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The numbers in parentheses are the "Nabity Ratings" seeds, but they don't determine the pools. The logic behind this: we are the 2 seed from Thursday, so we get to play the 3 and 6 seeds from Tuesday and the 7 seed from Thursday. Offshore Swilling is the 1 seed from Thursday, so they play 4 & 5 from Tuesday and 8 from Thursday. And the reverse is true for pools A & B (Mamba was 1 on Tuesday, Orange Quangaroos was 2, etc.). Make sense?
So looking at our pool, because that's all we really care about, we'll start off playing DIRT, Bill's team. DIRT lost a great player in Putty (who moved to LA) and has been hurting since - we beat them 15-5 in the regular season, but they were also missing a pretty solid deep threat named James in that game, so things could be different. Our second game will be against Schrute, Keith's team, whom we beat 15-7 in the regular season. They played us very tight in the first half, though, so another challenge.
The premier, showdown game will be against Eric and Katherine's Plastic Hurling Phenomenon, a team we haven't really seen2. I played on their team Taco Technique last fall; they are solid players who are more importantly smart. Perhaps they will figure out that they key to stopping us is not guarding Justin, Pat, Teri or Genevieve. Just let them run loose on the field. Seriously. Fortunately, we're playing them on the 22nd and Katherine will be in the throes of trying to finish her Nano novel - her level of distraction will clearly be the key to the whole thing. Here's hoping to several writer's-block infused days so she still has 10,000 words to go or so by that point.3
Brief comments on the other pools - Offshore swilling is not going to have any trouble coming out of their pool whatsoever. Two Buck Huck has Pete and should therefore be something, but otherwise, no worries for them. Pool B should be a doosy, but I see Blue Goo pulling the "upset" out of there. Orange Qangaroos is Sam's-now-Justin's team, and they seem solid, but it would be weird if they "held seed" against the goo. Pool A is wide open, as Mamba is going to be missing at least three impact players that I can name off the top of my head (Skyler, Cisco and Big Nate). I mean, BN may decide to play on a torn hamstring, but that would be hella silly. As such, MS has a good chance to bust out of that pool - that's the team that we played Thursday night, and if they could click on Saturday, who knows.
There's a lot of disparity in the league - I don't know if this league is any better or worse than other leagues, but still - so big upsets don't seem real probable. But you never know (that's why you play the games, blah blah blah). I'm optimistically nervous. If we click, we are very tough to beat - hopefully our efforts throughout the season - and our nice tune-up game, thank HASHEM, on Thursday - will pay off with some crispy disc in the tourney. I'll keep you updated.
1 Lifted from the primo web work of Katherine at the VOTS site.
2 I saw them briefly on the Tuesday before Halloween, which doesn't count for much given that half of everyone was wearing pirate costumes and ostriches during the game. They look very similar to Taco Technique personnel-wise, actually, and play similarly. Eric will be a force to deal with and I would be absolutely shocked if they didn't throw a lot of Z. Again, we'll see, but I like our matchups with everybody. Eric may live to regret helping me with the draft ;)
3 I am fairly confident that this is the first time Ultimate Frisbee trash talk has incorporated writer's block. I call copyright.
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