WCBU Day 2 Results

GB Women

The boring news first. GB Women have stomped just about everyone. The real competition appears to still be coming from the USA and from the Aussies however having beat all of the competition thus far they are feeling rather confident. We'll see how confident tonight at the Disco party.

GB Open

The big news. The boys pulled off a massive victory against the Aussie open team ( that thrashed the Masters yesterday ) in a massive sudden death finish. Thrash from the Open team commented that it was all about massive D. The open were doing a good job however the D line really stepped up their game for this one and it paid off. Well done. They also clocked in some easy victories against the remaining Masters division teams, Brasil and Portugal. They are confident that the GB Masters will do a number on those teams as well. That said, they thought GB Masters would defeat USA and Canada. On to...

GB Masters

The Masters basically had a poor day. They lost a tough one to the USA team 11-10 in sudden death (or maybe it was 10-9). After some hard D and a some solid but missed layout D attempts the US team snuck the final point home. Great spirit has dominated the Masters division and although the loss was tough it was a great match. The game today against Canada showed the Masters feeling a bit weathered...literally. It was 35deg in the shade and sunny today. Perhaps a bit of over exposure or maybe even sweaty hands were part of the equation but Canada took over the game just past half to win 11-6 (or close to that). Jamie Rogers was the exception sending some clinical long discs to Wayne Davey. The rest of the team however put disc to sand, unforced too many times to hope for a victory. The encouraging end to take from this was that the GB Masters can play and will play much better. Brazil and Portugal are on the cards tomorrow. This is it if there is to be a chance for the final.

GB Mixed

Highs and lows are what the Mixed team are all about. They played magnificiently against the Swiss Mixed team today with an impressive 8-5 win from behind. Somebody comment on this if I've got that part really wrong. At times they look like a team destined for the final, and others, well my mother used to say if you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all.
I watched their game against the German Mixed team who are tipped again for the final to repeat their Gold performance in 2004. This team is basically the team that played at EUC this summer. They performed well there and are showing here that they are World Class. A game to watch will be USA/Germany. (Photo: Gary Lloyd bids against a strong German Squad against a beautiful backdrop of Maceio).

Scotland

I missed out on them yesterday for which I apologise. I don't have any contacts on that team to keep me informed however I can say that they do look good at times. Yesterday their game against GB was hot! They lost it but it was a killer performance and left me impressed with the thought that they would end this event with a respectable placing.

Ireland

Same as above...they looked outstanding today playing against the USA mixed team. I don't know the result. I'll make some effort tomorrow to give some results on them.

The Tournament...

what I'm finding a tad disappointing is that it's difficult to get results. In Portugal there was a large white board out with daily results on it. Here there isn't any recognisable headquarters to so much as ask a question about the event. Scores are submitted to the scorekeepers who disappear somewhere and the blog or event website doesn't seem to have anything current on it.

Last night was the first party of the event and was a Hawaiian theme. That said, the bar staff could not keep up, the Hawaiian theme was simply a prearranged idea with little effort at the party itself to accent this choice so it was effectively a bunch of people dressed funny in a bar. Tonight is the 'Disco' party. I don't imagine it'll be more than a DJ playing disco music. Even so, I think I'll be pretty happy with that.