Thursday, October 28th, 2010
Shot from Thursday
Zip up high over Asa and Truck Stop via Iamultimate’s twitpic photostream
Zip up high over Asa and Truck Stop via Iamultimate’s twitpic photostream
…or, it’s hard to repeat As the Big Show begins, here’s what Chain has: Defending champ Atlanta comes in as the 4th seed out of 16. Chain starts atop Pool D, but only just ahead of 5th seed Truck Stop (DC). Thursday’s games are: 9:30 Streetgang (San Diego) 12:15 Furious George (Vancouver) 3:30 Truck Stop [...]
click on photo to see larger version John “Kid” Hammond goes high to catch the disc over 2 Truck Stop defenders in Chain’s day 1 win at Nationals. photographer: Chain Lightning alum Jason Edelman
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: 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 [...]