Open Tour 2

Well, it was Clapham who emerged victorious at Open A-Tour last weekend, but who's likely to finish top of the pile at the seemingly forgotten about B & C-Tour in Birmingham this weekend.

Fusion West will want to put right what they got wrong at Tour 1, but there are lots of other teams in the top half of B-Tour who feel they should have been playing at Brighton last weekend rather than in the midlands this weekend. Kent Open, Janitors, Bristol, Steal and newly formed Burro Electrico will all fancy their chances at promotion (or whatever's happening for T3/Nats). Second teams from top clubs Brown, EMO and Brighton will all be looking to create a few upsets also. ABH are likely to fall a few seedings unless their last minute recruitment drive discovers some quality pick-ups. At the bottom half of the table midlands clubs Lemmings 1 and Flyght Club will be looking to avoid dropping down into C-Tour.

(schedule here: http://www.ukultimate.com/system/files/BC.T2-2009.12pitch.16B.18C.pdf)

Talking of the C-Tour, Mustard must feel that they've got a point to prove and will look to dominate the tournament, not quite sure how they've ended up down there. Flump will also be looking to climb back up into B-Tour after fielding a relatively inexperienced team at Tour 1 in Chiswick. A few new teams have entered halfway through the Tour season, including GB Under 17 Open and Lemmings 3. As teams are getting larger and larger, there are increasingly more and more clubs entering two (or more) teams into the UKUA Open Tour. This year there are about 13, these include Fire, Clapham (+ Tigers), Fusion, EMO, Team Shark, Brown, BAF, Limited, Strange Blue, Lemmings, Kent, Brighton, and Devon. In fact, Limited Release fielded three teams at T1 and at T2 relatively new team, the Leamington Lemmings, are fielding three teams also.

It'll be interesting to see which of the second teams finishes highest. After Brighton 1 finished above EMO 1 and The Brown at A-Tour, it'll be interesting to see which second team will finish higher in the B-Tour (not counting Fusion). There is lots of scope for bragging rights across the B & C Tour, will Kent, Lemmings and Devon's first teams all be able to finish higher in the B-Tour than their counterparts in the C-Tour?

I've got no idea at all about who's playing for who this weekend (other than ABH's plea for players on BritDisc) but I thought I'd have a go at predicting the top spots regardless, nothing quite like ill-advised pundits predictions...

B-Tour
1st - Fusion West
2nd - Kent
3rd - Mild Mannered Janitors

C-Tour
1st - Flump
2nd - Mustard
3rd - Strange Blue 2

Good luck to all involved this weekend, he's hoping it's sunny, although as the Ashes are on, it's pretty much guaranteed to rain.

> This post was written whilst mostly listening to Johnny Foreigner's "Arcs Across the City".