Saturday, May 15, 2010

Clinic Postponed

For those of you looking forward to this years floorball clinic with Jani Kukola and Jani Naumanen we have some sad news. Unfortunately it has been postponed indefinitely.

Due to shortage of funding and also with the Men's WFC being in Finland this year they're all preparing for a lot to happen there.

Although we will miss having them here we want to wish them and all the teams playing in the WFC 2010 all the best.

Monday, May 3, 2010

Labour Day Floorball Challenge

What a long weekend but what an awesome one. For the last 3 years or so we've been organizing this fun event for local Penang clubs and also one or 2 teams from KL.

This year we were graced by the presence of two wonderful teams all the way from Singapore...NTU Hurricanes and SGS (Juniors....as we fondly now know them as here) making up the total of 8 teams that we had attending this years LDFC. The other teams being Innebandy!Co., Ztec 1 & 2, Contact and Dalat 1 & 2.

Unfortunately, Subang Rascals - Defending Champs who have held the title and taken home the challenge trophy for the last few years were not able to make the games this year due to a conflict of events scheduled.

All the Singaporeans were here actually for two main reasons - a great time playing floorball and a great time exploring the wonderful cuisine that Penang has to offer like assam laksa, curry mee (curry laksa for the Singaporeans reading this), char koay teow and anything and everything else that Gurney drive and all the other food joints have to offer. Main goal - not to worry about whether or not the take home any medals but they had to make sure that their belly was satisfied.

Now, having said all the above, some of our local teams were out to draw some blood from the games. They came with guns blazing and it was really fun to watch all these teams vie for a spot at the top. They were all ready, willing and able to push everything to the limit.

From the 2 pools that were drawn up we had after the first day of games the top of the table teams Innebandy, Ztec 1, Contact and Dalat 1. The bottom of the table teams were Hurricanes, SGS Juniors, Ztec 2 and Dalat 2. It was a very very long Saturday.

Sunday was awesome because from the crossover pool Dalat 1 and team Contact had a difficult time playing teams from the "group of death". So both our teams had already decided that we'd meet each other in the finals for 3rd and 4th place. True to expectations that's exactly what happened. Both finals were exhilarating from start to finish.

Team Contact took the lead 3-0 the first half. In the 2nd half although very shorthanded Dalat 1 fought their way back and tied the game at 3-3 but team Contact were relentless and their never say give up attitude won them a 3rd place spot on the podium in the tournament as they finished out the game 5-3.

Team Innebandy and Ztec 1 also had a similar final, From start to finish everyone was on the edge of their seat. Supporters willing their teams to go on and score....ooohhs and aaahhhs every time there was a near miss...screams of ecstasy every time their goalie saved one from going in....what a night and unfortunately there had to be a winner and a loser. At the end of regulation time Innebandy had snatched the gold medal and also the challenge trophy from Ztec's hands. So close yet so far....for team Ztec the have next year to look forward to try and steal it from this years champs Innebandy!Co. And for the reigning champs bragging rights to have their names inscribed into the challenge trophy for years to come and also a chance to defend their title next year.

To all the people who were referees and helpers at the table, timekeepers, Alvin (Salibandy), teams from Singapore and Steve Liss who found the hockey score clock for us to use a HUGE THANK YOU for all the assistance and time you gave into making this tournament possible and as smooth as it was.

We hope to see you again next year.