A Couple of weekends ago SB2 took a team to Tour 2 in Burton-on-Trent.

We won the 9-10 plate final (although there was no plate). It was close game but by now we'd found everyone's strengths, from Token's tireless running (he must have been top scorer in our team), great link up play from Will, and Spence, great hucking from Joe and Rich, great D from Chris, to mention just some of the team. It was a great team effort to secure a well-deserved victory. Bring on Tour 3!

Safe journey home,

Your loving co-captains Piers and Rich
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Hey everyone,

I'm sure more will follow, but just a quick note to say that the firsts had a fantastic weekend at A tour 2, finishing 14th. The highlight was coming back from 9-13 down to win 15-14 in sudden death against Cambo Cakes in the 13 v 16 game. Great work SB!

Matt

Kia ora,

A gloriously sunny *cough* warm *cough cough* British summer day saw 16 - er, 15 - er, 14 - er, 12 in the end - teams battle it out for the title of Summer Cuppers. Champions. That's the one.

Trunderballs (Trinity & new thundercatz) took the cup in style, while Emma, with a little help from Pembroke won the plate.

SPIRIT: A tie between Emma A, Downing and Darkside, congrats. And a big boo to Darkside for stealing the prize. I bet the security tag on the bottle gets you into trouble. That'd be like totally karmic and stuff. Fo' sho'.

Thanks to everyone for turning up despite the weather, which teetered on a knife edge all day but ended up not being (too) terrible. And props to Trunderballs and Chillies, who played a great final that was thoroughly enjoyable to watch.

Chur,

- Mike

The firsts beat seed to come 21st of 24 at open tour 1 this weekend. We were looking pretty unstoppable by the end of today, and finished on a high with a hard fought win against Limited Release who we'd lost to earlier in the tournament.

The seconds visited Cheltenham this weekend. Now officially renamed Strange Blue Woo, and the campest team on tour, the overall result (holding seed at 26th) doesn't really do justice to how hard everyone played.

On Saturday we rocked our pool play, winning four matches with a good margin. We struggled against zones - especially the horrible arrowhead formation that Kent use, but our junk got better and better throughout the weekend.

Matches on Sunday were exhausting in the horrible wind, and all games going to time - or over. The highlight of the weekend was the final match against Red where we came from 11 v 3 down to bring the score back to 12 v 11 at time. Red managed to add the final points in the cap but everyone played their hearts out and it was our best overall performance of the weekend.

An immensely windy weekend in Manchster gave the Uni Mixed team plenty of opportunities to try out a variety of zone defences, which were used to great effect against most of their opposition.

Bears & Mohawks provided the stiffest opposition, with the former beating them in their quarter-final. SB won their remaining games and finished 5th.
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So the ladies + two pimpin' guys went down to Brighton last weekend for Uni Women's Outdoor Nationals and got 6th place!! WOOT!!!!

The ladies: Jo, Laura, Sonja, Natalie, Eleanor (Ellie), Lauren, Veronika, Valentijn, and me!

Driver/Photographer: Gary Lowe
THE amazing baker: Mike Fletcher

So proud of the girls and can't wait to play with the women again.

Props to Laura's parents for all the food they brought for us!!!

And can someone please take over being JTM? I'm going to hunt for freshers next year who's born in 1992.

Anna
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Here's a report of the adventures of Team 'Stranger Danger' Blue at the 6th Costa Brava erotic edition tournament. 'Stranger Danger' got coined because the hotel misspelt our name and because there was a lot of stranger rodeo this weekend.

After 3 days of ultimate on the beach, and plenty of intense partying, SB placed 22nd out of 24 in the Costa Brava tourney.
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Strange Blue are back from a weekend of sunshine in Cardiff. We started out as lowly 31st seeds and gave up a winning position for a difficult loss in our first game, leaving us a tough set of fixtures to improve our ranking. Nevertheless, we had a great spirit throughout the weekend and interspersed some very good and some not-so-good moments, but eventually things started to click and I think we really improved towards the end as we climbed up to 25th. Hopefully Lauren will bring you a more in-depth review in due course.

I'd like to thank all those who went for making it so awesome, especially the tour debutants, but I'd especially like to thank our new and old friends, Kate and Alex for joining us this weekend.

I'm sure some people haven't realised yet (where on earth have you been), but last weekend we went to Uni Open outdoor nationals in Sheffield. And ate a load of carvery. We also played some sweet frisbee, and came 4th in the country (i.e. won the quarterfinal), which when you look at the teams above us (probably on balance better than us) and the teams below us (all unequivocally worse than us) is fair. Plus Flatball came 15th. HA HA HA HA.
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Last weekend, SB trekked (7 hours each way!) up to UMIN in Glasgow. After narrowly fighting our way through 2 dodgy 3-way ties and an intense crossover, we found ourselves in the Top 8 for Sunday. However, we finished at the bottom of it as we were beaten by some quality opposition. I had a fantastic weekend and first SB tournament and I hope everyone else enjoyed it too!
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In Leicester this weekend both SB teams showed their mettle. Despite Hammad driving to the party venue rather than the pitches (leaving SB 1 with only 6 at the start of play!), they won all their games on the first day, and only lost to Bears on Sunday, finishing 2nd and qualifying for Div. 1 Nationals.
SB2 only just missed out on beating the hosts on Saturday, then flattened their first 2 opponents on Sunday to set up a tight match for The Plate, which they closed out in style to pick up some silverware.
Fatty Jon was MVP of the final.

After a disappointingly on-sided loss to Clapham (13-1, though we played better than that suggests), SB dug deep to beat ABH in sudden death, and finally found our form against a tired, but still dangerous, Tooting Tigers. If this match is anything to go by, we'll see more plenty more spectacular layouts, sketchy hucks, and chilly zone offense later in the year.

Last weekend (Jan. 23/24), we sent off two teams to University Mixed Indoor Regionals, held in Norwich at UEA. After starting off with an intense game between the two teams, we went our separate ways, with the second team being pushed into 6th place by an impressive Bears 2, while the first team just lost out on a Div. 1 Nationals place to a huge layout score in sudden death from a fired up UBU 1.
Reports: Firsts — Seconds

Overall we came a very respectable 8th and voted Hammad as MVP for, amongst other things, consistently bringing down high discs and playing really hard throughout and Gary as MIP for a great combination of handling and cutting.
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It was a good weekend, despite the results. We pulled a tough game out of the bag and we had an amazing first game on Sunday. Imagine what it would be like if we kept practising for the last 2 months and could count on a few more players. Hopefully, next year we will be facing the tour in a different way, knowing that we could be aiming for a permanent seat in the A tour.
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Cambridge Uni demonstrated their dominance over the dark blues today with wins in all 6 matches - Firsts, Seconds & Women, both Indoors & outdoors. Sweet!

Last weekend Cambridge took 3 teams to Tour 1:
2 Open Teams, imaginatively named "SB 1" and "SB 2", and a Women's team - The Dolly Mixtures.
The Firsts did really well fighting their way into A Tour after coming off worst in a 3 way tie at Tour 0. They finished 15th. It didn't go quite that way for the seconds, who lost a few spots to end up second in C tour. The Women climbed 1 place to 14th after a really strong Sunday in which they won all but 1 of their games.
Finally, a party at Jassy's topped off the weekend, with Ouzo and GSK being of particular note.
Reports: SB 1 — Dolly Mixtures

Without having practised together, plus a rather alcoholic bloodstream on Sunday, we still totally pulled it off and moved up a bracket into the TOP 16!!! WOOO!!
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This weekend just gone, as is SB's current wont, a minor menagerie of wildlife took to the joys of the A14/A1(M)/A52 to travel to Nottingham for Uni Mixed Outdoor Nationals, hosted by Random Fling. Carefully caged during transport were a hippo, a leopard, a falcon, a meerkat, an octopus (in a tank of water, obviously.), a wolf, a spider monkey, a koala bear, a peacock, a yellow giraffe, and a "shire horse" (I've got no idea how this is different from a normal horse).
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So SB2 rocked up to tour 0 to have some fun and try to make B tour. We started seeded 17th, and bottom seeds in a tough looking pool, with 13th place required for B tour.
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So slightly depleted in numbers due to silly engineer exams, we had 6 girls go from cambridge up to newcastle. Me, Jassy, Laura F, Rachael, Laura W, Abby, playing for the first time in the new strip crafted by Jassy and under the SB ARU women combined name 'Dolly Mixtures.' Because of special women's rules we also had some help from Alice from Aye Aye and 3 and a half DUF girls, taking our squad to 11 for sat and 10 for sun.
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Despite relatively little experience on sand, SB played some sweet, sweet ultimate to finish 3rd, a massive step up from last year. No fun compromised, this was achieved on top of our tri-night dance floor destruction, cold-shock dips in the sea and creative use of sangria.
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So SB marched to nationals, seeded second, and itching to get playing to take apart the rest of the country with our awesome game. Despite a slight deviation from the plan, SB had a great time, and finished the weekend with a great game against Ro Sham. Congrats to Bears for taking the title.
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SB hosted a sweet regionals this weekend, with the first team winning the title, and the seconds doing better than ever before. Thanks to everyone who helped, especially Mark who brought it all together.

So the SB girls, once again surpassing the efforts of the boys finished 4th at indoor nationals. We played hard, played fair, played fun, and a fantastic weekend was had by all.

Bet you boys can't wait to play mixed with us all now!
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This weekend we went down to Southampton for Indoor Nationals, we achieved our best place nationally, ever. We were also the only team that beat Roshambo! I'm really pumped to be on our team. I'm really pumped for outdoors! Good night blue.
Mark Ioffe
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On 8th of November, Alex, Susanna, Jassy, Snodge, Cat, Laura, Jo & Natalie (with Chris driving) went up to Liverpool to qualify for Nationals. They played some sweet ultimate, taking the trophy in style by winning every game.
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Last Weekend Strange Blue sent a team to Nottingham to compete in the Midlands Indoor Regionals. We played 7, lost 1 and and came 3rd, qualifying for Indoor Nationals. Overall it was a totally sweet tournament, and we totally did a load of totally sweet stuff and played some totally sweet frisbee.
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Strange Blue on Tour wound up at Burla Beach Tournament 2008, which took place in ViaReggio, Tuscany, Italy on the 19th - 21st September. We didn't do that well in the tournament - but to be honest we spent the weekend running around a beach in Tuscany with a whole bunch of mates. . It don't get any better than that!
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I sing of discs and of the man,
destined to lead our team,
Of blue clad youths and bright women,
To the pitch of the ultimate dream.
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It was a typical British Saturday morning on the 28th June when 8 fit and healthy men, 7 feisty women and 1 broken shoemaker took to the roads to make their way to the oh-so-glamorous Burton-on-Trent to represent Strange Blue in the second instalment of Mixed Tour.
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Strange Mixed Balls embraced the terrier spirit to play some tip top ultimate, have bundles of fun, defeat an entire nation and finish 7th at Mixed Tour 1, my [Nick's] favourite tournament of all time.
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Strange Blue came second in the 2008 University Open Outdoor Nationals in York, after beating tournament favourites, Ro Sham Bo.
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Despite having to forfeit all the matches on day one, the SB women more than made up for it on day two, winning 2/3 matches and finishing 11th.
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Strange Blue went on Tour at the Lloret Costa Brava Tournament 2008, which took place in Lloret De Mar on the 15th - 17th March, SB had great fun and came a very creditable 11th out of 24 finish.
Long Live the Beach and we'd better come back next year!
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Strange Blue won all matches in Uni Open Outdoor Regionals, qualifying for Nationals on 3/4 May in York.
Second team won the plate (13th), and third team came 20th.

The Strange Blue Women's squad qualified for University Indoor Nationals after 10 long and exciting matches.
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Last weekend (24-25th November) the SB women's student team went to Sheffield where after 10 hard fought games of ultimate, we obtained 6th place and more importantly qualified to go the national's tournament in February.
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There are new hoodies for sale. Just contact the shop if you want some (go to "How to get discs/kit") and order some. Alternatively talk to Pedro on Sundays practices.

It's time to start up the winter college league. Could you please send an email to Nathan (nk294) with all the teams you wish to enter asap. The exact format and timing of the league this year will depend on the number of teams entering so the sooner this is known the better. The situation has not changed since last year regards playing on Jesus Green, so could you please also email him the pitches you have at your disposal.

The indoor teams as chosen (mostly) by Simon were sent on the email, but they're not set in stone and could change if you particularly impress him tomorrow night. Or if you chump it like a n00b. "Tomorrow" is 8-9pm in Hills Road 6th form college (map http://www.hrsfc.ac.uk/contact/map.asp ) and you should be there at 7.45pm with £2.50, light and dark top, indoor shoes and a disc if you have one. Practice is advanced, and open to anyone, not just people coming to regionals, so if you want to play any more indoors in the future (mixed regionals for example, or any open events) you should come. That sounded more threatening than I intended...