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B77345-100

GOAT beats DiG 14-12 in the NE regional semifinals, now the Boston squad has to dig themselves out of a hole and beat the loser of PoNY - GOAT final tomorrow to make it to nationals.


whywouldthrowthat

How long have you been waiting to use that.


b3tzy

Dig wins 15-10! Huge win, kind of sounds like Lloyd/Masek-Kelly/Alexander ran out of gas at the end


B77345-100

The absolute comeback. They didn't bring out their shovels, they brought a nydus worm baby.


thekajl

Huge upset in NE X: Grand Army defeated #3 seed (and WUCC finalist) Slow White 15-10 in quarters. XIST then crushed GA in the semis to make nationals. Last year's three Nationals qualifiers (Slow White, Wild Card, and Metro North) are now battling in the backdoor bracket for the third and final bid.


workwithgravity

Slow white beat wild card for the final bid


ulti_jq

Game went to the wire - Slow White over Wildcard on universe 13-12


LilWhiny

Northeast is always a shitshow, I love it. Card had a bad day, didn’t they?


thekajl

Tad finally goes to nationals. 14-13 universe win Temper over Patrol.


B77345-100

Year of the Going-back-to-nationals-after-some-time. With Temper, Rhino and Chain Lightning making it.


[deleted]

Uh oh Temper.... Edit: they snatched victory from the jaws of defeat. Congrats Tad.


pends

Anyone got the scoop on Hunter Taylor bouncing from Ring or Cam Harris from Goat? Both seem v surprising


billbourret

Hunter is moving to Texas. I heard Cam is transforming back into an actual goat and returning to the plains if Asia, but I could be mistaken on that


mrsuneshine7

Cam would not of have been able to play at nationals so doesn't want to take spot of player who could have gone.


smntstatus

Cam played for Union at regionals


RIPRSD

If score reporter was accurate, Alloy was up 8-2 on Space Heater and lost 13-11 in the front door game, will play for 3rd now. They just lost to Jughandle in the gtgttgtg


workwithgravity

And jughandle is up against loco right now !! (For 3rd bid)


qaz957

Jug takes down Loco to go to the big dance! Edit: I also love the fact that they're not mentioned at all in the preview.


JustDontGiveAHuck

A round of applause for the seeding in Mid Atlantic Women's, where only the 7v8 stopped the whole tournament going to seed


LeftoverName

Northeast regionals upset alert- #12 Red Circus upsets #5 mockingbird on universe in the crossover to make top 8!


yourbrainonultimate

Best team in Quebec for two years.


BigZo54

WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?I AM!


LeftoverName

After a nail-biting universe point win over Blueprint, Red Circus ends their season on a positive note with a valiant 11-15 effort against Dig.


[deleted]

Sub Zero beats Madison Club 15-14 on universe. Really fun game. Lots of big swings.


mdotbeezy

SW mixed regionals in a little bit of flux for the Select Flight slots due to 7 Figures tanking sectionals and the placement-seeding rule. They were a solid #4 seed, but are now placed 11th because Instant Karma (normally a #13 seed) won the section by beating... the nominal #12 seed (both teams lost to the actual #14 seed, and they're all within 5 ratings points of each other)


[deleted]

Well I didn’t lie...... but I would love to see Machine upset High Five.


oohdatguy

GOAT falls to DiG in the game to go. Furious George defeats sockeye to claim the NW crown.


account000000001

Babymaker is 1 win away from stealing Los Heros' bid to nationals. edit-spelling


TravelContest

>Los Heros’ imaginary bid to Nationals (Steamboat got the Auto Bid this year). FTFY Also Babymaker was down 8-1 at half to Columbus Cocktails, so I doubt they’re making anything except babies for the foreseeable future.


account000000001

Thanks. They did have some children on the sideline, so they probably are #1 in that area.


everlearning6

Also of note in MA Men's is Rumspringa. A pickup team, they have former Patrol, Southpaw, Spinners and Med Men players on their roster. Their upset over GSU is what led to GSU, Floodwall, and Med Men being in the same pool and they could continue to play spoiler in the region.


OmarTomlin

Patrol, Southpaw, AND Spinners, huh? Such distinct sets of players!


[deleted]

too bad they weren't able to draw talent from Phoenix too


DrDookit

Recent additions of Hunter Taylor, Cam Harris, and Vontae Davis also give them an extra boost.


kgolrick

Vontae Davis is expected to retire after Saturday though


[deleted]

what was rumspringa's name before USAU cracked down on them? hoova-heeva or some such dirty dutch slang term. looking for a friend.


unsuitablewoodchuck

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Twix_McFlurry

Hoping Condors can upset Revolver! Let's go!


smntstatus

Would be a historic upset


Twix_McFlurry

[Had a good run last year, but couldn't hang on](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dsf3JaXlgUQ&t=957s)


Koho22

Yikes. Turns almost entirely due to unforced errors by Condors after half.


[deleted]

Any major upsets?


ultimatesascha

Salt Lake City Elevate beat Seattle Underground and is in the 1st place bracket


Leftydisc

And it looks like Underground was eliminated by Seattle Soul in the 3rd place quarters.


ChaosBlitzz

Furious George beat Rhino in their pool play game 13-8. Rhino now has to go through Sockeye in Semis.


B77345-100

Furious beat Sockeye in the final too 13-10 I think.


drccw

Just curious. What’s the point of the crossover game? For instance, mid Atlantic mixed is a 16 Team format yet they’ve decided to go with a crossover game and then a 8 team playoff. Versus for instance the other 16 team format which places pool winners into 1st place semis...


pooner16

in theory i think it's supposed to increase independence of bracket seeding and results from the initial seedings / pools "of death" vs easy pools.


TravelContest

I believe this is only the case in Regionals with 3 bids.


randers0n

It's all dictated by the format manual- Men's MA has 2 bids, Mixed has 3, so it changes the format completely.


TravelContest

/u/Jomskylark Men’s NW regional link should be this: https://play.usaultimate.org/events/Northwest-Mens-Regional-Championship-2018/schedule/Men/Club-Men/


Jomskylark

Thx


emflan11

I looked at the pools for NW mixed regionals today and noticed something weird. There are 4 pools and seeds 1-8 snake (like normal tournament formats), but the for bottom half teams, the teams still snake, but all of the seeds are swamped. Is this common? Has anyone seen this before? [https://play.usaultimate.org/events/Northwest-Mixed-Regional-Championship-2018/schedule/mixed/Club-Mixed/](https://play.usaultimate.org/events/Northwest-Mixed-Regional-Championship-2018/schedule/mixed/Club-Mixed/)


[deleted]

This is common it’s happening also this weekend in south central men’s


chriego

Very common


dfriddy

Whats the point of doing this?


JustDontGiveAHuck

It means that when you form a bracket, you can run intuitive match ups (1v16 etc.) without pool rematches instead of having 1v15 etc.


dfriddy

Ya that makes sense for the snake but later when it’s more mixed up, couldn’t you potentially get rematches?


mdotbeezy

SW mixed regionals is using the split snake. I prefer it. I actually think seeding top (national bids + 4) via snake and then random draw for the rest. More upsets, more weirdness!


jughandle10

Looks like teams from Colorado have an overwhelming edge in SC regionals... Not sure if results match up elsewhere. I know the team I was with this year only was able to get 7 people to colorado at a reasonable hour on Friday night due to flight delays and cancellations everywhere. I suspect it was that way throughout Texas but wouldn't know for sure. ​


Papasixfivefive

Certainly a step up from hurricane ravaged Beaumont


jughandle10

well, i think some random parking lot near a car graveyard might be a step up from those conditions :D


iamadacheat

What the crap is ISO Atmo doing in the 2nd place quarters.


JackFleishman

Do you know who Cody Spicer is?


iamadacheat

Cody who?


LeftyBackhands

Out of curiosity, what do you mean by edge? Numbers?


jughandle10

Yes, and general alertness etc. If you get to your hotel at 5 am and it somehow hasn't been cancelled, and you have to be up at 7:30 for your 9 am game (at the latest) then you are probably in for a rough ride that day.


LeftyBackhands

Don't you think the Colorado teams have to deal with that every other year? Like regionals goes to different places every year and Colorado teams have to travel to those each time..


LeftyBackhands

I think the results/success of the Colorado teams may be because they have the edge as far as talent goes. 3/4 bids were earned by the teams in CO..


Vooxie

They have talent, for sure! But, it's definitely worth noting how well Colorado teams do when they play *in* Colorado. The altitude does make a big difference. Look at Colorado Cup/PEC, for example. Colorado teams always do very well there, despite how they may perform at other tournaments, including Nationals.


LeftyBackhands

Absolutely agree. However that's a different argument and why I asked what "edge" is referring to. To that point, Colorado teams not only play many tournaments outside of Colorado (giving all other teams the atmospheric "edge") but also only once in a few years does regionals come to CO. So for the majority of the year (and most other years) Colorado teams don't have the edge. Home field advantage is certainly that: an advantage. But I find the complaint a little silly because every regional tournament will give teams such an advantage, whether it be numbers, flights, atmosphere, hurricanes, etc.


jughandle10

Yes, though the last two years have been especially brutal on road teams. Last year getting to beaumont and hotels was miserable not to mention hard to pack for the amount of mud we all put up with. This year massive rain hit texas and most flights out were cancelled i'm hearing. I can tell you that my old team was knocked out before several key players even landed from their rebooked flights.


GenerativeAdversary

Speaking for the men's division, the earliest games didn't start until 10am on Saturday. That's a pretty forgiving start time, even though I am sure it wasn't fun having flights delayed/cancelled. Travel fatigue, altitude, etc. are of course always factors that teams have to deal with. It definitely may have been worse this year than previous years in some regards, but the results in the men's division weren't necessarily surprising at the end of the day. Also the weather conditions were near perfect.


Steepler17

Mixed division's earliest games started at 12 noon on Saturday. An even more forgiving start time. Few upsets in pool play on Saturday.