Getting the conversation going about Saturday's format (and its winners and losers) with wisdom from conversation hearts. Aww!
February 16, 2025 by Bridget Mizener in Recap
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To battle through the (atrocious, as expected) weather and navigate the nerve-wracking rainout schedule, these teams at QCTU gotta love frisbee. How fitting for Valentine’s Day weekend, my ultimate-exhausted brain thought! I’m leaning into it. After all, after a 8am–10:30pm day of play, all I’ve got left in the tank are short sentences. So, here’s the story of the day, told through real candy conversation heart sayings, for the teams that are married to the game.
PERFECT – The Semifinalist Field is Set
You can view the full results on Score Reporter, but here’s the quick version: The format — shuffled in a major way due to grass field closures — was a five-pool setup, with the top four pool winners (ranked by point differential) advancing straight to semis. The lower brackets were filled using a similar trickle-down method: the fifth pool winner with the lowest point differential slotted into the top of the fifth-place semis, with the remaining spots filled by the highest-ranked pool two-seeds, etc. So actually, to make semis teams had to be “perfect” and then some.
It’s #8 Tufts EWO, #3 UNC Pleiades, #6 Carleton Syzygy, and #1 Vermont Ruckus who got the job done.
OOH LA LA – Bracket Intrigue
The five-pool, four-semifinal format creates pressure inherently. Add in the fact that Pools D and E finished play four hours before A, B, and C even took the field, and you’ve got a recipe for drama — both for Tufts and Michigan, waiting to see if their dominance was enough, and for other teams trying to best their mark and make the cut.
Tufts (+33) and #11 Michigan Flywheel (+31) set the point diff bar absurdly high in the morning which put some serious pressure on UNC, Carleton, and Vermont — and they played tighter lines than you’d normally see at a “tune-up” to match.
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