Tournament Report (from the point of view of Strange Blue)
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  Strange Blue, the Cambridge Ultimate frisbee team, 
  participated in the Midlands Indoor Ultimate Tournament 
  the weekend of 11/12 February, had a lot of fun, and received the 
  `Spirit of the Game' award.
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	Twelve teams were present at the two day tournament, hosted by
the Leicester team, the `Jesters'.  Strange Blue received a gruelling
welcome, being placed in the opening game at 9.30am against the number
one seeds, `Stan', the Warwick veterans. This 13-3 thrashing was
followed by an even bigger 13-2 wopping by the Jesters first team, who
eventually took third place in the tournament, beating Stan in a
significant upset.  Our third game on Saturday was against `Gooey
Kablooie', a junior team from Colchester, who played really well, but
weren't 7 feet tall like our Dutch special weapon, Richard. Look out
for Gooey in the future - The rising stars of British Ultimate.

	On Sunday, we played in the knockout among the top 8 teams,
playing first against `Under the influence', another ex-Warwick team,
who thrashed us hollow (13-1) and went on to win the tournament, and
then against the Warwick `Bears', to whom we gave a closer game using
a specially designed zone defence. We lost 11-7; the Bears went on to
take 5th place. Our final game, for 7th place, was the closest of all,
against the Loughborough `Smurfs'. We played zone against them too,
and won 12-11 in overtime, thus holding our seventh place seeding.

	The Cambridge team was half university people, and half
townies.  Of our ten players, five had never played in a tournament
before; of these, three were novice players, and one, Ben Gurney, had
never played Ultimate before! --- but he took to it like a fish to
water, making a crucial layout catch in the end zone in our final
game. We got on well together as a team, and the tournie as a whole
was really good spirited too. I only saw one serious injury collision
involving an enthusiastic Jester and a SFA. We were awarded Spirit by
the other teams. Our team song, `world peace through Ultimate' went
down well too.

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	Other results at the tournie (as far as I recall): 

1	UTI
2	SFA
3	Jesters I     ----- the top three go on to the indoor nationals
4	Stan
5	Bears I
6	Top Bananas
7	Strange Blue  (Spirit)
8	Smurfs
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9	Jesters II    (Plate)
10	Gooey K
11	Hot Stamp Rejects
12 	Bears II

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