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Tournament Report
Such an excellent weekend - the best tournament I've been to so far. The location and organisation were incredible and the weather was perfect too. Polo on proper (rounded corner) courts, followed by swimming in the lake is nigh on heaven.
Black Stabbath's Euro lineup performed well, considering the incredibly high standard of play - so many one-team cities are so strong (copenhagen beat bad for example!). We drew a pretty competetive group including Toros from Munich (I think) who are one of the top 3-4 teams in Europe supposedly.
Ben opened the scroring in our first game, but we lost 5-1. Then we had a few more similar defeats, although we scored in every game except vs Toros and we weren't playing conservatively - we decided we'd prefer to lose 5-1 than 3-0 for example, so as soon as we conceded 3 goals and were running out of time we played no goalie, in retrospect this maybe wasn't the best strategy as we didn't score any goals with this method.
In our fourth (or so) group game, we drew Sparta who are a bunch of Chileans who live in Paris, all breakless fixed and with a reputation for playing dirty. Sarah from Conos reckoned we could beat them, but we weren't hopeful. The game started and Ben charged then somehow the chance came and I took an early goal. After that we played so much better than previously and eventually won 4-3 (hat trick from me, 1 more from Ben, I think).
So nice to win a game, which put us above ASBO from Manchester, which was my realistic target at least.
London's Cosmic got to the final, and took Equipe to 4-4, but the Swiss were too strong - I don't think they've lost in a tournament!