Events draw to a merciful close

I can barely keep my eyes open. It's been enormous fun, and the team have performed brilliantly. Despite Dan McGlade managing to lose a fight 5-4 by hitting himself on the foot, all the boys made it through to the direct elimination, and almost all of them exceeded their seeding: one ranked 57 beat the no 6 seed. In the end, we came away with a 3rd place, a top 8 and a load in the last 16 and 32.

Other entries with pictures of Challenge Wratislavia are here, here, here, here and all the photographs are here. 

They all got on famously despite spending most weekends in British sports halls as deadly rivals.

The Polish hosts were perfect: efficient and friendly, and the teams mixed really well. Facebook contacts may well have been swapped.

This guy won. Same as last year. He's…well… very confident. He's arsed up this fleche quite badly.

Indoor Fireworks (is also a Laura Cantrell song)

Ugg Boots: apparently part of this year's kit…

It's back to work on my return: I've just realised that the conference paper I thought was for the end of April is actually to be delivered on April 4th or 5th. Really need to write it in the next 5 days. Oops…

For the immediate future - make sure they're all settled down, then go for a celebratory sparkling mineral water in the bar (and no, that isn't a euphemism, it's an alcohol-free trip).