WXVs Biggest Stage: EurAsia v The AAP Alliance

[Jroo]

67 at 3QT. Cmon Simmo :-\

[Holz]

If the AAP get over the line Gibbs should get the medal for BOG.

And Heatherley, Jaeger, Hanley and Petracca if EurAsia can hold on :3

thats all coach Holz baby

[Jroo]

Simmo is gonna fall short, flowering bullshower

[Toga]

If the AAP get over the line Gibbs should get the medal for BOG.

And Heatherley, Jaeger, Hanley and Petracca if EurAsia can hold on :3

thats all coach Holz baby

Jaeger and Traccatracca for joint BOG! What a selfless performance!

[Holz]

HOLZ WINS, HOLZ WINS, HOLZ WINS!!!!!!




i mean, good work Euroasia

[Purple 77]

AAP bliCaves in to EurAsia Goldstein

Wow! WHAT A MATCH! The Alliance seemed to be just in front the whole match, but lost the lead at the end! In the final sprint, there was only one man left standing; enter Kade Simpson. The man that won last year's Worlds Medal for best afield; he needed 96 points to bring it home for the AAP. Heart-breakingly for AAP, he fell 8 points short, as the Holz coached EurAsia defeated the JROO8 coached AAP Alliance in a 1 point (7 SC points) victory for the ages!

The 4th occurrence of the epic encounter is perhaps the most memorable, with the win to EurAsia squaring up the ledger to 2-apiece.

The game saw an incredible 16 centurions (9-7 to EurAsia) and is unsurprisingly the highest scoring match so far in the year. Perhaps the most unique stat of the match was that 4 ruckman played between the teams (2 each), where they combined for 573 points (captain bonuses aside). Furthermore, two of these ruckman (as hinted in the headline); Goldstein (154) and Blicavs (153) were the captains for the game and the two highest scoring players  :o

Both teams had their disappointments; for EurAsia, look no further than Tom McDonald (36) and Luke Hodge (57), and for the AAP Tom Mitchell (49) and Steele Sidebottom (70) crumbled under the pressure. EurAsia had 4 scores under 70 compared to the AAP's 1, but it was the inspired performances of Dublin's Goldstein, Moscow's Nic Naitanui (146) and Berlin's Nat Fyfe (138) that got them over the line in the end.


EurAsia (25.18.168) def AAP Alliance (25.17.167)

Best

EurAsia: Nat Fyfe (Berlin), Patrick Dangerfield (Seoul), Dan Hannebery (London), Callan Ward (Moscow), Todd Goldstein (Dublin), Dane Swan (PNL), Matt Priddis (PNL), Nic Naitanui (Moscow), Alex Rance (Dublin)
AAP Alliance: Heath Shaw (New York), Scott Pendlebury (Toronto), Dayne Beams (Cairo), Mark Blicavs (Cape Town), Brett Deledio (Mexico City), Stefan Martin (Cape Town), Josh P Kennedy (Cape Town)

Late Changes
EurAsia: Kurt Heatherley (Dublin), Jaeger O'Meara (Moscow) replaced by Nic Naitanui (Moscow), Alex Rance (Dublin)
AAP Alliance: Michael Johnson (Mexico City) replaced by Liam Picken (Christchurch)

TODD GOLDSTEIN wins the EURASIA Medal and the WORLDS Medal
MARK BLICAVS wins the AAP ALLIANCE Medal

[Toga]

And Beijing's Petracca! Don't forget him!

But woo EurAsia, hopefully Beijing might feature a bit more prominently next year :P

[Purple 77]

And the proof:

	EurAsia					AAP Alliance
POS	Team Format: Players	SCO	MUL	ADJ	POS	Team Format: Players	SCO	MUL	ADJ
D1	Luke Hodge	57	1	57	D1	Heath Shaw	110	1	110
D2	Tom McDonald	36	1	36	D2	Kade Simpson	88	1	88
D3	Kurt Heatherley	0	DNP	0	D3	Rory Laird	90	1	90
D4	Corey Enright	90	1	90	D4	Michael Johnson	0	DNP	0
M1	Nat Fyfe	138	1	138	M1	Scott Pendlebury	107	1	107
M2	Patrick Dangerfield	114	1	114	M2	Dayne Beams	126	1	126
M3	Dan Hannebery	121	1	121	M3	Steele Sidebottom	70	1	70
M4	Callan Ward	109	1	109	M4	Leigh Montagna	91	1	91
R1	Todd Goldstein	154	C	308	R1	Mark Blicavs	153	C	306
F1	Robbie Gray	63	1	63	F1	Brett Deledio	117	1	117
F2	Dustin Martin	62	1	62	F2	Brendon Goddard	95	1	95
F3	Luke Dahlhaus	85	1	85	F3	Tom Mitchell	49	1	49
F4	Dane Swan	107	1	107	F4	Nick Riewoldt	95	1	95
U1	Jaeger O'Meara	0	DNP	0	U1	Stefan Martin	120	1	120
U2	Matt Priddis	112	1	112	U2	Josh P Kennedy	114	1	114
E1	Cian Hanley	0	DNP	0	E1	Bradley Ebert	77	DNP	0
E2	Christian Petracca	0	DNP	0	E2	Liam Picken	95	E	95
E3	Nic Naitanui	146	E	146	E3	Jack Ziebell	83	DNP	0
E4	Alex Rance	120	E	120	E4	Bachar Houli	61	DNP	0
			Total	1680				Total	1673

[Holz]

Interesting note.

Dublin + fyfe would have scored 168 and matched Euroasia

[Jukes]

We would've scored 148 this week without HGA, 154 with HGA

That's not too shabby, inb4 130 next week tho

Hogan + Seedsman out and Gray getting knocked out hurt the score

[Holz]

Congrats Goldy I <3 you

[Holz]

flower yeh! We're looking good now. I'll take a win over Holz any time.

shouldnt have got ahead of yourself, your not Ringo :P

[Jroo]

flower yeh! We're looking good now. I'll take a win over Holz any time.

shouldnt have got ahead of yourself, your not Ringo :P

We were home if Purps didn't stuff the scores up :P still don't know how we lost

Oh well, you can have this win, but I'll beat make sure I beat you in the GF  ;)

[Holz]

flower yeh! We're looking good now. I'll take a win over Holz any time.

shouldnt have got ahead of yourself, your not Ringo :P

We were home if Purps didn't stuff the scores up :P still don't know how we lost

Oh well, you can have this win, but I'll beat make sure I beat you in the GF  ;)

just focussing on making the final before even thinking about taking down the giant that is Dublin.

[Purple 77]

flower yeh! We're looking good now. I'll take a win over Holz any time.

shouldnt have got ahead of yourself, your not Ringo :P

We were home if Purps didn't stuff the scores up :P still don't know how we lost

Oh well, you can have this win, but I'll beat make sure I beat you in the GF  ;)

Hey hey I didn't stuff the scores up  :P It was just my blindness to EurAsia's emrgencies haha