I want to send out a great BIG Congratulations to the Three Los Angeles Teams who placed at this years World Series in DC.
My Latin Brothers from the Bandits ... great job guys, you overcame a lot, and deserve the WIN!
The Knights, the new Dominating D Team...congrats!
And of course, the Mighty Stray Cats .. need I say more!
Way to go LA .. always representing and Dominating! See ya'll next year!
Los Angeles Mayan Warriors
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Does anyone have any results from the World Series? NAGAAA has been TERRIBLE with releasing results. Please, post anything you know here. Thanks guys!
I'm waiting for the reports that the winning teams had ringers and all of that stuff we've heard in the past. 
Surprisingly, I understand that there were FAR fewer ratings protests at the World Series than years past, and the ones that happened all occurred at the lowest level (D Division). You're never going to get a completely drama-free World Series, but it sounds like there was less at DC this year than we experienced in Portland the year before.
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AtlantaSpartan:
Surprisingly, I understand that there were FAR fewer ratings protests at the World Series than years past, and the ones that happened all occurred at the lowest level (D Division). You're never going to get a completely drama-free World Series, but it sounds like there was less at DC this year than we experienced in Portland the year before.
Good Gawd, Portland musta really sucked, then, because I got very little chance to see my college buddy who was in DC last week due to his having to hear endless challenges...
Surprisingly, I understand that there were FAR fewer ratings protests at the World Series than years past, and the ones that happened all occurred at the lowest level (D Division). You're never going to get a completely drama-free World Series, but it sounds like there was less at DC this year than we experienced in Portland the year before.
Well, I don't know all the results, but:
Mens A was again won by LA Stray Cats, but not easily. The DC home team came out of the loser's bracket to take the first game and I believe the second game of the final ended up being close.
In Men's B, the Seatle Monarchs came from behind in the second game to defeat my buddies on the Chicago Spin team. The Monarchs barely put chicago into the loser's bracket. Chicago fought back to the final, spanked the Monarchs in the first game and were up in the second game. As they say, no lead is safe in softball, and Seatle proved it by gutting out the final few innings. Third place went to a Florida team that I can't remember the name of. Fourth place was Seatle Rein Neers, or something like that. My team, Chicago Surge, lost a heart breaker to the Seatle Rein Neers team and missed placing by one inning. More or less. Sigh.
Men's C was won by Chicago Charlie's Cougars. Go Boys! This team had a great year surprising folks in the local league. I can't for the life of me remember who they played in in the final. Props out to our other chicago sister team, Hunter's for also placing 5th.
The Chicago D team was disqualified, otherwise we likely would have had a team in every men's final that we entered. But honestly, that team was STACKED for the D division.
There was some great women's games going on. One of the ladies hit a couple monster home runs over the double high fences. We were stunned.
The women's competitive division was won by a team from Minneapolis. I'm having trouble remembering the other winners, sorry.
It was a fairly smoothly run event. The most common complaint was that with games happening at four unconnected facilities, you didn't get to see much of the action or meet many of the other players. Getting to play on Saturday was fun because that was the one time during the week when all the divisions were at the same park.
Congrats to all the winning teams!
[ August 26, 2003, 09:33 AM: Message edited by: curtj ]
Mens A was again won by LA Stray Cats, but not easily. The DC home team came out of the loser's bracket to take the first game and I believe the second game of the final ended up being close.
In Men's B, the Seatle Monarchs came from behind in the second game to defeat my buddies on the Chicago Spin team. The Monarchs barely put chicago into the loser's bracket. Chicago fought back to the final, spanked the Monarchs in the first game and were up in the second game. As they say, no lead is safe in softball, and Seatle proved it by gutting out the final few innings. Third place went to a Florida team that I can't remember the name of. Fourth place was Seatle Rein Neers, or something like that. My team, Chicago Surge, lost a heart breaker to the Seatle Rein Neers team and missed placing by one inning. More or less. Sigh.
Men's C was won by Chicago Charlie's Cougars. Go Boys! This team had a great year surprising folks in the local league. I can't for the life of me remember who they played in in the final. Props out to our other chicago sister team, Hunter's for also placing 5th.
The Chicago D team was disqualified, otherwise we likely would have had a team in every men's final that we entered. But honestly, that team was STACKED for the D division.
There was some great women's games going on. One of the ladies hit a couple monster home runs over the double high fences. We were stunned.
The women's competitive division was won by a team from Minneapolis. I'm having trouble remembering the other winners, sorry.
It was a fairly smoothly run event. The most common complaint was that with games happening at four unconnected facilities, you didn't get to see much of the action or meet many of the other players. Getting to play on Saturday was fun because that was the one time during the week when all the divisions were at the same park.
Congrats to all the winning teams!
[ August 26, 2003, 09:33 AM: Message edited by: curtj ]
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GatorJamie:
Indeed... "D" division was rife with protests; it's a truly ridiculous system we were not prepared for -- to be challenged and then reviewed by a "committee" that didn't actually witness the game in question? Come on. Essentially, the system says that (a) NAGAAA doesn't trust the local commissions to rate players and (QUOTE
AtlantaSpartan:
You're never going to get a completely drama-free World Series, but it sounds like there was less at DC this year than we experienced in Portland the year before.
Good Gawd, Portland musta really sucked, then, because I got very little chance to see my college buddy who was in DC last week due to his having to hear endless challenges... You're never going to get a completely drama-free World Series, but it sounds like there was less at DC this year than we experienced in Portland the year before.
if you get all fired up and have a better-than-average game (hello? ever hear of adrenaline?) you're "too good" to be in your division. Very disillusioning. But that's why it's Gay Softball, I guess.
My team, the Ron's Place Angelboys from Dallas, finished 4th in the D Division. It was a tough series, and as a D player I can see why there were so many protests. We played and lost to all 3 of the teams that placed ahead of us (LA Knights in pool play, Atlanta Woofs and DC Rams eliminated us from the tournament).
The 4th place A Division team was also from Dallas, the Fuel. I agree that Saturday was great, because all the divisions, men and women, were centralized at one park. And we got amazing support from teams that had been eliminated already!
We can only hope that the ratings sytem somehow improves a little each year. I don't envy the commissioners that have to sign off on ratings, and then risk a protest that would kick them out of NAGAAA for life if they are wrong.
Looking forward to hosting the 2004 Series down here in Dallas. Should be a great (and hot!) one.
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The 4th place A Division team was also from Dallas, the Fuel. I agree that Saturday was great, because all the divisions, men and women, were centralized at one park. And we got amazing support from teams that had been eliminated already!
We can only hope that the ratings sytem somehow improves a little each year. I don't envy the commissioners that have to sign off on ratings, and then risk a protest that would kick them out of NAGAAA for life if they are wrong.
Looking forward to hosting the 2004 Series down here in Dallas. Should be a great (and hot!) one.
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