The 1st Pallo Racketlon

On Sat 16th Feb we had the first Pallo Racketlon at Finland Tennis at Itakeskus, a tournament where 8 of us competed in matches containing table tennis, badminton, squash and tennis. We had Teemu, Antti, Atte, Perttu and me from Pallo and guests, Kille, Niclas and Pete. Pete had an atrocious hang over and didn't do his skills justice early on. Antti was the dark horse and missed out on a finals appearance thanks to the drawing of lots when he, Teemu and our special guest, Niclas, finished level in the group stage. After drawing our match in the group, Kille beat me in the final. 

The day went really well for the most part, except for some confusion when the group stages were tied. It was also a bit odd that we didn't always stick to the table tennis... tennis order and that quite a few games finished early. But it was great that nearly everyone came away smiling and wanting to do it again. We were all pretty well matched too so next time maybe a league with 6 players would be a good format.

Thanks especially to our guests Kille, Pete and Niclas who had great spirit all day. Nice one guys. At the sauna Teemu got to collect the long overdue Pallo MVP trophy for 2007, which he shared with Antti, Ville and myself. Antti would rather cut of his hands than have to take it home and try to convince Virpi to put it on the mantlepiece.