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Date: Mon, 21 Oct 96 11:38 BST
From: mackay@mrao.cam.ac.uk (David J.C. MacKay)
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Subject: SE Regionals tournament report
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South East Regional Ultimate Championships 1996 - Priory school, Hitchin
19th-20th October
In the pool play there were a couple of upsets:
First Touch (seeded bottom of the four in pool C) overturned Mohawks
(second in the pool). And Village People knocked Lurkers out of their
4th seed slot in a tight game (Lurkers playing ironman seven).
In the knockouts (incidentally, can a different tournament format be
found which reliably identifies and ranks the top 5 teams in a region,
independent of seeding?), First Touch continued to mock their number
14 seeding by taking the 4th seed slot from Village People 10-7 in a
long game. In the 2nd/3rd semi-final, played in a windy rainstorm,
neither UTI nor Violently Happy could produce more than a couple of
up-wind points; UTI fended off V.H. by a narrow margin. In the final
against Shotgun Wedding, UTI's upwind scoring rate was reduced to zero and
Shotgun won convincingly.
Fifth place - the lowest place qualifying for the nationals - was
contested by Strange Blue, Lurkers, Exotica Playthings and Village
People. Strange Blue knocked out Lurkers, and then beat Playthings in
a close game by managing to score the crucial upwind points.
It was a good spirited, wet and windy tournament, with excellent
fields and fine cups of tea available all day; Mad Kows won Spirit.
Final placings were [with initial seedings in brackets]:
1 Shotgun Wedding [1]
2 UTI [2]
3 Violently Happy [3]
4 First Touch [14]
5 Strange Blue [8]
6 Exotica Playthings [7]
7 Lurkers [4]
8 Village People [5]
9 (Plate) B.G.A. [11]
10/11 Mad Kows [15]
10/11 S.F.A. [9]
12 Angels [12]
13 (spoon) Mohawks [6]
14 Albatross [13]
15 Strange Blue 2 [17]
16 Hurricane [16]
17 Bliss [10]
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