18
Aug
CUC 2009 – Photos!
You can find photos from Corry Berghout here: http://www.pbase.com/cmberghout/2009cuc
17
Aug
CUC 2009 – Results
I just checked around and we didn’t really post who had won so here they are, the Canadian Ultimate Champions of 2009 (in the order that they became Champions):
- Masters: GLUM (Ottawa (and a few Toronto players))
- Juniors: Blackout (Vancouver)
- Open: Mephisto (Montreal)
- Mixed: CHAOS (Winnipeg)
- Women’s: Lotus (Toronto)
Tournament recaps forthcoming.
16
Aug
CUC 2009 – Live
Apologies for technical delays, we’re getting far more viewers than expected.
Thanks for watching.
15
Aug
Photos?
Do you have photos from CUC? Let me know (tushar@iamultimate.com) and I’ll post a link to them. Official CUC photos will be linked to soon as well.
15
Aug
A recap of day 2
It was an interesting day for Too Bad, our inconsistency definitely caught up with us. We played three games and lost all three in what could be measured as relatively close terms.
Our first matchup of the day was against Phoenix and we made them work for their win. We started out with two breaks and continued to hold our lead until half. It was a game where we faltered at the end due to concentration but overall quite a bit of fun. Phoenix definitely has a different flavour than last year. I think a final score of 11-7 or closer.
The second game was a rematch against GT whom we defeated in Cleveland by a single point. From the start GT held control of the game by picking apart our zone. Finally the sideline kicked in and our zone started creating turns by GT was too far ahead for us to catch up.
The foibles early on seemed to replicate themselves for the game against Mangina, a must win game for us to advance. Unfortunately we lost our composure and spotted them six points before breaking the bagel. A half time pep talk worked and we started grinding down on them. Unfortunately all was for naught and the final was 14-9. Had we played just as hard throughout the game there’s no doubt that we would have won that game.
A disappointing day made more disappointing in the knowledge that due to field conditions and rain that Saturday games for bottom 8 were canceled (16 teams in each division). However, over dinner rumours started to swirl that we’d play indoors on Saturday (for those bottom 8 teams).
I exchanged emails with Danny Saunders (Executive Director of CUPA) and he confirmed this as well as how hard it was to make the decision he did. I did learn of his reasons to reschedule to a different location and empathize with him.
However, I’m not happy that the games are indoor. CUC is an outdoor tournament and as such I believe that we need to play it outdoors in entirety. I say this from the perspective of the team coming in as 9th to the final placement bracket. We have an advantage in playing outdoors with larger fields and the ability to play in the wind. I would prefer to retain that advantage.
I guess we’ll see what the day brings.
15
Aug
L on L – Day 2
I woke up pretty tight this morning, but I got a better sleep last night so I was ready and super-stoked. After a bit of a rain delay we got right into it with Psychoplastique. I played in the annual Ho-down tournament in Calgary and watched Psycho win it all, but I was actually not all that impressed by them. Not only that, the roster was really different. But this team placed 3rd last year so we could hardly take them lightly. It was quite a battle in the beginning, pretty much trading points. A few mistakes on both sides but neither team seemed to want to pull ahead. In the second half we began pulling away, and at one point Gabe put a throw out to Higy for the score. I was right on the sideline close to the action. Unfortunately the throw was a bit short and Higy’s man was in front of him, so he ran hard for the disc. He had the look of a homeless person given a bowl of soup. Just as he was about to grab it, Higy laid out from completely behind him, managed to get maybe his fingers around him, not even his whole hand, and he absolutely robbed him. “No soup for you!” It was an astonishing, astonishng grab. It was the kind of lay-out you see on D that would be pretty amazing, but on O, to come from behind like that and not only get a piece of it but to CATCH it. Amazing. I hope someone caught a picture of that one. In the end we played a solid game, not perfect, but enought o take the win 15-10.
Next up was Mayhem. The battles Liquid has had with Mayhem, wow, I can’t even get into it. It’s crazy. Luckily Liquid usually comes out on top nowadays. But today proved to be no different as Mayhem jumped out to a 4-2 lead. It could be that being familiar with us helps them, or it could be just a mental thing, but I can’t remember ever actually spanking Mayhem really good. Which is odd considering we have our sights set on the finals and more, and they are not in the top 8. The parity of mixed is quite entertaining. After the 4-2 start we battled all the way to half which I believe we took 8-7. I had some pretty bad throw-aways as usual, but Blue was all over my ass which was exactly what I needed to hear, so I began to reign it in. I’m not sure if it’s lack of tournament play or what, but my throws have been horrible, even at Invictus practices. In 2008 I had some money money games and throws, if I may say so, but now they are gone. So sticking with cutting I managed to sky Mackey a few times and pull in a few points. No throw aways tomorrow! Another too close for comfort game but we pulled it out 11-8 I think. 5-0 so far.
Then we had ONYX. I was not pleased with this game at all, and I don’t think anyone on Liquid was. We were not sharp in any areas. The bright side is that we were close to possibly winning despite that. It was an 11-6 final, but at 9-6 we had a couple chances to score and couldn’t convert which might’ve swung the momentum in our favour. We couldn’t pull it off and they scored so at 10-6 it was virtually over… and at 11-6 it was over for real. I was most displeased personally at getting beat four times by a very tall, semi-fast guy. I knew where he was going to go and I couldnt stop it. I think my effort was there, but I wasn’t there 100% mentally to be all over him. That has to change for tomorrow as well. Usually even if I am on a very tough mark I can corral him and read where he wants to go, and do everything in my power to shut him down, but against this guy it just didn’t happen today.
Crazy thing is our seed looks good thanks to that loss. We get Gecko first thing tomorrow morning. ONYX gets TFP right off the bat, in a re-match of the finals from last year. TFP has not looked great yet, but we all know they will be tough as nails tomorrow. Should be an intersting day. Two wins to the finals…..
Invictus had a less then stellar day, going 1-2. I watched them play vs General Strike and it was a very entertaining game. They were down 7-3 and then went on a run, including a callahan, and won 11-8. And they may have needed that win just to stay in the top 8. They may have a tougher road to the finals then I thought, but I have faith in my Calgary boys.
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16
Aug
Apologies – Live again
Sorry about the end of that game, we got hit with a ton of viewers all at the same time and stressed us out again. That was compounded with the net connection here going down. I’ve made a few more fixes and we should be ready to go again. Please view the link below to get going again.