KCL Thrown Ultimate

UCL 1s Final score 8-1. (Lose)

Our first match in the tournament and as a team was against UCL 1s. We
knew this was going to be a tough match. As it was windy we thought it
was best to use our brownie D. Zone is what Thrown is famous for and
its something which the club has worked on hard in the run up to
regionals. Our D looked good and kept this 1st trying to find gaps in
it. Our D slowed the pace a lot and due to a turnover near their
endzone, Caz swung the disc to Alex, who then sent it to Jessie in the
endzone and got our point for this match.

LSE 1s Final Score 11-0 (Lose)

This match proved very tough. We had already realised our D had proven
itself against a 1st team of UCL?s calibre but LSE with their
experienced handlers managed to move the disc around a lot more which
tired our 8-man side so gaps started to appear and they profited from
this. Their handling was second to none which our D counldn?t answer.
Sadly, but predictably, this was a poorly spirited match from LSE.
They broke down our moral and didn?t even have the decency to do a
call once the match was over. Not how you should treat any second team
starting off in a new sport. This left our spirits low. Not a frame of
mind we wanted to take in to our next match.

Roehamptam 1s. Final Score 8-4 (win)

We didn?t know what to expect for RUF. We brought our Brownie zone
from the last two matches and it worked perfectly against RUF. We had
already found which positions the team worked best in and decided to
work on this. Jessie and Taddie played chase tireslessly, Sam and
Casbo in the cup, not letting anything through, Me and Ed and Adam
were out on the wings, stopping their swing, and Alex long with his
amazing acrobatic Ds! We only had one player to rest during the points
so it was a fantastic effort by everyone to give every point 100% so
RUF couldn?t break our Zone. Our O started to look really good. With
Alex, Casbo, Me and Ed taking turns on the hanlding we soon worked to
disc up to get our 8 point score line. Awesome match and great-spirit
from RUF.

Sublime 2s. Final Score 11-5 (win)

With the sweet taste of victory from our last match (a rare thing on
the first day) we went into the next match on a high. We knew this was
going to be tough match. Sublime 2s had a large squad. We started the
match well and took the lead. Our brownie started to frustrate them
and their frequent squad changes meant they never got grips with how
to break down our D. Our O started to really come together. We were
making some excellent cuts, the stack was looking very neat and we
started to try out come new handlers. Jessie, Ed and Caz were looking
confident now as handlers and we?re moving the disc a lot. This
started to frustrate Sublime 2 and turned the match sour. We had them
pinned in their endzone with Jessie?s and Taddie?s great chasing and
Sam?s and Casbo?s faultless cup. We could have taken loads of Callahan
points against them if only I had remembered to tell them about this
rule, and once I had if Taddie had caught them instead of D-ing them!
This upset some of their players and a few were calling fouls on
anything and everything. Even when we were down to Ironman due to
Casbo?s injury they coulnd?t break our zone and it was a fanatastic
effort from a very tired team and we managed to hard-cap them before
the claxton! Irrispective of the 11-5 hard-cap, their captain still
claimed it would have gone to a draw! An excellent end to a brilliant
day of Frisbee. Then we made our way to Ho-down! Yeeehaw!

Day 2:

Mowhawkes 2s 4-3. (win!!!!!!!) 12-13 Seeded match

After a fanastic party and our efforts at line dancing (thanks
Kaleigh, Jessie, Ed Evans, Tim) a distant memory, we woke to find
ourselves seeded 12th from our previous days work. This was fanastatic
but we had to work to keep our seed. Our first match was against
Mohawkes 2s. If we won this we would have earnt our place to be the
top of the second teams.

The wind had dropped and this worried us as our proven brownie was
more effective with the wind. Nevertheless, we snatched 2 points
quickly to take the lead. They had then figured out how to get past
our brownie. This game became a game of long discs, most of which
we?re brought down by Alex, Ed and Adam working up field. 3 found
their way through and Mohawkes 2 took the lead. The score 3-2. Just
before the Claxton and with me watching from the sidelines, Thrown 2
picked up their game when they needed to the most. This point seemed
to go on forever and with fanastic efforts from everyone, we clawed it
back to 3-3. The Claxton had gone during this point, which meant it
was first to 4?. next point wins and takes 12th seed. We started on D,
we quickly turned the match down thanks to our awesome chasers and
great cup. The disc then found its way down field really quickly.
Mohawkes 2 couldn?t stop it and Jessie had found space to take the
point. We had done it! We had earned our place to be top of the second
teams.

Surrey 1s 11-0 (Lose) 12-5 Seeded match.

Thanks to our success we had made the rest of our day of Frisbee hard.
We had to play against high-seeded teams, as we had at the beginning
of day one. Shattered after our last match we kept this team at bay.
The score didn?t reflect at how hard we had worked at D and how this
match went to the full 45 minutes. Unfortunately their hanlders were
too much for us to match.

Kent 1s. 8-3 (lose) 12-9 Seed match.

With the wind on their side Kent quickly took the first point. But
thanks to some great lineside support from Thrown 1 (which you had
done for all our matches) we came back to take the lead 2-1 and looked
as if we were going to take 9th seed from them. The game for both
teams turned into huck and D. Kent?s hanlder (Gladys) had a great huck
and even with Alex?s tirless efforts in the endzone bringing these
down, some got through and Kent took the lead. This match was the
best-spirited match of the whole tournament and it was much closer
then the score showed. It was great fun playing against Kent 1s which
left us with one more chance to improve our seed.

Last match ? Hu 1s 11-3 (lose) 12-11 Seed match.

Shattered after a long tournament and desperate for a pint we were up
against the host?s 1st team. Holloway started very well. They answered
our D by moving things up the line and with long hucks. They quickly
took a strong lead. We started to change things around with our D.
With Adam long and Ed on the wing they took down so many of their long
hucks. This meant on O we tried to do the same with the great solid
hanlding from Jessie, Ed, Casbo and Alex and grabs from Sam, Adam and
Taddie we worked it up the pitch and earnt everyone of the three
points, even though their number 57 tried to unjustifiably take them
off us by trying to claim we were out. A fanastic effort against
another first team and we finished the tournament with our heads held
high.

Everyone on our 8-man squad had to play his or her hearts out this
tournament to achieve what we had achieved. You should be proud of
yourselves that you played the best Frisbee the club has ever seen for
a second team. Well-done Guys!

This will be the last time I take a second team to Outdoor Regionals
and I would like to thank every one of you from Thrown 2 and Thrown 1
for making it such an awesome Tournament. For as long as I?ve been at
Thrown, this is the best the club has ever done at a Regional
Tournament.

Our first pool game of the day was against 2nd Seed
Mohawks 1 (Sussex), a great team who we know well. We
knew this was going to be our hardest game of the
first day and we went in fresh with nothing to loose.
There was a strong cross wind and we decided to hit
the Mohawks with our trademark brownie zone. The tight
D contained their efforts to dump and swing the disc
and we were soon causing turnovers all over the place.
We took advantage and scored quickly on the break,
with Jesse putting up some accurate long discs to
up-field cutters. Thrown looked to be the dominant
side at this point, but not for long. Mohawks started
to work the zone with some crafty scoobers and hammers
over the top of the wall. They moved smoothly up the
pitch and there seemed little we could do to stop them
as they took the lead. Thrown regrouped and made some
adjustments to the zone, sticking one member of the
wall a bit further back to stop the over-heads. Jon
and Eric carried this out to devastating effect
putting a stop to the Mohawks brief resurgence. Midway
through the game there were some hairy calls as
Mohawks felt the tension build, these were resolved
satisfactorily. Adnan and Nick easily found a way
around or through the Mohawk’s attempted zone cup and
flow from the up-field ensured we kept the score-board
ticking over, we scored the final two points to win
the game 6-4. This was a historic win for Thrown and
gave us an excellent chance of securing top spot in
our group and second seed on day 2!

We went into our second game against Scorpions 2
(Surrey) feeling confident and well warmed up after
the first game. They struggled to string more than a
couple of passes together against our various zone Ds
and we easily converted turnovers near their endzone
into scores. We were reasonably clinical and won the
game 11-0.

The third game of the day was against Disc Doctors 2
(Imperial). Having not hung out or played with
imperial as much as we should have this year we didn’t
know exactly what we’d have to deal with. This was a
team comprised wholly of freshers but they were all
reasonably athletic and liked to throw some crazy
shit. We took the first few points easily. This game
was played on a different pitch to the first two and
points were played up wind / down wind. We found this
challenging and were turning over more than we would
have liked. Things started to look a little shaky when
dD brought down a wild huck for a score. Unable to
replicate our demolition of Surrey 2 the frustration
was showing a little. Some hard brownie D and calm O
from the handlers Dan and Nick steadied the ship and
we cruised to win 11-2 scoring two Callahan points
along the way.

Our fourth and final game or the first day was against
Kent Touch This 1, a cool team who are always a lot of
fun to play against and hang out with. We knew that if
we won this match then we had made it to Nationals
(Div 2)! We had seen Kent take the first two points
off the Mohawks in an earlier game and had to give
them the respect they deserved. Once again we used the
brownie zone to great effect. Adnan and Dan proved
virtually unbreakable in the chase positions and Tim,
Louis and Jesse brought down absolutely everything
that went long. We got the turnovers we needed and
converted with some pretty slick O. Our man O looked
surprisingly good with plenty of pace and flow notably
from Eric and Louis, whilst our zone O was calm and
confident with Ed English and Adnan swinging around
the cup to Kyle, Jon and Kaleigh popping. We dominated
and the final score was 9-3. Despite this scoreline
this game showed weaknesses in our endzone play,
something we had to address before our games on the
second day.
Overall this was an amazing first day performance. We
had put ourselves in a great position for Sunday.

Our first game of the second day was against 3rd seed
LSE our archrivals. We had already beaten them once
this year at MadK’s Ladder League thing but didn’t
know what to expect from their full strength squad.
Needless to say that the majority of their players
were not LSE students but then again we have a couple
of star pick-ups ourselves! We immediately hit them
with our brownie and they dealt with depressingly well
working the disc patiently up the pitch. We were
sloppy on our O points and weren’t patient enough
again their zone. Our heads dropped and morale took a
bashing thanks to LSE’s enthusiastic celebrations. We
switched to man D with a straight-up force this reaped
rewards in the form of turnovers but once again we
just couldn’t convert and we lost quite badly, the
final score 11-2. Notable positives from the game
included some tight man D from Ed resulting in at
least one run through D and a score with a huck to
great long cut from Louis.

Our second game of the day was for 3rd position
against Brunel 1, a strong team with a reputation for
hard man O and D and consistent disc skills. The game
started off with a mammoth downwind point for us. Our
brownie seemed to be working again and Brunel turned
over a few times. The point seemed to be full of
calls, all of which I must add were dealt with
excellently showing great spirit from both sides.
Unfortunately Brunel got a few good breaks and managed
to get the score. This turned out to be something of a
turning point in the match. Brunel coped with our D
better on the down wind points and they scored fairly
easily. The confidence they gained against the zone
allowed them to score one more upwind break.
Nevertheless Thrown continued to play well, I was
particularly impressed by the way we handled their man
D; we got some good flow going against a team renowned
for their speed and intensity – Kaleigh, and Eric in
particular provided top class up-field cuts. Kyle
scored with a layout grab that was called out,
discussion ensued but the score stood. The final score
was 5-2 to Brunel. I think we played very in this game
showing glimpses of the great all round team we have
the potential to become in the next few seasons.

Our final match was re-match against Mohawks 1. The
game was for 4th position and another chance to play
for 3rd. This was our last shot at Div 1 nationals. We
were tired but still up for it. Mohawks were
strengthened by the return of their captain, Gash.
They were ready for us and our zone and took the first
point easily with good long play. On our downwind
point Mohawks managed to get the turnover and showed
great patience against our brownie scoring the point
without too much trouble. With our zone cracked
Mohawks went on to score several more easy points
before we mixed things up with a bit on man D. Once
again we proved a match with our man D but just
couldn’t get everything working on O. A notable
exception was Adnan’s stunning sidearm huck to Jesse
who took off for a massive layout score. We managed
one more point but Mohawks had gained their revenge!
The final score 9-2 to Mohawks.

Although this was a slightly disappointing way to end
the weekend we can be exceptionally proud of our
achievements (both first and second teams). We have
qualified for div 2 nationals two years in a row and
proven ourselves a match for some of the top teams in
the southeast! Our focus should now be on success at
Nationals, I cant wait!

Many Thanks to everyone who played for thrown this
weeked, i had an ace time.