Nationals, Day 1
Most of you will have seen results from all the pools by now. Our pool ended up being the only that held to seed. There was a lot of excitement in the other pools, including TWO 2nd seeds that ended up 0-3. The loser pools promise to be hell tomorrow, I can tell you that.
The Condors have to hope that Doublewide loses to Chain, and that Condors beat Chain to make it out on point differential. Same thing for Ring, although their path might be a little more difficult. Also, the SW has obviously lost a strength bid for next year.
In our pool, what we anticipated to be a difficult first game against PBR ended up being more of a bye round, as they bent over rather easily in losing 15-3. Over in the other game, Chain started off very close with Furious before Furious started pulling away into half, and then spanked them in the second half, setting up what would end up being the game for the winner's pool between us and Chain. But before that game started, we had a long wait between games, so we went over and checked out our fellow city mates, Twisted Metal, and watched them try their damnedest to give away a late lead on the Condors before winning 17-15 in what appeared to be a huge upset at the time.
Meanwhile, against Chain, we started out very tight, and gave them a 4-1 lead AND we had received to start the game. These were mostly ugly turnovers on our side, rather than awesome defense on their part. The D bailed us out and we ended taking half 8-7. Even better, we won the half, stuffing and scoring. We tightened up again torwards 10, but the D got another long run and we ended up winning 15-12 after giving one back at the very end. This game was marked by the return of our deep game, which had been dormant for pretty much the entire year.
Now that we were a lock for the winner's pool, this set up the 'first' pool game of the winners pool against Furious. We started tight again, with a few dubious unforced turnovers again, giving Furious a 2 break lead. The offense finally got back on track, and we ended up taking half 8-7. Furious was definitely struggling against our defensive pressure. Receiving out of half, Furious scored to tie at 8's, and then on the next point, stuck deep in our endzone on offense, my calf seized up unbelievably and I had to take a sub. The team scored that goal, and then one or two points later, a second offensive handler, Ariel, hurt his back, and the O was down two main handlers. Furious seized the advantage and scored 5 out of the next 6 points to take the game 15-10. However, they did not show us anything that we couldn't handle, but we have some work set up for us.
Meanwhile, Metal won a spot in the winners pool with a solid victory over Doublewide, putting us both in the same pool tomorrow. We start with Sockeye first, and then end up against Metal. While a win against Sockeye would be nice, the key game will be against Metal to avoid the pre-quarters game. And did I mention the hell that the loser pools will be tomorrow? Stay tuned...
The Condors have to hope that Doublewide loses to Chain, and that Condors beat Chain to make it out on point differential. Same thing for Ring, although their path might be a little more difficult. Also, the SW has obviously lost a strength bid for next year.
In our pool, what we anticipated to be a difficult first game against PBR ended up being more of a bye round, as they bent over rather easily in losing 15-3. Over in the other game, Chain started off very close with Furious before Furious started pulling away into half, and then spanked them in the second half, setting up what would end up being the game for the winner's pool between us and Chain. But before that game started, we had a long wait between games, so we went over and checked out our fellow city mates, Twisted Metal, and watched them try their damnedest to give away a late lead on the Condors before winning 17-15 in what appeared to be a huge upset at the time.
Meanwhile, against Chain, we started out very tight, and gave them a 4-1 lead AND we had received to start the game. These were mostly ugly turnovers on our side, rather than awesome defense on their part. The D bailed us out and we ended taking half 8-7. Even better, we won the half, stuffing and scoring. We tightened up again torwards 10, but the D got another long run and we ended up winning 15-12 after giving one back at the very end. This game was marked by the return of our deep game, which had been dormant for pretty much the entire year.
Now that we were a lock for the winner's pool, this set up the 'first' pool game of the winners pool against Furious. We started tight again, with a few dubious unforced turnovers again, giving Furious a 2 break lead. The offense finally got back on track, and we ended up taking half 8-7. Furious was definitely struggling against our defensive pressure. Receiving out of half, Furious scored to tie at 8's, and then on the next point, stuck deep in our endzone on offense, my calf seized up unbelievably and I had to take a sub. The team scored that goal, and then one or two points later, a second offensive handler, Ariel, hurt his back, and the O was down two main handlers. Furious seized the advantage and scored 5 out of the next 6 points to take the game 15-10. However, they did not show us anything that we couldn't handle, but we have some work set up for us.
Meanwhile, Metal won a spot in the winners pool with a solid victory over Doublewide, putting us both in the same pool tomorrow. We start with Sockeye first, and then end up against Metal. While a win against Sockeye would be nice, the key game will be against Metal to avoid the pre-quarters game. And did I mention the hell that the loser pools will be tomorrow? Stay tuned...
posted by Alex de Frondeville at 8:11 PM
3 Comments:
le dude, where's the pickle juice... i've been anxiously awaiting color commentary all day... i was fully prepared to just go to RSD and start making up game descriptions...
whew... missin' the show, 2 missed in a row... taking me back to the dark ages (97-2000), but at least I got in 2 worlds in there... i'm thinking of another jordanesque unretirement... albeit w/out the athleticism, and this time, probably a LOT more akin to the last one... kind of more like a sean kemp unretirement...
now off to my blog to finish up this post...
But Luke, which masters team would you play with? There are so many choices.
and i was just starting to find a little room in my heart to cheer for the french.
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