[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 Poker’s
> 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 year’s 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 they’d 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 A’s
> 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.
> 
> Sunday’s 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 tourney’s 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 Greenville’s Angry Beavers maintain a two-point lead, with the
> score
> shifting from 3-1 to 5-3 to 7-5.  At this point Asheville’s 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 tourney’s 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 tourney’s top 8.  Axis, from Pool A, was the only team to make the leap,
> beating
> Pool D’s #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 Hoyle’s Bears came out strong in the first half,
> taking it 8-4, but it was in the second half that Tim Lupo’s 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 who’d been with the squad
> throughout the two days of sideline poker playing.  The Bears also narrowed its men’s 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
> Bickett’s 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 Bickett’s 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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