International Team Challenge 2013 Sept 7/8

[LEmpereur]

Final positions were:

France 1: 328
GB 2: 305
Italy: 298
Portugal 1: 277
USA 2: 274
GB 1: 254
USA 1: 208
France 2: 207
Barbarians: 191
Portugal 2: 178

VIVE LA FRANCE!

[viking123]

But if you take France 1 and 2 together you only get 535 while GB1 and 2 got 559. While USA 1 and 2 got 482 and Portugal got 455.

So GB came top.

Next year there will have to be a new GB1 team!!!!

[hazelbark]

France 1: 328
GB 2: 305
Italy: 298
Portugal 1: 277
USA 2: 274
GB 1: 254
USA 1: 208
France 2: 207
Barbarians: 191
Portugal 2: 178

Congratulations to the French.

Pool winners were:
Period 1: Graham Briggs
Period 2: Eduard Gatereaux
Period 3: Guy Daubaugnan
Period 4: David Fairhurst

Great looks like fun for many.

[Robert241167]

And France managed to win without the Emperor.

I may try to qualify for next year as I've never been to Rome.

Care to join me Napoleon?

Rob

[ColinB1957]

Thanks Mr Dave Ruddock for the army lists for the Northern Doubles League today in Derby UK mate and a list of the R & R as well mate

[hazelbark]

But if you take France 1 and 2 together you only get 535 while GB1 and 2 got 559. While USA 1 and 2 got 482 and Portugal got 455.

Next year there will have to be a new GB1 team!!!!

There is a long tradition of GB 2 out performing GB 1 going back to the DBM days.

Personally I can imagine a whole host of people who will use it to comment to a certain Mr Ruddock. Maybe its time for him to shack up with a spice girl and move to LA?

[LEmpereur]

And France managed to win without the Emperor.

I may try to qualify for next year as I've never been to Rome.

Care to join me Napoleon?

Dear "psiloi killer",

I went to rome... http://zoom13.perso.neuf.fr/actu2007voyagearome.htm

And I like to play for France once... but not good enought... may be!

And join you of course!

Cheers

[LEmpereur]

But if you take France 1 and 2 together you only get 535 while GB1 and 2 got 559. While USA 1 and 2 got 482 and Portugal got 455.

this is another way to calculate ... but it does not seem to have been chosen this year!

[peterrjohnston]

But if you take France 1 and 2 together you only get 535 while GB1 and 2 got 559. While USA 1 and 2 got 482 and Portugal got 455.

So GB came top.

As we only had one team, can we just double ours? That would put Italy on 596...

[peterrjohnston]

There is a long tradition of GB 2 out performing GB 1 going back to the DBM days.

Looking at the results, GB2 seemed to have adopted that classic UK tactic of submarining. Was Dave coaching them or something?

[domblas]

France 1: 328
GB 2: 305
Italy: 298
Portugal 1: 277
USA 2: 274
GB 1: 254
USA 1: 208
France 2: 207
Barbarians: 191
Portugal 2: 178

Congratulations to the French.

Pool winners were:
Period 1: Graham Briggs
Period 2: Eduard Gatereaux
Period 3: Guy Daubaugnan
Period 4: David Fairhurst

Great looks like fun for many.

please correct: Period 2: Edward Gérardeaux

[LEmpereur]

Congratulations to the French.

Pool winners were:
Period 1: Graham Briggs
Period 2: Eduard Gatereaux
Period 3: Guy Daubaugnan
Period 4: David Fairhurst

please correct: Period 2: Edward Gérardeaux

He is french, as Guy... 2 on 4!

Yes, We know!
As british, 2 on 4... but the French have also won as team!

Ok, We

[JDiogo]

Many thanks to our hosts the Portugese who made this such a fantastic event. We have made the decision to move the ITC to Rome next year, so the Italians have some big shoes to fill as the event has been superb whilst at Lisbon.

In my name and in the rest of the organization I would like to send a great and warm thank you to all the players that during these years attended to the ITC in Portugal. It has been a excellent time and will be remembered for sure. Hopping to see you as soon as possible, remember that if you ever come to Portugal, just let us know, we will be happy to assist you, if you want to.

--
Um abraço
JDiogo
AJSPortugal

[hazelbark]

Joao,

You're hosting and hospitality was a credit to you, AJSP, your nation and our hobby. I know many of us really enjoyed Lisbon in addition to the event. Also your support kept a great event going forward. Switzerland, Belgium and Portugal have all been fantastic hosts each finding their own way to be a wonderful success.

Thank you.

[dave_r]

I'd like to second Dan's statement - as I mentioned on Sunday at the closing ceremony, you have been superb hosts.

[jorneto]

A couple of photos from the event:

Touring the lines of Torres Vedras


Tournament site


Italy, 3rd Place


Great Britain (team 2), 2nd Place


France (team 1), 1st Place


A few more photos here:
http://s741.photobucket.com/user/jornet ... boa%202013

[Khan]

Does anyone know when the Teams Challenge will be on in 2014?
Is it always in Lisbon?

We determine in each year and the biggest components are sort of settled at lunch at the current years events. Followed by some knokcing out the details.

"traditionally" it has been the 1st or 2nd weekend of September. But recently it has been seriously discussed shifting that to be about one more weekend on either side. Trying to make it fit with venues and the big international event in 2014 in germany.

Venue. We shift to different hosts then stay awhile about a 5-7 year run has been the pattern. First a few in Grandson, Switzerland. Then to Ghent, Belgium. This is likely the last year in Lisbon, Portugal. near Rome, Italy is where we have been looking to shift it too in 2014.

The ideal location is near a transport Hub that perrmit the key national attendees to get there. GB, FR, SP, PT, IT. US. In past events we also had Belgium, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Finland, Netherlands, Germany, Greece and Switzerland represented. Obviously rules, location and economy all impact attendence of a 4 person national theme.

You want to attend, host, help?

Yes I would like to attend Britcon and then go across to Germany for the Worlds and then down to Rome for the ITC if they fell on consecutive weekends.

[philqw78]

Enough of the niff naff and trivia. Which team drank the most?

[zoltan]

Yes I would like to attend Britcon and then go across to Germany for the Worlds and then down to Rome for the ITC if they fell on consecutive weekends.

8-10 August Britcon, Manchester, UK
16-18 August, The Worlds, Koblenz, Germany
30-31 August, FoG AM ITC, Rome, Italy

I am travelling from NZ to all three so we now have the nucleus of two for an ANZAC team for the ITC in Rome. Two other Ozzies are potential ITC starters Glen Noonan and Simon Le-Ray Meyer and there are potentially two other Kiwis so we should be able to field a southern hemisphere team of 4 at ITC.

[grahambriggs]

Congratulations to France 1. They were the best team at the competition so the result is a good one. It was great to play Hubert for asecond year - he beat me and so we are 1-1!

Thanks Dan for checking the lists and herding the cats

Very many thanks for the organisers in Portugal. The venue was superb. The organisation flowed very smoothly and lunch on both days was very good quality, inexpensive and plentiful. The saturday evening meal was the same and good to mix with other teams in a relaxed setting (sorry we were late guys - David Bannister is a policeman so we believed him when he said he knew the route).

I went on the Friday trip and really enjoyed it - Fernando was an excellent host. We went to the museum at Torres Vedras and toured the Napoleonic fortifications on hilltops. Some of the US team had to join us part way through by taxi (half a day late, half a dollar short). In the afternoon we went to the site of the 1385 battle of Aljubarrota, which effectively sealed Portuguese independance from Spain. A very well laid out site with audio guides and a film show of the background to and progress of the battle, with replica weapons available to try.

I had four tough, fair games with no need for an umpire call all weekend. Four very pleasant opponents were a real bonus.

Altogether an excellent weekend.