Re: Nordic Open 2009

I finally woke up after an exhausting but terrific weekend! When i came to Aalborg yesterday, i found out that i had to work in evening..... :-X
So now I finally have time to put a few words on the tournament.

As always, there are so many impressions, good games, good talks and funny episodes, it is hard to write it all down on paper. You have to be there to experience it!!! In my eyes the tournament was definately a success. High level SWOS in both tournaments, and everyone was able to beat eachother, which made the tournaments even more exciting with many suprising results. Never the less lobo once again showed his class and came out on top on AMIGA, he just became stronger and stronger as the tournament progressed, and someone even counted that he scored more goals in the KO stage, than in the groupstage impressive. Rasmus was probably the biggest surprise in the AMIGA tourney IMO, joining as a trial player, and making it all the way to the final, respect!
As for the Aalborg SWOS crew/organizers, we were all satisfied to make it to the Quater finals, and maybe too satisfied . After some thrilling matches only Alis could make it to the next stage.
ask Lobo, M4rk and Rasmus what went wrong. hehe.

The PC tournament had fewer players, but what we lacked in players, maybe raised the bar of high-level SWOS. Once again so many thrilling games, it was hard to count them all. Im very happy that I managed to win the win tournament, and it was just perfect to play vs Rasmus in the final since he has now knocked me out in the ISSA semis twice in a row now with 1 goal, so in that sense it felt even better to settle the score this time ;D
But of course i must thank Alis, Klaris etc. for the support in the final, that was just great, and almost so funny that it broke my concentration. ( .. we can hear no ISSA sing! hey! hey! .... )

Although before the final i was thinking that i would be knocked out by Lindholm, imo the biggest surprise in the PC tournament. His defence is just out this world sometimes!! We had to play 4 matches before it was settled in the 88th minute by a penalty. Pretty tragic, when you consider that we made the rule, that no knockout games should end in penalties. : ( Sorry Linde... you deserved the spot just as much as me. Maybe you don t hate PC that much anymore Congrats to Junior for taking the bronze medal, after some great games against Lindholm, were he could take advantage of the very few mistakes that Lindholm did.

Before the tournament i was most excited about lobo, the dutchmen, and the ISSA joining Nordic Open. But perhaps the best surprise was to see SPIR at the tournament!! Haven t seen or heard from him in nearly 2 years after Danish Open 2007! It was supposed to be a surprise to me, which all the other players knew about except me, but somehow it slipped out.. great to see you again my old swos buddy, and was great to see that you had not forgotten about the game. Im sure things would had looked slightly better for you, if you had played with your own joystick. Next time dude.. and hope to see you online again sometime soon, i really miss our close games.

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thx to all participants of the tournaments, you all contributed to make the tournament very special for me. just great!!!!

and of course congrats to all medalist, lobo, rasmus, junior, m4rk great effort!!!

also a special thx to my friend Martin for making me use his beamer for this tournament, it worked just perfect. And to lobo for keeping #sensible updated on the results

but i want to have some visual information from this party , too

I took some few photos with my mobile, so quality is not the best. Check it out here:
picasaweb.google.com/djowGer/NordicOpen2009

any video?

Here is also a small clip from the tourney:
[flash=425,344]www.youtube.com/v/CVho33Wxl1o[/flash]


Results of AMIGA:
www.sensiblesoccer.de/index.php?site=turniere_ergebnisse tid=943

Results of PC:
www.sensiblesoccer.de/index.php?site=turniere_ergebnisse tid=944

Thanks to everybody for loveing this game so much, that we can create an atmosphere, who reminds of a little football stadion:-). Offcourse I want to win and do my best, but I allso think the social part (drinking), and cheering is a very important thing, because it is what who is missing when you play online at home.

spot on mate

Congrats Lobo and Djowger.
Thanks for hosting this tournament. And thanks a lot for all the reports, pictures and media about it.
I really wished to be there.

Rasmus in the Amiga final... really nice one!

please check if all resutts are entered correctly ...


if they are, i will update the ranking

There is a few mistakes i think, results are right it just looks wrong with agg. results. Amiga tourney 1/8:

lindholm vs stecher : 2-0 0-2 .. rematches: 1-1 3-2 = 4-3 agg
junior vs mark : 3-2 2-3 .. rematches: 2-4 2-1 = 4-5 agg

rankings updated .... errors are things from the page .... we know them all

PC

www.sensiblesoccer.de/index.php?site=community_ranking sid=1



AMIGA

www.sensiblesoccer.de/index.php?site=community_ranking sid=2

Congrats for this tournament.

Lobo confirmed to be an unstoppable offline kickass, but as I ve already said, the best overall performance is Rasmus one. Double final for him (one of them very close).

I really would like to see PC final won by Djowger (congrats, mate). I m sure that was a great match.


Thanks for nice pics and videos

game is still on the pc, which is in a storage room in randers. will take a week or two before it comes to aalborg. but it will eventually be available on youtube.

Hey djowGer!

Check it out:

PS: The guy who stops Rasmus on PC will get 2 beers from me.

^^ Adress on PM pls, Poul!