Skip to content
Archive of posts filed under the Tournament category.
« Older Entries
Newer Entries »

LiveLeague 2011:Kirkkonummi (#2)

Posted by  on 18 June 2011, 8:44 am

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).

Please answer a quick survey, it’ll take a moment and we will customise our work next round based on answers:

Survey (in Finnish)

Survey (in English)

Continue reading ‘LiveLeague 2011:Kirkkonummi (#2)’ »

Filed under Domestic, Live League, Tournament. Tagged , , , ,
5 Comments

SPBL Ikaalinen 2011 – a tough start for the season

Posted by  on 17 June 2011, 10:42 am

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.

Talk about a rude awakening – three more prelim games to go. Continue reading ‘SPBL Ikaalinen 2011 – a tough start for the season’ »

Filed under Jii, News, Thoughts, Tournament. Tagged , , ,
Comment

MS 2011 London Layout

Posted by  on 3 June 2011, 9:58 am

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!

 

Continue reading ‘MS 2011 London Layout’ »

Filed under Millennium, News, Tournament. Tagged , , , ,
Comment

Live League: 2011 #1 Ikaalinen

Posted by  on 13 May 2011, 10:00 am

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’ »

Filed under Domestic, Hilu, Live League, News, Tournament. Tagged , , ,
2 Comments

Season 2011 Is Finally Here!

Posted by  on 12 May 2011, 3:07 pm

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! 

Continue reading ‘Season 2011 Is Finally Here!’ »

Filed under Domestic, News, Team, Tournament. Tagged , , , , ,
Comment

Millenium Bitburg layout published

Posted by  on 23 April 2011, 8:07 pm

The layout for 2011 Millennium Series Bitburg was published. Have to say that this looks quite interesting and FAST.

Filed under News, Tournament. Tagged , , ,
3 Comments

Millennium Paris Longchamps videos by SK Moscow

Posted by  on 21 April 2011, 9:17 am

The holidays are here, so time to post some nice pass-time videos. Check out the great footage SK Moscow posted from the Millennium season-opener held at Paris Longchamps racetrack, top notch! Spring is coming and these will get you in the mood!

SK Moscow – London Nexus (prelim)

Continue reading ‘Millennium Paris Longchamps videos by SK Moscow’ »

Filed under Millennium, Tournament, Video. Tagged , , , , ,
Comment

Interview with Mikko Huttunen – DYE Snow and LA Ironmen

Posted by  on 23 March 2011, 2:22 pm

Over the winter we have been reading various rumors and bits of gossip about DYE branching into snow sports, but there hasn’t been too much concrete information. With the PSP season opener in Galveston, Texas showing Mikko Huttunen amiss from the Ironmen back line, we figured that something is really bubbling under. We contacted Mikko and discussed a lot of recent topics.

Mikko Huttunen at Cyclone DYE Pro Day 2010

Continue reading ‘Interview with Mikko Huttunen – DYE Snow and LA Ironmen’ »

Filed under News, Other, Products, Tournament. Tagged , , , , , , , , ,
1 Comment

PSP Galveston Final Video by Monkey With A Gun

Posted by  on 18 March 2011, 9:15 am

The PSP Galveston final game is online! The series of youtube videos produced by Patrick Spohrer and Monkey With a Gun have kept me glued to the screen for a good part of the week. Have to say, that when the lack of a live webcast became clear earlier this year , I was really disappointed. In retrospect, I have to say that this is a much better option than just the live webcast with a few games possibly being onlline later, like it was in 2009.  As the quality of the production has been absolutely fabulous with multiple well thought-out camera positions and Matty Marshall as the main commentator, you can only be thrilled! Enjoy the final with SD Dynasty going against Boston Red Legion!

Filed under News, PSP, Tournament, Video. Tagged , , , , , , ,
Comment

Dynasty wins Red Legion in finals and PSP Galveston.

Posted by  on 14 March 2011, 1:26 am

Dynasty takes the title winning Boston Red Legion in the finals 7-2. After impressive scores in prelim games and loosing only one match to Boston Red Legion, Dynasty gets an rematch and pulls it off in the finals. I don’t think that many of us would have predicted Dynasty winning the first event but new PSP rule changes have for sure made an difference in the Pro bracket. Congrats to Dynasty and PSP season looks to be quite interesting for 2011.

Preliminary scores from APPA

APPA doesn’t yet have official semifinal scores up but in semifinals met Dynasty vs. Infamous and
Boston Red Leg vs. Tampa Bay Damage.

Monkey with a Gun has already uploaded Dynasty vs. Boston Red Legion preliminary game to YouTube
and hopefully we will see rest of the games later.

Filed under News, PSP Events, Tournament. Tagged , , , , , ,
Comment
« Older Entries
Newer Entries »
>