerers (St Andrews)
4. Jedi Children (Leeds)
5. Ow! (Oxford)
6. Phat 'Eds (Sheffield)
7. Bears (Warwick)
8. Sneekys (Edinburgh) SPIRIT
9. Picnic in the Sky (Plymouth) PLATE WINNERS
10. Toxic Ninja Attack (Kent)
11. Far Flung (Glasgow)
12. Purple Haze (Loughboro')
13. Fingers 6 Steps Ahead of our Minds... (Manchester)
14. Jesters (Leicester)
15. K-Niggets (Kingston)
16. Mythago II (Bristol)
17. Northern Lights (Durham) SPOON WINNERS
18. Superfly (Nottingham)
19. Uriel (Exeter)
20. PDQ (Portsmouth)
21. No Frills (Cardiff)
22. Phat 'Eds II (Sheffield)
23. Bears II (Warwick)
24. Mohawks II (Sussex)
25. Jedi II (Leeds)
26. Toxic II (Kent)
27. Skunks (Southampton)
Lost Property
Two sleeveless Uriel shirts (one yellow, one purple) - the wise money
is on them being Bretts (not that he ever forgets anything)
A grey kickers jumper
A blue fleece with a reciept for Jonathon White from Cardiff in the
pocket. My hunch is that it might be his.
A pair of Mitre football boots
A pair of "rudy project" sunglasses wrapped in a sock
2 discs - one white ultrastar with no markings
- one Vancouver world clubs with the words "Pastil you are
a complete and utter loser, because it was only about twenty yards
away from it, when you were asking me if it had been
handed in" written on it.
To arrange the safe return of any of this lost property please contact
Kieran on kmt2@le.ac.uk or 0116 2830343.