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For those with an interest in badminton, or finding out what Ultimate Frisbee is, click on any of the links.

Should anyone wish to donate any prizes for the next LUCRE (Leamington Ultimate and Cancer REsearch) Charity Tournament, then please get in touch.




Cancer Research UK (Just Giving Fundraiser Page)


LUCRE Tournament (Charity Frisbee Tournament)


Leamington Lemmings Ultimate Club (Frisbee)


Leamington Badminton Club (Leamington Spa)


Barkers Butts Badminton Club (Coventry)


Bowling Green Badminton Club (Warwick)

What will the new season bring...?

Not really been on here for a while, well, ages actually.

Been playing more badminton than ultimate recently.

Although had our Lemmings AGM the other week, got a new young exec in to shake things up a bit, quite looking forward to next season now.

Plus we may get a new shiny kit.

This post was mostly written whilst getting excited about it being Friday Eve!

Broadside 2010

Broadside 2010 is this weekend, it's the first proper outdoor tournament I've done. I've done several indoor tournaments and a couple outdoor hat tournaments, but not a 'proper' outdoor tournament.

It should be pretty good I hope, we've found an ace venue, and have got some great teams coming along.

Local side, the Leamington Lemmings will be looking to make an impact on the tournament. I've got to plump for a Fire 2 and Tooting Tigers 1-2, but I'm still not sure in which order. Fire 2 have got some reinforcements in some EMO players not on the plane to Prague.

We'll be 'tweeting' the results, using #broadside2010 alternatively, these will auto update on the Broadside 2010 website: http://www.broadsidetournament.webs.com

LUCRE 2011

LUCRE 2011 will be held on Saturday 29th January at St Nicholas Park, Warwick

http://www.lucretournament.co.uk

MT3 Predictions

OK, here goes...

Mixed Tour 3, another chance for me to be wrong again, here are my predictions.


Biggest risers...

(1.) BAF, the host team will want to put right their MT2 result. (seeded 9th)

(2.) Flaming Galahs 1 will be looking to improve upon their seed. (seeded 18th)

(3.) Leamington Lemmings 2 will look to move up a few places towards their first team counterparts. (seeded 39th)

Other notable mentions to Ltd Release and Thundering Herd 2.


Biggest fallers...

(1.) South Coast Ultimate had some great results at MT2, might find it hard going at MT3. (seeded 14th)

(2.) Kent jumped up loads of seeds at MT2, will they be able to hold or improve at MT3? (seeded 11th)

(3.) Staffordshire Oatcakes also had a good MT2, will MT3 be as successful? (seeded 30th)


As ever, these are just total stabs in the dark!

What do YOU reckon?


This post was written whilst mostly listening to LCD Soundsystem.

MT2 - The Second Teams

Following my previous blog on second teams, I've taken a look at how they performed last weekend in Weymouth.

From the ten teams that entered second teams into MT1, all but three managed to field second teams into MT2 also. It was Sealand, Lemmings and High Altitude who just took a first team squad, perhaps Weymouth was just too far to travel for some people.

Congrats to Thundering Herd 2 for being the highest placed second team, closely followed by Bear Cavalry 2.

MT2 Finishing Positions:
(1.) Thundering Herd 2 - 19th
(2.) Bear Cavalry 2 - 23rd
(3.) Flump Fresh - 30th
(4.) Flaming Galahs 2 - 31st
(5.) ABH 2 - 32nd
(6.) Curve 2 - 34th
(7.) Guildford 2 - 37th


This makes the Second Team Table (after 2 events) look like this...

(1.) Thundering Herd 2 - 17 points
(2.) Bear Cavalry 2 - 15 points
(3.) Flump Fresh - 13 points
(4.) ABH 2 - 9 points
(5.) Flaming Galahs - 8 points
(6.) Principality of Sealand 2 - 7 points
(7.) Leamington Lemmings 2 - 5 points
(8.) Curve 2 - 4 points
(9.) High Altitude 2 - 3 points
(10.) Guildford Ultimate - 2 points

(points are assigned by number of second teams entered, plus one, minus finishing position within second teams).

I wonder if all ten clubs will get second teams into MT3 at Cheltenham. See you there.

This post was written whilst mostly listening to the John Butler Trio.

TD 2 - Thrillson 0

Well, lets take a look at how my 'stab-in-the-dark' predictions worked out last weekend...

1.) Predicted Kent rising from 16th, finished 12th (gained 4 places).
2.) Predicted Gronical Dizziness rising from 8th, finished 9th (dropped 1 place).
3.) Predicted Shakedown rising from 26th, finished 27th (dropped 1 place).

4.) Predicted Sealand falling from 10th, finished 7th (gained 3 places).
5.) Predicted ABH falling from 18th, finished 24th (dropped 6 places).
6.) Predicted Cutty Sharks falling from 30th, finished 33rd (dropped 3 places).

I managed to pick out Kent on the up and ABH falling a bit along with Cutty Sharks, the other half of my predictions however were wrong (as usual!).

Oxford Mixed climbed up the most places (8), although I could (should?!) have predicted this, after a relatively poor MT1 which saw them slide 11 places down the rankings. Fully Charged fell down the rankings the most most places (8).

See you all in Cheltenham for MT3/Nationals.

This post was written whilst mostly listening to the new Paul Weller album.

Mixed Tour Two

Due to phenomenal demand (ok, well one person) I've had another wild stab in the dark at whom may go up the seedings this weekend, and who may slip a place or two.


Moving on up...

Look for Kent to rise a place or two. At MT1 Lemmings knocked them out of the Top 16, but they finished the Sunday strongly to finish as high as they could in 17th.

Gronical Dizziness are the unknown factor this weekend, I understand that they're a dutch team and I'm guessing they're from Groningen. I reckon they'll be tough competition.

A third team I could see rising up a couple of places are Shakedown. The Mixed version of Shake N Bake will be looking to move up from their 26th seed.


Got that sinking feeling...

Judging by the number of emails and messages, it looks like Sealand are short of players for the long trek down to the South coast from Scotland, it's possible they'll drop a place or two.

More plea's for players from ABH, leads me to believe that their second team may slip a place or two from 28th seed.

After a good MT1, Cutty Sharks will be looking to build upon that success, but they've got a few strong teams on their heels, expect them to drop a seed.


As always, this is just for kicks/giggles, and as you'll have seen from my MT1 predictions, you'll probably do better if I pick you for the drop!


See you in Weymouth for some fish, chips and sandcastles.

This post was written whilst mostly listening to 6 Day Riot.

Frijolemole

Frijolemole is the worlds greatest food.

This post was written whilst mostly eating Frijolemole.

Mixed Tour One - Clash of the Second Teams

People rarely write about lower level Ultimate, take a look at the latest edition of Ultimatum; it's pretty much all A-Tour/International. What about the little guys, what about those on second teams?

Well, at MT1 (if you don't count the other Codhand team, were they meant to be evenly split?), the highest performing team was Thundering Herd 2, congratulations to them.

Second Teams Only at MT1, Cardiff 2010

(1.) Thundering Herd 2 - 25th
(2.) Bear Cavalry 2 - 26th
(3.) Flump Fresh - 30th
(4.) Sealand 2 - 31st
(5.) ABH 2 - 33rd

(6.) Leamington Lemmings 2 - 41st
(7.) Flaming Galahs 2 - 42nd
(8.) High Altitude 2 - 43rd
(9.) Curve 2 - 45th
(10.) Guildford Ultimate 2 - 46th

There are almost two clusters of second teams, one in the late 20's/early 30's and one in the early/mid 40th seeds. T'Herd 2 currently top the first of these pools, with Lemmings 2 topping the second of these pools at present. If I can be bothered, I'll continue to publish these mini-league tables throughout the Mixed Tour season.

ABH2 are the second team who finished closest to their first team at MT1, just 13 places behind them. High Altitude 2 finished the most places behind their first team, 29 places behind them.

This post was written whilst mostly listening to Elvis Costello.