Wintercup Final @ Frankfurt
26/03/07 13:05
Wintercup Finals, Frankfurt,
Germany - Mar. 17th, 2007.
Outcome: 2nd place
Summary: Second ain't so bad! We aimed for first, but we managed a tie for second with Heilbronn, so any way you look at it, we did well.
The first game against Dusseldorf went by rather easily, winning 13-9. They played the same game as before, but this time we had a few more players and didn't run out of steam quite so quickly. We had a brief spell where they climbed back up to within one point, but then the (flat)ball started rolling the other direction and we kept our lead. This is definitely a team to watch, as in five years they're going to be excellent.
The second game was against Kaiserslautern, the eventual tournament winners. Kaiserslautern this time was a changed team. Same players as before, but this time they went for the gold. They had already trounced Heilbronn, so we knew it was going to be tough, but we didn't know they would make it that hard on us. This time the giants weren't so gentle with us. We wound up with a great start, but then petered off midway into the game when it was 5-5, losing at the end 6-10.
The last game was against Heilbronn, a team we had lost to earlier in the league, but we felt pretty confident that we would do better this time. And better we did. All the way to the very end, we managed a lead, but in the last seconds before the whistle, Heilbronn scored. The whistle then blew, meaning that the next point was the last one. Being only one point behind us Heilbronn tried putting up a great defensive screen, but we penetrated it anyway, throwing a short pass into the endzone for the point. The point that we didn't score because one of the receiver's feet was firmly planted on the sideline. The point having turned into a turn-over, we were then on the defensive, and couldn't manage another D, giving up the last point for a second-place tie with Heilbronn. We could have played another point to avoid the 10-10 tie, but both teams voted to call it a day and a second-place tie.
Ultimate deLux was:
Brendan
Bojan
Dani (couldn't play due to injury, but took some great photos)
Kenn
Laura
Ines
Martin
Micha
Nicolas
Thierry
Wayne Ziants (Frankfurt)
Outcome: 2nd place
Summary: Second ain't so bad! We aimed for first, but we managed a tie for second with Heilbronn, so any way you look at it, we did well.
The first game against Dusseldorf went by rather easily, winning 13-9. They played the same game as before, but this time we had a few more players and didn't run out of steam quite so quickly. We had a brief spell where they climbed back up to within one point, but then the (flat)ball started rolling the other direction and we kept our lead. This is definitely a team to watch, as in five years they're going to be excellent.
The second game was against Kaiserslautern, the eventual tournament winners. Kaiserslautern this time was a changed team. Same players as before, but this time they went for the gold. They had already trounced Heilbronn, so we knew it was going to be tough, but we didn't know they would make it that hard on us. This time the giants weren't so gentle with us. We wound up with a great start, but then petered off midway into the game when it was 5-5, losing at the end 6-10.
The last game was against Heilbronn, a team we had lost to earlier in the league, but we felt pretty confident that we would do better this time. And better we did. All the way to the very end, we managed a lead, but in the last seconds before the whistle, Heilbronn scored. The whistle then blew, meaning that the next point was the last one. Being only one point behind us Heilbronn tried putting up a great defensive screen, but we penetrated it anyway, throwing a short pass into the endzone for the point. The point that we didn't score because one of the receiver's feet was firmly planted on the sideline. The point having turned into a turn-over, we were then on the defensive, and couldn't manage another D, giving up the last point for a second-place tie with Heilbronn. We could have played another point to avoid the 10-10 tie, but both teams voted to call it a day and a second-place tie.
Ultimate deLux was:
Brendan
Bojan
Dani (couldn't play due to injury, but took some great photos)
Kenn
Laura
Ines
Martin
Micha
Nicolas
Thierry
Wayne Ziants (Frankfurt)