Ottawa Tournament - Jan 10 - OD,OS

[Red]

Apparently he added a "Cry me a river" smilie.

Taha

Yeah... but how did he add it to MY POST!!! lol

Big Brother...

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Hmm... didn't realize chris could "add" smileys... if thats the case... I vote we bring the barf/vomit smiley back!! That one always came in handy!

[5barwarrior]

administrative privileges. I only use them for the power of good.
find me the smiley and I will add it.

[Liudas LT]

Chris, thank you for organizing this Tourney. It was great, looking forward to next one!

Frank, you left your sweater that says PORTUGAL on it. Now Mario has it as a hostage and i do not know what will he demand in return

[5barwarrior]

so who won Singles?

Doubles:
1st - Taha and Frank
2nd - Mario and Liudas
3rd - Jon and Anthony


Singles -
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[Pixel]

Singles results:
1st: Mario
2nd: Nhu
3rd: Jon

I have the charts in my room. If you'd like Chris, I can put them up, or I can bring them with me on Wednesday. Another awesomely-run tourney, by the way Thanks!

PS - Frank...if you ever want to see your precious sweater again...you have to start letting me score on you... :o

[Liudas LT]

And i uploaded some pic's to FACEBOOK

you can find them here: http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=17...=591020810

Just add me as a contact in FB to access the rest

[garbaggio]

Your defense (well your snake defense anyway) got a lot better towards the end of the tournament Liudas. Kudos. Now when I draw you in a DYP I won't have to keep telling you not to dive off the push side!

[Liudas LT]

Thanks

Next step is to learn what to do with those bloody pull shots

[Paul]

fuckin lemme know what to do vs his pull when you figure it out. I'm gonna bring a kazoo next time, see if it helps.

[subculture]

Seems like it was a good tournament - really wish I could have been there.

Frank wins another doubles title? For a guy who flies under the radar, he sure wins a lot of tournaments, and with different partners too. And he's a dad who somehow managed to keep playing tournaments (I guess it helps if you have some in your city).

Wait - the top 2 spots in OS were taken by our Toronto rookies??!! What's going on over there Ottawa'ans? Imagine if Ariganello/Kane/Olavo/Hugo/Ken Alwell and maybe even myself had showed up!! Would we need our own event? LOL!

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fuckin lemme know what to do vs his pull when you figure it out. I'm gonna bring a kazoo next time, see if it helps.

Are we talking about Taha's pull? Let me see.... ummm, how about just racing the long? Sit straight and middle, and jab the longs whenever you think he might shoot... swirly motions might help too. Get a clean block or make him shoot too far and hit post, and you've just taken his confidence away. After you've taken the long away, bait the straight for a few seconds, and switch up the rods and he'll guaranteed shoot at your man. After that, he might try another couple of straights, before starting to poke at the 2nd dot, 3rd dot, but he won't hit these with confidence as long as you're moving unpredictably.

Block these at a good percentage, and then he'll try to go back to long, but because you're now in his head, his long will be slower and raceable, which will really freak him out. He'll probably throw in a pull or push-kick to break the ice at some point too, block that cleanly and he'll be switching positions with his goalie before you can say 'shooting bricks'.

End the match with a victorious beer, toasting my name (unless I'm there, in which case you're buying my beer and toasting to Taha).

editors note: This 'D' works on most pull shooters, not just Taha. The main strategy is to make them try to figure out what you're doing (baiting sometimes, vs racing others), versus trying to predict what hole they are shooting. 'Make' them shoot the hole you want, don't try to read them. Use what you know about their tendencies to set the bait.

Some guys will keep shooting the same hole until you block it. Some guys will constantly switch holes. Some guys will generally shoot goalie side, while others will try to shoot around your defender. You should be able to figure this out in the first game - now use it for the remaining ones. The last position you want to be in is to lose the match because you couldn't make any blocks, AND you still have no clue as to their tendencies are, and what your strategy to block them in the future will be. Although bringing the Kazoo is a pretty good one, depending on where you try to apply it on Taha.

[garbaggio]

Wait - the top 2 spots in OS were taken by our Toronto rookies??!! What's going on over there Ottawa'ans? Imagine if Ariganello/Kane/Olavo

Your advice on blocking the pull is good... except when I get blocked long, I usually start going middle. There was a period of 1 game or so when Luidas actually did start flicking to the long hole and I started to go inside (once or twice I timed him coming off the long), except for one game whenever I went middle I was spraying so it was hitting his man.. but I started to straighten out the middle after that and it was fine.

Yeah man Mario was on fire. No one could block his 5-bar. He was like 80% on everyone and he was shooting his pull so he can take it easy on the rest of us. Mario took 1st both DYP, 1st OS, 2nd OD. Definitely the best player there this weekend.

I don't play singles with the same gusto I used to in the past (It's been that way for maybe a year now). I prefer doubles more. Maybe if you come for a tournament I'll dust off the singles game just to thrash you.

Taha