It's always nice to see that values of modesty, graciousness and sportsmanship are still held dear at red. ben /mootones
On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, Nancy Stebbing wrote: > Jenny has already listed those present, so onto the games. > > We entered the tournament with a newish strategy- get the ladies to handle more >often, as they were lower on numbers compared to the men. So the men could run and >the ladies could sit back and watch the fruits of their labour. > > Started Saturday morning facing Excessbee, top of our pool. Although we gave them a >scare at Coed 2, we started the tournament in true Red fashion, with our heads up our >@sses. Couldn't play D, couldn't complete more than three passes in a row. I >couldn't throw a forearm to save my life, and personally gave away about 8 points on >our endzone line. A true drubbing at 1-15. The only highlight was the 'call of the >tournament'. During one point, the sideline players were yelling to 'watch the >One-Twos', (in the helpful way that people who are not running their guts out while >the players on the pitch are killing themselves do such things) when Caesar,who was >kiling himself to catch up to the Two of the One-Two called back 'I AM watching the >one-twos'. > > Next game against Shocker- a team supported with Gemma (She who Slept at My House >Friday night- huh!!!) and Nicole (splitter!) and some useful boys from Smash and >Grab. After a slowish start, we played much better as the D began to take shape, we >actually started to throw to each other, and our catching improved dramatically. We >were tight until the time cap, and then didn't score again. 8-10 loss, but not such >a disappointing performance. > > Met Pyramus, bottom of pool, for third game. They looked impressive on the sideline >in that they were all ultra-fit. But it just goes to show that fitness ain't much >use if you can't get the disc to the next person. Our adjusted arrowhead D (wide >arrow, three person wall behind) worked like a charm and our O was relatively >unchallenged due to a lack of structure (but no lack of speed). 12-2 win to remain >12th seed. > > As Jen said, we were up for a 5-12 crossover against BAF. We went in thinking we >were in for a thrashing, but with the score tied 3 all, we had a bit of a change of >heart. Our D made their women handlers look like beginners, with rarely more than >three passes being completed. A time-out in the first half was spent having a laugh >while they gave themselves a bollicking. We rattled their players so much that their >star players were dropping sitters in their own endzone. 8-9 at half-time, with much >swearing and finger pointing being done on the BAF sidelines. A change of strategy >in the second half with their 'big guys': Chris, Merrick, and some other tall bloke >who was annoying, taking over their offence and dominating all the way down the pitch >left us with just one more point to their 3. A most satisfying 9-12 loss. > > For Sunday, we were on time(!!) for our first game, which was slightly annoying as >our opposition was not. Still the drilling helped to wake us up to face Mootones, an >Oxford based team with none of the TeamShark players. We were winning easily when >they unleashed their secret weapon- a player with 'huge tracts of land' and a >Madonna-esque B-52 nose-cone bra, a few rolls of strategically placed and wobbling >fat, and a tan that makes Frosty the Snow Man look like he just returned from >Jamaica- taking off her shirt for the rest of the game. Luckily, none of the men were >too distracted, and none of the women looked and were turned to stone. Final score >15-4. > > On to Zoo, a Hammerage/Princess Layout combo (but don't call them Hammerage!!!), >seeds 9 vs. 12. Although we played reasonably, we weren't good enough. A few too >many missed passes, and our D was ineffective as once they broke through the zone, >their quick release of the disc made it impossible for the arrowhead to ever catch >up. And as Jen said- those party horns (or should I say HOOTERS) were annoying. A >7-15 loss. > > Finally, 11 vs. 12 to end the tournament. Up against a Flyght Club team that had >better players than you might expect. They were beating us up at 3-6, when Stebbo >returned from his baby-sitting duties to start hucking. All of a sudden it was 6 >all, then 8 all. We took the point to win the half. The hooter sounded just as the >pull was going to start the second half- game to 11. Some quick work on their >turnovers- including a point where the Stebbings showed their true disc-hog >tendencies (sorry guys!) One-Two-ing it right into the endzone ended the game at >11-8. No points for Flyght club in the second half at all. > > So, an 11th finish. We discovered that those teams outside the top 4 had better >take us seriously, as we are capable of beating them when we are playing well. Due >to the initial seedings, I think that there were a few teams that finished higher >than we did who we could have beaten- although in all fairness Zoo really did give us >a spanking. On to the finals in Nottingham- and this time we'll show up knowing how >to play the D. (In ohterwords, don't come if you're not going to show up for at >least one or two practices before the tournament!!) > > nancy > > _____________________________________ Climate and Oceanography Group, Atmospheric, Oceanic and Planetary Physics, Clarendon Laboratory, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PU [EMAIL PROTECTED] +44 1865 272933 __________________________________________________ BritDisc mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://pootle.near.me.uk/mailman/listinfo/britdisc
