Strange Blue tournament report: nationals 1997. 26/9/97, swindon

For a team photo see http://wol.ra.phy.cam.ac.uk/ultimate/pics/nats97/

We resigned our 12th seeding in the nationals and entered a
fun team in the "not the nationals" tournament.

The team was Francis, David, Daniel, Jez, John, Dan's friend Bernie
and brother Albert, Kate (Saturday), Cads, Pippo and Ceci. (The last
three were much-needed pickups.)

The rest of our division were: Calzoni (half GB womens), Women in
Black, Mud Culture, Sneeekys, G-spot (new team), Bears.

We beat WIB 15-8 playing ironman 5 then ironman 6 as our players
trickled in. We had a good time using a variety of Os and Ds and
learning to play together.

We lost 15-6 to Bears. (aka Whiplash) 

We beat Calzoni 15-10.

On Sunday we played G-spots, who took a couple of our players to make
up their numbers. We won 15-1.

We were really proud to beat Mud Culture 15-6.

We lost to Sneeekys by quite a lot, though we were very close to them
at half time.

We finished up 3rd.

1 Sneeekys
2 Whiplash (spirit)
3 Strange Blue
4 Mud Culture
5 Calzoni
6 Women in Black
7 G-spots

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The nationals were won by shotgun with ease.

The Catch 22 / Chevron semi final was an epic close game with Chev
taking the lead for a time in the second half, but losing to Catch in
the end. Red beat VH on Sat but lost to them on Sunday. Stan have
anounced their retirement.

1 Shotgun
2 Catch
3 Druids
4 Chevron
5 VH
6 Red
7 Oxford
8 Stan (spirit)

At the 9-16 tournament, First Touch dominated.
9 FT
10 ? blue arse flies
11 ? Jedi children / ? hint of lime
 ?   floating bloke (s)
 *** sorry ! ***
15 Headrush
16 VP

I was really impressed by how well the tournaments were organised. 
Well done Chris and Wayne!