WUCC Day 3

Just one game today. We played Columbia's Team 2600 at 8:30. It was another close affair with 2600 really suprising us with their intensity and physicality on D. We got up a couple early on and managed to hold a break or two for most of the game with 2600 breathing down our necks. Their poachy D really rattled our offense and a bit of extra wind took the edge off our execution. Eventually we scored after time cap to make it 14-11 game to 16. Some poor option taking and a few mix-ups in our deep defense saw Columbia creep ever closer until eventually they tied it up at 15 all. They pulled to us and we hucked it away only to get the disc back near their endzone and score. We win. Yay!! It was a little disappointing to see our offense lose shape and our decision making go off the boil but it's a pretty nice luxury to be able to be disappointed about a win so I suppose it's not so bad. Everyone's ready to lift tomorrow and get back to business with the disc in our hands.

Tomorrow we play Frizzly Bears who seem to be something of a mystery. They regularly lose to Sugar Mix but game teams like Pie Wagon much more trouble than the Stuttgarters during their pre-tour. Apparently they run heaps of offense through one very dynamic handler, so hopefully we have the antidote to that.

After that we've got Chaos, the number one Canadian seed and fourth seed overall. They seem very aggressive deep and are happy to give the disc up and try to win it back on D. If our offense fires again it's a great opportunity to take our first North American scalp. We'll have scalped a team from all the continents represented at WUCC if that happens.

Both games have been shortened to 80 minutes to squeeze more games into tomorrow's schedule. We had a little bit more rain today and lots of the fields got closed so the tournament organisers are keen to fit the cancelled games in tomorrow. Games are to 15 rather than 17. We're over at Strahov tomorrow as well, so we'll be playing on great pitches in crazy old crumbling soviet stadiums. It should be a great spot for some hard running ulty.

As it is we're five wins from five games and we're basically guaranteed a round-of-16 spot and a top 16 finish. More wins tomorrow will give us a slightly easier path through the finals.

I've also added honorary Canberran Misch Phillips to this blog for the duration of the tournament so she can tell you about some of the events happening off field. Stay tuned for the tragic tale of "Big Tom and the Sink" and the tale the whole family will love, "60 Euros each for Team Monkeys".

Pokrok Kaboom