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| Oct. 1, 2008 DaveDowell Men's 70 4317 posts | WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS - PARTICIPATING TEAMS LIST The PRELIMINARY Participating Teams List has been posted and is available from the link on the Home Page ... This list is based on the fully paid, partially paid and "we're coming to Phoenix" lists through the close of business on October 1st ... If your team IS planning on coming to Phoenix and is NOT on this list, or if your team is NOT planning on coming and IS on this list, please contact the SSUSA offices as soon as possible ... Schedule generation will begin later this week ... Good luck to all! ... DAVE |
| Oct. 2, 2008 taits Men's 65 4548 posts | Dave, I think the added info will be helpful to the players\teams. Good Job. |
| Oct. 2, 2008 GeHall44 Men's 55 88 posts | Wow, if the Major Plus and Major were combined into one UPPER Divsion, with rules that would equalize the competition, there would be 31 teams in the 50, 17 in the 55 and 18 in the 60 events at Phoenix. That would maybe even make Dirty Gary happy! Sure would like to see that happen down the road sometime and be able to play in a 30 team event again. GH |
| Oct. 2, 2008 Lecak Men's 60 1026 posts | 26 teams in the 50 major by my calculation you would be looking at 6 or 7 games to win in the undefeated portion of the winners bracket. |
| Oct. 2, 2008 udaplaya 90 posts | FYI....32 team brackets yields 6 games for an undefeated team. If team draws one of the first round byes, then only 5. I think combining Major/Major+ and AAA/AA would go a long way to bringing back the "big tourneys' of our younger days. |
| Oct. 2, 2008 DesertGuy Men's 60 224 posts | udaplaya- I think it's really only 5 games in a 32, since it's 6 in the 64-team March Madness and that's only one more round. In any event, it's a lot longer in the loser's bracket. I looked it up and the if-game in a 26 team 3-game format is game #59 and in the 50-AAA with 34 teams that's game #77. Ouch! |
| Oct. 2, 2008 udaplaya 90 posts | Humm.. 32 team bracket game 1 - down to 16 undefeated game 2 - 8 undefeated game 3 - 4 undefeated game 4 - 2 undefeated game 5 - 1 undefeated game 6 - win tourney against losers' bracket winner From a mathematical perspective: = 1 + 2X where X is the power of 2 4 team bracket, 2 squared = 4...so it is 1 + 2 = 3 games 8 team bracket, 2 cubed = 8, so it is 1 + 3 = 4 32 is 2 to the fifth power, so 1 + 5 = 6 games. So, do you notice i am bored today? |
| Oct. 3, 2008 DesertGuy Men's 60 224 posts | udaplayr- You are correct! The March Madness is a 1-and-done event. I forgot about the losers bracket winner getting that second chance. Nice analysis too. Even an old guy like me can follow that one. :) |
| Oct. 3, 2008 Dirty Men's 50 1371 posts | George, larger is just much better. It makes the tournament much more interesting, and winning much more meaningful. |
| Oct. 4, 2008 red 28 posts | One of the best tournament we played in wasSSUSA several years ago. We (Texas Tornado) played in the 55AA and we had 32 teams that year they went with 4 8 team divisions and we played 7 games and they took the top 2 from each group into a single game bracket for the finals. Ours was balanced we went 3-4 and lost 3 of the games by 1 run and beat the team that won our group. Can't ask for a better chance to win. |
