breezing into the semifinals on Sunday. Edmonton Impact
was very up and down in this event with two preliminary
round wins and an almost unexplainable 5-2 loss to Paris
Camp Carnage. And the Toulouse TonTons did what they
always do, sweeping the preliminary rounds with wins
against Polar Bears as mentioned earlier, London Tigers
and GK Paris.
Sunday on the CPL got very interesting quickly. GI Houston
Heat beat Breakout Spa rather easily at 5-2. Frankfurt
Syndicate then beat Outrage Valence and the MLKings
sent Polar Bears Tarko Sale home earlier than they planned.
As luck would have it Edmonton Impact drew the Toulouse
TonTons early on Sunday with a chance to send them to the
bottom 4 through 8. That was exactly what both Edmonton
Impact and GI Houston Heat hoped for… a chance to
knock the TonTons low enough to have a chance at a title.
With Edmonton Impact up by two points they were forced
to start a point with only three players (due to penalties)
versus the TonTons five. Everyone in the grandstands
and watching the webcast thought Impact would play a
conservative point, lose the point and get back to five-onfive. Instead, Bart Yachimec and Dave Bains (coaches) went
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