| The Handicap competition took a new format this year to encourage more entries. | |||||||||
| We held a one night tournament and attracted 12 teams. These teams were given a handicap score based on their final League positions | |||||||||
| The teams were seperated into two groups of 6, with teams in the same divisions and /or clubs kept apart as much as possible in an | |||||||||
| effort to give teams different opposition | |||||||||
| Each team played all other teams in their group and we ended up with a league table for each group. | |||||||||
| Barr Beacon topped group A with 4 wins and then a draw with Panthers from Division 1. Barr Beacon Torches from Division 5 took full | |||||||||
| advantage of their handicap score to finish second with 4 wins and their only defeat against the Lasers | |||||||||
| In Group B Zeus also took full advantage of their handicap score and won all of their group games to finish on top. Yendys Mercury | |||||||||
| from Division 2 won three of their matches to clinch second place on goal average over Division 1 opponents Phoenix Wasps. | |||||||||
| In the sem-ifinals Barr Beacon Lasers started with a 2 goal Advantage over Yendys Mercury. At half time the difference between the | |||||||||
| sides was still 2. The Lasers held on and even increaed their lead to win by 4 goals. | |||||||||
| The other semi-final was a contest by two Division 5 sides, and the handicap started level. At half time both teams had been scoring | |||||||||
| and Zeus took a 5 – 4 advantage. The scoring by both sides continued in the second half but Zeus gradually took command and won | |||||||||
| by 13 goals to 9. | |||||||||
| The final was a very close competitive game Zeus by virtue of the handicap score started 5 goals adrift. They had a very good first half | |||||||||
| as they reduced the deficit to just 1 goal by half time. The second half was gripping as the two teams went goal for goal. | |||||||||
| At the end of normal time the scores were level and ‘Golden Goal came into operation. The final goal was scored by Zeus to win the | |||||||||
| competition. | |||||||||
| The format this year seems to have met the approval of some teams. Maybe it is the way for the future. | |||||||||
