Wins by Chain Lightning today over Jam (15-10) in the quarters and Ironside (a closer than it sounds 15-11) in the semis earned the team a berth in Sunday’s finals, taking on the Bay Area’s Revolver at 230 pm. The game will be the first time Chain or any open team from the southern region [...]
Through pool play at Nationals, Chain has gone undefeated at 5-0. That performance has earned the team the #2 seed in the championship bracket beginning Saturday morning. And, since a loss in any game now means elimination, we’ll be wearing the purple jerseys, the greens having done their work well. The quarterfinal matchup is a [...]
The culmination of a year’s work for Chain Lightning begins Thursday morning in Sarasota, FL. The seeding and pools for the Championship are below: We enter this year’s tournament as the #2 overall seed, Chain’s highest ever. No sneaking up on teams this year, so hopefully we’re not the team getting lulled. The rugged opening [...]
At this point in October, it can be distracting and sobering to be reminded of “real life”, work, people who aren’t players on your team – anything, really, that gets in the way of wanting to focus on that first pull of Nationals. Nevertheless, that stuff remains out there. Mike Sweeney, a former Chain (circa [...]
