Iceni Win 2009 UK Tour 1!

UK Tour 1 2009 is now all wrapped up with only a BritDisc discussion about the schedule, venue and the importance of Tour 0 left in its wake.

The results:

Womens:

1. (=) Iceni
2. (=) leeds
3. (1) Nice Bristol
4. (2) Brighton
5. (3) Crown Jewels 1
6. (1) Dirty Olive
7. (2) Iso
8. (5) Swift
9. (=) Limited Release
10. (=) Leamu
11. (2) Brown
12. (1) Steal
13. (1) MUF
14. (1) Dolly Mixture
15. (1) Nice Bristol 2
16. (=) GBJW
17. (=) Crown Jewels 2

Open:

1. (=) Chevron
2. (1) Clapham
3. (1) Fire D
4. (7) Brighton
5. (3) Fire O
6. (=) Emo 1
7. (=) Leeds
8. (5) Team Shark
9. (7) Brown
10. (=) Tooting Tigers
11. (7) Fusion East
12. (7) Fully Charged
13. (2) BAF 1
14. (2) Limited Release 1
15. (7) Strange Blue 1
16. (2) Vision
17. (8) Fusion West
18. (6) Burro Electrico
19. (1) Mild Mannered Janitors
20. (1) Kent Open
21. (4) Bristol Plastic Factory 1
22. (3) Steal
23. (6) Brighton 2
24. (7) Emo 2
25. (5) Seamus Murphy
26. (4) ABH
27. (2) Devon 1
28. (5) Brown 2
29. (3) Leamington Leamings 1
30. (3) London Revolution
31. (9) Trigger Happy
32. (7) Flyght Club
33. (7) Mustard
34. (6) Strange Blue 2
35. (4) Lucky Huckers 1
36. (1) Limted Release 3
37. (4) Limited Release 2
38. (5) Abstract
39. (5) Flump
40. (5) Mighty Hucks
41. (6) BUG
42. (6) Devon 2
43. (6) Curve
44. (3) TBU
45. (1) Team Shark 2
46. (1) Leamington Leamings 2
47. (5) BAF 2
48. (4) Kent Mustang
49. (1) Lucky Huckers 2
50. (2) Staffordshire Oatcakes

Iceni had a run of dominance all the way through to the final with very little in the way of a strong challenge en route. This is a team with its eyes set fully on the international stage and who are in it to win. Womens ultimate in the UK has seen steady growth over the past 5 years, the GB junior women entering a team into the domestic season is a great sign of the health of womens ultimate in the UK.

There was a lot of movement both up and down the mens table with a number of teams jumping a full 7 places in both directions. Trigger Happy rose the most places with an impressive 9 while Brighton are showing their strength in both Mixed and Open divisions by breaking into the coveted top 4 in the Open division. Both Fusion East and West will be heading back north with some lessons learnt after both dropping off the pace considerably in this Tour while Strange Blue, Team Shark and The Brown will be looking to work ahead of Tour 2 to further challenge the top 8 teams.

With a month to go before Tour 2, there may still be time for teams to bring together everything they have learned in time to reach whatever goals they have set for themselves this season. Well done to everyone who took part and to the organisers of an event that saw close to 1000 ultimate players on around 18 pitches all in one place, not a small undertaking!