We met up with the other members of our team at around 5pm, where I was totally outnumbered by pharmaceutical chemists, but also joined by fellow dodgeball debutants. Suited up and ready to go, I suddenly realised we were only playing on badminton-sized courts and the challenge increased ten-fold.
It didn't get any easier after our first match. Playing a team including the men's captain, we were taken down 3 games to nil and could've easily capitulated after that. However, two winnable matches followed and we duly won them 2-1 (courtesy of Shieuerz's unbelievable play when it was 2 v 4) and 3-0, putting us third in our group of five. That left a straight shoot-out against the second-placed team for a place in the semi-finals. We took the first game with a brilliant win, but ultimately couldn't finish the job as their greater experience proved enough to defeat us. We were left with a 5th/6th place play-off which we took 3-2 thanks to some Brendan Rodgers-style 'character' at 2-1 down (after Shieuerz and his dodgeball teammate bottled two games). A 5th placed finish out of 10, solid top half performance.
Of course, the entertainment didn't end there as we headed to the pub to watch the closing stages of Belgium v Italy, before I tanked Shieuerz at pool and we took on 50 chicken wings - unsuccessfully - and headed to bed an hour or so later.
Unfortunately Shieuerz didn't manage to record me holding off a team for a good minute by myself, dodging three balls at a time before succumbing to the pressure. I guess this photo tells you all you need to know about how I fell in love with the game:
Ollie :)
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