In contrary to previous years, Ragnarok did not all arrive by train. The first couple of players arrived really early by bus, others by train and yet others by airplane. In total have 15 Ragnarockers made the trip to Nürnberg, out of which 14 are able to play today and which will probably be reduced to something below 10 by tomorrow :)
As the (very) old team we are, age-wise, we are all staying at Hotel Sanssouci, the famous hotel with it’s even more famous owner. I would be lying if I didn’t said that the site hasn’t changed at all, maybe the only difference is the weather. In previous years have we only experienced really nice weather, sometimes to hot actually, but already when we arrived this morning were it raining. But nothing we cant handle!
There had been some final revisions to the tournament plan as one team couldn’t make it. This meant that there is now two pools each with 6 teams, out of which only four teams qualify for EUCF! Ragnarok being one of them of course!
Today’s first match where against the Hungarian team LOL, which is seeded ##. There should be no doubt that we where expecting to win this game quick and by a quite large margin. The wind picked up just as it stopped raining. The fields are really narrow, which actually suited us perfectly as this allowed us to put up our zone. It worked perfectly the first three points, which all ended with us blocking the disc and scoring, even though we needed more blocks in some points ;) Halftime ended with Ragnarok in the lead 8 against 3, but is was clear that we became increasingly overconfident, which resulted in some three too many long upwind hucks, that is in the same point. After halftime we just played as we had played the first half. Both Wurstmeister and Lars produced block, and with Wurstmeister using his two arms and one of his legs to catch the disc after a semi-fumble we ended the match with the score 15-4!
I’m not going to write much about our second match against Furiousgoats as it was pretty much same same but different. The difference being that we lost three guys in match! First Thomas Alsted got a fiber in his lower leg, secondly Jesper Bakkegaard landed on his own arm and thirdly Lasse Gejl damaged his already damaged shoulder after a layout-D attempt.
UPDATE: Both Lasse and Jesper are playing today, i.e. day 2, weissbeir cures all injuries.
