We've made it through the first day of proper play and what a day it was. At a first glance, outside of the showcase matches, the schedule looked as if it was going to provide a series of expected results that would be far from news worthy. How wrong could that have been!
Columbia was the team to beat today. We personally witnessed the Columbian junior women's team defeat the USA junior women's team by a 3 point margin with full pitch rush celebrations for each and every point while simultaneously the Aussie junior girls took away the Canadian scalp. Those two victories left the junior girls division wide open.
In the open division we saw GB face off against the Columbian Open team and as tipped by Brian Gisel the tournament director for WUGC, they were more than a surprise package for the brits. In a controversial match filled with little disagreements the GB men offered a rocky start which the quick to go airbourne Columbians enjoyed. Great Britain tightened it up stretching the points difference at the tail end of the game to end it 11-7 in their favour. The left feeling a bit rattled, and more determined to return on Monday in force.
The New Zealand women's team seem to be taking advantage of what appears to be a mis-seeding (14th) by taking down everything in their path. They're going to continue to upset teams on their way to a potential quarter final.
Good news for us today was that Ultivillage seem keen to extend their webcast service by adding live webcasts each night from the Spirit Enclosure pitch showgames. That'll be a huge benefit to those at home and should be great fun for us as they want BlockStack back on the commentary. Spread the good word about that and register for UVTv asap at www.Ultivillage.com.
Don't get me wrong here, we did some many expected results from, Japan destroying the Netherlands to USA's Sockeye taking Finland to school.
All in all a great day. We found the beer garden, talked with loads of people for the podcast and even got permission to film ultimate for the show again. Ep3 should be great.
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6 comments:
Cool work. Bear in mind that the country's name is Colombia not Columbia. Anyway as you all could see, in some years nobody will make that mistake again. GO COLOMBIA
Steve, Tom,
Loving your hard work, but I am hoping that you have a week after Worlds to catch up on missed sleep... maybe a larger crew next time around ;-) I'll be missing out on some sleep again tonight as I definitely plan to watch the masters game - thanks Ultivillage!!
Keep up the great work guys!!
Steve, Tom
Our National team name is COLOMBIA and not COLUMBIA.
Please make the necesary changes.
Cheers
VAMOSSSSSSSS COLOMBIAAAAAAAAAA
Julian Bocanegra
Yea man, its not like British Columbia, its Colombia. Would you be happy if we said Kanada??
Nice Article.
Colombia, the new Japan.
WOMEN
sweden 12 colombia 13
OPEN
colombia 12 ireland 8
JR OPEN
colombia 15 australia 10
JR WOMEN
colombia 17 finland 11
Such a great day for Colombia!
we vibrate with the results of today!
From Cali, we wish you the best.
really enjoying the blog, the comments, the interviews, the live scoring on the wugc website...would be enjoying it a lot more over in vancouver.
Is the live webcast for Aus vs Swe on aug6th? And at what time should we head over to ultivillage to catch it.
Keep up the good work!
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