FYI Christoph Dehnhardt wrote:
>Hi, > > >today was the first full match day. 47 matches were played. The >schedule had mainly those seeds playing that should yield relatively >uneven scores, but already we had many surprises. All scores and pool >standings are on line at > >http://results.wfdf.org/?view=poolstatus&Pool=1210 > > >In the Under17 open, Italy beat GB and Israel and are going for the >pool victory on tuesday, the other two battle it out for 2nd place. >Germany and France are cruising in the other pool. > > >The 3 Junior womens' pools include the three U17 girls' teams, who play >matches in the first round but then move on to their own championship. >And this is where the most spectactular results come from: Germany U17 >girls beat Latvia jr women in a very closely contended match, and GB >U17 girls convincingly beat both Japan and Finland jr women. So the >young girls add quite some spice to this division! Those results will >not count for the classifications, though. > > >In Junior open, we already had plenty very close matches and upsets: >France beat Australia 16-14, Sweden beat UK 15-13. Pool D seems to be >the most even pool, with Colombia already through to the upper pool, >Israel most likely. Japan, Austria and Switzerland will battle it out >for 3rd place, in order to go up. Switzerland is a new team after not >participating in EYUC11, but looks strong in spite of two close and >unfortunate losses today. > > >Tomorrow will be the first decision day, for upper and lower brackets, >with a lot of excitement on the schedule. The junior women division has >the three 1vs2 seed matches of AUS-USA, CDN-ITA and COL-GER. > > >Conditions are great, with excellent fields to play on, perfect >accomodation and tournament organization. And the weather also offers >something for everyone: great unshine for the opening, storm and rain >this morning, leading so plenty of zone D and Huck'n D. But then the >wind got lighter, it stopped raining and by tonight many players have >even developed serious sunburns. Curious what Ireland offers tomorrow: >hurricans, heat or both? > > >The kids are enjoying the overwhelming atmosphere of 1000 Junior >players and are both very focussed and very spirited. 80 volunteers >from many countries, with many eastern european nations present, treat >us to a great time. Thanks! > > >Cheers, > >Chris, EUF youth committee > >-- >Christoph Dehnhardt <[email protected]> +49 - 341 - 5901880 -- Wayne Retter (aka Wrecker) __________________________________________________ BritDisc mailing list [email protected] http://www.fysh.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/britdisc Staying informed - http://www.ukultimate.com/staying-informed
