What A Mess!
Wednesday, October 17, 2007 at 09:59AM
akaasa in 0708 Season, Nike Classic Cup, Tournaments

Difficult takes a day.  Impossible takes a week.  -Unknown

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The Standings after Day 1 were a mess and 5 out of the 6 teams had a shot to get to the final.  A great job of placing teams by the tournament officials.

   

TeamMPWLDGFGAPts
Sockers21 1424
Team Chicago21 1424
ELA21 1544
NSA2  2332
Bangu2 11351
Campton0 2 250

We had the worst shot to get in, but we still had a shot.  There was no way that Team Chicago was going to lose to Campton so I assumed that they were in the final and the rest of us were fighting for the other spot.  In order to advance to the final we needed to win 3-0 and have ELA and NSA draw.  (3pts for a win and 1pt extra for a shutout)

With 6 teams in the tournament I wasn't sure why the tournament didn't have 2 brackets of 3 teams and have us cross play.  While I was happy that we got to play Team Chicago and the Sockers because they are the two top teams at the tournament, I wouldn't have minded not seeing one of them until the final.  Oh well, this way we get to really see where we are at:)

 

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