[TFDA] [Kudzu Classic 08] Tourney Write-up -- erratum
Christian Schwoerke
schwoerkec at yahoo.com
Wed May 28 11:22:14 EDT 2008
in the B-division quarters, it was
BAD Influence over Eye of the Tiger 15-12
Thanks to Anne Burroughs for catching this transposition.
--xian
--- Christian Schwoerke <schwoerkec at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Bickett Poker Deals Bears First Loss to Win 11th Annual Carolina Kudzu Coed Classic
>
> Raleigh, NC Sunday, May 25.
>
> Bickett Poker put on a virtuoso show of 2-pointers to take the lead and hold on to win the 11th
> Annual Carolina Kudzu Coed Classic. With arguably the largest roster of all teams
> participating,
> Bickett Poker played games within games on their way to the tourney finals. Bickett Pokers
> theme
> was poker itself, and team captain Kris Bass had his teammates attired in tawdry casino garb for
> playing both on the field and at the poker table, which was set up on the sidelines. With
> nearly
> 25 players rotating in and out of both poker and ultimate games, Bickett was able to keep its
> finals-playing horses well rested.
>
> The tourney began on a dank note the previous Saturday morning with a light rain having already
> fallen pre-dawn. By the time teams were assembling at 9:30am, the skies were beginning to show
> some blue. Winds continued to pick up through the day, and the sky turned into an expanse of
> pure
> azure, with nary a cloud to be seen, all the while with temperatures that never rose about 72
> degrees.
>
> There were twenty-one teams participating in this years edition of the Kudzu Classic, with 11
> teams from the Triangle and 10 from points beyond, including DC, VA, OH, MD, SC, and elsewhere
> in
> NC. The teams, their initial seed, and their origin appear below.
>
> Initial Seeding and Participating Teams
>
> 1. Bickett Poker, Triangle
> 2. Bears, Triangle
> 3. Oliolly, Triangle
> 4. Blolio, Triangle
> 5. 7eleven, Triangle
> 6. Too Much Mustard, Triangle
> 7. TAU, Winston-Salem, NC
> 8. El Diablo, Triangle
> 9. Axis, Charlottesville, VA
> 10. Angry Beavers, Greenville
> 11. Epic, Columbia, SC
> 12. Ramshackle, Triangle
> 13. BAD Influence, Arlington, VA
> 14. Eye of the Tiger, Triangle
> 15. CHUF, Triangle
> 16. Team Pillion Party, Maryland
> 17. Boone Shakalaka, Boone, NC
> 18. Off Constantly, Tidewater, VA
> 19. Nekkid, DC area
> 20. Clean Plate Club, Asheville, NC
> 21. Disco on Fire, Columbus, OH
>
> Saturday Pool Play Results
>
> Pool play proceeded without incident as each pool had five teams, except for Pool A, which had
> six
> teams and was headed up by Bickett Poker. Pool A decided theyd prefer to play to 15 (as were
> all
> of the other pools), which made for a long day, with 5 successive games for each of Pool As
> teams.
>
> That seeding is a crapshoot at a mixed tourney was borne out as Blolio in Pool D sank all the
> way
> to #5 in that pool with an 0-4 record and Too Much Mustard upset #1 Oliolly in Pool C. Results
> in
> pools A and B had some position changes, but none affecting the 1 and 2 seeds in either pool.
> Disco on Fire, seeded last in Pool A, rose two notches to take #4, while in Pool B, high
> schoolers
> CHUF (Chapel Hill High School) overtook the Angry Beavers to become #3 in that pool.
>
> Complete pool play results follow.
>
> Pool A
> Bickett Poker 5-0
> El Diablo 4-1
> Axis 3-2
> Disco on Fire 2-3
> Boone Shakalaka 1-4
> Team Pillion Party 0-5
>
> Pool B
> Bears 4-0
> TAU 3-1
> CHUF 2-2
> Angry Beavers 1-3
> OFFConstantly 0-4
>
> Pool C
> Too Much Mustard 4-0
> Oliolly 3-1
> Eye of the Tiger 2-2
> Epic 1-3
> Nekkid 0-4
>
> Pool D
> 7eleven 4-0
> BAD Influence 3-1
> Ramshackle 2-2
> Clean Plate Club 1-3
> Blolio 0-4
>
> The day ended on a high note for everyone as they finished games and began to hover around the
> kegs of beer that appeared in the final round. Additionally each team was provided five large
> pizzas, and their appreciation was noted as stacks of empty boxes sat alongside trashcans
> throughout the field complex. Bickett Poker had brought a grill and that team supplemented its
> pizza with a variety of grillables; they continued to play poker and hang out till dark overtook
> the fields at 8:45.
>
> Sundays play was logistically difficult, as there were only four rounds and nine fields to
> accommodate 21 teams. All eight fields were in use during the first three rounds on Sunday,
> with
> every team getting a chance to play at least two games. The only unfortunate exception was that
> the #1s from each pool had only a single shot at playing, if they lost their A-Div quarters
> game.
> This did occur in two instances, with hard-fought games taking out 7Eleven and Too Much Mustard,
> both of whom could have made semis with a different quarters matchup.
>
> C-Division Modified Double Elimination
>
> The C-Division comprised the last two teams in Pool A and the last teams in the other pools.
> All
> games were again first to 15, with the tourneys signature rules: 2-point x-gender hucks,
> alternating gender pulls, and 4/3 offense dictates gender ratios. Blolio, which had begun
> Saturday perched atop Pool D had a four-game row to hoe if it was to win the C-Division.
> Fortunately, Boone Shakalaka made it a bit easier on Blolio and conceded in the final round,
> letting the results from their earlier matchup in Round 2 stand in for the Finals.
>
> Round 1
> Team Pillion over Off Constantly 11-8
> Blolio over Nekkid 15-4
>
> Round 2
> Blolio over Boone Shakalaka 15-8
> Off Constantly over Nekkid 15-9
>
> Round 3
> Boone Shakalaka over Team Pillion 14-4
> Blolio over Off Constantly 14-11
>
> Finals
> Blolio & Boone Shakalaka let results from Round 2 stand (17th and 18th)
>
> B-Division
>
> This division entailed playing out some placement games to determine how teams finished in the
> 10,
> 11, 12, and 13th place. This was due to the field constraints, with an initial set of quarters
> games taking place among the #4 teams from each pool while the #3 teams in each were vying in
> the
> A-Division pre-quarters.
>
> A hard fought first half saw Greenvilles Angry Beavers maintain a two-point lead, with the
> score
> shifting from 3-1 to 5-3 to 7-5. At this point Ashevilles Clean Plate Club fought back to tie
> it
> at 7s, but the surge could not hold and the Beavers took half 8-7. In the second half, the
> Beavers wrested control of the game with a couple of two pointers, also stepping up their
> defense
> to quell any attempt by Clean Plate Club to get a rally going. Final score, 15-8, with the
> Angry
> Beavers on top.
>
> The B-division placement games gave teams a second chance at getting some glory after first or
> second round losses. Both of the semis placement games took their toll and were largely
> pyrrhic,
> with both victorious squads too pooped to continue. CHUF, in particular, had exhausted itself
> on
> a comeback victory against Epic, where, when the cap was signaled, behind 10-12, they got their
> 11th point, then a two-pointer to take the game, 13-12. Eye of the Tiger and CHUF agreed to
> roshambo, with Eye of the Tiger throwing a victorious rock to place themselves, respectively, 11
> and 12 in the tourneys mix of 21 teams.
>
> Quarters
> Clean Plate Club over Disco on Fire 14-10
> Angry Beavers over Epic 15-8
> Ramshackle over CHUF 15-9
> Eye of the Tiger over BAD Influence 15-12
>
> Semis
> Clean Plate Club over Ramshackle 13-11
> Angry Beavers over BAD Influence 15-8
>
> Finals
> Angry Beavers over Clean Plate Club 15-8 (9th and 10th)
>
> Semis (placement)
> Eye of the Tiger over Disco on Fire 14-10
> CHUF over Epic 13-12
>
> Finals (placement)
> Eye of the Tiger over CHUF (rosham victory) (11th and 12th)
>
> A-Division
>
> Pre-quarters
>
> The A-div bracket play began with pre-quarters, a chance for the #3s in each of the pools to
> gain
> a foothold in the tourneys top 8. Axis, from Pool A, was the only team to make the leap,
> beating
> Pool Ds #2 BAD Influence 15-7. It should be noted that this was not officially Axis of
> C-ville, since it was a skeleton of that crew fleshed out with supplemental players.
>
> TAU over Eye of the Tiger 15-9
> Oliolly over CHUF 15-6
> Axis over BAD Influence 15-7
> El Diablo over Ramshackle 15-9
>
> Quarters
>
> Lower seeds had already played a game, which can work to either sufficiently warm a team up or
> wear it out, and the higher seeds in these games were only just starting to play, which has its
> own set of good/bad options. In any case, Axis and Oliolly fell to the higher seeds, while TAU
> and El Diablo defied the odds and exhaustion to upset 7Eleven and Too Much Mustard,
> respectively.
> (Axis and Oliolly ventured off after their games to play a consolation match on an unused 9th
> field, with Oliolly edging Axis 15-14.)
>
> TAU over 7Eleven 15-13
> Bickett Poker over Oliolly 15-5
> Bears over Axis 15-5
> El Diablo over Too Much Mustard 16-12
>
> Semis
>
> Each of the semis had teams playing their third game of the day, and it was probably this fact
> that gave the higher seeds the edge, especially in the Bears-Diablo game, where it came down to
> universe point. In that particular game, Alan Hoyles Bears came out strong in the first half,
> taking it 8-4, but it was in the second half that Tim Lupos El Diablo squad was able to mount a
> comeback, tying the score at 13 and 14. The older Bears squad was able to prevail over the
> younger Diablo bunch, which included Nick Poore, Mike Jolley, and Stephen Poulos.
>
> In the other semis game, Bickett Poker continued to sub freely and keep its squad fresh,
> eventually simply wearing out TAU (Triad Area Ultimate), whose chief players Jimmy Holtzman,
> Tammy
> Moose, Lauren Tompson, and Charlie Kroger were unable to re-charge.
>
> Bickett Poker over TAU 15-8
> Bears over El Diablo 15-14
>
> Finals
>
> This game saw Bickett Poker focus its rotation down to a solid 10 players (largely Ring and
> BackHoe standouts), with some additionally guest spots filled by those whod been with the squad
> throughout the two days of sideline poker playing. The Bears also narrowed its mens rotation a
> bit, but the women continued to rotate fully throughout the game.
>
> Becky LeDonne came out hucking in the first point of the game, sending one long to Taylor Pope
> for
> Bicketts first score, 2-0. Later in the first half, Jared Inselmann sent one long to Sarah
> Morrison for another 2-point bump, giving them a 5-2 lead. Eventually the half played out with
> the Bears unable to get any traction, 9-5 in favor of Bickett Poker.
>
> The second half had the Bears pull off a 5-0 run, all with singleton scores to put them up,
> 10-9.
> Bickett then answered with its own run, 5-0, to make it 14-10, with one of those scores being
> another two-pointer from LeDonne, a shot to Mick Ribault. The Bears followed with a string of 3
> singletons, but this was still one shy of Bicketts 14. Bickett ran off two more, the Bears
> answered with one, then Bickett, after several attempts, put in the final goal for a 17-14
> victory.
>
> (to read linescore below, set browser to monospace font)
>
> Bickett 2 3 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 14 15 16 17
> Bears 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14
>
> Bickett Poker over Bears 17-14 (1st and 2nd)
>
> Some of the notables on Bickett: Becky LeDonne, Beth Stagner, Katy Cagle, Rachel Gross, Joanna
> Vidales, Nicole Chauvigne, Liz Willets, Tuba Bensonjaja, Kris Bass, Mick Ribault, Brian Lang,
> Victor Maneilly, Jared Inselmann, Taylor Pope, and Pat McNally.
>
> Some of the Bear notables: Amy Morrison, Jenny Rogers, Jenny Cornejo, Frannie Goodrich, Beth
> Gifford, Jen Weaver, Lindsay Chutas, Thuy Brooks, Hayden Sewell, Sandy Hartwiger, Kenny Marcus,
> Augie Kreivenas, Tim Brooks, Mike Kelly, Jeff Faulkner, Motts Mueller, Raju Prasad, Sam Carroll,
> and TJ Cawley.
>
> Pictures from the Tourney
>
> Lane Wigley:
>
> http://homepage.mac.com/lanewigley/Kudzu_Finals_08/
> http://homepage.mac.com/lanewigley/Kudzu_Blolio/
>
> Samuel Adams:
>
> http://www.scadams.com/galleries/disk/kz08/0524/index.html
> http://www.scadams.com/galleries/disk/kz08/0525/index.html
>
> Thanks
>
> Trey Askew: beer and pizza!
> Steve Frame: gathering cones at end of Sunday
> Lauren Crissman: alerting the TD to the existence of the 21st team, Disco on Fire
> Dwayne Purper: registration payment site & database
> MaryMolly Taylor: website
>
>
>
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