All, Thankyou for attending Bristol Tour 1. No doubt you are all cursing the 8am start on Sunday the same as me, and offering thanks for the glorious sunshine on Saturday and the lack of wind and rain on Sunday! Makes you wonder whether it really was Bristol!
This was the single largest UK domestic tournament ever... and I think we have surpassed this venues team limit! I hope the loss of the two pitches and the tight schedule did not dull the pleasure for you all. Anyway, onto results. For the first time ever we saw Clapham 1 finish outside the top 4 and for the first time since Clapham stopped splitting the teams evenly we saw the 2nd team come higher! But it wasn't all about Clapham. Fire 1 got knocked out of the top 6 in the first round by Clapham 2 only to play Clapham 1 in the quarters to deny them a spot in the top 4. BAF nearly caused an upset against the eventual winners, leading LeedsLeedsLeeds until the very end when they won through to snatch the victory. Leeds and Chevron provided a highly entertaining final while Fire continued there revenge in the 3rd vs. 4th playoff. Fire 2 took the plate avenging their initial defeat by Brighton, who managed to cause a 3 way tie that saw Bristol sneak into the top 8. The B Tour saw intense competition with Paddy Murphy's small squad entertaining all with their spirit and grit, only to be knocked out in the semis in sudden death by the eventual champions. Last years B Tour 1 winners beat UTB1 in the semi, making an all West Country final with Bristol Plastic Factory coming out on top. Brighton 2 had a noticeable finish, climbing from last seeds to take the plate. Interestingly, after much discussion about seedings the top 6 teams remained the top 6 teams and the teams hotly tipped to win, simply didn't. The Women's Tour 1 was the largest women's event ever in the UK, and to say the competition at the top was intense would be an understatement. Leeds got an early upset, beating Nice Bristols first game on Saturday which set the two semis up to be thrillers. Swift took Bristol to sudden death in the quarter, but then fell away in the rest of there games after giving so much. Iceni mastered Leeds in the one semi and Bliss mastered Bristol in the other leaving the London rivals to battle out the final. Bliss came out on top and Bristol avenged their earlier loss against Leeds. Meanwhile a jubilant Cardiff won the Plate. Results Women's Tour 1 1 Bliss (Champions) 2 Iceni 1 3 Nice Bristols 4 Leedsleedsladies 5 Iceni 2 6 LTD Womens 7 FloorPlay 8 Swift 9 Cardiff Ultimate Womens (Plate Winners) 10 Mushiono (Spirit) 11 Sublime Stars 12 Sheffield GB jnr women Spirit of the Game Award - Mushiono Honourable mention with the same number of votes - Nice Bristols MVP of the Final - Aura (Iceni 1) B Tour 1 1 Plastic Factory 2 (Champions) 2 Tenacious devon 1 3 UTB 1 4 Paddy Murphy's (Spirit) 5 Cardiff Ultimate 1 6 Discuits 1 7 ABH 8 Schnell 9 MMJ 10 Trigger Happy 11 Fusion 2 12 Lord Of The Ring 1 13 Strange Blue 14 Discuits 2 15 Lucky Huckers 16 Shaft 17 Brighton Ultimate 2 (Plate Winners) 18 Aye Aye 19 LTD Release 2 20 Northern Lights 21 Motion 22 Boogie Nights 23 GB Juniors 2 24 BAF 2 25 Sublime 26 Flyght Club 2 27 UTB 2 28 Tenacious devon 2 29 Sheffield Steal 2 30 GB Juniors 1 31 Lord Of The Ring 2 32 York ultimate Spirit of the Game Award - Paddy Murphy MVP of the Final - Frank Forloane (Tenacious Devon) __________________________________________________ BritDisc mailing list BritDisc@near.me.uk http://zion.ranulf.net/mailman/listinfo/britdisc Staying informed - http://www.ukultimate.com/informed.asp