![]() ![]() Might not be a lot, but this round will be remembered all the Worlds’ weekend just for one picture, most of you might have already seen it. Pairings went mostly to plan, and we ended up taking the round 95-65. The final result might not reflect how close the round was, since some games were just a priority roll away from ending in our favor, but that’s the game! We cleared our minds and prepared for the second match of the day against the home team, the Netherlands. After some dice rolling (ones better than others) and a couple of… situations, Sweden ended up taking the round 58-102. We knew it was going to be a hard matchup, since they were top 3 last year. We made our way back to the hotel, went to the bar and prepared a bit for the pairing against Sweden.Īfter some needed recovery (for part of the team), we woke up ready to face the Swedes.Īpologies in advance because I noticed we didn’t take a group picture with all our opponents Kudos to the personnel in the Ristorante Il Primo for an amazing service and taking care of us! I can’t tell all the details of what happened or who did what, but I can assure you (and other teammates as well) laughed like we never did, and left with hurting jaws. We stopped to… err… delight us with the… well, local pastistry in a coffee shop, where some of us enjoyed themselves a bit more than the others.Īfter that we went to dinner at a TRUE ITALIAN restaurant, where they served, of course, pizza with pineapple. The city itself was great but I still don’t know how they don’t crash more often with their bikes, it’s total chaos. So we kept our initial plan and went to Amsterdam, leaving the police to do their job but with a mandatory stop at the WC (and you thought I wouldn’t put this one, huh?) We noticed the huge AMSTERDAM letters so we wanted to take a picture there, but once we arrived, the police didn’t let us approach as they were arresting 2-3 people thet they had cuffed on the ground, guns included (didn’t take a pic of that). First of all, we had to go to the airport in the shuttle bus and take the train there. Then we went to eat something and to do a bit of tourism in Amsterdam. The traditional backside I always use on our local team cardsĪfter a very nice round, we ended up taking the victory for 121-39 so it helped us take out some nerves and build up confidence on the players that were here for their first Worlds (half the team!). There I finally revealed THE PAIRING CARDS. We started the day with a training match against the Scottish team (absolutely great people!). ![]() We came back to the hotel and spent the rest of the evening in bar, where we met Theo among others!Īfter that we just went to our rooms to prepare for the next day. Turns out food is REALLY expensive there, we ended up on a Turkish kebab where we paid 2 times what we would’ve paid in Spain for the same food. Peak Warhammer! We all made it onto the planes, in different groups depending on our departure location:Īfter meeting up and having a look around the venue, we went out to a nearby town to have some dinner and well, visit a coffee shop. Nice little detail, we checked-in our luggage 7 minutes prior to the desk closing due to me being late since I was printing pairing cards and other stuff. We flew in 4 groups, and by 5pm or so we were all somewhere in the hotel in Amsterdam. This year we didn’t participate in the singles tournament, as we planned to do a scrim against Scotland. Here we are again! It has been a rollercoaster of a weekend, but I will try to sum it up a bit without skipping too much information (most things will be from my point of view obviously, but will try to do it for the team as well). If you want to know how to play a devastatingly efficient game of Warhammer and remain an absolute gentleman, look up some of his games.Īnyway, have you all been wondering what the Spanish have been up to in Amsterdam? Wonder no more, Eduard, take it away! A special shout out to Matt Beasley for one of the best games of Warhammer I’ve ever played, especially in terms of sportsmanship, and he is an overall great guy. I’ll say I played some absolute gems of people in the games I did get to play. It meant I had to drop out of day two and the aspect of the tournament I can most accurately describe is the inside of the hotel toilets (review on request!). Like many people I spent a good portion of my Amsterdam trip with my pants down, but unfortunately not the fun kind. Ok, so I promised a report on Worlds singles last week. By Theo Kik-Jansen and Eduard Puig, Edited by Theo Kik-Jansen ![]()
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