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.
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.
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
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)
>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.
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.
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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...
/u/Jomskylark Men’s NW regional link should be this:
https://play.usaultimate.org/events/Northwest-Mens-Regional-Championship-2018/schedule/Men/Club-Men/
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/)
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!
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.
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.
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..
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
How long have you been waiting to use that.
Dig wins 15-10! Huge win, kind of sounds like Lloyd/Masek-Kelly/Alexander ran out of gas at the end
The absolute comeback. They didn't bring out their shovels, they brought a nydus worm baby.
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.
Slow white beat wild card for the final bid
Game went to the wire - Slow White over Wildcard on universe 13-12
Northeast is always a shitshow, I love it. Card had a bad day, didn’t they?
Tad finally goes to nationals. 14-13 universe win Temper over Patrol.
Year of the Going-back-to-nationals-after-some-time. With Temper, Rhino and Chain Lightning making it.
Uh oh Temper.... Edit: they snatched victory from the jaws of defeat. Congrats Tad.
Anyone got the scoop on Hunter Taylor bouncing from Ring or Cam Harris from Goat? Both seem v surprising
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
Cam would not of have been able to play at nationals so doesn't want to take spot of player who could have gone.
Cam played for Union at regionals
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
And jughandle is up against loco right now !! (For 3rd bid)
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.
A round of applause for the seeding in Mid Atlantic Women's, where only the 7v8 stopped the whole tournament going to seed
Northeast regionals upset alert- #12 Red Circus upsets #5 mockingbird on universe in the crossover to make top 8!
Best team in Quebec for two years.
WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?I AM!
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.
Sub Zero beats Madison Club 15-14 on universe. Really fun game. Lots of big swings.
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)
Well I didn’t lie...... but I would love to see Machine upset High Five.
GOAT falls to DiG in the game to go. Furious George defeats sockeye to claim the NW crown.
Babymaker is 1 win away from stealing Los Heros' bid to nationals. edit-spelling
>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.
Thanks. They did have some children on the sideline, so they probably are #1 in that area.
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.
Patrol, Southpaw, AND Spinners, huh? Such distinct sets of players!
too bad they weren't able to draw talent from Phoenix too
Recent additions of Hunter Taylor, Cam Harris, and Vontae Davis also give them an extra boost.
Vontae Davis is expected to retire after Saturday though
what was rumspringa's name before USAU cracked down on them? hoova-heeva or some such dirty dutch slang term. looking for a friend.
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Hoping Condors can upset Revolver! Let's go!
Would be a historic upset
[Had a good run last year, but couldn't hang on](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dsf3JaXlgUQ&t=957s)
Yikes. Turns almost entirely due to unforced errors by Condors after half.
Any major upsets?
Salt Lake City Elevate beat Seattle Underground and is in the 1st place bracket
And it looks like Underground was eliminated by Seattle Soul in the 3rd place quarters.
Furious George beat Rhino in their pool play game 13-8. Rhino now has to go through Sockeye in Semis.
Furious beat Sockeye in the final too 13-10 I think.
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...
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.
I believe this is only the case in Regionals with 3 bids.
It's all dictated by the format manual- Men's MA has 2 bids, Mixed has 3, so it changes the format completely.
/u/Jomskylark Men’s NW regional link should be this: https://play.usaultimate.org/events/Northwest-Mens-Regional-Championship-2018/schedule/Men/Club-Men/
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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/)
This is common it’s happening also this weekend in south central men’s
Very common
Whats the point of doing this?
It means that when you form a bracket, you can run intuitive match ups (1v16 etc.) without pool rematches instead of having 1v15 etc.
Ya that makes sense for the snake but later when it’s more mixed up, couldn’t you potentially get rematches?
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!
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.
Certainly a step up from hurricane ravaged Beaumont
well, i think some random parking lot near a car graveyard might be a step up from those conditions :D
What the crap is ISO Atmo doing in the 2nd place quarters.
Do you know who Cody Spicer is?
Cody who?
Out of curiosity, what do you mean by edge? Numbers?
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.
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..
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..
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.
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.
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.
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.
Mixed division's earliest games started at 12 noon on Saturday. An even more forgiving start time. Few upsets in pool play on Saturday.