Raflocal (Raphaëlle, laurent, Cal) won the “boombance” The team from Montpellier won the mixed tournament in Bordeaux last week-end.
12 teams competed and the overall level was very homogenous meaning that the title could of been for anyone.
People met in at Bordeaux’s court in Darwin, a nice place for everybody to play pick ups and have a few drinks.
The tournament started after a nice breakfast with Swiss-rounds. After 6 games on the Saturday, Maquereau (Justine, Romain, Mcfly) were on top with only one loss and Latina Thunder (Irene, Victor and Johnny) were placed 2nd and were undefeated having 3 ties.
Players then had food and met in a bar where they played darts/ ping pong/ baby-soccer and chat for a while.
A double elimination was played on sunday. Les Victoriens (Vicky, Jthouin, Victor), who were looking very good, lost 2-1 against Latina Thunder thanks to a late game goal from Johnny. With 20 seconds to go Julien managed to hit the post but was unable to equalize. Victoriens then faced Matronna (TBA, Rem’s, Antoine), the game was super intense with crazy goals from both sides and went to golden goal. Le Rem’s went into clutch mode and led his team to one more game.
Raflocal was surfing in the winner bracket and were able to send the top ranked teams down. They faced Maquereau in Semi-Final were after a 1-0 lead from the team around Justine, Raphaëlle’s team stepped up a bit and were able to win 2-1. In that game Romain had a major crash and hurt his wrist badly. But it didn’t stop him and his team to reach the finals after winning 2-1 in another tight and intense game. Fairplay to the Spanish who had a great tournament but were unsuccessful in front of the goals. On the other hand Mcfly and Justine were able to score with beautiful smart-shots.
In the final, Mcfly opened the game with his special move. Later in the game Raphaëlle once again saved the day with beautiful saves in the net securing the defense. But Maquereau couldn’t do anything to stop Laurent’s hustle and Cal’s scoring tricks. Raflocal won the game 2-1
Both teams played extremely well together and the public was delighted by the show.
This was Raphs 3rd win and 5th final this year after only been playing for one year. What a start !
Victoria from Montpellier did a great performance and was voted MvP. Justine from Paris did a great job reffing as well as playing and was voted “best Ref” Finally “Ca Pue Le Seum” was voted best team spirit thanks to their lovely smiles and good fun.
Challonge link: https://challonge.com/fr/ogke4qcw
Thanks Cathal for helping out with the article!!! Its much easier to have someone helping who was there and played himself
Bordeaux Winners History:
2024: Raph, Laurent, Cathal
2023:?
2022:?
Please help if you know (;