We faced some tough competitors from Germany, France and Belgium. The racing was hard and fast, but in typical Tails fashion we made it as thrilling as possible for our supporters and the crowd, taking it down to the final heat, for a nail biting, exciting decider race 😳😰🙈
Thankfully everything came together and we won, we were seeded 4th of 12 in the championship division! After celebrating on the podium 🍾 with the rest of team GB, as the UK teams overall had placed 2nd in the country rankings. With our day 1 goal achieved, we enjoyed some pizza and a few drinks and prepared for the all important final days racing.
After waking up in a downpour and making some quick waterproofing alterations to our tent 😅, we headed over to the huge arena and mentally prepared for the task ahead- race hard, fast and clean and do our country, league and sport proud by getting as far as we could.
The brutal double elimination format meant that if we lost 2 races we would be out of the running for good. After winning our first race, we unfortunately lost out to the Belgium team Roadrunners BeepBeep. This meant we would drop into the 'losers bracket', we were still in with a chance, but a much harder route to battle the other teams and secure a place in the all important final!
(Again, typical Tails fashion- doing things the hard way 🤣🙄)
But that's just what we did!
We continued to do what we had been doing best and raced well, strategically running dogs we knew would give us that edge when needed, beating all opponents we faced and making it through to the grand final to face Roadrunners BeepBeep once more.
🙌🤩👀