Monday, March 20, 2006

Churchill HS no longer on top...

This last wednesday afernoon Churchill dropped the 12 game winning streak it had started this last fall after the first regular season match-up with South Eugene HS took place across town. A full game write-up is availabe on the CHS website (this write-up I actually finished, while Slopfest Tournament one still seems to escape my grasp). Click here for the run down of the game. With no more regular season match-ups for CHS or South Eugene before Spring Reign, what will this mean for the seedings?

One thing is for sure, Oregon will be bringing some serious talent to Spring Reign, the Northwest's largest HS and MS Mixed tournament (at least until this fall when the Eugene Juniors' program hopes to host 64 HS teams at its first ever tbo2006).

2 comments:

julia said...

Though our hats are off right now, the CHS team is already planning its' revenge. South on top in Eugene? Not for long!

right luke....

Mike Mullen said...

Luke,

Spring Reign HS seeds have never been purely by seed. We try to split by region and make even pools. We have 12 teams for the HS A division so my question is this:

We are limiting the max number of games to 4 on Sat and 3 on Sun for to keep from early season over use injuries and to make sure people don't drive home late on Sunday.

Do we split into two pools of six and which means 4 pool games on Sat and 1 on Sun, which only gives us time for semi's and finals? This would also guarantee 6-7 games for everyone.

Or do we split into 3 pools of 4 (these pools would each have 1 team from OR, 1 from BC, and 2 from Seattle. These pools would be split into hopefully even strength). After pool play we would have to reseed everyone 1-8 for quarters, semi's, and finals. The problem comes up that 1-6 seeds are obvious because they are the top 2 from each pool but there has to be a way one third place team from one pool is seperated out from the other two who would go into the quarters as the 7 and 8 seed.

What do you think?

Also, good luck with your fall tourney but NWS can't come because that is soccer season and as a varsity sport NWS ultimate can't (and won't) encroach on that season.

-Mike