For those that don't know, Winter League isn't fun, in fact it's horrible, and pretty much only masochists agree to play, that and players who've been press-ganged into playing for their team as they were short on numbers (I fit into the latter of these two categories).
Things you'll need to endure a Winter League event...
As it turned out, it stayed dry all day and was even sunny (although cold) for most of it! Can't quite remember how the first MWL turned out, but I think it saw Age Against The Machine beat EMO in the final, with uBu coming third and Flyght Club coming fourth; Arctic, Demons, Lemmings, Flux, Red and Haze made up the rest of the places (unsure of rankings! I may too have missed out someone).
So with the seedings from the first event being carried forward into this one, would we see another EMO / Age final, or would Flyght or uBu make an appearance, or indeed would one of the other teams cause an upset.
Early in the day Demon's pushed EMO close, losing to EMO by just one point. In Group C, with uBu and Lemmings both beating Arctic, it left a south-west midlands derby to decide the group winner. The two teams traded for few points, until Lemmings managed to cope better in the blustery conditions and pulled it away to win.
This set up Lemmings/Age and EMO/Flyght Semi-Finals. EMO managed to beat Flyght, whilst on the other pitch Lemmings pushed the masters team to the wire, with Age eventually using their experience, calling a time out and slotting away a sudden-death point to win 9-8.
This set up a re-run of last months final (anyone know the outcome?!).
Flyght Club took Bronze, beating Lemmings in the 3 Vs 4 match.
Here's to the next MWL in January, it's bound to hail/sleet/snow at one of them before long!
Props to the Nottingham crew for sorting out MWL, when no-one else could find a suitable venue.
Jess (Lemmings) beats Flyght Club player to Disc.
This post was mostly written whilst drinking hot blackcurrant cordial.
