Dear all, 3 days after EYUC, finally some air to send the complete final standings and the finals action.
SOTGU17 women: Austria; ITA and COL tied for 2nd, NED in 3rdNo team under 10 U17 Men: Austria, followed by NED and IRLNo team under 9. In general, we were happy with the SOTG outcome, and especially with the "lessons learnt" by many teams during the week. U17 womenAUT and GER went unbeaten through the pool, and i the direct match went 12:9 for GER. Easy semi wins for both. The final itself: a very well played and hard fought match between these top teams. Lots of class action, layouts etc. GER managed to get in the lead but never could pull away, so the match was open until the end. The last score was exemplary: a sprint by GER #12 Pauline Hocher (hope I got this right) culminating in a full frontal layout for gold. So, AUT and GER dominating the division, FRA with a clear bronze. All other teams a bit behind. U17 menThe final was FRA vs the suprise guests from COL, who had beaten the favorite GER in the semis. That match had been super hot, and also very spirited; just the last 3 scores saw several bad calls, frustration and subsequent revenge call. The question was: would both teams recover well f4rom this for sunday?GER certainly did and played another super match vs BEL, winning only in universe. BEL had actually been up and was close to victory, but GER came back strong. It was GERs 3rd universe in the last 4 matches. This shows, how close the competition was And even outside the top4: GBR, ITA and SWE were not that far behind. The final then saw an again very solid FRA team, making very few mistakes and playing disciplined. COL was moving quickly, beautiful cuts and fast passing, but also some unforced errors. FRA could capitalize on these, and eventually took gold at 14:7. So, the hot news: COL is NOT the European champion...It would have felt strange to hand the Euro trophy to an American team, but it almost happened. The Euriopean junior representatives had voted in 2013 (EYUC Cologne) to invite non European teams for EYUC in those years where there is also a junior world championship WJUC. There were three reasons for this: a) as EYUC is the only international U17 championship in the world, this is the only chance for non-european teams to play b) it increases the competition levelc) it is unclear whether WFDF will take responsibility for U17, so we as EUF fill in Moreover, the coaches had seen the positive vibes that COL brought to tournaments before (WJUC 2010 and '12) and were sympathetic about this. Which brings us to the social side of EYUC. The local TOC, mainle team Gentle and the juniors&parents of Gentle torpedoes have brought us an amazingly sweet event. There was 3 meals a day, home cooked by the parents, of great quality food. A players village with the big circus tent, mainly used for sun protection. Outside, a really cool chill out zone, swings, deck chairs, music. And lots of little games and fun action, mainly set up by 5 ultimate and Get Horizontal.What really added to the event was actually a subtraction: as we only had the U17 divisions and no U20, the U17 got the full attention. In the past, eg the U17 boys would in their spare time mainly watch U20 matches. The U17 teams were just "the little ones".At Ghent, the U17 were THE stars. And the male and female teams of each nations supported each others as they were not distracted by U20. This lead to a very positive atmosphere. Some of it can be witnessed in pictures First pictures by Get Horizontal, sorted by day: https://www.facebook.com/249162602651/photos/?tab=albums GER junior blog: https://ultimatejunioren.wordpress.com/ Not sure how to handle this in the future; the divisions are steadily growing, and a full EYUC with all 4 divisions will be hard to handle. Adding up the numbers on those teams that played this EYUC, plus the European teams playing WJUC in Wroclaw next week, plus those newcomer teams that have approached EUF with a high interest to play next year brings us to a team number of arund 60. So the junior championship would be an event of the same size as eg EUC 2015 in Copenhagen. This is getting a bit much, as a yearly event. So the event cycle is under discussion. This started in 2015, was continued at Ghent and will be decided at the latest this september, after more discussion among the european reps at WJUC. So last words: a HUGE thanks to Jelle and everyone at Ghent for giving us this great event. Also, compliments to all those team coaches and staff, investing so much time and honorary work in the kids. It became clear that there is a lot of work and not enough shoulders; so both on junior club level and junior national team level, the growth can not continue without more young and older adults helping and taking responsibility. We hope that some of you out there will decide to join the circus; we can promise you a very rewarding job! Signing out, ChrisEUF Christoph Dehnhardt chdehnha...@yahoo.de +49 - 163 - 7596 - 764 Von: Christoph Dehnhardt <chdehnha...@yahoo.de> An: Eurodisc Liste <eurod...@ira.uka.de> Gesendet: 12:45 Sonntag, 24.Juli 2016 Betreff: Open EYUC 2016 play off day Hello out there, ungodly amounts of excitement here in Ghent yesterday, and too much work in the evening to write a day report (also too much fun!). Right now the first final (U17 Women is under way, so we only have time for a short round up for a day that would deserve many pages of writing. U17 Women: 11:45 all teams played a last pool match. Most of the results were not crucially important, as many places were already set. The top 4 were AUT, FRA, GER and NED; GER and AUT unbeaten, meeting each others.All 4 matches were relatively close. FRA had some troublesin the game vs GBR, but eventually took it by 2 points. SWE NED 11:7, ITA played a super match vs COL, but COL took it 11:8, congrats to both teams. The top match was GER vs AUT, which GER took, thereby have the supposingly easier semi vs the not so large NED squad. But actually, both GER and AUT won their semis by a large margin.Placements: 7th GBR, 10:7 vs ITA5th COL, 12:10 vs SWE3rd FRA, 15:1 over NEDGold: match is under way U17 Men Quarters:Fra beat NED, GER beat SWE by several points.The hot matches were BEL 11:9 over ITA, COL 11:8 vs GBR. Congrats to all 4 teams for super hot action.Semis:Super hot match ups in top4:FRA vs BEL as a rematch of the opening game. uper hard fight, FRA slightly in the lead but Bel fighting well. The level of play has rising extremely frm day one to now,in all 19 teams here. This is somethng we see every year at EC, and it is a pure joy to watch. FRA had the better end and won 12:8GER vs COL was expected to be a victory for GER, but COL got the first point, and then a break to go up 2:0. Then GER dropped pull, 3:0. BIG upset coming???No, 4 straight points for GER, 4:3, then COL up by 1. Then more trading points in of of the best tacicts and play matches most coaches and specators had seen in several months, also super intense and very spirited.But: at 10:10 some unnesessary calls happened, and eventually some players lost their temper. Long story short: 2 SOTG time outs and some unhappiness, but still a very good match wich eventually went: 12:11 COL. Colombia in the final, onla bronze medal match for GER. WHAT A SURPRISE!!!!Play wise of course GER would also have deserved the win, but so does COL. Lower pool:CZE with 2 more wins, 9th place. IRL 11th, AUT 11th. 7th: SWE over NED5th: ITA, 1th GBRBronze: another AMAZING show, the rematch of the 2015 final, BEL vs GERCazy shit, universe point, 13:12 for GER. HUGE compliments for both squads. Update U17 Women Final: half time GER 7 : 4 AUT Last night: the mot beautifaul players party right here in the village by the lake, DJ, live band, team games, coches thrown in the water, dancing, kissing, good vibes. A HUGE compliment to Jelle and the Gentle team for throwing this EYUC. ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!!! Signing out, more work at the fields waiting for me. Hopefulla abbe to see the end of the final (us 2 EUF officials, Gerhard and I, are from Austria, resoective Germany, so obviously we would LOVE to see at least a bit of the final) Chis,EUF Christoph Dehnhardt chdehnha...@yahoo.de +49 - 163 - 7596 - 764
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