Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Weekend Warrior- You Pick It!


Nation,

This past weekend saw several strong performances from Canadian squads in tournaments south of the border.

In Cazenovia (CUT), Phoenix of Ottawa made it to the tournament final for the first time since 2005. On Saturday, they narrowly beat out split squad GOAT 12-11, lost 13-7 to the pool's top seed Bodhi and then beat Philly Open by a score of 10-9. Two wins by a single point each= two wins and a likely trip to quarters.

Maverick
of Kitchener-Waterloo had a great weekend as well. They won their Saturday pool with a smooth 3-0 record. Starting the day with a narrow 12-11 win over Thrown Together, they then "upped their game" to beat more established teams Sons of Liberty (13-8) and Medicine Men (13-9). Maverick lost their pre quarters to Goat split squad (Y), but garnered top seed for the consolation quarters.

On Sunday, Maverick and Phoenix continued to impress. Maverick defeated Eastern Motors (14-11), Medicine Men (15-9) before defeating New York's Replicants (One of last year's surprise teams) in the consolation final to finish 9th.

Phoenix had won their pre quarters over Super Seed, and went to work in a tough quarters match with PoNY. Ottawa won 12-10 and met a very tough Bodhi in the semi. Bodhi, who had beaten Phoenix the day before, wasn't able to recapture that success on day two. Phoenix pulled off the upset (15-11) before losing to Ironside (15-5) in the final.

Both GOAT split squads went 0-3 on day one and lost their respective quarters.

Over in Boston at Mixed Easterns, three Canadian teams were duking it out in their respective pools. Tournament top seed RIP went 2-1 on day one, as did ONYX of Quebec City. Spawn of Fredericton went 0-3 in a challenging pool.

Our Canadian squads showed promise in their crossover games. ONYX had an impressive win over a Slow White split squad (15-8) and took top seed into Sunday's championship bracket. Spawn managed to win their crossover to join RIP and ONYX in the pre quarters.

Sunday clearly belonged to ONYX. They won their pre-quarters over Pandemic (15-8) before easily handling RIP in the quarterfinals (15-5). The beat Slow White split squad X in the semis (13-8) and Slow White Y in the final by a score of 12-10.

Who was the Weekend Warrior?

The poll question to the right of this article asks: Which team was the Weekend Warrior for June 5-6th?

Without any results from the Boston Invite Elite women's tournament being available, we still have several Canadian teams that turned some heads on the past weekend.

On the men's side, Phoenix went to the finals at CUT for the first time in five years. They also beat teams (PoNY and Bodhi) that have been very tough foes in past years and will be barriers to USA finals qualification.

On the other had, Maverick from K-W really threw down the gauntlet this weekend. They are not in the elite levels yet, but their wins over Eastern Motors FB, Sons of Liberty, Medicine Men and the Replicants in their first major US tournament is very impressive for a first year club (technically).

And then we have ONYX. RIP is the first Canadian team I can recall entering the tournament with top seed. ONYX is definitely the first squad from Canada to win the whole tournament since I have been playing/blogging.

It's an impressive victory and feat. But should we be really shocked with ONYX exploits? Before their loss to Chaos in the wet and windy CUC 2009 finals, this team looked almost unstoppable last summer.

Have your vote and your say about the most impressive Canadian performance last weekend!

5 comments:

Unknown said...

Great performances by all Canadian squads! All weekend warrior performances for sure! What stands out with ONYX is that they are indeed the first Canadian club to win Mixed Easterns and they did it quite impressively. Down 10-6 in the finals, they kept their heads cool and went on to score 6 unanswered points to take the Championship from Slow White X... with Slow White Y watching in disbelief! Awesome!

Looking very good for Canadian Ultimate this summer!

www.onyxultimate.blogspot.com/

Unknown said...

This blog seems to have overlooked there was another Canadian team in Mixed Easterns. F Bomb from Saint John NB attended their first international tournament with a pre-seeding of 31/32. We went 2-1 in pool play, won our crossover against a tough Boston club OTP to finish Saturday 3-1 and advance to the top pool. Sunday we hit a tough schedule, running into Slow White X who made the finals. Overall, we improved our ranking to a tie for 13th.

Pendragon said...

In the master division, there were 2 Canadian teams: Quantum (Quebec city) and BDU (Ottawa). Even if the master division was very small, we saw some great games.

On day 1, Quantum went 2-1, starting with a loss to D.O.G. 12-15. The last 2 games of the day were well fought and Quantum won over Crepitus and BDU (thanks to the time cap). BDU had a hard day as they went 0-3, but demonstrate good intensity on the field.

On Sunday, Quantum managed to play in the final against D.O.G. Their Offense line took care of most the zones D.O.G. set up, but the defense line didn’t succeed in stopping D.O.G. and the revenge Quantum was looking for didn’t materialized. D.O.G. finally went undefeated in the tournament. I’m not aware on BDU result on Sunday.

A second place for the new Quebec city master team Quantum is a very good start.

Unknown said...

BDU had a better showing on Sunday. We started off the day losing to D.O.G. Far too many unforced errors on O against a very experienced opponent.

In the 3-4 game against Crepitus BDU came back from a 8-4 halftime deficit to take 3rd place on universe point.

Not a bad showing for BDU considering more than half of our team could not attend.

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