🇺🇸 12th North American Underwater Rugby Tournament 2016 – Islamorada USA + Results and Videos

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The newly created Florida Keys Underwater Rugby Club, known as the Florida Keys Krakens, hosted for the first time the North American League UW Rugby tournament on its 12^th edition. The tournament organizers Nicole and Alana came back from their participation on the 10^thCMAS UWR World Cup in Cali Colombia with the solid idea of putting together the UW Rugby team for their club (originally an UW Hockey club) and after some discussions with other US and Canadian teams they had the go to organize the first UWR tournament in Florida.

The event was an instant success due to the cold winter time since most of the NAL teams are from the East coast and Canada. The 12^th edition has become a milestone on the North American UWR League with the record participation of 10 teams, including a team for the newly created USA-U21 program whose players were also allowed to play their respective club games.

Canadian Teams:  Liberation/ Toronto UWR (Brantford/Toronto, ON) – CAMO (Montreal, QB)

USA teams:  Boston UWR (Quincy, MA) – New Jersey Hammerheads (Newark, NJ) – NUWR (Newark, NJ) – East Haven Makos (East Haven, CT) – Florida Keys Krakens A (Key Largo, FL) – Florida Keys Krakens B (Key Largo, FL) – San Francisco Giant Sea Bass (San Francisco, CA) – USA U-21

               

The teams were divided in two groups based on the ranking from the last NAL tournament. The top two teams from each group advanced to the semifinals. Group A was dominated by the reigning champion  and undefeated during the group play,  the New Jersey Hammerheads with the surprising second place of the San Francisco Giant Sea bass team who managed to win several games with only 8 players but a high level of play. Group B was dominated by the undefeated NUWR team and the second place was secured by Boston UWR.

Semifinals was played by NJ Hammerheads who defeated San Francisco with a clear 5-0 score and the other semifinal was NUWR who defeated Boston on a very tight match 2-1 to access the final against NJ Hammerheads.

The final was also the closest final match ever in the North American League. The regular time ended with a 1-1 tie and an extra time was played to look for the tournament champion. Near the end the NJ Hammerheads scored but the goal was not counted because a foul against the NUWR goalkeeper. At the end of the extra time series of penalties was the next step to break the tie, but they ended 2-2. With the single penalties series, the game came to an end with the last penalty shot scored by the NJ hammerheads and the last penalty shot saved by the Hammerhead Goalie. Final Score NJ hammerheads 1 (3) – 1(2) NUWR.

The New Jersey Hammerheads kept the Championship title with this fifth in a row win. This tournament was the first of the four rounds for 2016 that will decide both the US and Canadian teams representing the two countries in the 2016 Champions Cup to be played late in this year in Berlin Germany.

Top scorer team and best defense were dominated by the NJ hammerheads as well as the tournament top scorer Daniel Naujoks.

 

The tournament was a great success despite the unusual low temperatures in Florida and will add an important venue for future competitions. A great surprise was the level of play of both Florida Krakens teams that played for the 5^th and 6^th place of the tournament as well as the San Francisco Giant Sea Bass team that made it to the semifinal and ended on the 4^th place.

The next NAL tournament will be hosted by Club CAMO from Montreal on May 21-22, 2016.

2016 – 12th NORTH AMERICAN UW RUGBY TOURNAMENT
Islamorada, FL, USA – February 6-7

Final Results:

1. New Jersey Hammerheads – Newark, NJ (USA)
2. NUWR – Newark , NJ (USA)
3. Boston UWR – Quincy. MA, (USA)
4. San Francisco Giant Sea Bass – San Francisco, CA (USA)
5. Florida Keys Krakens A – Key Largo, FL (USA)
6. Florida Keys Krakens B – Key Largo, FL (USA)
7. Team USA U21 – (USA)
8. East Haven Makos – East Haven, CT (USA)
9. Toronto UWR – Toronto, ON (Canada)
10. CAMO – Montreal, QC, (Canada)

Group A:  
New Jersey Hammerheads
East Haven Makos
Florida Krakens A
Toronto/Club Lib
San Francisco Giant Sea Bass

Group B:
CAMO/Narwhals
Newark UWR
Boston UWR
Florida Krakens B
USA U21

Group Round:

GAME	TEAM	SCORE	–	SCORE	TEAM
1	NJ Hammerheads	9	–	1	Ontario
2	CAMO	1	–	5	NUWR
3	East Haven Makos	0	–	7	FL Krakens A
4	Boston UWR	5	–	1	FL Krakens B
5	SF Giant Sea Bass	10	–	0	Ontario
6	USA U21	0	–	9	NUWR
7	NJ Hammerheads	6	–	0	FL Krakens A
8	CAMO	1	–	13	FL Krakens B
9	SF Giant Sea Bass	11	–	0	East Haven Makos
10	USA U21	4	–	7	Boston UWR
11	Ontario	0	–	10	FL Krakens A
12	NUWR	2	–	1	FL Krakens B
13	NJ Hammerheads	11	–	0	East Haven Makos
14	CAMO	0	–	11	Boston UWR
15	SF Giant Sea Bass	2	–	2	FL Krakens A
16	USA U21	4	–	8	FL Krakens B
17	Ontario	4	–	5	East Haven Makos
18	NUWR	2	–	1	Boston UWR
19	SF Giant Sea Bass	0	–	5	NJ Hammerheads
20	USA U21	6	–	1	CAMO

Group A standings

TEAM	GP	W	T	L	GF	GA	PTS	GD
NJ Hammerheads	4	4	0	0	31	1	12	30
SF Giant Sea Bass	4	2	1	1	23	7	7	16
FL Krakens A	4	2	1	1	19	8	7	11
East Haven Makos	4	1	0	2	5	33	3	-28
Ontario	4	0	0	4	5	34	0	-29

Group B standings

TEAM	GP	W	T	L	GF	GA	PTS	GD
NUWR	4	4	0	0	18	3	12	15
Boston UWR	4	3	0	1	24	7	9	17
FL Krakens B	4	2	0	2	23	12	6	11
USA U21	4	1	0	3	14	25	3	-11
CAMO	4	0	0	4	3	35	0	-32

Semifinals:

GAME	TEAM	SCORE	–	SCORE	TEAM
21	NJ Hammerheads	2	–	0	Boston UWR
22	NUWR	7	–	4	SF Giant Sea Bass

9th-10th Place game:

GAME	TEAM	SCORE	–	SCORE	TEAM
23	Ontario	4	–	1	CAMO

7th-8th Place game:

GAME	TEAM	SCORE	–	SCORE	TEAM
24	East Haven Makos	3	–	12	USA U21

5th-6th Place game:

GAME	TEAM	SCORE	–	SCORE	TEAM
25	FL Keys Krakens A	4	–	3	FL Keys Krakens B

3rd-4th Place game:

GAME	TEAM	SCORE	–	SCORE	TEAM
26	Boston UWR	5	–	1	SF Giant Sea Bass

1st – 2nd Place game:

GAME	TEAM	SCORE	–	SCORE	TEAM
27	NJ Hammerheads	1 (3)	–	1 (2)	NUWR

Top Scorers

Top Scorer Team

PLACE	TEAM	GF
1st	NJ Hammerheads	37
2nd	Boston UWR	31
3rd	NUWR	28

Best Team Defense

PLACE	TEAM	GA
1st	NJ Hammerheads	2
2nd	NUWR	8
3rd	Boston UWR	10

Font: USA Underwater Rugby

The Florida Keys Underwater Rugby Club would like to invite your team to come play rugby in the beautiful sunny Florida this February!

10 teams participating

Tentative Schedule:

Saturday, Feb. 6th 2016:
Captain and Referee’s meeting at 8 AM
Games: 9 AM – 6 PM

Sunday, Feb. 7th 2016:
8 AM – 1 PM Awards Ceremony to immediately follow.

Schedule

The pool is roughly 15m long, 11m wide and 3.75m deep, and outside. and 83F

Players without a home club are welcome, we’ll try to accomadate everyone. Let us know if you need a team 🙂

More info: Event Facebook / Florida Keys UWR

Last Updated on January 14, 2020