Dodgeball Update

Hey guys, so as I told you in one of my earlier posts a group of people from Manchester university, in which me and some of my friends were included, formed a team to play in the national tournament in Halifax last month.
We did well but actually not as well as we would have wanted to, though for the 1st time playin' together I think we did a good job overall.
It took us one hour by train to get to Halifax plus a half an hour walk to the site of the tourney which was a high school. We had to walk because it was a sunday and buses were nowhere to be found. It was cold too, I remember checking the weather forecast and it said we were at -4 or something like that.
When we finally got there we registered and the guys in charge of the organisation told us that there where a total of 13 teams divided into 2 groups of 6 and 7 teams respectively. We got drawn on the 6-team group.
After that, the action got under way. Our first match was a complete disaster! We played the guys from Staffordshire Uni and I dunno what happened, I guess we just weren't clicking as a team since it was the 1st match we played together. The matches were to best of 5 games and at one point we were losing 4-0 then we finally decided to show up and won the last game ending the hammering at 4-1.
Next up we played against another university team, which one? I can't remember the name, but we finally got clickin' and beat'em 4-1. The next 2 matches we also won, beating one of the other staff uni teams 3-2 and some guy who called themselves balls of steel 4-1. Our final game was against Artful dodgers, a bunch of 16-17 year old brats who were actually pretty good, in fact they were the defending champs from last tournament held in Milton Keynes last november. We gave'em a run for their money (we were actually 2-1 up) but they ended up beating us 3-2.
After the group phase was completed, the top 4 teams from each group qualified to the quarterfinals. We qualified in 3rd place and were drawn to play the 2nd from the other group; Baby Ballet a group of overgrown rugby players in tight shirts tryin' to play dodgeball. They turned out to be quite tough and even though we took the 1st game they then took the next 3 thus knockin' us out of the tournament. They went on to lose to Staffs Uni's 1st team in the semis and they all the way beating the defending champion lil' brats, Artful Dodgers in the final.
So that's how our first dodgeball adventure ended. As I said before, I think we made a good effort and hopefully we'll get another shot at trying to be national champs ;)