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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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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. :)

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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Millennium Bitburg 2010 Photos by BullitProof Monkey

A series of storage media related problems delayed publishing these pictures almost half a year.. Ah well, what could be better in the darkening nights of fall than to enjoy memories from the sunny German Millennennium 2010 in Bitburg! The picture takes you to the gallery by BullitProof Monkey, enjoy!

2010 – The season in numbers

While writing the previous article on the SPBL Mikkeli Leg, I went through our team bulletin board to do a quick summary of the trainings we had prior to the last event, and I got a bit curious. Last year we also did an internal summary of statistics at our season-ender party, and I figured what the heck, I could count the practises and other general things as a blog post as well. Turns out it wasn’t such a quick little thing to do after all..

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SPBL Mikkeli – the final round revisited

After finishing third at the Kirkkonummi event, we knew we had to step it up a notch before the last leg – less than a month away. Luckily we were not the only ones having difficulties at the event, as our finals opponent from the previous rounds Urho Musta also struggled and finished out of the final four. That left us with a few points worth of margin in the series with Urho Musta, Dream Team Turku and Helsinki Trivoga also in the run for the big cup.

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SPBL Kirkkonummi photos are up!

While waiting for the article, check out the gallery! We’re working on a summary of the event and our escapades, so stay tuned!

Summing up the Cyclone DYE Pro Training Day

Wow, a week has already flown since we had the privilege of having Mikko, Pete and Devon with us for a great day of pro player tips, tricks and drills – sorry about the delay. If you missed the event, you really missed out on a lot of good stuff and there is no excuse for you. Except maybe for Hilu, who called us early in the morning quite upset complaining that “for NINE MONTHS she has been swelling up slowly and steadily, going past the due date just to give birth TODAY! TODAY OF ALL DAYS!” There’s little you can add to that..

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Millennium Basildon 2010 – Friday

Today was a day of mixed feelings. We got to the site a bit before midday, and the place was hot already with quite a bit of moisture in the air, sucking a lot of energy off the players. We had no bigger issues as we had a proper pile of water, fruits and sports drinks to keep us going for the couple of games we had scheduled.

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Cyclone DYE Pro Day!

Mikko Huttunen, Pete “Mr. U” Utschig and Devon Stutz will be hosting a pro day at our training field in Tuusula on Friday, July 9th 2010 from 12.00 to 17.00 (5 PM). Due to the time constraints, the number of participants is also limited to ensure proper attention to each. We can only take 20 participants in total, and there are only a few places left!

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