Team France ( 54 - 385 ) Team England
Team England ( 259 - 145 ) Team Canada
Team France ( 96 - 450 ) Team Canada
For our first official international event, Team France put the bar high in inviting Team Canada and Team England for a tournament on the French land. The sports complex of Nantes hosted 1300 people on Saturday, Feb. 15th, for a whole afternoon and evening of bouts, starting with France/England, then England/Canada and Canada/France to finish with. (Once again, congratulations to the Nantes Derby Girls for the successful organization and hosting of the event!)I will not report on the games because the news are not that fresh anymore and because Team Canada did it pretty well already! I was disconnected for a while (two months to get the Internet!) which made the keeping up-to-date of the blog tricky (amongst other things).Still, let's add a little French perspective to the Canadian summary!
For Team France it was not a matter of winning - such an outcome being highly improbable at our stage of national development, but of:
- Testing the water and getting an idea of the top of the spectrum of the international level;
- Going down in history in doing the first-ever international tournament with national teams in France with the French Team... And while we were at it, why not inviting the upper crust? More show, more challenge, more balls.