Put up my running diary from reloading the UPA tourney pages for
the Club Championships yesterday. Not quite as funny as the
Sports Guy's, but then again, I'm not being paid. Money can
make me funnier, I think anyway. Watching TV (via EyeTV 500) on the computer's
pretty sweet. However, I don't think my G4 is up to the task
anymore. Not sure if it's a hard drive issue, as I haven't tried
it with a Firewire drive yet (I've heard it can be an issue).
But still, pretty sweet. Integration with titanTV is superb.
No complaints. Still need a better antenna, or a way to add
channels by hand. Since my Silver Sensor is highly directional,
and I suffer from extreme multipath, I get 11 channels one way,
13 the other, and a couple exclusive to either direction. Not
very fun. Also, I'm not getting any sound out of the UPN digital
station. Not good for Veronica Mars. But we'll see. I might
look at the Roku HD 1000 at the Best Buy on Clark on the way
home. Maybe. Nothing like spending money to keep my mind off
things.
Oct 29 09:56:06 CDT 2004 (Fri) CLX and Brass Monkey must have someone on the sideline calling in scores, cause they were first on the board with scores at 4-1 and up. Impressive. Then they got to tie it up at 7's. Also impressive. Currently, 6 TM down to RFBF by one at half, BM pulling away over CLX, H&P over BL by one, Hot Action and Universe both continuing the Central region trend downward. In women's, Nemesis down to Zanzara (and the Forth twins?) by 2 at half. Safari blows by Collide. Powerpool's have half at 8-4, 8-3. Really, where's the women's parity? On the open side, JB and Pike knotted at 12's, Sockeye over Furious by 1 at half, and BAT over Machine 8-5 at half. Ugh. Chicago, gotta win a game. A game. But all the parity seems to be in the Open div. Oh, and still no writeups, aside a quick one from bil from Shazam on RSD, but otherwise, nada. Disappointing. Too bad score-o-matic is concentrating on the college market. No money there. Granted, no money really in ultimate at all.
Oct 29 10:27:58 CDT 2004 (Fri) FG gets back on top of Sockeye, 15-13. this makes the sockeye road to the finals a whole lot more difficult, doesn't it? They need to win their last game to hopefully escape a play in round, right? Shazam, Brass Monkey continue the NW dominance in mixed. That's 3 teams in the upper pools with a combined record of 9-2 so far. Wow. Colorado and the SW come in 2nd so far with 2 in the top pools with a combined record of 5-2 so far. NW seems like the place to play mixed at a certain level. Must be nice. Over in open, JB takes out Pike by 1. Pike's definitely brought it this year. Props out to JT.
Oct 29 10:41:40 CDT 2004 (Fri) Nemesis still winless. Lost to the Texans. RFBF beat 6 TM. Hot Action and Universe still winless. Sweet. Go Central Region. CLX is the best central team at Nationals. They've got a 2-2 record with a -2 point diff. Best central team. That just rocks.
Oct 29 11:07:09 CDT 2004 (Fri) I think first round is done. Undefeateds left: Brass Monkey, Riot, Fury Godiva and Prime, Jam, Ring of Fire, and Furious George. All 4 top seeds in Women's continue to hold seed. Everyone but sockeye in the open holds. And noone, absolutely noone, holding really in Mixed. Brass Monkey, NW3, is the only undefeated. They've got a point diff of +26. I think the lowest point diff for an undefeated team is Furious, with +9. Women's don't even count. They're boring and expected.
Oct 29 12:14:57 CDT 2004 (Fri) Brass Monkey takes first in this round, with a 15-3 dismantling of Bad Larry. I think they got the easier of the 2 power pools. Hot action is running on away from Uncivil Union, 9-2 past half. Nemesis down again 4-8 against Brute Squad. What's gonna happen if they don't win a game? A complete collapse of the Nemesis? Finally? Furious over Pike at half, Johnny over the falling Sockeye 5-2. Some commentary would be great. Injuries? Maybe? Machine lost to intra region rival BAT last round. Still winless. 3 games to go to squeak out a W.
Oct 29 12:53:26 CDT 2004 (Fri) Hot Action on the board. They win over Uncivil Union 15-3. Sorta like Brass Monkey. Just sorta. Just checked, the Day one writeups are up. So I'm caught up in that.
Oct 29 13:04:06 CDT 2004 (Fri) 6 TM over DTL, making them 2-1 in the power pool. Looks like another 3 way 2-1 setup. Fury down to Godiva, and Riot still on top. George over Pike, Ring of Fire over Jam, and GOAT over Machine. Chicago still winless. Ah, sweet home Chicago.
Oct 29 13:39:24 CDT 2004 (Fri) Wow, CLX beats H&P to get a free ride into the quarters. No play in game for them. Means they meet RFBF tomorrow. When has a Central team played into the top 8 automatically, without playing themselves there? Wow. Chances of them beating Blah's 6th place finish last year? Not too shabby. Chance of them making semis? Can't say I see them beating RFBF. Too hard. That rocks though. Nemesis is officially 0-5. Damn. Not a single game. No parity in the women's div, and central region teams go 0fer against other regions, the only win by Collide against in-region Clutch. That's not good at all. And it's not like they all went to play Mixed, since there's no overlap between team cities. Mixed draws from Iowa and Minnesota. Women's draws from Chicago, Detroit, and Ohio. Ugh, I guess the central region does suck at this game. Except for Iowa. Ha. Pike has a play in game vs. Doublewide or BAT. Condors play Kaos, I think. Pretty damn crazy. Who am I rooting for? CLX. Props to them and their twins, if they're playing. I think Brass Monkey, RFBF, Shazam, and 6 TM. Go NW.
Oct 29 14:00:45 CDT 2004 (Fri) Guess I was reading that wrong. RFBF vs B+ in one pre-quarter. Soul Patrol vs. Bad Larry in the other. CLX vs. DTL. I think CLX's chances to the semis just got a whole lot better. Crazy. Central Region + Electric Mayhem for 13-16th in Women's. That's awesome. Wow, pre-quarters for Open just got posted. Johnny Bravo vs. Doublewide and Condors vs. Chain. I guess I seriously can't read powerpools. Pike and DoG square up and Jam vs. Sockeye. Interesting.
Oct 29 14:06:16 CDT 2004 (Fri) Have I mentioned how impressed I am with Rodney Jacobson's score reporting tool? Aside from the poor display in Safari, it's pretty cool. Wish it would do point diff's automatically. Some interface design help, something prettier to look at would also be nice. But it rocks.
Oct 29 16:23:40 CDT 2004 (Fri) There's been some fluidity in the score reporter. And since games are so close, and point diff seems to always matter, it's been crazy trying to figure out who goes were. Mixed: B+ vs RFBF, with B+ up 11-8. Soul Patrol vs Bad Larry 11-8. Bad Larry seems to be losing something. Women: BNOGO vs Ozone 8-5 and Rare Air vs Zanzara 8-7. Riot hasn't gotten double digits scored on them yet. 9 is the closest by Ozone. Open: Sockeye over Doublewide 15-9 and DoG vs Chain 11-8. Sockeye faces up Ring tomorrow morning. Pike (2-3) faces up against the Condors (3-2). Sockeye (4-2) gets Ring (5-0). Jam (4-1) vs Bravo (3-2). A team with a losing record is in the quarters. That's pretty crazy. I think I'm bored of this.
Oct 29 17:00:28 CDT 2004 (Fri) Stage is set.
Mixed: 6 TM vs. Bad Larry. CLX vs DTL. BM vs B+. Shazam vs. H&P. RFBF out. CLX now, I think, has a great shot at the finals. I say they play 6 TM in the semis. BM plays Shazam in the other. BM goes to the finals. Where they win it all over the upstarts from Iowa. But that's just my guess.
Women: Riot vs Rare Air. Fury vs Backhoe. Godiva vs Ozone. Prime vs Schwa. Let's go with unbeatens and say Riot vs Godiva in the finals beating Fury and Prime to get there.
Open: FG vs DoG. Jam vs. JB. Ring vs. Sockeye. Pike vs. Condors. My picks? FG vs Jam. Sockeye vs Pike. Sockeye vs Jam. Sockeye. It's been interesting, that's for sure.
Oct 29 09:56:06 CDT 2004 (Fri) CLX and Brass Monkey must have someone on the sideline calling in scores, cause they were first on the board with scores at 4-1 and up. Impressive. Then they got to tie it up at 7's. Also impressive. Currently, 6 TM down to RFBF by one at half, BM pulling away over CLX, H&P over BL by one, Hot Action and Universe both continuing the Central region trend downward. In women's, Nemesis down to Zanzara (and the Forth twins?) by 2 at half. Safari blows by Collide. Powerpool's have half at 8-4, 8-3. Really, where's the women's parity? On the open side, JB and Pike knotted at 12's, Sockeye over Furious by 1 at half, and BAT over Machine 8-5 at half. Ugh. Chicago, gotta win a game. A game. But all the parity seems to be in the Open div. Oh, and still no writeups, aside a quick one from bil from Shazam on RSD, but otherwise, nada. Disappointing. Too bad score-o-matic is concentrating on the college market. No money there. Granted, no money really in ultimate at all.
Oct 29 10:27:58 CDT 2004 (Fri) FG gets back on top of Sockeye, 15-13. this makes the sockeye road to the finals a whole lot more difficult, doesn't it? They need to win their last game to hopefully escape a play in round, right? Shazam, Brass Monkey continue the NW dominance in mixed. That's 3 teams in the upper pools with a combined record of 9-2 so far. Wow. Colorado and the SW come in 2nd so far with 2 in the top pools with a combined record of 5-2 so far. NW seems like the place to play mixed at a certain level. Must be nice. Over in open, JB takes out Pike by 1. Pike's definitely brought it this year. Props out to JT.
Oct 29 10:41:40 CDT 2004 (Fri) Nemesis still winless. Lost to the Texans. RFBF beat 6 TM. Hot Action and Universe still winless. Sweet. Go Central Region. CLX is the best central team at Nationals. They've got a 2-2 record with a -2 point diff. Best central team. That just rocks.
Oct 29 11:07:09 CDT 2004 (Fri) I think first round is done. Undefeateds left: Brass Monkey, Riot, Fury Godiva and Prime, Jam, Ring of Fire, and Furious George. All 4 top seeds in Women's continue to hold seed. Everyone but sockeye in the open holds. And noone, absolutely noone, holding really in Mixed. Brass Monkey, NW3, is the only undefeated. They've got a point diff of +26. I think the lowest point diff for an undefeated team is Furious, with +9. Women's don't even count. They're boring and expected.
Oct 29 12:14:57 CDT 2004 (Fri) Brass Monkey takes first in this round, with a 15-3 dismantling of Bad Larry. I think they got the easier of the 2 power pools. Hot action is running on away from Uncivil Union, 9-2 past half. Nemesis down again 4-8 against Brute Squad. What's gonna happen if they don't win a game? A complete collapse of the Nemesis? Finally? Furious over Pike at half, Johnny over the falling Sockeye 5-2. Some commentary would be great. Injuries? Maybe? Machine lost to intra region rival BAT last round. Still winless. 3 games to go to squeak out a W.
Oct 29 12:53:26 CDT 2004 (Fri) Hot Action on the board. They win over Uncivil Union 15-3. Sorta like Brass Monkey. Just sorta. Just checked, the Day one writeups are up. So I'm caught up in that.
Oct 29 13:04:06 CDT 2004 (Fri) 6 TM over DTL, making them 2-1 in the power pool. Looks like another 3 way 2-1 setup. Fury down to Godiva, and Riot still on top. George over Pike, Ring of Fire over Jam, and GOAT over Machine. Chicago still winless. Ah, sweet home Chicago.
Oct 29 13:39:24 CDT 2004 (Fri) Wow, CLX beats H&P to get a free ride into the quarters. No play in game for them. Means they meet RFBF tomorrow. When has a Central team played into the top 8 automatically, without playing themselves there? Wow. Chances of them beating Blah's 6th place finish last year? Not too shabby. Chance of them making semis? Can't say I see them beating RFBF. Too hard. That rocks though. Nemesis is officially 0-5. Damn. Not a single game. No parity in the women's div, and central region teams go 0fer against other regions, the only win by Collide against in-region Clutch. That's not good at all. And it's not like they all went to play Mixed, since there's no overlap between team cities. Mixed draws from Iowa and Minnesota. Women's draws from Chicago, Detroit, and Ohio. Ugh, I guess the central region does suck at this game. Except for Iowa. Ha. Pike has a play in game vs. Doublewide or BAT. Condors play Kaos, I think. Pretty damn crazy. Who am I rooting for? CLX. Props to them and their twins, if they're playing. I think Brass Monkey, RFBF, Shazam, and 6 TM. Go NW.
Oct 29 14:00:45 CDT 2004 (Fri) Guess I was reading that wrong. RFBF vs B+ in one pre-quarter. Soul Patrol vs. Bad Larry in the other. CLX vs. DTL. I think CLX's chances to the semis just got a whole lot better. Crazy. Central Region + Electric Mayhem for 13-16th in Women's. That's awesome. Wow, pre-quarters for Open just got posted. Johnny Bravo vs. Doublewide and Condors vs. Chain. I guess I seriously can't read powerpools. Pike and DoG square up and Jam vs. Sockeye. Interesting.
Oct 29 14:06:16 CDT 2004 (Fri) Have I mentioned how impressed I am with Rodney Jacobson's score reporting tool? Aside from the poor display in Safari, it's pretty cool. Wish it would do point diff's automatically. Some interface design help, something prettier to look at would also be nice. But it rocks.
Oct 29 16:23:40 CDT 2004 (Fri) There's been some fluidity in the score reporter. And since games are so close, and point diff seems to always matter, it's been crazy trying to figure out who goes were. Mixed: B+ vs RFBF, with B+ up 11-8. Soul Patrol vs Bad Larry 11-8. Bad Larry seems to be losing something. Women: BNOGO vs Ozone 8-5 and Rare Air vs Zanzara 8-7. Riot hasn't gotten double digits scored on them yet. 9 is the closest by Ozone. Open: Sockeye over Doublewide 15-9 and DoG vs Chain 11-8. Sockeye faces up Ring tomorrow morning. Pike (2-3) faces up against the Condors (3-2). Sockeye (4-2) gets Ring (5-0). Jam (4-1) vs Bravo (3-2). A team with a losing record is in the quarters. That's pretty crazy. I think I'm bored of this.
Oct 29 17:00:28 CDT 2004 (Fri) Stage is set.
Mixed: 6 TM vs. Bad Larry. CLX vs DTL. BM vs B+. Shazam vs. H&P. RFBF out. CLX now, I think, has a great shot at the finals. I say they play 6 TM in the semis. BM plays Shazam in the other. BM goes to the finals. Where they win it all over the upstarts from Iowa. But that's just my guess.
Women: Riot vs Rare Air. Fury vs Backhoe. Godiva vs Ozone. Prime vs Schwa. Let's go with unbeatens and say Riot vs Godiva in the finals beating Fury and Prime to get there.
Open: FG vs DoG. Jam vs. JB. Ring vs. Sockeye. Pike vs. Condors. My picks? FG vs Jam. Sockeye vs Pike. Sockeye vs Jam. Sockeye. It's been interesting, that's for sure.
