Livecup 2010 Re-cap

Big thanks goes out to everyone who made this past weekend’s Livecup 2010 a success; Adidas, Redbull, Guu Izakaya, Know?Show, Color Magazine, Ea Sports, Vancouverisawesome.com, and Fortune Sound Club. Adidas generously supplied everyone taking part in the tournament with home/away Livecup 2010 jerseys, shorts and socks, as well as a box full of extra kicks up for donation to help raise money for the Right to Play organization. If you did not have cash with you and would like to donate please click HERE to help out, all proceeds go to Right to Play. Redbull came through with a ton of product and their sound system for our buds Dj Age and Brendan Butter to play some tunes to keep us moving. Farpostgoals.com was kind enough to loan us our goal posts needed for the day. Our good friends at Guu provided plenty of food for everyone in attendance, including lunch kits as well as a delicious stir fry and freshly grilled fish after the matches all finished.

We lucked out having a blue bird day, with no clouds in sight, it turned out to be a perfect day for competition. Intense action went down as the day unfolded and warmed up. The Double Elimination Tournament allowed for some match ups to go down twice depending on who ended up in the losers bracket. After a fierce first round of action the second games saw the demise and eventual knock out of both VIA and EA sports who were sent packing due to shootouts. Livestock managed to get even with Fortune Sound Club in a rematch, knocking them out of the tournament in yet another shootout. The following round we saw Know?Show knock Color out and LiveStock exit due to a tuff last minute goal from team Redbull. Unfortunately for RedBull, a well rested Know?Show was eagerly awaiting their matchup and ended up cruising relatively quietly passed Redbull and into the finals. GUU was running with an undefeated record, all the way to the heated final match up with team Know?Show. GUU played a hard match, winning the game 3 – nil and the tournament, defending their undefeated record the entire way. Move of the day (attempted) definitely had to go to Know?Shows Perry P ( it was an attempt at a bicycle kick, and he is still hurting because of it!) Best Goal Celebration was awarded to Team Color, Best Bully was awarded to RedBull’s Rhys, Best Dive went to Know?Show’s Amy, Surprise Player of the Day went to Fortune Sound Club’s Rob Rizk, and the MVP of the Tournament was awarded to our very own goalie – John P! All in all a great day was had by everyone involved and we can’t wait to do it all over again next year. Click on any of the thumb nail photo’s to see larger images. Check out the Events page to see all the rest of the Photo’s.