Well, there's good news... and there's bad news.

On the one hand, after three games of continuous observation, the classifiers have once again decided that Great Britain's dominant player, Mark Fosbrook, is classed out of the sport. I feel for the three teams who first encountered the ineligible player, but that's how it goes in this sport. Fosbrook is pretty upset at the situation, so it's rough on him too.

On the other hand, we lost by a single point to the Brits. The game featured an uncharacteristicly high number of turnovers by our team, and some poor passes. At the half, we were down by five, and although we pulled it together in the second part of the game, we came up a goal short.

The scores for CAN and GB by quarter were:

Q1   9-11
Q2   6-9
Q3   11-9
Q4   6-4

The latest available news in the games that are currently being played is from early in the 2nd quarter, where the Germans were losing to the Japanese, and the Aussies were leading the Dutch.

In other classification news, Germany's Salih Koseoglu was reclassified from a 2.0 to a 2.5, and Japan's Yoshinobu Takahashi was classed down from a 1.0 to a 0.5.

The next game between GB and Australia will decide who goes to the medal round, and who plays for 5th place. If the Aussies beat GB by enough points, GB will be playing for 5th... so we'll soon see how much they have in the tank after their game against us. At least they'll have a bit of a break though, as that critical game is in the final time slot of the day.

Our next game is against the winless Swedes, who will have to shuffle their lineups based on Pelle's new classification. Sweden has never placed lower than 7th at the World Championships, but will do no better than 9th this time after having four straight losses in the pools.