Tourney Report - Belgian Junior Day 2010

Last week a whole bunch of young kids went to Brussels to play the Belgian Junior Day in two divisions: Under18 and Under15 (!!).

A day organised by Ollie from Moon and a day that will be very important for the future of belgian ultimate.

Anybody wanna take a guess on the Belgian Outdoor Champions for 2020 ?? :)

Here are the results and below is a nice report by Ollie himself.

All pictures taken by Pierre-Alain (Mooncatchers)

Final Results:

Open U15
1. Young Moon
2. Babeezzz
3. Mini Moon
4. Mini Sky
Spirit of the game = Draw between Mini Moon and Young Moon

Open U18
1. Mooncatchers 9 points - 4 wins – 1 draw – goal average + 35
2. Diabolic’s 9 points - 4 wins – 1 draw – goal average + 33
3. Freespect 6 points - 3 wins – 2 defeats
4. Trancheuzen 3 points - 1 win – 1 draw - 3 defeats
5. Torpedo’s 2 points – 1 win – 4 defeats
6. Wannabeezzz 1 point – 1 draw – 4 defeats
Spirit of the Game = Diabolic’s

Picture below: Check out this little fellow getting horizontal... !!

"Incredible, amazing ! More than 80 ultimate players, kids between 9 years for the youngest and 17 for the oldest, came to this 7th edition of the Junior Day ! For the 1st time, there was a U15 division in Belgium, with more than 30 players.

For a lot of them, especially in the U15 division, it was the 1st time that they played a junior competition; so they learned all day long and they looked really pleased to have that kind of experience, and also to see that there are other young players in Belgium.

In the U18 division too, we saw a lot of new players, mixed with some more experienced ones. Some people in the Diabolic’s, Freespect and Mooncatchers teams were at the European Young Ultimate Championship in Vienna last summer, so those 3 teams were a step over the 3 others, Trancheuzen, Wannabeezzz and Torpedo’s Gentle.

It was the 1st time that we saw a junior team coming from Gent, congratulations ! A special mention too for Wannabeezzz (with a new generation) and Trancheuzen (totally new players), who had respectively 3 and 5 girls on their team.

About the results, the differences in the scores between the 3 best teams and the 3 more beginner’s teams don’t reflect those games, because we saw a lot of nice actions by the new teams, but they had more difficulties to bring the disc to the end-zone.

Between the 3 best teams we saw really intense and nice games at a good level for that age. The game between Diabolic’s and Mooncatchers was a kind of final, and the score ended 7/7 ! So, the last game of the day between Freespect and Mooncatchers decided the final winner of the tournament in U18. If Freespect won, Diabolic’s was the winner, if Moon won Moon was the winner, because before that last game the total goal average was 33 to 33. With a close win by 2 points against Freespect, after another really nice game by Freespect with only 5 players, the Mooncatchers U18 won the tournament.

But the real winner is junior ultimate, and in a way we can say that both Moons and Diabolic’s won this edition.

In the U15, 2 teams were younger and had more beginners, but it was amazing to see how they learned all day long. The game for the 3rd and 4th place was close and the Mini Moons won 7/4 against the Mini Sky(-walkers) from La Hulpe.

The final was also close and saw he victory of the Young Moons, with 12 enthusiast players, against the Babeezzz, the newest (and talented) generation from Brugge.

The spirit of the game was really great between all the teams, and for sure they are the future of Belgian ultimate and the spirit should stay high in the next years !

Olivier"

More pictures by P-A at http://picasaweb.google.com/padelamin
More pictures by Myriam&Glenn (Freezzzbeezzz) at http://www.flickr.com/photos/7939659@N08/4303618645/in/set-72157623282398142/