Campaign Cup

[Devrij]

We're putting a team together for the '08 M5 league, and having only played the inter-uni league (x-ball format) I was wondering what we should be working on in the coming months. Any advice for a scratch team? Personal skills are obvious, but anything that we can do to improve how we operate as a team would be greatly appreciated. Cheers

 

[Seany]

We're putting a team together for the '08 M5 league, and having only played the inter-uni league (x-ball format) I was wondering what we should be working on in the coming months. Any advice for a scratch team? Personal skills are obvious, but anything that we can do to improve how we operate as a team would be greatly appreciated. Cheers

basically just get down to a trainaing site, as a team and just drill like ****, do all sorts of drills etc communication drills, basically learn how your teammates play, work on laning, break outs, all sorts of ****

im sure a seasoned pro will come along and tell me im chatting a whole load of crap soon but anyway
just practise anything and everything play your heart out and bobs your uncle

also remember the P's

Prior, Preparation and Planning, Prevents, Poor, Peformance

 

[Scars]

Playing milleniums is nothing apart from expensive.. coming anywhere apart from last place in your division is something else.

Training hard and familiarising yourself with the team your playing with is pretty much key. i also find scrimmaging with a team at a similar level alot of help

 

[Devrij]

Once the field layouts are up we're gonna set it up at skirmish and have a crack at it, but I was wondering what the astro-turf is like compared to, well, mud. Is there any aspect of play it affects significantly? Also, does anyone know any drills to improve communication? It's something we need to improve, but so far experience has been the only thing that encourages it. Cheers

 

[Seany]

you will find you overslide quite a bit takes a little while of getting used to

and to improve communication just make sure you shout out anything you see at any time and dont be strangers with eachother, the more you get along/play together the more the communication improves

 

[Scars]

much quicker on astroturf bud. sliding is... interesting

never the less after playing on the XL turfing the milleniums offer you'll never want to play on grass again

 

[Edd Hobday]

We're gonna be training with Brum uni, who are dominating the uni league at the moment (and who came 3rd to last in the M5 last year)

Ahhh but they lack their secret weapon at milleniums

One thing ive noticed about teams training is they seem to focus on snap shooting way to much just because its an easy skill to practice. Make sure you spend plenty of time working on movement. Pracitce forcing a move yourself, and co-ordinating moves with your team mates.

Also as the fine gents before me have said, communication wins games so dont overlook it!

 

[Devrij]

We've been doing bump-up drills, but with a small gym it's hard to work on movement, so hopefully when we get a few live paint days in we'll get a chance to do that. I felt the wrath of coordinated movement at the last inter-uni (got mugged a couple times). I wasn't dissing brum's placing btw, just emphasising the level of improvement we have to achieve if we're not to look like tits.

 

[Kevin]

communication is one of the hardest things to get right,
5 guys screaming at the top of their lungs can be worse than no one saying anything.
if you can name the barricades before you start that will help,
especially the key ones.
it can be better to talk loudly than to shout, the words are clearer.

if you are going to be quite new and not used to playing with each other its important to sort out any jobs that need doing and making sure that if its someones responsiblity to lock down the snake for example that they know they have to focus on that.
if you have 5 guys doing what ever they want you will leave yourself open to moves from the other team.

 

[Luke W]

Technique/skill > communication.

'nuff said.