From britdisc-owner@csv.warwick.ac.uk Wed Nov 10 21:13:27 1999 Received: by pansy.csv.warwick.ac.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA08296 for britdisc-outgoing; Wed, 10 Nov 1999 21:12:45 GMT Received: from daffodil.csv.warwick.ac.uk (daffodil [137.205.192.30]) by pansy.csv.warwick.ac.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA08288 for <britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk>; Wed, 10 Nov 1999 21:12:43 GMT From: neil.cooper@usa.net Received: from nwcst267.netaddress.usa.net (nwcst267.netaddress.usa.net [204.68.23.12]) by daffodil.csv.warwick.ac.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id VAA25003 for <britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk>; Wed, 10 Nov 1999 21:12:42 GMT Received: (qmail 11410 invoked by uid 60001); 10 Nov 1999 21:11:58 -0000 Message-ID: <19991110211158.11409.qmail@nwcst267.netaddress.usa.net> Received: from 204.68.23.12 by nwcst267 for [203.109.136.84] via web-mailer(M3.3.1.96) on Wed Nov 10 21:11:58 GMT 1999 Date: 10 Nov 99 14:11:58 MST To: britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk Subject: Tournament Report (for a change) X-Mailer: USANET web-mailer (M3.3.1.96) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by pansy.csv.warwick.ac.uk id VAA08289 Sender: owner-britdisc@warwick.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Seems to be far too much dull stuff on britdisc at the moment. Need some more tournament reports - interesting debates - or do all those go out the window until summer starts up again ? I know, what about an ex-pat filter so that we don't have to overuse the delete key ..... blah, blah, blah ... Anyway - a tournament report from the other side of the world for you .... Date : 23/24/25th October (Labour Day weekend) Venue : Taupo, Central North Island, New Zealand The Taupo Hat 1999. Ultimate players converged on Lake Taupo in the heart of North Island, about 3 1/2 hours South of Auckland and 5 hours North of Wellington for 3 days of sunshine, hot spa pools and ultimate. About 70 players in all. The first day was split mens / womens and 3 mens teams played round robin (twice), with the women split into 2 teams playing games to 21. Weather was hot and sunny and there was free sun cream from the tounament organisers, thankfully. The Sunday and Monday was the tournament proper. The players were split into 5 teams to play round robin with the top 2 playing off in a final. As with nearly all NZ ultimate the play was strictly co-ed with a 5/2 split. Team shirts were provided - with a Cluedo emphasis, hence the teams being Mrs White, Miss Scarlet, Mrs Peacock, Professor Plum and Reverend Green. Sundays play was in mixed conditions, but with only two rain showers it was warm enough to dry off quickly. The Sunday play finished early(ish) for everyone to go down to the outdoor AC baths in Taupo for relaxation and food - thrown in was use of the pool BBQ. The hot thermal pools were a great way to relax the muscles, I can highly recommend it how about Ross 2000, stop people moaning about the showers!. Sunday night was the rugby (1 a.m. for England v South Africa - enough said, 6 a.m. NZ v Scotland - got through that one but enough said a week later !!). Monday the weather was back to its glorious best (I got a bit lobstered), and Reverend Green came through in the final against Mrs White to win the tourney remaining unbeaten. Haven't got the full results etc but the pictures can be seen on .... http://members.tripod.com/neil.cooper where you can pick out some ex-pats (me in Rev Green, Kath (?Cath) ex F6/CAF in Rev Green too, the wife in Professor Plum and probably some Kiwis that you may recognise from your / their trips). Hopes all's well in the UK and its not too cold and wet. Coops. x Headrush 14 ____________________________________________________________________ Get free email and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=1