From: davidb@is.morgan.com (David Birnbaum)
Subject: WORLDS Update - Final Results
Organization: Morgan Stanley & Company
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 01:37:01 GMT

After a short hiatus while I tried to get my act back together (coming
to work and finding 1,400 messages that need to be dealt with tends to
confuse me a bit) here are all of the scores and commentary for the
end of Worlds, 1992.  A few scores were missing or fuzzy on the FAX,
which I've indicated with a ??.

Once again, the hospitality in Utsunomiya was fabulous...about the
only things I every heard complaints about was that we had to play
with Wham-O's instead of Discrafts, and that the teams were spread out
among 10 or 15 hotels all around the station.  This made it harder to
meet people from other countries...although we did a lot of that on
the fields!  Other than that, the tournament was well-organized, with
plenty of personnel and loads of disc-action.

GAMES of the WEEK:

Both USA/CAN matchups were the most exciting men's games.  In the
first matchup, the USA team managed to make up a 3 point deficit at
cap to win the game 17-16.  In the semi-final game, though, the
situation was reversed.  Canada dug in with the USA up 16-14, cap at
17. The scored once off the pull, and then turned the disc around
twice to win the game 17-16 after a USA throwaway.

The women's game of the week was the JPN-SWE final.  After loosing
three straight to the Swedes in pool play, Japan played an incredible
game to beat the Swedish women by one point at cap.  To use an
Ultimate phrase, the Japan women played "out of their skulls" for a
good portion of the game, making some fantastic throws, and somewhat
less-than-fantastic throws followed by fantastic catches to get ahead.
The Swedish women started to make a comeback, but the Japanese defense
refused to cave in at 16-16, forcing the turnover and then marching
the disc into the endzone for the final score.

The men's final, on the other hand, was rather boring (sorry Canada.)
The Swedish men marched the disc into the endzone with ease over an
exhausted Canadian squad.  Sweden showed off some of their endurance
with a few sets of windsprints before the finals started.  The final
may have gone a little better on North America if Canada and the USA
had simply played a quick game of poker to determine who would get to
play in the finals...but the Ultimate was much better!

The masters games, as always, were a blast to watch.  Germany showed
up with their Kimonos for the game against the USA on Sunday,
beginning the morning with a big "Ohiyo Gozaimusu", or "good morning".
The game was a fun romp, but big play by the USA and a big bench
helped the overcome the German team.

Scores:
------

                           ULTIMATE Open

      CAN   FIN   GBR   JPN   NZL   SUI   SWE   TPE   USA    W L  PL

AUS  14-19  7-21 21-16 14-20 21-15 17-15 11-21 21- 3 14-21   4 5   6

CAN        21-17 21- 8 17-12 21-11 21- 8  9-21 21-10 16-17   7 2   2

FIN              21- 8 18-20 21-16 21-15  7-21 21- 1 18-20   5 4   5

GBR                    14-21 15-19 13-21  6-21 21- 5  6-21   1 8   9

JPN                          21- 9 14-13  9-21 21- 1 14-21   6 3   3

NZL                                14-20 10-21 21- 2  7-21   2 7   8

SUI                                       3-21 21- 5 17-19   3 6   7

SWE                                            21- 1 21- 8   9 0   1

TPE                                                   5-21   0 9  10

USA                                                          8 1   4


Semi #1: SWE 21  JPN ??
Semi #2: CAN 17  USA 16

Final:   SWE 21  CAN  9
Cons.:   JPN 15  USA 11

                         ULTIMATE Women

            JPN                SWE                USA         W L PL

AUS   3-18  3-18 11-18   4-18  3-18  7-18   6-18 11-18 17-13  1 8  4

JPN                     10-18  7-18  8-18  18- 6 18- 7 18- 9  6 3  1

SWE                                        18- 5 18- 6 18- 2  9 0  2

USA                                                           2 7  3

                ULTIMATE Masters

            JPN                USA         W L PL

GER  16-13 19-14 18- 8   4-18  4-18  9-18  3 3  2

JPN                      2-18  4-18  2-18  0 6  3

USA                                        6 0  1 

Final:  USA 18  GER  4


      ULTIMATE Junior

            TPE         W L PL

JPN   2-18 10-18  3-18  0 3  2

TPE                     3 0  1

                            GUTS Open

            JPN                TPE                USA         W L PL

GER   5-21  8-21 15-21  15-21 10-21 12-21  14-21 12-21 14-21  0 9  4
     13-21  8-21  9-21   9-21 12-21 14-21  15-21 12-21 13-21

JPN                     17-21 21-17 21-17  15-21 11-21 13-21  5 4  2
                        21-16 18-21 21-16  23-25 14-21 19-21
                        21-15 19-21

TPE                                        15-21 21-19 14-21  4 5  3
                                           20-22 20-22 11-21
                                                 17-21

USA                                                           9 0  1

         GUTS Women

            TPE         W L PL

JPN  21-13 21-14 20-22  2 1  1
     21-10 21-11 21-11
                 16-21

TPE                     1 2  2


        GUTS Junior

            TPE         W L PL

JPN   9-21  4-21  8-21  0 3  2
      6-21 13-21 10-21

TPE                     3 0  1
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