[TFDA] Pic for 8th Annual Savage Seven Benefit Tourney & erratum

Christian Schwoerke schwoerkec at yahoo.com
Mon Feb 2 12:37:08 EST 2009


Thanks to Jenn Coon, here's a pic of the champs, minus Sarah Thompson.

Erratum: In the A Div semis, the Sassy O'Nassies beat Cat Scratch by a close 7-6 score, not the erroneous 7-2 score I'd reported earlier.

--xian


--- On Mon, 2/2/09, Christian Schwoerke <schwoerkec at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Christian Schwoerke <schwoerkec at yahoo.com>
> Subject: It’s All Just for Fun at 8th Annual Savage Seven Benefit Tourney!
> To: ultimate at lists.ibiblio.org, fhplayers at yahoogroups.com, carrboroultimate at yahoogroups.com, zen at mattman.com, raleighultimate at mattman.com, ultimate at duke.edu, wultimate at duke.edu
> Date: Monday, February 2, 2009, 11:00 AM
> It was all Just for Fun at the 8th annual Savage Seven
> Benefit Tourney, as that team swept all of its seven games,
> amassing 49 points while allowing only 15.  Even as this
> year’s event earned over $1400 for TFDA’s ultiplex fund,
> the budget permitted the distribution of trophy jerseys for
> the winners of the final championship round. (Someone,
> please, send us the picture of the champs in their trophy
> gear!)
> 
> It was a perfect day for ultimate, with temperatures at 9am
> a nippy 42, rising very quickly in the sun’s unhindered
> glow to a 1pm high of 61.  A constant breeze out of the
> south varied from a gentle 5mph caress to a whimsically
> mean-spirited 15mph, with occasional swirls that caused the
> disc to pop or drop suddenly.  There was a lot of side-line
> trapping zone, though the strongest teams eschewed this
> defense in order to make their opponents run.
> 
> As with past Savage Seven Benefit Tourneys, all teams were
> equal on paper, with rosters composed of players who were
> ranked 1 through 6, according to their highest level of play
> in the last three years, with a 7-player total that could
> not exceed 26 points.  Rosters were creatively composed,
> some featuring one, two, or three 6-pointers (Ring or
> Backhoe types), then a bunch of lesser ranked folks from
> college squads and leagues, while other composed teams with
> a focus towards a more even distribution of points.  For a
> good instance of both styles of team composition, compare
> the rosters of the A-Division finalists, Just for Fun and
> Truffle Shuffle (below).
> 
> All games were to 7 in 45-minute rounds.  While this seems
> a short game, the cumulative effect over the course of even
> pool play’s three games is significant when one considers
> the underlying premise of the tourney, ie, there are no
> subs!
> 
> At the beginning of the tourney, a stab was made at seeding
> the 16 teams.  The number in parentheses is that team’s
> actual finish.
> 
> Seeding:
> 1.	Cat Scratch (5)
> 2.	Just for Fun (1)
> 3.	Powdered Milk (6)
> 4.	Business Beards (8)
> 5.	Forkin’ Aye (4)
> 6.	Little Spoon Resurrected (7)
> 7.	Sassy O’Nassies (3)
> 8.	Truffle Shuffle (2)
> 9.	Sound and Fury (12)
> 10.	Perfect Season (9)
> 11.	Charlie Kroger Fan Club (11)
> 12.	Sparkle Motion (13)
> 13.	His Boy Elroy (10)
> 14.	Critter Vision (14)
> 15.	Hustle and Flow (15)
> 16.	Jumble (16)
> 
> Pool play had several upsets, with Pools A, C, and D having
> their #1s losing a chance at an easier match-up in the
> pre-quarters round.  The first set of parentheses is the
> win-loss record in the pool, and the second set of
> parentheses is points-for/points-against, which help to
> indicate the relative strength of the teams in a given pool.
> 
> Pool A                            Pool B
> Cat Scratch (2-1) (19-15)         Just for Fun (3-0) (21-6)
> Forkin’ Aye (3-0) (19-16)         Little Spoon (1-2)
> (13-19)
> Sparkle Motion (0-3) (13-21)      C.Kroger Fan Club (2-1)
> (16-12)
> His Boy Elroy (1-2) (18-17)       Critter Vision (0-3)
> (8-21)
> 
> Pool C                            Pool D
> Powdered Milk (1-2) (15-16)       Business Beards (2-1)
> (19-11)
> Sassy O’Nassies (3-0) (20-11)     Truffle Shuffle (3-0)
> (21-13)
> Perfect Season (2-1) (17-13)      Sound and Fury (1-2)
> (13-15)
> Hustle and Flow (0-3) (9-21)      Jumble (3-0) (7-21)
> 
> The pre-quarters round enabled some teams to right
> themselves and return to the higher echelons.  In particular
> Powdered Milk upset the Charlie Kroger Fan Club to make the
> A-Division quarters, as did Little Spoon Resurrected, which
> upset Perfect Season.
> 
> Pre-quarters
> Forkin’ Aye over Jumble (7-2)
> Just for Fun over Hustle and Flow (7-2)
> Sassy O’Nassies over Critter Vision (7-2)
> Truffle Shuffle over Sparkle Motion (6-5)
> 
> Cat Scratch over Sound and Fury (5-2)
> Powdered Milk over Charlie Kroger Fan Club (6-5)
> Little Spoon Resurrected over Perfect Season (7-6)
> Business Beards over His Boy Elroy (5-2)
> 
> B-Division (Chumpionships)
> 
> Quarters
> Teams were beginning to fade by the time quarters rolled
> around.  Some teams found a second wind; others did not. 
> Critter Vision squeaked past Sound and Fury, but an injury
> to one of the players on Critter Vision prompted that team
> to withdraw and give its place to Sound and Fury.  Sparkle
> Motion did all it could to stay alive, protracting the game
> beyond the time cap, losing at universe point to the Charlie
> Kroger Fan Club, 6-7. 
> 
> Semis
> Perfect Season, poised in the pre-quarters to advance to
> the A-Division, was working overtime to ensure they finished
> with a respectable record, playing a time-capped game to
> universe point with the Charlie Kroger Fan Club, winning
> 6-5.  Elroy got a couple of lucky breaks in their evenly
> matched game with Sound and Fury, but prevailed with a lone
> break to win 7-5. 
> 
> Finals
> Perfect Season featured youth over a strange mix of old and
> young on the Jetson-themed His Boy Elroy.  Nonetheless Elroy
> drew first blood.  It was a back and forth game, with
> neither team gaining the edge.  At 5s, after a failure to
> finish in the red zone, Elroy vainly tried to stop James
> Murray’s 60-yard hammer.  In the next point, after another
> failure to convert in the red zone, Elroy again went flat
> footed as another 60-yard throw from James Murray sailed
> into the endzone to make it a 7-5 Perfect victory.
> 
> B Quarters
> Sound and Fury over Critter Vision (7-6)
> Charlie Kroger Fan Club over Sparkle Motion (7-6)
> Perfect Season over Jumble (7-3)
> His Boy Elroy over Hustle and Flow (7-1)
> 
> B Semis
> Perfect Season over Charlie Kroger Fan Club (6-5)
> His Boy Elroy over Sound and Fury (7-5) 
> 
> B Finals
> Perfect Season over His Boy Elroy (7-5)
> 
> A-Division (Championships)
> 
> Quarters
> Little Spoon was risen from the ignominy of the B-Division,
> but the fork proved the more durable utensil, winning a
> close one, 6-5.  Another hard-fought game was the Truffle
> Shuffle v. Powdered Milk game, where a single late break
> gave Truffle the edge.  Business Beards was brooking no
> nonsense against Just for Fun and were tied 4-4 when their
> handling wizard Grant Gill had to pull himself from the game
> with a twisted ankle, enabling the Funsters to finish out a
> game of 6s with a 7-4 score.  Last year’s runners up, Cat
> Scratch, was no match for the impertinent youth on Sassy
> O’Nassies, and they fell 2-7.
> 
> Semis
> This reporter was not privy to any color or even first-hand
> information about the A-div semis and finals games.  Hence,
> it would be merely speculation to assert that Truffle
> Shuffle employed an effective zone against Forkin’ Aye. 
> It’s also not far-fetched to speculate that the Truffle
> women did a good job of matching up against Forkin’
> Aye’s women, giving Truffle the edge.  Speed and youth on
> the Duke-based Sassy squad was not enough against Just for
> Fun, as the Funsters prevailed relatively easily with big
> throws from Taylor Pope and Stephen Poulos.
> 
> Finals
> Again, this reporter was engaged elsewhere so that details
> about this very quick game could only be inferred.  While
> Truffle Shuffle did score the first point (and two more), it
> is surmised that Just for Fun was able to neutralize
> Truffle’s long game with the poaching defensive work of
> Poulos and Pope, who in turn were quick to send the disc
> long once they’d got it.
> 
> A Quarters
> Forkin’ Aye over Little Spoon Resurrected (6-5)
> Just for Fun over Business Beards (7-4)
> Sassy O’Nassies over Cat Scratch (7-2)
> Truffle Shuffle over Powdered Milk (7-5)
> 
> A Semis
> Truffle Shuffle over Forkin’ Aye (7-4)
> Just for Fun over Sassy O’Nassies (7-3)
> 
> A Finals
> Just for Fun over Truffle Shuffle (7-3)
> 
> Rosters
> 
> It’s never just a matter of who’s on a given team;
> it’s how that team gels.  All teams began with the same
> team-building premise: reach 26 points with the best players
> one can.  Speculate for yourselves how these teams may or
> may not have fulfilled their potential...
> 
> Cat Scratch             Business Beards          The Sassy
> O’Nassies
> Ben Dieter      5       Baker Pratt      5       Alex
> Trahey    4
> Tim Lupo        5       Grant Gill       5       Eric
> Guenther  3
> Tommy Cleveland 4       Patrick Rabenold 2       Tommy
> Ferguson 3
> Bryce Tenant    1       Brendan Miller   2       Will Kane 
>     3
> Thuy Brooks     5       Frannie Goodrich 6       Erin
> Wiltgen   5
> Sara Stanley    5       Amy Hobbie       2       Sophie
> Lehman  4
> Dianne Freund   1       Shellie Cohen    1       Ashley
> Chan    4
> 
> Truffle Shuffle         Sparkle Motion           Just for
> Fun
> Terry Kramer    5       Tuba Bensonjaja  6       Stephen
> Poulos 6
> Rocky Payne     5       Mick Styers      3       Taylor
> Pope    6
> John McLeod     4       Joseph Kinnarney 2       Alan Ellis
>     3
> Rodney Guajardo 2       Tim Woods        2       Damian
> Craig   1
> Meredith Niece  5       Nicole Chauvigne 6       Rachel
> Gross   6
> Becki Cleveland 4       Lee Veit         5       Whitney
> Morgan 3
> Mary Frazer     1       Tatjana Benedict 2       Sarah
> Thompson 1
> 
> Jumble                  Sound and Fury           Li’l
> Spoon Resurrected
> Brian Sherry   5        Brian Lang    6          Joey
> Connelly   6
> David Kaminski 4        Dwayne Purper 5          Larry
> Durgin    6
> Dan Widis      2        Joe Carley    3          Mike
> O'Malley   2
> Eric Davis     1        Cole Lantzy   2          Samuel
> Linnartz 1
> Amy Morrison   6        Sharon Tucker 6          Lauren
> Gardner  5
> Sara Wobker    2        Sanya Carley  3          Julie
> Morris    4
> Mandy Davis    1        Emma Johnson  1          Marcia
> Frisbi   2
> 
> Perfect Season          His Boy Elroy            Powdered
> Milk
> Kris Bass      6        Christian Schwoerke 3    Chris
> Shepard    5
> James Murray   5        David Berendes      6    Kenny
> Marcus     4
> Peter Linnartz 4        Eric Hagan          4    Tom Pearl 
>       2
> Chris Prosser  2        Victor Maneilly     4    Justin
> Brinkley  2
> Alison Murray  4        Rachel McCarthy     3    Lesley
> McCormack 6
> Kelsey Penrose 2        Jenn Coon           4    Becky
> LeDonne    6
> Jessi Jones    2        Anne Burroughs      2    Judy Ray  
>       1
> 
> Hustle and Flow         Charlie Kroger Fan Club  Critter
> Vision
> Nick Crawford   5       Ben Murphy     4         Derrick
> Marcey  4
> Robert Luedeman 5       Charlie Kroger 4         Chris
> Kelley    4
> Jake Palmer     2       Tate Hancock   1         Andrew
> Phelps   4
> Arnett Brown    2       Luke Hancock   1         Tim Hyde  
>      2
> Melanie Morgan  6       Becca Stephens 4         Laurie
> Williams 4
> Sara Allen      4       Lauren Tompson 6         Shannon
> Marklin 4
> Meghan Atkinson 2       Tammy Moose    6         Meghan
> O'Brien  4
> 
> Forkin’ Aye
> Steven Panasci   5
> Lucas Darden     5
> Mat Thomas       5
> Casey Haigh      2
> Cate Foster      6
> Caroline Guthrie 2
> Lindsey Lang     1
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