European Ultimate Championship Series

The Central East region consists of the following countries:

Denmark, Germany, Austria, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Poland, Slovenia, Croatia

The Regional Series Committee (RSC) for the Central East is:

Following National/Sectional delegates have been elected on August 30th 2008.
The CE-RCS Steering Board will stay in charge till August 2010.

Andrea "Oddi" Furlan, Austria (CEL)
Katka Svobodova, CZ (CEL)
Allan Larsen, Denmark
Raja Kajs Ferneke, Denmark
Rue Veitl, Germany
Silvia Jordan , Germany

The election of  the CSC representatives for the Central East Region also took place. The CE region will be represented by:

Rue Veitl, Germany
Katka Svobodova, CZ

Questions for the CE RSC may be addressed to CERSC(at)eucs.efdf.org

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NEWS

EUCR-CE  2009 Results and Writeups

This weekend saw some big upsets in the Open Division and many hotly contested games in both divisions.

During the first round of pool play in swirly difficult winds, Silence (Pool B) and Feldrenner (Pool C) convincingly finished top of their pools. The games for 2^nd and 3^rd place in these pools were however closely fought. Wall City clinched a win against LOL (15:13) to take the 3^rd Place in Pool C and two sudden death wins gave Gummies 2^nd Place in Pool C, 3^rd Place went to Frühsport and that meant Team 1935 was knocked out of quarter-finals.

In Pool A, Woodies went on to cause the biggest upset of the tournament.  After narrowly scraping a win over Dji Sam Soe (Game won at 17:16), their impressive zone defence caused Ragnarok all sorts of problems and Woodies won 15:10.

In the quarter finals, the match up of Ragnarok against Feldrenner was a re-run of last year’s EUCR finals. Feldrenner punished mistakes by Ragnarok  to win solidly by 15:10. The semi-finals would be a matchup between the undefeated teams of the tournament: Woodies, Silence and Feldrenner.  Here, Woodies beat thebigez (15:12) and Feldrenner beat Silence (15:12). The final was closer but the Woodies finally having recruited some young players proved too strong for Feldrenner, and they won the final 15:13.

As the qualifier for XEUCF in London, the 4^th place and 8^th place were perhaps more important than winning the final. A team that does not finish 4^th in EUCR cannot win XEUCF in London. The 5^th placed team in this tournament can only reach maximum of 9th place at XEUCF. Similarly, the 9^th place team can only reach a maximum finishing place of 17^th. The 4^th/5^th playoff was played between thebigez and Ragnarok. Ragnarok had had a good game against Wall City but the strain of playing well against the Woodies and then Silence seemed to show on thebigez. Ragnarok destroyed thebigez to win 15:04. The Gummies similarly seemed to run out of energy after their morning games against Wall City and Dji Sam Soe. Their 8^th/9^th Playoff was once again Team 1935, this time they couldn’t quite scrape out a win and Team 1935 went on to win 15:12.

The Women’s Division was seen by most teams as an important training tournament before London. Key players were missing from all the teams but the weekend was a perfect chance to try out new offences and defences. The format was a round robin over two days.

The Woodchicas maintained their dominance over women’s ultimate and won all their games this weekend. They faced a close first game against LLLeeds, but secured the win 15:13. Other games in the tournament were much closer and very strongly fought. Hot Beaches scraped a sudden death victory over Jinx (14:13) and later lost a sudden death game against Copenhagen (11:12). LLLeeds had one of the smaller teams of the tournament and were pushed hard to win against Jinx (14:12) and Copenhagen (13:11). Despite losing all their games and missing key players, Primavera showed that they were certainly not outclassed at the weekend. They paid well against the Chicas and Hot Beaches & lost by only 2 points against Copenhagen (10:12).

 Open1, Open2, Open3

Results	- Open
1	Woodies
2	Feldrenner
3	Silence
4	Ragnorok
5	Thebigez
6	Wall City
7	Dji Sam Soe
8	Team 1935
9	Gummies
10	LOL
	Frühsport
12	Mental Discorder
13	Foundation

 

Results	- Women
1	Woodchicas
2	LLLeeds
3	Jinx
4	Hot Beaches
5	Copenhagen
5	Primavera

Spirit Ranking - Open
1	Woodies	13
2	Feldrenner	12,5
3	Silence	12,33
4	Mental Discorder	12,2
	Foundation
6	LOL	11,5
	thebigez
	Dji Sam Soe
9	Gummies & Team 1935	11,4
	Team 1935
10	Frühsport	11,33
12	Wall City	11
13	Ragnarok	10,67
Spirit Ranking - Women
1	Primavera	12,6
2	Woodchicas	12,4
	Leeds
4	Hot Beaches	11,2
5	Jinx	9,8
	Copenhagen

 All results game by game can be found here.

2009 EUCR-CE  information August 28 to 30 2009

National Bids for the EUCR-CE 2009 have been distributed as follow:

Open:
        Germany:  8 Bids
        CEL:         6 Bids
        Denmark:  2 Bids


The EUCR-CE 2009 will take place as in the past years in Nürnberg (D) from August 28th to 30th.  Check tournament details and fees here.

2009 XEUCF information:
CE has been awarded 4 Open bids to the 2009 XEUCF in the Open1 division.