Chaos Tournament 30-31 May
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The Chaos tournament at Trent Park was an excellent spirited event, as
always, and was notable for the closeness of its games between all the
top teams.

On Saturday, GB Masters (playing their first and only tournament of
1998) had a hard fight with First Touch for the head of pool C. The
game went to sudden death in overtime and was won - with a little help
fom Pete Harvey - by First Touch. Next door in pool B, Mild Mannered
Janitors displaced the eventual finalists Shag Boys from their top
seeding. The subsequent cross-over games were equally close. The Mild
Mannered Janitors were tied with GB Masters when the cap went on, and
in the First Touch / Shag Boys playoff, Touch made a huge comeback in
the cap from 9-3 to 9-all before losing to the Shaggers.

This trend continued during Sunday's knockouts. Blue Arse Flies and
First Touch were tied at 8-8 in the cap; Touch won. On the adjacent
field, Mohawks used an energetic 1-3-3 zone to come from 6-1 down
against GB Masters and take the game 9-7.  In the First Touch /
Mohawks game for 5th/6th, Mohawks again staged a strong comeback but
couldn't quite beat Touch.  As for the top four, in Sunday's
semi-finals, UTT beat Janitors and Shag Boys beat Goldfish. Goldfish
then overpowered the Janitors in the 3rd/4th final and demonstrated
some entertaining no-look passes and no-look catches (most of which
were incomplete).

The final was another close game. Shag Boys kept close on the tail of
UTT all the way, and looked increasingly strong as UTT's eight able
bodied players tired. Danny had been sent off by an "I think I broke
your nose, bro" incident which left his face gushing blood like a
Tarantino film. In the end, the Shagging Ones never quite broke down
the UTT lead.

The awards, distributed in the very nice new clubhouse at Trent Park,
included magic metal pants for the finalists and spirit winners.
Many thanks to Dan, Fi and Jo for an excellent tournament!

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1 UTT
2 shag boys
3 goldfish
4 mild jannered manitors
5 first touch
6  mohawks
7 blue arse flies
8 gb masters 
9 mud culture (plate)
10 red
11 pick and miss
12 twin peaks
13 far flung?
14 chaos
15 Kniggets
16 hurricane

The prize for theme/concept/gimmick went to mohawks (who wore nice ties)

Spirit: first touch