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1st weekend of the Open/Women Swiss Championships 2013 in Basel!

after a few years break, Freespeed is back in the business of organizing a swiss championship tournament! this weekend the first of two open and women championship weekends is taking place at the „Sportanlage Pfaffenholz“! come and enjoy some good games, a home made cake or a cold beer!

 

GAMES OF THE WEEKEND:
saturday, 15:45: MICZ vs. ZUF (women)
sunday, 11:15: Freespeed vs. Crazy Dogs (open)
sunday, 11:15: Flying Angels vs. Solebang (open)

 

COMPLETE SCHEDULE:

Spielplan SM 1 2013 Basel

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Next Generation: Freespeedies

Last weekend, the young talents from the „Freespeed academy“ competed at the so far biggest annual junior tournament in central europe: Pfingstturnier (Bad Rappenau, Germany)!
The U17 division consistet of 7 teams who played a round robin to determine the finalists. Day one started with a victory over one of the local teams. The second game was a tough game against strong playing austrians „Innfamous“ from Innsbruck. An almost unstoppable austrian Offense made them win the game. The last game of the day was against the organizing team and multiple german champion Bad Raps was probably the best game of the division for the entire weekend. The game was contested until the end, with a break on the german side. When the time was ofer, Freespeedies wasted the opportunity to egalize the score and proceed to double game point. Instead, the Bad Raps took the game with a deserved 11:9 victory. The two losses made it difficult to still qualify for the finaly. Hope restored when Innfamous lost to Innsiders in the morning of the second day. Knowing that the point difference would be the key in a possible threeway tie, Freespeedies started agressively into the game against Innsiders. After the last point was played, the team was one point short to qualify for finals. The two last round robin games endet up in uncontested victories. In the game for third place Freespeedies were facing Innfamous again. Eager for a revenge the team came out strong and dominated all game through. With a last break they closed the game to a clear 11:4 victory to take the 3rd place.
Those young talents showed some fantastic plays and hot action! A great weekend with good moments for good memories and valuable experiences on the field!

Freespeedies @ Pfingstturnier 2013

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Tom’s Tourney 2013

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after a difficult start into the tournament – ending up 3rd in the first pool after losing to strong playing Iznogood – the freespeed open team tried to forget thursday and focus on the games to come in the upper pool on friday. winning against Friselis (6:4) and Mooncatchers (11:5) in the upper pool, the loss against Cobra Kai (9:11) made some of the team feel sorry for the Mooncatchers, who so far only lost to us and could have gone to quarters if we had beaten Cobra Kai… quarters (11:6 vs. Gentle Open) and semis (9:6 vs. CUSB La Fotta) were both hard fought and well spirited games that ended up in our favour. finals agains so far unbeaten Ragnarok from Copenhagen promised a tough game in difficult conditions. a lot of wind and a little rain made it difficult to play nice and safely. both teams started with some big plays and some lucky scores. a bit more will to come down with the disc (or some may say a few more lucky passes) on Freespeed’s side pushed the score to a 3 point lead at halftime. after a last funny and lucky catch, two promising talents (and brothers) closed the game with a last upwind break: 12:7. the title was defended!

many thanks to Glenn and the whole crew for another great TT edition (winning TT twice in a row is nothing, compared to organizing a high quality tournament like TT x times in a row!)

thanks to all our opponents for awesome games in difficult conditions!

sorry to Friselis for some no-so-good reactions on our side in the uper pool game… (it made us think a lot about our spirit of the game and we were really happy that those thoughts were reflected in our 3rd rank of the spirit of the game evaluation).

thanks for a spectacular final and all the best of luck on the way to the US Open to Ragnarok!