Chain Lightning

Finish: Champs, 7-0, beating the Univ. of Fla. 15-4 in the finals The 2008 winners’ disc | click on photo to see larger version the 2008 Terminus team | click on photo to see larger version pictured, L to R: (rear) Colin Bellair, Mark Poole, Andrew Carter, Frito Monforti, Jason Simpson, Dylan Tunnell, Joel Wooten, [...]

Finish: quarterfinals, loss to Goat 14-15 UPA Championships report Actually, though that post title fits the Cinderella analogy, and the pumpkin is befitting for this time of year, our bowing out in the quarterfinals didn’t necessarily feel like we were crashing suddenly back down to rags status. Not many Chain players felt the 13 seed [...]

So far, so good for Cinderella. Scrapping our way up from the (hereafter, lucky) 13 seed, we swept our pool with 3 consecutive upsets on Thursday, defeating Subzero (overall 5 seed), Furious George (overall 4 seed, last year’s runner-up), and Truck Stop (overall 12 seed). The win over Furious was Chain’s first ever over the [...]

Finish: 2nd, 15-16 finals loss to Doublewide; qualify for Nationals UPA South Open Regional results click on photo to see larger version; shot by Chad Borer …And now, your 2007 South Region Sagarin/BCS/RRI* champs, Chained** Lightning. Only a single 1 point loss mars the record sheet otherwise adorned with dominating double-digit victories. As soon as [...]

Finish: middling; 4-3 record, win over Boston results overdue recap from Aug 25-26 In brief, we were consistently erratic. All Saturday (until we were excited to play Boston in the last game) we were mired in games vs lower-seeded teams that were not doing us the courtesy of rolling over, and having to scrap for [...]