Regionals 2008 (masters...)
Wow. Heading off to Nationals tomorrow night for the 17th straight year. Unfortunately, Mooney will be joining us also, so Jim and I will never catch up to him for most appearances at nationals. This will make 20 for Steve. Oh well. Guess I have to cut him if I want a chance...
It's been so long since regionals I had to consult the score reporter. So, they gave us the ridiculously hard schedule again for the second straight year. Not sure exactly why they can justify having the #1 seed start with a schedule against #3 followed by #2. We had an eclectic mix of people out there both days, including people that weren't going to be attending nationals with us (although we didn't know it at the time for some of them). Basically it was 3 teams vying for 2 spots, with GLUM, A&B, and DoG (yea abbreviations) trying to make the big show. We began with GLUM. They had picked up some of the Tombstone/Worlds players. We had actually appropriated one of the Canadians, Shooter. Of course he got some good ribbing from the team. Nothing glamorous about this game. We won 15-12 and it was not very exciting. This brought up round two against A&B. We went up early and then let them back into the game. The D got a number of opportunities and handed them right back. This finally went down to double game point with us receiving. Fortunately, the O was able to grind it in without a turnover, although it was definitely ugly offense. This basically gave us the guaranteed 1-2 game the following morning.
The interesting part of the weekend was that I had my kids for both days as Georgia was unable to cover. I had the genius idea of bringing their bikes out to the fields. Fortunately they had gotten off of the training wheels a couple of months ago, so all day they biked around the fields and the various parking lots. Of course, I didn't find out until next morning from Geoff Doerre that my kids had been getting into trouble and not listening to the organizers very well. I apologized to Geoff, not having known, and on Sunday they were stars. But it was great to see them being independent and keeping themselves amused for the entire day. Fortunately the weather was gorgeous all weekend. I can't imagine what I would have done with bad weather. I guess I would have spent a fortune on a babysitter.
Round 3 was Mt. Crushmore who we handled 15-10. 4th round bye and I hooked up with Dennis at the Devens Grill with the kids for a little bit to get out of the heat (hard to believe this time of year). 5th round against Hexember, again an easy game, 15-7. Since I knew it was the only chance he would make Sunday's game, I made Dennis stay at my place overnight instead of heading back to New Hampshire. We ended going out in Boston until the wee hours. Good times.
Sunday morning against Red Tide Masters team, 15-5. This brought up the much heralded 1-2 game against A&B, who had beaten GLUM on double game point (I don't know the details). Meanwhile GLUM had an easy road against Crushmore. We took our final against A&B 15-12. They threatened a little bit in the second half, but we were able to secure the #1 seed for the second straight year. And for the SECOND straight year, the team that lost the final ended up losing the 2-3 game as GLUM ended up smoking A&B in the betty bowl to win 15-10 and secure the 2nd spot. So A&B fails to qualify for Nationals in I don't know how long.
I watched some Open games before heading over to the Devens Grill to celebrate with Paul Greff and others. After we left, headed outside to a little fair and the kids did the moonwalk for aboutu 20 minutes (gotta love free) before we headed home. The next two weeks were spent trying to persuade certain fencesitters to come to nationals. We got some, and we didn't get others. I guess you'll see who is coming Thursday morning. Let's just call this year S&M, or Smoke and Mirrors...
It's been so long since regionals I had to consult the score reporter. So, they gave us the ridiculously hard schedule again for the second straight year. Not sure exactly why they can justify having the #1 seed start with a schedule against #3 followed by #2. We had an eclectic mix of people out there both days, including people that weren't going to be attending nationals with us (although we didn't know it at the time for some of them). Basically it was 3 teams vying for 2 spots, with GLUM, A&B, and DoG (yea abbreviations) trying to make the big show. We began with GLUM. They had picked up some of the Tombstone/Worlds players. We had actually appropriated one of the Canadians, Shooter. Of course he got some good ribbing from the team. Nothing glamorous about this game. We won 15-12 and it was not very exciting. This brought up round two against A&B. We went up early and then let them back into the game. The D got a number of opportunities and handed them right back. This finally went down to double game point with us receiving. Fortunately, the O was able to grind it in without a turnover, although it was definitely ugly offense. This basically gave us the guaranteed 1-2 game the following morning.
The interesting part of the weekend was that I had my kids for both days as Georgia was unable to cover. I had the genius idea of bringing their bikes out to the fields. Fortunately they had gotten off of the training wheels a couple of months ago, so all day they biked around the fields and the various parking lots. Of course, I didn't find out until next morning from Geoff Doerre that my kids had been getting into trouble and not listening to the organizers very well. I apologized to Geoff, not having known, and on Sunday they were stars. But it was great to see them being independent and keeping themselves amused for the entire day. Fortunately the weather was gorgeous all weekend. I can't imagine what I would have done with bad weather. I guess I would have spent a fortune on a babysitter.
Round 3 was Mt. Crushmore who we handled 15-10. 4th round bye and I hooked up with Dennis at the Devens Grill with the kids for a little bit to get out of the heat (hard to believe this time of year). 5th round against Hexember, again an easy game, 15-7. Since I knew it was the only chance he would make Sunday's game, I made Dennis stay at my place overnight instead of heading back to New Hampshire. We ended going out in Boston until the wee hours. Good times.
Sunday morning against Red Tide Masters team, 15-5. This brought up the much heralded 1-2 game against A&B, who had beaten GLUM on double game point (I don't know the details). Meanwhile GLUM had an easy road against Crushmore. We took our final against A&B 15-12. They threatened a little bit in the second half, but we were able to secure the #1 seed for the second straight year. And for the SECOND straight year, the team that lost the final ended up losing the 2-3 game as GLUM ended up smoking A&B in the betty bowl to win 15-10 and secure the 2nd spot. So A&B fails to qualify for Nationals in I don't know how long.
I watched some Open games before heading over to the Devens Grill to celebrate with Paul Greff and others. After we left, headed outside to a little fair and the kids did the moonwalk for aboutu 20 minutes (gotta love free) before we headed home. The next two weeks were spent trying to persuade certain fencesitters to come to nationals. We got some, and we didn't get others. I guess you'll see who is coming Thursday morning. Let's just call this year S&M, or Smoke and Mirrors...
posted by Alex de Frondeville at 8:06 PM
2 Comments:
So, they gave us the ridiculously hard schedule again for the second straight year. Not sure exactly why they can justify having the #1 seed start with a schedule against #3 followed by #2.
You weren't supposed to have the 2 and the 3 back-to-back last year, but some curmudgeon on your team complained about having the (irrelevant) 1v2 game in the first round, so the schedule was rearranged.
It's hard keeping teams from having to play the 1v2, 2v3, 3v4, and 4v5 games back-to-back, without worrying about the 1v3 game on top of that.
my kids had been getting into trouble and not listening to the organizers very well
That's so unlike your kids.
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