Swiss Championships, Final Round, Ebikon (CH)
Sad story short: Freespeed one gave away an early lead in the Finals and again lost a game to Flying Angles wich never should have been lost! After all disappointment of our performance, congrats to the swiss champions, Flying Angels from Bern.
Dogs Outdoor, Stans (CH)
With a squad of 8 people (9 on sunday), Freespeed took this tournament to have some fun and find the way into the second half of the season. With the Olympics going on in London the team decided to dedicate the outfit to this Event. With beautifully self made shirts and some equipment from olympic disciplines a fun weekend was programmed. The beer race developed to a spontanuous special highlight, as „Michael Phelps“ lost the race just by some inches due to his deficient butterfly technique on grass… Party: good, Sunday: good. 3rd place and a lot of fun!
EUC Regionals South, Imola (IT)
Freespeed played at EUC Regionals last weekend. undefeated in their Pool the small squad (8 players missing) lost the game for the top seed of the region to a strong Flying Angels. In a game with many discussions against CUSB La Fotta, the second spot in the elite pools at EUCF was safely defended (14:8 victory as far as I remember, correct me if I’m wrong…).
Open Ranking:
Elite Pools:
1. Flying Angels Bern
2. Freespeed Basel
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3. CUSB La Fotta Bologna
4. Friselis Versailles
5. Cota Rica Rimini
– Clapham Ultimate, to take back the title after 5 years!
– Crazy Dogs, for winning the Spirit of the Game award!
– Lotus, for winning bronze medal again (after 2011)!
The finals against the hometeam CUSB La Fotta brought some hot action with many spectacular points on both sides. None of the teams could pull away early in the game and after one break each, the score was still one point difference at halftime. Bologna, playing for the first ever win of their own tournament, managed to punish one of our few mistakes to a two point lead. Time was over at 11:10 for Bologna, game to 12 (cap 1) with them starting on offence. For some passes they didn’t manage to move the disc any inch upfield and found themselves stalled out, what they contested. Not even 10 seconds later the swing after the dump pass was caught for the callahan! But there was an uncontested foul on the throw. The disc went back, to be thrown for another swing pass into another defenders hand! The second callahan score in 20 seconds tighten the score to 11 all, double game point. In a long point with Bologna having a lot of trouble to find options and having to choose risky options at high stall counts many times, they finally pulled down a last very lucky hammer in the endzone to win their own tournament! Over all it wasn’t luck though, that made Bologna win the game. We had some very lucky scores ourselves. It was hard fighting and well playing that brought the first ever victory in their home tournament. Congratulations CUSB La Fotta!
Thanks for reading, have a smooth break after a long season and a nice start into the indoor season!