Awell where do i start...
After leaving from Aberdeen, Scotland @ around 1:30pm through torrential rain storms and thunder and lightening, stopping at services and getting our "Rental" car Keyed and 1 of our tires slashed, having to replace it in the rain, getting to the site at around 10pm, having to set up the tents, in the pouring rain with only the lights from the headlamps of the car, and then strolling over to the tent, and rich saying.... Hey, nice of you to be here
and handing me a can of carling... just made my day.
The morning after.. Just a massive thanks to all the teams that we played, and a Huge thanks to Wayne for playing for us & the temper boys for accommodating us in the afternoon
and most of all a HUGE, HUGE, thanks to the refs on the M5 championship fields in the morning... spot on... even when our very own frenchy started his own revolution (Sorry Team Rampage :S)
Cya all at round 3 !!!!
I would like to echo what Philby said.
Apart from some absolute tool keying our rental car and slashing the tyre I think it was possibly one of the best weekends I've had in ages. Just a side note, Europcar hire were great and everything is sorted there. So all good on that front.
As far as the tournament is concerned, what can I say. Long live CPPS. Rich you got something great going there and please keep up the great work. I would also like to thank all the refs on the day especially on fileds 4 and 5, as those were the only fields we played on.
I felt the reffing was consistant and pretty good. Deffo a big improvement from round 1.
Bermingham Temper you guys were great and thank you Wayne.
The weather held out nicely also which makes a big differance.
Two things though, Rich if it's at all possible, would you be able to designate areas for each team? As a post or two before mine have mentioned, teams that got there early kinda took up a lot of room and other teams (not us.) struggled to find a pit.
I know organising/hosting a event like this is a major undertaking and the logistics a nightmare, so if you are able to look into that, it would be great.
Also, there is a fair amount of noise and things going on so refs are not easily heard when they call out team names to go play on a certain field, a possible solution would be a tannoy system for the refs so they can for example call team A and team Z to field 2.
This is just something minor and not really a big issue but it might make things run a little smoother.
Food was really good, thank you to all the folks that had a part to play in that.
Oh by the way if and when it rains like that again, I'm not even gonna bother pitching a tent in the camping area, I'm just gonna take my sleeping bag into the big tent and find a corner to pass out in. hehe.
Thanks again to everyone.