Trip to St Alban's was an interesting one. Here's a breakdown on the weekend
The Tournament and Town
- St Alban's is a little over 5000 and has a great little town feel to it
- It's almost impossible for the town's restaurants to handle a tournament rush for dinner, so plan accordingly
- The fields are directly accross the street/road from a nice hotel call La Quinta. You'll never get that close at any other tourney
- Field food was good on day one, absent on day two
- Water was great and refilled often
- Fields were of good quality. Some fields were REALLY narrow though
- Tournament format was cool. Late Saturday start, 6 games for everyone, stresses performance in the round robin
- We went down with a smallish roster and hoped we could play our best on point one. That didn't happen
- We had a miserable first two games versus Providence (we want that one back) and Chuckwagon (Should of been closer, but the better team won)
- o-2 to start a weekend where we expected to go to semis, we then took off with some great wins versus Prankster Robotics, Good News Everyone, and Magma on Sunday morning.
- Knowing Prankster went universe with Chuckwagon, we hold out hope that theywill beat Providence and allow us into the semis. It doesn't happen.
- We end up playing for 5th versus Red Hook. A great game that sees us take half, and then falter in the second half. Outside of one aggro player (who Polish Prince silents with a taste of his own rough medicine) it's a great fought game in the rain.
- Overall, good bonding weekend for the boys and a nice tune up for nationals
- Chuckwagon pleases the local crowd and wins the Open tourney over Montreal A in the finals
- Ambush (our adopted women's team for the weekend) wins the women's title over Missconnduct
