Brighton Ultimate in Sweden

Last weekend Brighton sent two teams – an open team and the womens team – to Skogshyddan’s Vintertrofén (“Winter Trophy”), a European indoor tournament in Gothenberg, Sweden. The tournament was attended by some of the top European teams – in the open division Brighton won two games as well as losing some very close games including one in sudden death, eventually finishing 24th out of 32. Brighton Women, in both their tournament and international debut, did excellently to win three of six games and make it to the plate final, finishing 10th out of 16.
As always, a more detailed report by someone who actually went will be posted soon.

Southampton Ladder League results

On Sunday Brighton went across to Southampton for some Ladder League matches organised by Ltd Release. In their debut appearance, the Brighton Womens’ team played the Ltd Release women, and after a long and hard-fought match were victorious 8-6.
Meanwhile, Brighton Open played Skunks and the Ltd Release open team, winning 15-1 and 16-3 respectively.

LWL3 reports

A couple of quick reports from the Mixed and Open teams who played at London Winter League yesterday. Continue reading LWL3 reports…

Happy New Year!

Practice info:
Monday practices are back on, effective immediately. Turn up to Hove Rugby Club at 6:45pm to be ready to play at 7.

Recent results:
The Ladder League game on Saturday between the Mohawks and Brighton Ultimate was a long and hard-fought match. Every time Brighton got a lead Mohawks would claw back a few points to level the score, but in the end Brighton pulled away to win 17-13.

London Winter League today was played in some unexpected sunshine, which was nice. Mixed won two of their three pool games but there was a 3-way tie and we came out on top, putting us in the final against Discuits. It was a tough game and in the end we missed out on first place by a single point, losing 7-6. Open won 1 of their pool games (I think?) and lost their final, to come 6th. Longer reports will be posted should anyone write them.

Surrey’s Santa Slingfest results

Brighton sent two teams to Guildford this weekend for a Christmas tournament hosted by Surrey Scorpions. Rough Sleepers were seeded first but after some disappointing results they could only manage 7th place. Tony Harrison were seeded 5th and narrowly missed out on a top 4 finish – in the end they won the plate final for 5th place. Tony Harrison also secured the three pint challenge prize with a mediocre-at-best time of 29 seconds.