Bibione - Final thoughts

Oops... no blogging for a while. Where was I at... ah yes Bibione. It was a blast! And for the Splash players it was a double blast!

I found the tournament overall really good.

Positives:

• The beach is nice, massive, and with a fine soft sand (no need for sand socks!)
• The accommodation is cheap and superb. We stayed in a nice spacious "Villetta". I.e. a small house inside a holiday village.
• Four days of Beach Ultimate!
• 45-mins games in 1-hour slots! Finally a good duration for a Beach Ultimate game!
• Cheap: All this for around 100 Euros.
  

Negatives:

• The fields, the campsite/village, and the place where the dinner and the party were held are a bit far apart. There is quite a bit of walking to do.
• There was a dinner and a party organised for the Saturday night, but many people were expecting more organised evening activities in 4-day tournament.

The organisers are aware of these points for improvement. I am sure they'll do their best to address them next year.

Other stuff:

• The tournament is smaller than Paga and Burla. There is room for teams of all levels. All the teams in are in one big division the initial pool games will place you in the bracket in which you belong. The top 8 teams showed some solid mixed Beach Ultimate.
• Besides Italian teams, the tournament attracts several central/eastern European teams. There were several teams from Germany, Austria, Hungary, and Switzerland.
• This year 27 teams entered and the format could only be weird. We played one game more than most teams and we also played twice against three teams, which is more than unusual.