The Flying Dutchmen vs. Team France

[SaturnReturn]

EDIT:
The Flying Dutchmen vs. Team France
1st Round
Phantom Fighter Tournament, 8 Forward Tracks, 8 Reverse Tracks, Weapons On, Same Ship Throughout
Sunday 8th March 2009 - 1500 GMT/1600 GMT+1

Teams:
The Flying Dutchmen
Mad-Ice, SaturnReturn, Yeldar2097, Luxoflux (jaller65), 1st reserve: AnErare

Team France
pirhapac, Asayyeah, kingheim, ExpitariuS, 1st reserve: G-Superpilot

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To all members of The Flying Dutchmen

It's time once again to unite against the forces of another mighty anti-grav racing team. This time we face the greatest single supplier of anti-grav pilots - France.

Dates

1. Kaori has suggested Friday 13th March to me as a date when he personally is available. Firstly, please let me know if you are available on this date.

2. As per the previous match I also ask you all to declare your availability over the next 3 weekends in case the 13th is not suitable. So that will be 7th-8th, 14-15th, 21st-22nd.

To members of Team France - I think Kaori is going to post on the french forums but if you can let me know via this thread when you are available so that all can see then that might help organise things better.

Format
Format is to be decided. Against Team Nordic we only did weapons races but I think Kaori would like some Avalon style races as well. He has also suggested 2 teams for each nation if we have enough numbers, with each team playing each other team from the other nation in a round of 8 races, e.g.

Normal weapons and Reverse avalon tournament : France A vs Dutch B & Dutch A vs France B
Reverse weapons & Normal avalon tournament : France A vs Dutch A & France B vs Dutch B

If you have a preference for format then let me know. I personally would like to do a weapons only for direct comparison with the Team Nordic match, but there is no reason to not include weapons races as well, maybe even over 2 different days.

This will all be a bit more ambitious than the last time so please register as early as possible stating your availability so that we can try to get it all going smoothly.

Thanks

EDIT:
Availability:
The Flying Dutchmen
SaturnReturn - Preferably Saturdays or Sundays
Yeldar2097 - 8th March
R3BU5ER - 13th and probably Sundays
Mad-Ice - 6th, 8th, 15th, 20th, 22nd March
Luxoflux - 7th-8th, 13th-15th, not 21st-22nd.
AnErare - 6th-8th

Team France
kaori - 13th, not 7th-8th, unsure about others

[yeldar2097]

GAHHH!!! not available on friday 13th

i'm available 15th and so far that's all i got.

sorry boys, looks like yeldar2097 is going to be sitting this one out...

at least they won't be able to crucify me 'a la plasma', i may have come top in a tourney rife with frenchies and i don't think they were too happy...
safe for the moment

[R3BU5ER]

Count me in! Going to be some ruffness...the French i've raced are tres TGV

[SaturnReturn]

Yeldar - I like the idea of having this over 2 days so that you can take part. Maybe non-weapons on Friday and weapons races on Sunday. I'd rather race on Sunday as I'm usually ultra knackered on a Friday night, to the point where I'll go take a 'nap' at about 8pm and wake up at midday Saturday morning. I've PM'd kaori asking if we can at least have some racing on Sunday as you missed out last time.

R3BU5ER - Cool, thanks for signing up already. Can I take that as available the 13th and generally weekends?

[OBH]

C'mon you crazy dutch!

[SaturnReturn]

Hehe, thanks for the support mate

[Mad-Ice]

Aye! I'm in. On these days in march I am free atm: friday 6th, sunday 8th, sunday 15th, friday 20th, sunday 22th.

See y'all there.

[R3BU5ER]

You can count me in on the 13th for sure

Not generally the weekends, cause on Saturday I am always working till midnight...but Sundays shouldn't be a problem cause i'm 99% off. So generallt half a weekend

[yeldar2097]

c*ckfosters. i may not be available after all.
i'll see what i can do but i have no way of getting home that day; parents doing an exhibition in france.
sorry to let the team down, i feel like a sinking dutchman

[kaori]

I can't play 7th-8th.
I can play 13th
I don't know for the 14th-15th
I don't know for the 21st-22nd

Yeldar - I like the idea of having this over 2 days so that you can take part. Maybe non-weapons on Friday and weapons races on Sunday.

Good idea

[SaturnReturn]

c*ckfosters. i may not be available after all.
i'll see what i can do but i have no way of getting home that day; parents doing an exhibition in france.
sorry to let the team down, i feel like a sinking dutchman

Is that day the 15th? So you mean you can't make any of the next 3 weekends? That would suck. Can't you take a train or something? Helicopter? Private jet? ANYTHING? We need you if we're gonna win this thing.

Also, Cockfosters is my nearest tube station, what a coincidence.

[yeldar2097]

Also, Cockfosters is my nearest tube station, what a coincidence.

that's where i stole it from . you have NO IDEA how much i want to go there.
god i'm juvenile...

back on track. ok, here's when i'm free:
8th march: 00:00 - 20:00
15th march: potentially 12:00 - 20:00 IF (thats a big if) i can't get home somehow.
21st march: 00:00 - 05:00(22nd march so 25hrs after my freedom begins)
23rd march: 00.00 - 20something'th of april

hope this helps, sorry my life is such a mess

[Luxoflux]

Any of the dates suit my well. Except for march the 21-22.

[AnErare]

I'm definatly available the 7th and 8th, not the 14th and 15th and pobably not on 21st and 22nd :/ But by the looks of this thead I don't think that's going to ba a problem

[SaturnReturn]

All, kaori has informed me that the French can play Sunday 8th march at 1600 GMT+1. I believe that's 3pm in English time.

So are all the Dutchies good for that time? If so then we probably need a qualifying match. Maybe as Mad-Ice and Yeldar didn't get to take part last time they should automatically play? Especially as Yeldar couldn't make a qualifying match before Sunday. Then the rest of us could fight it out for the remaining places? Let me know what you all think is the best way to do it.

[yeldar2097]

good plan.
if you do have a qualifying session and one you has an absolute blinder then feel free to replace me with them, good form could be a deciding factor. mad-ice is a necessity though

are we having an A and a B team or just one quad?

[AnErare]

I'm entirely up for that. Thursday eve from about 1800 GMT+1 until 2100 and friday from 1900 until the early hours saturday morning I'm available for sessions which could decide who will race and who won't. A and B teams would really be superb! Otherwise I'd seriously leave a spot for anyone up for the races since I've already made it into the tour against the Nordicks

It's awfully quiet at the French Fries side though, what's up with that uncharacteristic silence

[SaturnReturn]

I'm not sure. Maybe they're scared? (Oh the trouble that statement could cause). I'm counting on kaori to get a team together. There are plenty of good French pilots so it shouldn't be a problem, right?

[AnErare]

I think it isn't and or won't, and it's only tuesday yet..

[pirahpac]