Outsiterz

Banana Cup 2015 report

Really nice tournament, Terrible Monkeys definitely know how to organize, heat was no problem, and we had a swimming pool 🙂 To the games: I would say we played really nice. First games against Austrian juniors, we had nice pressure until 4-4 then just too many individual mistakes, and tribute to them, they have a nice flow and create good pressure. Even loosing quite high to them didnt influence our mood. Next game we won, Offense worked most of the times, we had a nice flow and also good hucks, perfect mix to make it difficult for them. In defense the mega poach was not working that much since they had very experienced players who were hucking a lot and could play easily some breaks. Keso was choosing defense perfectly so that we could get more breaks in the end of the game and we stayed concentrated. Our third game against Czech juniors was really nice, we were all in the game, enjoying, nice defenses, all long hucks found their receiver and the junior got really upset. They had big problems against the mega poach and started to make easy mistakes. Which was our advantage. In the end a very clear win. Even though we went before that to the swimming pool and some came back quite late. The start didnt look so promising due to some lack of being in the game 🙂 Last game against Fuj .. I would say we were all quite tired, thats why we had some long points with lots of turnovers. Fuj had a great flow, it was tough to stop them and create enough pressure. We played mega poach and zone, zone seemed to help better. Man defense was just not possible, we girls would have been too slow. at least me 🙂 finally time to relax, go swimming , enjoy, eat, watch some other games, have a good time. we finished third in our pool and our quarterfinal was against yellow block in the morning. we were at the pitch and YB was just getting ready the minute before, we wanted to use their (still) drunkenness and being quite lazy, to our advantage. which worked. with the mega poach we created a lot of pressure, got a lot of turnovers, so we were mostly 2 or 1 point ahead of them. at the end i dont know what happened, we lost a bit the concentration or they just finally woke up. We had offense in the last point, but even though the throw to endzone just slipped out of bounce, too far to be reached, and YB scored and advance to semis, that was not the real fault. its a pity but we had problems just before. we were leading 10-8, then it was 10-9 and in that point before time was over we had a sloppy offense has well… its a pity, loosing in universe but it can happen. so we played for rank 5-8, next against rainbow banana, we tightened the mega poach by playing hard men-d in on the handlers, they got very upset. kjara had great defenses and also offense was working smoothly,. good flow. dont know what to say more to that one. last game was again against czech juniors, they were prepared better this time and we were down one girl, later also one guy, in the end we played savage. the juniors really wanted to win, in the beginning we were trading points, but they had a great flow with the handlers, it was very hard to stop them, when we got the defense we were too tired to make good cuts and go to the disc, more individual easy mistakes due to tiredness and heat. we were up 2 points, but then lost the disc too many times before our endzone… well deserved win for them by one point in the end again and 6th place for us… we got a lot of compliments for the spirit and great defense from other teams. I really enjoyed playing, it was tough and everything was hurting on monday but even tough we were a small number and mostly playing with 2 girls on the line we didnt sell ourselves badly… and who cares about placement if you had so much playing time and a lot of fun … thanks

Report by Doro