Sensible Days 2006
17 years 4 months ago #14553
by Playaveli
Friday, the 18th of August (Arrival):
At about 4.30pm I met Redhair at the good old location which had proven to be suitable for an event like the Sensible Days.
First things to be done were setting up all the computer stuff and putting whole lots of beers and soft drinks into the fridge, not to speak of 20 cans of ravioli.
Tubalardo and Cauliflowerears were the first players to arrive in Pirmasens. They brought some equipment so Redhair and me had a brief look into one of their boxes. We marvelled a lot at the amount of joysticks. Freaks…
Meanwhile Schulle and Eleven reached the location, both of them in a great mood. As the evening went by Dutch players Mark Swoozh as well as Sensi Days’ veteran Oli O. joined the party. Insane from Holland brought some supporters as usual. ElmichaJ was the last one to arrive on Friday night due to the long car ride from Berlin.
At this point we say thanks to Oli O. for bringing the beamer, thanks to Mark Swoozh for bringing a PC and thanks to Eleven for bringing his monitor.
The field of participants was nearly completed by Friday night. Only Torpedo (arrived in the middle of the night/early Saturday morning) and Harlekin (reached the location with the start of the tournament on Saturday).
Everybody was having a good time and we were partying and drinking some cool beers. For some of the players it might have been one beer to many…
Saturday, the 19th of August (PC SWOS championship):
Breakfast at 8.30am was barely visited because some of the dudes had one over the eight. Twerps…J
In the course of the morning everybody was gathering in the conference room and started to play some SWOS on either Amiga or PC.
Torpedo who was let in by me at about 7am in the morning was getting some sleep due to his overnight odyssey. But he was on his feet on time for the tournament start.
The PC SWOS-tournament was held on this Saturday like the years before.
As the tournament started everybody was concentrated and games were played in a professional manner. The league games were totally trouble free.
League Round:
At the beginning of the league round Redhair’s run of six consecutive 1-0 victories was stared at in astonishment. It was an incredible start for him and he underlined his ambitions.
Places 4 to 9 were contested very hard. Mark and Swoozh managed to profit from their own PC-experience and so they won out over the Amiga specialists Schulle and Eleven. Schulle indeed had some difficulties with the PC gameplay although he is a constant Top10 Amiga online player.
Sensible Days’ veterans Oli O. and Insane achieved what was expected from them. Insane played very solid and secured his 6th place. Oli O. took advantage of his huge PC-experience and outplayed the Amiga freaks. Nevertheless he was no threat to Playaveli and Redhair.
By the way, Insane surprised people by being the only player to beat both Playaveli and Redhair.
At the bottom of the league table Harlekin suffered from having absolutely no experience against human opponents. He won only one match, against Torpedo. And also Torpedo himself was stuck at the bottom of the table. Although he had some offline experience from a WST in Serbia he couldn’t keep up with the online-players Schulle, Eleven and also Mark Swoozh. So he finished second last.
Last but not least ElmichaJ played a very inconspicuous league round. But he profited in some matches from his PC-experience and managed to achieve a solid place in the middle of the table.
Meanwhile Redhair lost his first place to Playaveli. After having started with his impressive 1-0 series he seemed to loose concentration and fluffed his match against Tubalardo (1-1). Playaveli himself recovered from an early defeat against Insane and defended the first place until the end of the league round although Redhair had upper hand in the direct clashes (1-1 and 2-1).
To sum up the league there were sort of three classes. Playaveli and Redhair miles ahead, then Oli O. with a respectful distance in between and finally the rest of the bunch with Mark (place 4 and downwards), Swoozh, Insane, ElmichaJ and Eleven.
Eleven quitted the PC-tournament because he went down town to watch his beloved Fenerbahce. Therefore 9th-placed Schulle got his last-minute-place in the second round.
Quarterfinals:
In the quarter final Playaveli and Redhair both hammered their pitiful opponents. Playaveli won 9-0 on aggregate against Schulle (his 7-0 first leg win was the highest win of the tournament) and Redhair played a bit of tennis with poor ElmichaJ, winning in two sets 6-0, 6-0 J.
Furthermore Mark managed to pull through to the quarterfinal against his fellow Dutchman Swoozh. In the last match of the quarter final Oli O. and Insane fought a real battle. Oli won the first leg (1-0) which was very tactical and without many highlights. The second leg was quite similar and Insane managed to draw level. Overtime... and Insane scored the late winner. We had seen probably the best quarterfinal matches in the history of the Sensible Days, in a tactical term.
Semi-finals:
The semis were like Germany against Holland. Personalized Playaveli-Insane and Redhair-Mark.
With a look at the results the matches between Redhair and Mark seemed to be very close. But studying the replays you will see that Redhair had control over the matches and it seemed as if he just did just as much as needed to pull through with 1-0 and 0-0.
The second semi was anything else but close. Maybe Insane was still smoking a cigarette or having a beer before he realized that he was 4-0 down against Playaveli. In the second leg he sort of gave up and Playaveli had an easy 2-1 victory.
3rd place:
Mark and Insane seemed to maroon their defences in the 3rd-place matches. Finally it was Mark who won 4-2 on aggregate (4-0 and 0-2). Once again he could take advantage of his online experience.
Final:
The final was a landmark for Redhair who won both legs (1-0 and 3-0) against Playaveli who seemed to be a bit indisposed throughout the matches. Where the first leg was quite close Redhair demonstrated his strengths in the second leg, leaving Playaveli no chance with his superb defending and heading abilities.
Redhair was the deserved winner of the PC-championship.
Saturday night everybody was enjoying themselves and we had a great time celebrating Redhair’s victory. Some nice pictures were taken and also some really funny videos were shot.
Sunday, the 20th of August (Amiga SWOS championship):
The Amiga-tournament kicked off at 12pm. After Harlekin had said “goodbye†on Saturday night, Torpedo had been on his way home since Sunday morning and Cauliflowerears had taken the chance to visit some friends in Germany only 10 players were left.
Group stage:
We decided to play in two groups, both as equal as possible.
Redhair and Playaveli took the lead in their groups from the start. Nevertheless Redhair seemed to have more difficulties to win his matches as he had on PC the day before. But in the direct clashes second placed Schulle had simply no chance.
Oli O. and ElmichaJ exited the tournament with only one victory each.
The biggest surprise was a superb performing Eleven. Right before the tournament he chose to play with a good old Quickjoy. This joystick seemed to inspire him and he finished second behind Playaveli.
Quarterfinals:
The quarterfinal came up with some nice matches. For example Schulle pulled through to the semis in two hard fights against Metzger. After a draw (2-2) in the first leg he scored an 88th-minute winner in the second leg. Metzger didn’t pounce on his chances.
Playaveli was very stable again and kicked Mark out of tournament by winning 4-1 on aggregate (3-1 and 1-0). Redhair seemed to have some problems against Swoozh, loosing the first leg 1-2. Nevertheless he managed to qualify for the semis after winning 4-2 in the second leg.
Eleven was in great shape again so Tubalardo had never a chance (2-0, 3-2). It was really a pleasure to watch Eleven’s matches.
Semi-finals:
But Eleven’s amazing run ended in the second leg of the semi final. After having achieved an honourable 0-0 against Redhair in the first leg, he had no chance and lost 0-4. Congrats to Redhair, respect to Eleven.
The second semi final between Schulle and Playaveli turned out to be a cracker. It was the story of goal and similar games. What was going on in Schulle’s mind after being kicked out of the tournament? Let’s get back to 88th minute of the first leg. A superb performing Schulle had trashed Playaveli (who was one the favourites) and is 4-0 up with just two minutes to go. All of a sudden he missed one tackle in the entire match…boom, goal for Playaveli, 4-1.
The second leg was like a mirror image of the first one. But this time Schulle was the one to be trashed. Playaveli recovered from his defeat and took the lead. But in the 88th minute the mirror image changed because Playaveli didn’t miss any ball or chance in this match. 4-0 after 90 minutes, 5-4 on aggregate, Playaveli in the final…
3rd place:
You could still see Schulle’s disappointment in the 3rd-place matches against Eleven. Once again Eleven was in great shape and Schulle maybe still regretted his elimination in the semis. Eleven won both games (4-2 and 3-1) and achieved the 3rd place.
Final:
The Amiga-final was quite similar. Playaveli was doing well after his incredible semi final comeback and left Redhair no chance (5-2). After being 0-2 down in the 2nd leg Playaveli quickly managed to score the goal which left him only one down. After that nothing happened anymore and Playaveli won his very first final against Redhair. Also it was his personal revenge for the lost PC-final.
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In the late afternoon the awards ceremony was held and we said goodbye to each other. The weekend was really great and everybody had a great time.
Thank you very much again to all participants and visitors of the Sensible Days 2006.
Hats off to Torpedo, Tubalardo Cauliflowerears for travelling all the way to Germany. These guys are role models for all those who considered Pirmasens to be too far away for attending the Sensi Days.
Despite some disappointments by non-appearance of different players the positives outweighed by far and we can say for sure that the Sensible Days 2006 were a huge success although “only†13 players participated. The witnesses will approve that…maybe others will never learn it.
Playaveli, November 2006
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Sensible Days 2006
Friday, the 18th of August (Arrival):
At about 4.30pm I met Redhair at the good old location which had proven to be suitable for an event like the Sensible Days.
First things to be done were setting up all the computer stuff and putting whole lots of beers and soft drinks into the fridge, not to speak of 20 cans of ravioli.
Tubalardo and Cauliflowerears were the first players to arrive in Pirmasens. They brought some equipment so Redhair and me had a brief look into one of their boxes. We marvelled a lot at the amount of joysticks. Freaks…
Meanwhile Schulle and Eleven reached the location, both of them in a great mood. As the evening went by Dutch players Mark Swoozh as well as Sensi Days’ veteran Oli O. joined the party. Insane from Holland brought some supporters as usual. ElmichaJ was the last one to arrive on Friday night due to the long car ride from Berlin.
At this point we say thanks to Oli O. for bringing the beamer, thanks to Mark Swoozh for bringing a PC and thanks to Eleven for bringing his monitor.
The field of participants was nearly completed by Friday night. Only Torpedo (arrived in the middle of the night/early Saturday morning) and Harlekin (reached the location with the start of the tournament on Saturday).
Everybody was having a good time and we were partying and drinking some cool beers. For some of the players it might have been one beer to many…
Saturday, the 19th of August (PC SWOS championship):
Breakfast at 8.30am was barely visited because some of the dudes had one over the eight. Twerps…J
In the course of the morning everybody was gathering in the conference room and started to play some SWOS on either Amiga or PC.
Torpedo who was let in by me at about 7am in the morning was getting some sleep due to his overnight odyssey. But he was on his feet on time for the tournament start.
The PC SWOS-tournament was held on this Saturday like the years before.
As the tournament started everybody was concentrated and games were played in a professional manner. The league games were totally trouble free.
League Round:
At the beginning of the league round Redhair’s run of six consecutive 1-0 victories was stared at in astonishment. It was an incredible start for him and he underlined his ambitions.
Places 4 to 9 were contested very hard. Mark and Swoozh managed to profit from their own PC-experience and so they won out over the Amiga specialists Schulle and Eleven. Schulle indeed had some difficulties with the PC gameplay although he is a constant Top10 Amiga online player.
Sensible Days’ veterans Oli O. and Insane achieved what was expected from them. Insane played very solid and secured his 6th place. Oli O. took advantage of his huge PC-experience and outplayed the Amiga freaks. Nevertheless he was no threat to Playaveli and Redhair.
By the way, Insane surprised people by being the only player to beat both Playaveli and Redhair.
At the bottom of the league table Harlekin suffered from having absolutely no experience against human opponents. He won only one match, against Torpedo. And also Torpedo himself was stuck at the bottom of the table. Although he had some offline experience from a WST in Serbia he couldn’t keep up with the online-players Schulle, Eleven and also Mark Swoozh. So he finished second last.
Last but not least ElmichaJ played a very inconspicuous league round. But he profited in some matches from his PC-experience and managed to achieve a solid place in the middle of the table.
Meanwhile Redhair lost his first place to Playaveli. After having started with his impressive 1-0 series he seemed to loose concentration and fluffed his match against Tubalardo (1-1). Playaveli himself recovered from an early defeat against Insane and defended the first place until the end of the league round although Redhair had upper hand in the direct clashes (1-1 and 2-1).
To sum up the league there were sort of three classes. Playaveli and Redhair miles ahead, then Oli O. with a respectful distance in between and finally the rest of the bunch with Mark (place 4 and downwards), Swoozh, Insane, ElmichaJ and Eleven.
Eleven quitted the PC-tournament because he went down town to watch his beloved Fenerbahce. Therefore 9th-placed Schulle got his last-minute-place in the second round.
Quarterfinals:
In the quarter final Playaveli and Redhair both hammered their pitiful opponents. Playaveli won 9-0 on aggregate against Schulle (his 7-0 first leg win was the highest win of the tournament) and Redhair played a bit of tennis with poor ElmichaJ, winning in two sets 6-0, 6-0 J.
Furthermore Mark managed to pull through to the quarterfinal against his fellow Dutchman Swoozh. In the last match of the quarter final Oli O. and Insane fought a real battle. Oli won the first leg (1-0) which was very tactical and without many highlights. The second leg was quite similar and Insane managed to draw level. Overtime... and Insane scored the late winner. We had seen probably the best quarterfinal matches in the history of the Sensible Days, in a tactical term.
Semi-finals:
The semis were like Germany against Holland. Personalized Playaveli-Insane and Redhair-Mark.
With a look at the results the matches between Redhair and Mark seemed to be very close. But studying the replays you will see that Redhair had control over the matches and it seemed as if he just did just as much as needed to pull through with 1-0 and 0-0.
The second semi was anything else but close. Maybe Insane was still smoking a cigarette or having a beer before he realized that he was 4-0 down against Playaveli. In the second leg he sort of gave up and Playaveli had an easy 2-1 victory.
3rd place:
Mark and Insane seemed to maroon their defences in the 3rd-place matches. Finally it was Mark who won 4-2 on aggregate (4-0 and 0-2). Once again he could take advantage of his online experience.
Final:
The final was a landmark for Redhair who won both legs (1-0 and 3-0) against Playaveli who seemed to be a bit indisposed throughout the matches. Where the first leg was quite close Redhair demonstrated his strengths in the second leg, leaving Playaveli no chance with his superb defending and heading abilities.
Redhair was the deserved winner of the PC-championship.
Saturday night everybody was enjoying themselves and we had a great time celebrating Redhair’s victory. Some nice pictures were taken and also some really funny videos were shot.
Sunday, the 20th of August (Amiga SWOS championship):
The Amiga-tournament kicked off at 12pm. After Harlekin had said “goodbye†on Saturday night, Torpedo had been on his way home since Sunday morning and Cauliflowerears had taken the chance to visit some friends in Germany only 10 players were left.
Group stage:
We decided to play in two groups, both as equal as possible.
Redhair and Playaveli took the lead in their groups from the start. Nevertheless Redhair seemed to have more difficulties to win his matches as he had on PC the day before. But in the direct clashes second placed Schulle had simply no chance.
Oli O. and ElmichaJ exited the tournament with only one victory each.
The biggest surprise was a superb performing Eleven. Right before the tournament he chose to play with a good old Quickjoy. This joystick seemed to inspire him and he finished second behind Playaveli.
Quarterfinals:
The quarterfinal came up with some nice matches. For example Schulle pulled through to the semis in two hard fights against Metzger. After a draw (2-2) in the first leg he scored an 88th-minute winner in the second leg. Metzger didn’t pounce on his chances.
Playaveli was very stable again and kicked Mark out of tournament by winning 4-1 on aggregate (3-1 and 1-0). Redhair seemed to have some problems against Swoozh, loosing the first leg 1-2. Nevertheless he managed to qualify for the semis after winning 4-2 in the second leg.
Eleven was in great shape again so Tubalardo had never a chance (2-0, 3-2). It was really a pleasure to watch Eleven’s matches.
Semi-finals:
But Eleven’s amazing run ended in the second leg of the semi final. After having achieved an honourable 0-0 against Redhair in the first leg, he had no chance and lost 0-4. Congrats to Redhair, respect to Eleven.
The second semi final between Schulle and Playaveli turned out to be a cracker. It was the story of goal and similar games. What was going on in Schulle’s mind after being kicked out of the tournament? Let’s get back to 88th minute of the first leg. A superb performing Schulle had trashed Playaveli (who was one the favourites) and is 4-0 up with just two minutes to go. All of a sudden he missed one tackle in the entire match…boom, goal for Playaveli, 4-1.
The second leg was like a mirror image of the first one. But this time Schulle was the one to be trashed. Playaveli recovered from his defeat and took the lead. But in the 88th minute the mirror image changed because Playaveli didn’t miss any ball or chance in this match. 4-0 after 90 minutes, 5-4 on aggregate, Playaveli in the final…
3rd place:
You could still see Schulle’s disappointment in the 3rd-place matches against Eleven. Once again Eleven was in great shape and Schulle maybe still regretted his elimination in the semis. Eleven won both games (4-2 and 3-1) and achieved the 3rd place.
Final:
The Amiga-final was quite similar. Playaveli was doing well after his incredible semi final comeback and left Redhair no chance (5-2). After being 0-2 down in the 2nd leg Playaveli quickly managed to score the goal which left him only one down. After that nothing happened anymore and Playaveli won his very first final against Redhair. Also it was his personal revenge for the lost PC-final.
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In the late afternoon the awards ceremony was held and we said goodbye to each other. The weekend was really great and everybody had a great time.
Thank you very much again to all participants and visitors of the Sensible Days 2006.
Hats off to Torpedo, Tubalardo Cauliflowerears for travelling all the way to Germany. These guys are role models for all those who considered Pirmasens to be too far away for attending the Sensi Days.
Despite some disappointments by non-appearance of different players the positives outweighed by far and we can say for sure that the Sensible Days 2006 were a huge success although “only†13 players participated. The witnesses will approve that…maybe others will never learn it.
Playaveli, November 2006
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17 years 4 months ago #14612
by swoozh
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Nice report
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17 years 3 months ago #15672
by Playaveli
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Nice... 
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17 years 1 month ago - 17 years 1 month ago #17651
by Redhair
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I ve made a video about my games against M4rk in the Semi-Final and uploaded it to YouTube, here s the link:
Résumé: Abwehrschlacht!
M4rk s defence was incredible!
Only one little fault decided about win or K.O.
Amazing games for me!
Résumé: Abwehrschlacht!
M4rk s defence was incredible!
Only one little fault decided about win or K.O.
Amazing games for me!
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17 years 1 month ago #17656
by Stromberg
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Very cool matches. Mark had a hell lot of work to do there and failed only one time when he tried to defend with that standing header Did he shoot on goal sometime? I can t remember after watching the video... did both play with c. tactic here?
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