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League Round #2 Kirkkonummi, postmortem

Second league round is now behind us and What results! We took the league round by storm and division 1′s respectable second position was great advancement from the disappointment of the first round.

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Picture by Perttu Alitalo

Saturday started with league and first matchup was Cyclone vs. Urho. Urho’s roster has changed quite a bit from last year and they ended last in SPBL’s first round. We started the game aggressive with pushing both sides of the field. We took the first point. In next point Urho shot our guys from the moves and Raffe was left alone in the snake. 1-1.  Point number three ended up to Cyclone with a 141 for Urho deciding the point. 20 seconds was enough to choose a victor for the fourth point with both sides of the field rampaged by our guys. You would think that this would have broken the back of Urho, but they mustered their players and quickly took next two points. Last point was again a quick point and we took a close 4-3 victory. Some of the loosing points were decided by penalties, which have been a problem point for us in the past. So in next games we needed to be more strict with our own eliminations.

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SK Moscow videos from Millennium Bitburg 2011

SK Moscow have again really made an effort in getting high quality material of CPL games. Absolutely fantastic stuff, they seem to be getting more and more cameras to each event and the editing makes sure everything worth seeing is captured on tape. Memory card. Whatever. Great stuff anyway!

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LeaqueLiveBlog: Kirkkonummi #2

Here it is,  On most browsers the blog should refresh automatically, no promises.

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LiveLeague 2011:Kirkkonummi (#2)

Welcome to live scoring service for league round 2; sorry no bikini girls waiving a cardboard sign. Kirkkonummi, Finland, lays about 30 klicks west of Helsinki. Here you find rolling fields of  wheat, a paintball field and us liveleaguing. Will young and fast Take Over finally take gold, with the last rounds teachings under belt? Will Cyclone continue to reign supreme? Or will the others show their true colors. You will see it here! Games start at 9:00 Saturday with League. On Sunday Div 2 plays the morning and Div 1 the evening halfs.

Again we will do a little bit pick and choose what we will cover. This time it will be League, Div 1, Div 2. We will try something new again. I will live-blog Cyclone League games and medal matches for league. My prose is often compared to those of Harlequin books, so we’ll see how it goes. We’ll also push some videos to the site (quicktime plugin required, sorry).

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SPBL Ikaalinen 2011 – a tough start for the season

Photo courtesy of Jani Andersson

It’s already been a month after the first leg of the SPBL Finnish Championship League, sorry about that – we had a bit of a landscaping project after the tournament, and a sudden outbreak of summer weather made dating a laptop the last in line for things to do..  Still a day left before the second tournament though!

Coming into the season 2011 after winning the championship last year, we knew there was no easy ride to victory as we would be the ones to beat this season. We did a punishing (but voluntary) physical fitness program over the winter months – many of the guys lost quite a bit of weight and gained endurance. After some time off from the markers we begun the weekly trips to Sparta Reball, some 160Km from Helsinki to blast tons of reps and drive back home again. As the spring progressed, we begun outdoor practises at our own field, grinding at the sandpit up to three times a week for a month before the first tournament – only to have our asses handed to us in the two first games.

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Pics from the Grind Grand Opening

Link to Gallery After quite a lot of sweat and tears and not too much blood on the field, we finally got the turf project finished and it needed a proper initiation. The beautiful sunday consisted of a lot of sunshine, a few games, a few drills, great BBQ food, some zipline fun and swimming in the lake. Great success! Hit the picture to get to the gallery, or just hit this.

We’ve been quite busy recently, sorry for not posting updates since SPBL Ikaalinen.. We do have a tournament report in the oven, and also some insights to how to tackle a turf project. My personal tip of the day, book a trip to Italy for the project week – it’s lot less painful! Most probably I will be hearing reminders of my managerial efforts for at least a few years to come. :)

We’re also looking into further improving the live scoring for the next SPBL round in Kirkkonummi on June 18th and 19th for your pleasure. :)

MS 2011 London Layout

The guys  designing the Millennium layouts have been quite creative this year providing us one symmetrical layout, which wasn’t that much fun after all and the Paris layout that seems to offer countless variations off the bat (seems in present tense, as the next SPBL is played on that). The layout for Basildon seems to have some resemblance to the paris design, but it has a lot less effective lanes off the bat and a lot of the cross-field shots from (and to) the snake are blocked by the pins. The center also seems to have more weight than on the Paris layout, but the tent-side has potential for carnage. Nice to see how the field actually plays out, but it seems really interesting!

 

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New domain www.cyclone.fi

We moved to a different hosting provider for added space, and did some version updates on the site as well. Hopefully the most of you will not notice too much of a difference (if everything works, that is), but we did change the domain name to www.cyclone.fi for clarity. Traffic from the old links should be redirected automatically, but if something doesn’t seem to work, give us a shout.

Live League: 2011 #1 Ikaalinen

We Won the League! Next stop Div 1 on Sunday.

Thank you HD for taking care of scores for Saturday. For Sunday We will have Jarkko updating scores.

Thanks to our readers, next time bigger and better.

We’re back with the one and only point to point Score Service in the whole wide of Finland. Like last year, which by all metrics was a success, we will cover League point by point and Div 1 game by game. We will probably throw in the final games from all divisions also, so stay tuned.  In future rounds we will try live blogging Cyclone games, but we are yet able to do this.

So, first league round will be played in Ikaalinen a town some 250 klicks from downtown Helsinki. Games are played on Bitburg layout with the schedule divided to Div 3 and League for Saturday.  On Sunday Div 1 and 2 are fighting for gold. Continue reading ‘Live League: 2011 #1 Ikaalinen’ »

Season 2011 Is Finally Here!

It’s been a long while since the tournament season has started this late for Helsinki Cyclone. Ever since the inception of the Millennium Series, the team has started the tournament season with a trip somewhere warm to play the series, or at least wait out a storm or a volcano. Or both. :) This year the Cyclone family has a few weddings and a bunch of other responsibilities that forced us to take a year off from the Millennium Circuit. Fear not, we will return in 2012! Meanwhile, the SPBL Finnish league will start next weekend in Ikaalinen, and we’re STOKED! 

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