From britdisc-owner@csv.warwick.ac.uk Wed Mar 26 18:17:22 1997 Received: by pansy.csv.warwick.ac.uk id RAA25689; Wed, 26 Mar 1997 17:54:45 GMT Received: from renko.ucs.ed.ac.uk by pansy.csv.warwick.ac.uk with SMTP id RAA25677; Wed, 26 Mar 1997 17:54:39 GMT Received: from arran.sms.ed.ac.uk (arran.sms.ed.ac.uk [129.215.141.2]) by renko.ucs.ed.ac.uk (8.6.13/8.6.12) with ESMTP id RAA21193 for <britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk>; Wed, 26 Mar 1997 17:54:38 GMT Received: from SMS-ARRAN/SpoolDir by arran.sms.ed.ac.uk (Mercury 1.21); 26 Mar 97 17:52:18 +0000 Received: from SpoolDir by SMS-ARRAN (Mercury 1.21); 26 Mar 97 17:52:16 +0000 From: "Runrunrunboingwheeecrunchouch!" <8944852@arran.sms.ed.ac.uk> Organization: Student Mail Service To: britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 17:52:08 +0000 Subject: Spirit improves your Ultimate X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.42a) Message-ID: <A89B26D4EE8@arran.sms.ed.ac.uk> Sender: owner-britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Hi thanks to everyone involved in the Nationals. You all helped to make it one of the most enjoyable I've ever attended. Particular plaudits to Shrub for great spirit during such a tense semi, and to the Druids (am I really saying this?) for staying cool when we looked like we had the final sown up at 4-2. I think one of the most important factors in our (U.T.I.'s) success was that we played with great team spirit all weekend. We had our fair share of duff throws, drops and general headless-chickeness. However, at no point did we ever stop enjoying the game, nor did we start getting at each other. This gave us the confidence to play effective, varied offence and committed D. If you read through a few back copies of Ultimatum you'll find other examples of this effect (and how many times have teams lost their spirit at a critical point and then completely fallen apart?). So give it a try the next time things are going down the pan-you'll certainly enjoy the game more, you'll probably play better and who knows you might even win! Cheers Leo Sneeeky's/UTI last weekend PS Fair play to Rob Cole for bringing us to account for our lack of call. Spirit of the Game encompasses many things, none of which should be neglected.