After showing a lot of fighting spirit our national ladies ended at the 5th position , exactly the same place as where the open team ended up (more on that tomorrow !).
11 women resisted the heat (35°C !!!!) and managed to take victory over Spain after a very intens , thriller game where the support pushed the girls to the max and to playing real smooth..!(14-13)
Another victory was easily completed against the UK girls ending at 17-3.
The battle of the lowlands ended in favour of the NL girls but MissB showed to be a very worthy opponent (endscore 15-12)
The french women (who in the end won the tournament) were simply a bit too strong and organised .. 17-8
Ireland 12 - MissB 10 (don't know anything about this game unfortunately)
Upcoming weekend will be a big weekend for belgian ultimate..
Two teams (MissB and an unofficial belgian national open team) will be representing our national honour in Girona , Espagna at the 8NATIONS CUP !
The good thing is we do have a team to go there , because it is important to realise teams like this and participate in international tournaments with national teams.
This creates options for in the future and most importantly wakes us up about our national structure.
Some countries , when they heard about the 8Nations Cup , just had to send out a few emails to the national team or the coaches or maybe the federation and a team was set up.
Belgium had to go through a little more effort (well , certainly in the case of the open team !) to find +-13 players.
Thanks to some enthousiastic players (amongst other Mikey from XLR8RS who went through a big efffort to get everybody together!) Belgium will also be represented in the open division.
Keep your fingers crossed on saturday and sunday and check back here for some results starting on monday evening...
Here's the team list (and oh yeah , due to a few country cancelations they only have 6nations in each division but they still decided to keep the 8nations 'brand' for next years..)
Women's Division:
SPAIN
IRELAND
BELGIUM - MISS B
NETHERLANDS - PRIMAVERA OLANDESE FRANCE
UNITED KINGDOM
Open Division:
SPAIN
IRELAND
BELGIUM
NETHERLANDS
UNITED KINGDOM COLOMBIA / VENEZUELA
PS : There's also the Brussels Beach Hat Tourney on saturday and sunday , and the Smack The Beach Up in Mechelen on monday !
Please send me all your pictures and preferably some stories and results as well !!!
GENTLE WINS SPIRIT AGAIN AT REDEMPTION TOURNAMENT IN VENICE !! Needless to say I am very proud of this team ! After winning the spirit of the game award at Disconnected a few weeks ago they manage to take home another spirit trophy at the Redemption Tournament in Venice , Italia. Great thing about this is that there are a lot of players on this team who haven't been around for many years so this must mean they had good examples... :) BUT : Even bigger news than this is that they actually won both spirit prices , having two Gentle teams playing this tourney and both ending on top of the spirit ranking... Click on this picture to zoom in on results and spirit scores : Picture below : Lieven and his teammates intensely celebrating the received spirit honours ! I'll let the pictures do the talking from here on. You can imagine that going to Venice with a group of about 18 friends to play ultimate on a very hot beach is so nice... All pictures stolen from Feisboek , copyrighted(?) by Tim V. , Nele Cox , Yelle Caron and Thomas VR (all Gentle) Magic Ultimate. Can't wait to get back on the field tonight.
This stuff makes me want to go out and play like hell !
So many discs that would have been dropped to the ground if players didn't put their heart and their entire body in the game to give it the best they got... Dedication anyone ?
"The World Games, first held in 1981, are an international multi-sport event , meant for sports that are not contested in the Olympic Games." So this means ultimate as well !
They may not be the Olympics , but for our sport and many others , this is as high as it gets. Since 2001 ultimate has been featured amongst +-30 other sports on this high level sports gathering. Important note : this is only mixed division (COED) and only for the top ranked teams at the latest WUGC (World Ultimate and Guts Championships)
In 2001 in Akita (Japan), Canada beat USA in the final ; In 2005 in Duisburg (Germany) , USA beat Australia for the gold..
The World Games will start tomorrow 16/07/09 until 26/07/09 at Kaohsiung in Taiwan. If you have Eurosport2 , probably somewhere on your digital TV channel list (I wouldn't know)make sure to check out the broadcasting schedule , because on the 1st of August I've been told you can watch ultimate on TV. Waw !
I wasn't there myself (playing at Chinon at the same time) but here's a report as written by Ollivier (Mooncatchers) :
"They announced storm, rain and bad weather for almost the whole week-end and finally it was a sunny/burning week-end in Namur-Malonne !
10 teams where present, and so much young players !
Mooncatchers with 7 players between 13 to 16 years, Proppellers (Wadisc ?) and Gentle with a new generation, the University of Namur that Benoît and P-E are organising..Diabolic Heaven with their young boys and girls, Huyltimate, Eulch’timate + some players coming from Bretagne !, Skywalkers from Braine L’Alleud, the ex-“Southampton” juniors “Megaman D” (winner of the 2 previous editions), and the Open -20 Junior National Team.
Now, I want to give you a small report of the final. A really nice game, the whole game was really close. It started 3-2 for Megaman, then 4-3 for the Jr Open -20,
8/6 for the Juniors at the half-time. Then 8/7, 9/7, 9/8, 9/9, 10/9 for Megaman…and then a 20 minutes point...
Megaman was playing zone defense for a few points to try to stop the smooth offense doing by the -20…
Five times the juniors made thousand of passes and then missed the last pass in the endzone, Megaman tried some hucks and missed them a few times too… finally, the juniors scored 10/10 !
Only around 10 minutes left at that moment.
At 12/11 for Megaman, the time was over and so, with the 2 Captain’s Boris and Boris and myself, we decided that if it is 13/11 it’s over and if 12/12, they play cap+1, so to 13, like it was decided before the game (first to 15 or 90 minutes, cap+1 at the end of the time-limit).
Megaman scored on a really nice and really close from the line catch, and so, Megaman should won the tournament for the 3rd year in a row ! 13/11. Then Benoît told the teams and myself that cap+1 at the end of the time means at the end of the last point played after the time… so Benoît asked for “cap to 14”…
Megaman accepted it really fast without any discussion,
This was really cool and spirited of them, but then the Juniors scored 3 times, and so won 14/13… Too bad there is no draw in a final, both teams deserved it !!!
What I will remember about all of this is: 1) We have to think, before the game, about all the possibilities that can happen at the end of a game, in case of close scores when the time limit is reached. 2) The spirit in Belgium is really high and more especially the one of the Megaman players, who never discussed for that problem (even if they had the “good” right to do it) 3) For me, that final and that game was a great victory for the Belgian Ultimate and it’s future !!! 4) Let’s start again the practices (or monthly games) for the Open National Team, let’s open those practices to all the young motivated players that want to try their chance for a selection for the next European by Nations in the summer of 2011. 5) Go Belgium !
I also want to thank all the players that work with young players and with this help the growth of the next generation of Crazy Spirited Belgian Ultimate Players !
Olivier"
I can only agree on what Ollie wrote here.
I love the way we keep the spirit high in Belgium , and I like to see all those youngsters play.
Congratulations to them and hope to be there next time for a legendary "junior" final...
Check out this message by Mikey and the rest of the XLR8RS:
"XLR8RS is proud to welcome you this Summer on 8-9th August 2009 for a Xtra Large HAT tournament!
2 days of Xtra Ultimate Hat Frisbee on 2 fields in a beautiful setting among the Woluwé Park in Brussels, with everything at the same place, gorgeous food for dinner and last but not least an Xtra Large party...
Dear All, Are you free on August 8-9?
If so, please come and join the Brussels hat tournament, it will be extra large! SIGN UP HERE :http://www.xlr8rs.be/xlhat.html Pass it on to your team lists! You will be rewarded... ;) Hoping to see you soon, Cheers,
Mike
Registration :
Just fill your information of the registration form on the website
Player fee: 65€ including : Games, Players pack, Welcome & Saturday Xtra Large Party, Xtra Dinner, Breakfast, Camping, Presents,... Deadline Player fee: 15th July 2009 From Belgium : 363-0236752-15
From International : IBAN BE83 3630 2367 5215, BIC BBRUBEBB Communication: XL Hat'09 - player's name Additional Information : Accommodation with your tent on the tournament location
Environment friendly tournament, so bring your own board, knives and forks! Any questions? Shoot us at xlhat at xlr8rs dot be "
Okay , I might as well start focusing on blogging again. A message by Pat and Ollie from Moon. If you wanna play , make sure to go there , I've been there for the last 3 (or 2?) editions and it always was a lotta fun !
" The Brussels Beach 09 is looking for some players female and male for a HotHat pick-up team. The team already has 1 woman and 2 or 3 guys.
The team should count 3 women and 4 or 5 men.
The tourney is cheap and the beach atmosphere guaranteed !
The party is on a boat next to the field, and the lodging is 5’ walk from there.
5th Brussels Ultimate Beach -25th and 26th of July, 2009.
This small format beach tournament is part of "Bruxelles-Les-Bains", a large event bringing the beach (and the sand !) in the centre of the town, with beach sports competitions, demos and initiations, plus all beach-animations, bars and food stands.
When the weather is good, it is crowded; each week-end shows a different beach-sport on the main field, with stands for the spectators.
Format:
- We will play 4 on 4 on a sand field of +/- 36m x 18m.
- One woman on the field or 2 (offence choice)
- 8 teams format; each team will play 7 games of +/- 30'.
- Final for the first two teams after the round-robin.
Participating teams:
- Frizzly Bears ( Aachen , Germany ), present in the first 3 editions
- Ploughmen (Dublin, Ireland)
- Eul’Chtimate (Lille, France)
- Jet Set (Leuven)
- XLR8RS (Brussels)
- Hat-Hot Pick-Up 1 (Mixed team for European travellers and friends)
- Hat-Hot Pick-Up 2
- Mooncatchers ( Brussels ), organisers.
Fee : Without sleeping accomodation : 30€ per player (no teamfee) including :
-Games
-Sunday breakfast and saturday diner
-Party : besides the all-day-party ; we'll have a party on saturday on a boat next to the field
-Plus some surprises !
Accomodation = +-10€ for the saturday night , in rooms of 5/6 players , at 5min. walk from the fields and the party boat.
IMPORTANT :UNUSUAL SCHEDULE !! :
The 1st game starts at 10.45 on saturday and sunday
The games end around 20.30 on saturday and around 19.30 on sunday
We hope you can be part of this summer event ; thanks for replying really soon.
Patricia & Olivier "
Since when does Brussels have a beach ? Click on the logo above to find all information.
Wanna see a TV report on this tournament ? Check out the video below , it has some interesting interviews , some action shots and also a few nice catches..
Wanna find yourself in the pictures from last year ?
