[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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