KCL Thrown Ultimate

Match 1: v Mohawks 1 (2-9)

We won the 1st point! But then they came back and scored quite a few..
So, after a terrible pep talk from me, Adnan came to the rescue by giving advice and pointers to help keep the Mohawks at bay. his ‘house’ zone was really useful as they ripped through our man d, and with the zone we slowed them down a lot. Our chasers were great (Jess, William and Milly – I think), forcing the handlers to throw some crappy discs into the endzone for our deeps (Taddie and Ian?) to d.
I think 2-9 against Mohawks is pretty good (they were 2nd seeds).

Match 2: v Kent 1 (3-8)

We used our zone here again (and for the rest of the day, because it was working so well). I think Jess got a great d off one of the handlers, right near the endzone for us to score.
Kent ran us pretty hard, and managed to break our zone a few times for easy scores that we really should have been able to stop;
I really can’t remember much of this game, but again, I think 3-8 is not bad, maybe we could have scored more if we had started to throw hammers (by the end of the day there were hammers galore!).

Match 3: v Scorpions 2 (1-6)

Theoretically we had placed this match in the ‘easier’ slot with DD3; this was a mistake, they really showed us!
Scorpions were not afraid to throw hammers into the endzone, and with just one man there to defend they soon racked up the points. This meant that we changed our zone to a ‘dice’, with one man midfield (usually da Beast) and two in/near the endzone (usually Ian/Taddie/Ed) our deeps were great once they got used to the zone, going for every disc, and getting quite a few! Again our chasers (Jess/William/Milly) were amazing, really stalling the handlers, and making them throw mistakes.
I am afraid I’ve forgotten who scored our only point…but well done!
As you can tell our defence was amazing all day, but our offence needed some work.

Match 4: v UCL 1 (1-6)

This game was really good, we got the same score as the previous match, but against much tougher opponents. (ucl were seeded 7th). Our dice zone was tighter and more effective now that it had been practised, and Jess got some amazing d’s while chasing!
UCL were a pretty tall team, and used this to their advantage in the endzones, d-ing us and being well clear of our defence when scoring, nevertheless, we gave them a run for their money, and they had to throw some pretty cheeky discs to score.

Match 5 (last of group matches): v DD3 (5-3)

We went into this game a bit down after losing all the other matches, but also we were quietly confident we could win this one.
We started quite messily, our offence was sometimes not as good as when playing against the tougher teams- we seemed to adapt to DDs messy defence, when really we shouldn’t.
Our defence was still effective, DD3 had had little experience of playing against a zone, and they turned over a lot. Da Beast and Ed got quite a few d’s midfield for us to have a chance to score with one of my crazy hammers (if only we’d taught beginners how to catch lefty hammers…)
This was a good spirited match, quite nice to have an ‘easier’ game after playing four really hard ones.

Match 6: v HU 1 (4-6)

This was the first of our seeded matches, a chance for us to keep seeding or indeed go up! (no chance we were going to go down!)
HU were originally seeded 10th, but had managed to go down to 16th place. So we thought we could really win this if we tried.
The first point was with an all male line up, it lasted ages and was, I have to admit, a bit messy and needed a woman on the pitch! So we (Milly Jess and I) decided one of us would be on pitch at all times! This may seem odd to the men, but it did have a calming effect on play! We could definitely have won this match if we started this tactic at the beginning!

Match 7: v Chichester 2 (5-3)

This was quite an even match, the points were rather long, and our offence was, again, a bit messy sometimes, but had improved on the earlier matches. We had started to use our long threats of Ian and Ed, with one of them catching my crazy hammers, and then some nifty endzone plays to score. Sometimes they didn’t quite pull it off, but invariably that would be due to my hard-to-read lefty hammer.
We got quite a few ds all over the pitch, from our chasers, mids and deeps.

Match 8 (last one!): v Mohawks 2 (9-3)

I had thought that this would be tough, so had tried to really encourage our team to play hard and beat Mohawks. We did!
We stuck to our tried and trusted housey-dicey zone, which made Mohawks turn over a lot, we also got some great ds from Milly, William and Jess on chase duty. Jon da Beast had some great midfield ds as well.
Our offence had improved greatly, with me throwing hammers to the endzone, and Jess being an excellent handler near the endzone – so patient with the disc! Milly had a couple of points from some excellent cuts, as did the boys – great work from all of them (Ian, Taddie, William, Ed).

We kept our seeding of 17th (out of 24), winning 3 of our 8 matches.
A day well done!

Caz

weve never been much of an indoor team but this year we thought we
might have the quality and depth to do something.
despite our poor performance in last years indoor regionals we somehow
found ourselves somehow in 6th seed position. and fortunately for us
the timetable meant we started at midday on both days…

DAY 1 GROUP GAMES

vs READING DRAGONS
not much to say really… they were clearly a new team and by their
own admission they didnt expect to win many games. our offence wasnt
really troubled at all so we secored a good number of points. our
defence was a little lazy and maybe we didnt give them enough respect,
so we conceeded 3 sloppy points.
final score 9-3?

vs MOHAWKS 3
an all girls team, this was great experience for them before women indoor
regionals. not to be underestimated they finished fairly comfortably
mid table. unfortunately for them, despite their solid disc skills,
and a few breaks of the mark they couldnt compete with our height or
speed.
final score 12-0?

vs ROEHAMPTON 1
again a fairly inexperienced team we rolled on much like in our
previous matches. defence was good enough for this team and offence
got the job done.
final score 15-1?

vs UCL 2
wasnt sure what to expect from this team to be honest. they had a big
squad with a lot of beginners which is great to see. it was the first time we
came across 4 on the line and to be honest we really struggled. they
didnt have the quality to punish us but really we should have heeded
the warning for the next match…
final score 12-4?

vs SCORPIONS 1
3rd seed and looking very good, we knew that scorpions would be a tough
match. we also knew it would be a heated encounter, especially after
outdoor nationals last year… our offence had devastated every other
team we faced but scorpions recognised what we were doing early and
shut us down with some clam style man d. when we finally adapted with
our 3 2 offence as opposed to stack we still had trouble with their 4
on line. try as we might we could only score 3 or so points… their
offence wasnt particularly spectacular but the reason they scored and
we didnt was because of their endzone play. well placed blades and
awesome end zone cuts ripped us apart. scorpions were the better team
and rightly took top spot in the group and eventually go on to 1st spot.
final score 3-7?

i think we were disappointed by that last game. we really thought we
could give it a better go, but perhaps it was the lack of competition
before that match, meaning we couldnt reach the right intensity. in
the end we held our seed in the group and had a crossover match to
keep 6th seed and guarantee top 8.

CROSSOVER
vs ESSEX DEMONS
we played these guys last year so knew a little bit about them…
nevertheless we didnt expect them to come at us with such intensity.
they really took the game to us and hit us with a zone. thanks to some
decent hammers and a really tall guy they traded points with us for a
while. maybe 3-3 but after that we pulled ourselevs together. their
zone became ineffective and we were scoring freely. pressure on the
hammers and tall guy meant that their offence was shut down quite
comfortably in the end. i think they started to lose their heads and
after that it we pulled away for another comfortable win
final score 12-5?

DAY 2 TRIPLE ELIMINATION

seed6 vs seed7
vs UCL 1
first match of the day was against another london university, who
would probably have had as little indoor practice as us… this was
definitely a match we could have won so we went into it fired up and
ready to play hard.
the first point was epic. we had some great ds and kept forcing them
to turnover, but for whatever reason we couldnt convert. after a
draining first point we must have lost some composure, everyone was
throwing away and dropping the disc. it was embarrasing. i dont think
a single one of us had a good game.
their offence and defence was average really. i think john was the one
to note that ucl didnt get one d, we turned over for them…
really dissapointing start to the day, meaning we dropped down to 7th,
outside qualification…
the less said the better.

seed 7 vs seed 8
vs SUBLIME 2
its never fun playing a sublime team… and this was a very strong
second team who were responsible for dropping brunel out the top 8…
we were still throwing away unfortunately but our d was a lot better.
we had finally switched on, meaning that sublime werent as freely able
to score as they had against their previous opponents. i cant remember
how the match went point for point but we found ourselves in a sudden
death situation…
tim was getting free for the under cut all day and recieved a disc
from dan. then with a sweet side arm he sent it up the line to assist
my run into the endzone.
final score 7 – 6

after i had a bit of a strop we now found ourselves back in the 6 v 7
game against UCL 1 again. this was our time for revenge. we didnt have
to just win it, we had to prove that we were the better team.
we had to get our heads in the game.

seed 7 vs seed 6 (for qualification spot)
vs UCL 1
the first point was epic once again. we forced the tunrovers but
coulndt convert yet again… from the sideline my heart was racing.
twice we had discs intercepted in their endzone, preventing our score.
eventually harry managed to recieve a disc up the line and toe-d his
foot just about in to score the first point of the game. the sideline
erupted as we took the lead and went back on d. this time our forcing
was superb. our man d was honest and we made it difficult for them to
move the disc. ed english got a few stall outs right on their endzone
pinning them back constantly. unlike ucl we were moving the disc
freely. nick and dan were using all the space on the pitch to dump and
swing and ran the ucl d ragged.
we found ourselves 3-0 up in no time.
constantly on d we didnt give them an inch. louis knocked down some of
their long throws and immediately ran long himself to get the quick
score. john was equally on form at the back bringing down discs and
starting off the pass and move plays.
9-0 up we were still as intense as we were in the first point of the
game. the sideline support was awesome. even when we conceeded their
first point we were determined to stop any sort of comeback. kyle
brought down a scoober in the middle of the pitch and assisted tims
end zone cut in one of the easiest looking points of the match.
squashing all hope of a ucl comeback.
final score a massively satisfying 14 – 1

awesome.
if we played with that intensity against ucl the first time and maybe
even surrey, who knows where we could have come.

thrown goes on to compete in div2 nationals for the first time in its
short history in just a couple of weeks.

final standings from the tournament

1st Surrey Scorpions 1
2nd Sussex Mohawks 1
3rd Portsmouth Sublime 1

4th Imperial Disc Doctors 1
5th Chichester Cobras 1
6th Kings College Thrown 1

7th UCL 1
8th Sublime 2

9th UCL 2 (Plate)
10th Essex Disc Devils
11th Brunel
12th Scorpions 2

13th Royal Holloway HU? 1
14th Kent Touch This
15th Reading Dragons (Ppirit)
16th Sussex Squaws
17th Thrown 2
18th Chichester 2
19th Disc Doctors 2
20th Mohawks 2

21st Disc Doctors 3 (Spoon)
22nd HU? 2
23rd Roehampton 1
24th Scorpions 3

great result for thrown 2 as well.
you guys were looking great by the end of the day.
look forward to a match report soon…