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Bernd Best Tournament 2005
 

March 18th - 20th in Cologne, Germany
The Warriors had a fantastic win in the Advanced League section of the world's largest Wheelchair Rugby tournament. This was our second year at this great tournament and we were hoping to improve on the sixth place placing in 2004. We got the tournament off to a great start with a win against the Outlaws from Germany by 4 goals. That was followed by a great win against the Dutch Scorpions by 3 goals. This was an unexpected win because the Scorpions were one of the pre-tournament favourites. We won our pool with a comfortable win over the Ballcrackers from Denmark.

One of the best performing teams in this league were the German side, Greifswalder Rollmoepse. They had taken some big scalps on their way to the semi-final, notibly the Swedish side Full Pull. But we had watched them play in a couple of their pool matches and we had a plan to match them in our semi-final match. A team gets great satisfaction when their pre-match plans come together on court and we eventually beat the Germans by 10 goals to take our place in the final against the second Dutch team, the Terminators. We got off to a bad start in the final and found ourselves 3 goals down in the first quarter but our superior fitness helped us to draw level at half time and then in the second half we pulled away to win by 6, 34-28.

ADVANCED LEAGUE
Pool I
Start Court Team A Team B Result
18/03/2005 17:40 1 Berlin Raptors 1 Greifswalder Rollmoepse 35 - 29
18/03/2005 17:40 2 Terminators S Full Pull 39 - 29
18/03/2005 20:40 3 Berlin Raptors 1 Full Pull 20 - 26
18/03/2005 20:40 4 Greifswalder Rollmoepse Terminators S 35 - 34
19/03/2005 11:20 5 Terminators S Berlin Raptors 1 31 - 28
19/03/2005 11:20 6 Full Pull Greifswalder Rollmoepse 30 - 39
Pool J
Start Court Team A Team B Result
18/03/2005 16:50 7 The Outlaws Karlsruhe Gaelic Warriors 20 - 24
18/03/2005 16:50 8 Scorpions T Copenhagen Ballcrackers 23 - 27
18/03/2005 19:10 7 The Outlaws Karlsruhe Copenhagen Ballcrackers 27 - 22
18/03/2005 19:10 8 Gaelic Warriors Scorpions T 24 - 21
19/03/2005 10:00 5 Scorpions T The Outlaws Karlsruhe 30 - 34
19/03/2005 10:00 6 Copenhagen Ballcrackers Gaelic Warriors 10 - 28
Zwischenrunde
Start Court Team A Team B Result
19/03/2005 14:00 5 Copenhagen Ballcrackers Full Pull 32 - 19
19/03/2005 14:00 6 Berlin Raptors 1 Scorpions T 27 - 49
Halbfinale
Start Court Team A Team B Result
19/03/2005 15:40 5 Terminators S The Outlaws Karlsruhe 40 - 34
19/03/2005 15:40 6 Gaelic Warriors Greifswalder Rollmoepse 36 - 26
7th - 8th Place Playoff
Start Court Team A Team B Result
20/03/2005 09:20 3 Full Pull Berlin Raptors 1 42 - 34
5th - 6th Place Playoff
Start Court Team A Team B Result
20/03/2005 10:50 3 Copenhagen Ballcrackers Scorpions T 26 - 33
3rd - 4th Place Playoff
Start Court Team A Team B Result
20/03/2005 12:20 3 The Outlaws Karlsruhe Greifswalder Rollmoepse 39 - 41
FINAL
Start Court Team A Team B Result
20/03/2005 11:50 1,2 Terminators S Gaelic Warriors 28 - 34