Hi Folks So 40 teams converged on the Mayflower Sports Centre in Plymouth for the largest Iron Five we have ever held. With two teams not able to make it to the start, a guy with a broken arm (Get well soon) and a few other injuries occurring things could have had a more promising start. Get well soon everyone.
Lost property Black 'Cushtie' Pillow (In case) Blue fleece pullover (medium) Black & Yellow Sleeping bag in green stuff sack Brown CAT Boots There were a couple of people asking about phones & wallets. We didn't have any handed in but the sports centre will call me if they have any wallets found while cleaning. If you need to get hold of the sports centre to see if there was anything else call them on 01752564564. Now to the run down on the finishing positions. 38 Nice Bristols - Spoon Winner 37 3BMS 2 36 BEEF 35 Mythagirls 34 Santa's Little Helpers 33 Sharnbrook - 8" Disc Winner 32 3BMS 31 Snogard 30 Team Mongosling 29 High Five 28 Shake & Bake 27 Heroes in Disguise 26 Aberiginals 25 Barbashop Quartet - 8" Disc winner 24 I Cant believe its not badger 23 Shimmy 22 Staffishire Oatcakes 21 Moomin Troll 20 Team T-Bag 19 Gimperial 1 18 Gimperial 2 17 Cyanide - 9" Disc Winner 16 Goon Squad 15 Naughty Strawberries 14 Skills or Bills 13 Mythago 12 Uriel 11 Bath 10 Faceblock 9 RTD(m) - 10" Disc winner 8 Nice legs 7 Flapjap 6 Kryptonite – Spirit Winner 5 Flapcrack 4 The Ferrous Fists 3 Its not a game out here, this is your life! 2 Team Rook 1 Evesham Ultimate (we called you BAF on the day sorry) – Mounted Disc Winner Congratulations must go Evesham Ultimate for playing in their third Iron Five final in three years and winning the title for the second time. I must also mention the tournament support staff, Jam, Lyne, James & Santa. Without them I couldn't even start to run tournaments. Thanks to Lookfly for letting us run a shop on their behalf. Now I did have a few technical problems with the schedule. We found out only two weeks ago that the third pitch would not be available until 10am on Saturday. This put the schedule in a position where by if it fell behind it would have a knock on effect to the rest of the tournament. I didn't realise how critical until the guy from goon squad broke his arm (I can't remember you name). This put pitch three so far behind that the final game in each round was happening after the next game began. In reality this can not happen with swiss draw. I amended this on the spreadsheet and as I dragged the cell around it broke the set up (The lesson is never let any one tell you that Open Office is identical to Excel). This solved some of the problems and created some more but it meant the tournament could carry on running. To make sure things were working Santa & myself sat down when we got back to our hotel and went through things. Santa even did a hand calculation on the points situation. What transpired was that it was only the forth game that teams played that the sheet had incorrectly transposed. I also had to rewrite the system for the bottom 6 because two teams could not make the tournament. This was months of planning down the drain. Thanks for the help Santa. Several teams played each other twice on Saturday. This could be an unfortunate coincidence of the rotation that I pre-set matching teams to closer opposition as the tournament went on. I'm still unclear on what happened there and I will look at it closely. In my defence I played a tournament a few years ago where I played 4 teams in 7 games. So it does happen in other tournaments with other systems. One piece of feed back I had was that the information was flowing too slowly from me to you. This is true and I can only say sorry. I'm not good enough at the coding to provide a screen or projector for the information. This would have been a source for confusion because the spreadsheet made bad assumptions regarding who you would play. I will work on this and provide a better solution in future. If you have anything constructive to say please let me know. I wish to make the tournaments we run as good as we can. We always have a look at what happens at each tournament to see how we can make it better. For instance last year we ran the BULA spirit scoring system. That proved to be too much for all of us and so we did a single vote this year. Scraggy Iron Five TD __________________________________________________ BritDisc mailing list [email protected] http://www.fysh.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/britdisc Staying informed - http://www.ukultimate.com/staying-informed
