FOSS NATION JUMP FORWARD

Boasters League round 5~~

As expected, the league night was rather tranquil being the day before the DAC Classic kicks off. A lot of people were maybe catching up on some zzzzz’s that they no doubt will be in short supply of over the next few days, or maybe trying to find their ‘Zen’ and get themselves into the right frame of mind for the upcoming competition, or maybe they were simply staying away from the keg that they won’t be avoiding from today onwards… Whatever the reason, not a ton of action which reflected in the standings. Mongoose increased their dominant lead, Winky-Dinks are hanging on to second, Over Served and Nick at Night are still wallowing in the depths of the catacombs of last place.

Foss Nation were the ones to raise their heads above the rest this week with a league leading 32 points and jumped up 3 spots on the standings to 3^rd place, just 5 points off Winky-Dinks. The team that plummeted was Nicker Ballers. Yes, they did have a bye week, but they only salvaged a skimpy 5 points and dropped a rather impressive 4 spots to 7^th place and currently out of play-off contention.

One of the reasons Mongoose continue to do well? Bonus points. Another 13 yesterday, giving them 60 for the season. Next best is just 50. They have also played the most matches so far – 7% more than the next best. Pretty simple formula for success.

Surprisingly, the courts were noticeably busy leading up to league night yesterday but tapered off once the league kicked in. So not a lot of action to pick from with the matches that were completed.

One of the hardest fought matches was Chris Langenburg (Winky-Dinks) and Landon Lefler (Wardogs). It felt as these two were playing a best of 7 match and not just 3 games. I watched a little, went back to my office, entered a couple scores on Sporty, watched a little more, moseyed on upstairs to check out the action on courts 1 and 2, talked to a few members, took my sweet time coming back to the court area, and Chris and Landon were still going at it. Landon took the match 2 games to 1 (maybe they were playing to 21 per game?) improving his record to 4 wins and 1 loss for the half.

Adam Whitehead (Butter Nutz) picked up his third win of the half with a 2-1 take-down of Paul Gormley (Nick at Night). I may see Paul’s racquet back for a restring this week, it seems he has used up all of the winners out of the new set of strings he purchased 2 weeks ago. I told not to use up all of them at once.

So we have 3 rounds to play before the finals are upon us. As you know the last 3 teams on the standings get to watch the finals as opposed to actually playing in them, so some teams have plenty of work to do in the next month. The deadline to get all your scores into me is Thursday March 5 (inclusive). Plus, as you all know, we lose the 2 courts upstairs due to the construction so we will have to squeeze the finals play onto the 2 courts downstairs – there will have to a lot of rearranging and flexibility with your schedules to accommodate.