looking back

2011 has been a massive year for the Heroes Ultimate Club; however, 2012 is shaping up to trump it.

During the year, the Heroes competed at almost every level with good and pleasing results. We made our Mixed Nationals debut this year, coming up with a 20th place finish, including a nail biting rollercoster cross pool game against the Villains- hailing from Townsville - with an end score 14/13.

The Green Men continued to improve with a BPL finals birth, losing to eventual premiers - Slamtown - in the semi-final. Chris Brown also won the Heroes BPL MVP, albeit self-awarded (and undisputed when announced). I'm sure these guys will be pushing to go one better next year.

The club again played with three teams throughout 2011, Heroes, Agent Orange and Discheads.

Heroes played in Div 1 the whole year placing 5th in season 2. More on this team later.

Agent Orange was a division 2 powerhouse all year hardly losing a game outside finals, led by Gavin 'El presidente' Croft as well as danbot strelan and Bev. AO won its way all the way into the season 1 grand final, only to play within themselves and go down to The Ghost who walks - who then were promoted to Div 1 and struggled. AO strategy all along? In season 2, AO really turned up the heat and only lost one game. Unfortunately, it was the first week of finals against the sister team, Discheads, therefore placing them at 3rd. MVPs were Josh Weier and Lauren Hutton, great season guys!

Discheads. The club's other team. After winning the Buml div2 season 2010, we were promoted to Div1 in season 1; and as appears symptomatic of div2 winners - really struggled for pace and solid skills. Season 2 saw the team leaders asking for div2 entry, and with seven rookies off we went. After scraping into the finals, we had a very special game against AO. Down 7-1, DH managed to get many turns and convert to make it 8-7 DH way, and take the win 10 - 8. Peter Truss, one of the rookies, came up with a massive layout D to stop an assist and with this, he won MVP. Chantelle Smith must have scored upward of 35 points over the season won the female MVP.

WonderWomen again won the WUFL, the second year on the trot, defeating the SuperTramps 15-6. Several new player in this team really lifted an enjoyed the challenge, even with some sporadically attending veterans.
I can't remember the MVP, but I would hazard a guess at Lauren Hutton - she had a stack of trophies.

Next Year, the Club plans to continue with all the current teams, including the Mixed Nationals teams - who should be aiming in improve on its 20th placing, BPL Heroes looking at a 2nd or 3rd place and WonderWomen to keep on trucking (winning the whole thing again). Buml however is where a club shakedown is rumoured to be. One idea has been to move all three current teams to divison2, creating space for a new division 1 powerhouse - whose name is strictly under wraps.

Comment with div1 team name guesses. 2012 is going to one hell of a year, so buckle up Heroes!