Party of 1 for the tournament champs "Welcoming Party"!
1: New Players Shout out to our newly rated players from this tournament!
B- Adryona Miller B Abby Remick
2: Pool Play
This 4 team, 24 player, tournament included 6 rounds of pool play (each team plays 3 matches of 2 sets totaling 6 games played). All 4 teams broke into the seeded playoff bracket. Only 1 team was under the tournament player cap (27 points) and they finished 2nd in pool! The Pool Play results were:
4th: "Ians Team" 0-6 record with a -45 point diff
3rd: "Welcoming Party" went 3-3 record with a +9 point diff
2nd: "Phil-N Lucky" went 4-2 record with a -24 point diff
1st: "Corgi Butts" went 5-1 record with a +17 point diff
Note: All tournaments have point caps to ensure competitive balance. If a team were deemed to be over the point cap they would be Disqualified from playoffs.
3: Semi-Finals
In a battle of the # 1 and # 4 seeds "Ians Team" through caution to the wind and pushed "Corgi Butts" to their limits and overtime! The two teams swapped several leads late but neither team gave ground at 25-25. In another flurry of rallies "Corgi Butts" arose triumphant with an exahusting 29-27 win. Semi-finals #2 had the peoples' champion, Rob Pisacreta, led "Phil-N Lucky" battle with "Welcoming Party". Their pool play match up saw a split with each team getting 1 win and one loss but "Welcoming Party" won point differential by 3. Unfortunately Rob & team came up short again losing by 4 points in the semi-final.
Note: In playoffs a team must win a set by 2 points, even if they get to 25 first!
4: Finals: "Corgi Butts" v "Welcoming Party"
This finals match up was slated for a best of 3 match 25,25,15. In pool play "Corgi Butts" left their opponents in the dust with a 2-0 sweep and a +7 match point differential but history dones't always repeat itself.
Set 1: "Corgi Butts" loved their +7 point diff so much they repeated it walking to a 25-18 win! Set 2: Showing up fashionably late "Welcoming Party" burst onto the scene early in set 2 grabbing a 15-10 lead. "Corgi Butts" was left chasing their own tail as the set concluded 25-19 (not quite +7). Set 3: In a winner-take-all set 3, and 1 point separating the teams playoff performance, tensions, emotions and efforts ran high. Early on both team kept pace as "Welcoming Party" held a one point lead at 9-8 but their new players Abby Remick and Adryona Miller came up clutch late. Both players chipped in two kills and they helped capture a 15-10 championship win! "Corgi Butts" went 7-3 on the day with a + 15 point diff becoming the first bridesmaid of the season. "Welcoming Party" celebrated going 6-4 with a +19 point diff as tournament champs!
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