What a day!

OK let's start at the beginning: Pre-quarter against Upsadaisy from Austria. Kaboom are nervous before the game and it shows- a quiet warm-up and dramatically reduced shenanigans in the corridors of the palatial Hotel Slavia.

Early in the game, Kaboom struggle with Upsadaisy's long game. They huck to contests over and over and come down with a lot of the disc. We try a few different defenses before finally getting some purchase in match force backhand. By this stage we're down a couple of breaks. Our offense is nervous - our handlers are squirreling around and we're throwing to some bad options. When we do patiently work the disc in it's clear that Upsadaisy have no answer to patience and quick movement but their skill in the air sees them win just about all the contested discs. Despite time-outs, a stupid team pointing and dancing game and a bunch of solid points Kaboom can't settle and we're not converting our offenses. By now we're regularly winningthte disc on D. We've got them pinned down in a backhand force and we're winning back our breaks but without reliable offense we can't quite close the gap.

Time cap goes and we score to make it 12-10 game to 14. They call a time-out and we're feeling good-we've won from here before. This proves not to be our day as Upsadaisy score their O and we trade out the last points to lose 14-11. We're prety gutted at missing out on the quarter finals but we're resolved to keep playing hard.

The next game sees us face off against Jeremy Codhand from the UK. Before the game we bring it in during a slightly unconvincing warm-up. We decide that we want to be proud of this game, our intensity lifts and we take the field. Codhand get up a break early against stome scrappy offense from Kaboom. A few points later, Kaboom are about to score when a defener lays out, gets a great block and lands on John's left knee. He goes down screaming and is out for the game.

In John's absence Kaboom lift and by the time he's got ice on his knee and collected his wits the team is pulling ahead. They continue to trade and break throughout the end of the first half and through the second. Our offense is patient and calm again and Ian, Asher, Mica Riss and Jes are holding our structure together. Codhand also find that they can't stop our quick movement and sensible option taking and we pull away to win something like 17-11.

Tomorrow we play 2 games, with the goal of finishing 9th. We're looking forward to some solid games against great opposition, starting with American team Axis of C'Ville, who were in fact the #1 seed and undefeated until they also suffered a loss in their pre-quarter game.

And now, to bed.