The Main Event
As always, the Pittsburgh Open Classic draws so many teams and players from years( and decades) gone by— and none more than this year. Chicago Aftershock, the all Americans, Image, Farside, Adrenaline, Team Smoke, Detroit Fusion and Ground Zero are a handful of the teams that played the original mounds fields back in the 90s. And players like Todd Adamson, Rocky Cagnoni, Billy Ceranski, Glenn Forster, Rodney Squires, Danny Manning, Spesh Robinson, Frank Connell, Travis Lemanski, John Dresser and many others are still at it all these years later.
The Pro Ten V Ten Games
The Ten V Ten division teams each played eight preliminary round games to determine which teams would advance to Sunday play. Image, featuring original member Richie Maliszewski and 12 other
players that ere in grade school in the mid-90s, were the only Pro team to max / win all of their preliminary round games. Farside won 8. No other team won more than seven games in the Pro preliminary rounds.
Nine teams advanced to the Pro semifinals— with three brackets of three teams each playing a round robin to determine who would meet in the finals. Each bracket’ s winner would advance. After 18 semifinal round games there were only two flag hangs— every other game was decided by body count / eliminations and first flag-pulls. Image won their bracket with a total score of 36 of a possible 200 points, over Team Smoke and Adrenaline. Chicago Aftershock won their group with 58 combined points over Philadelphia Iconic and the Omaha Bulls. The All Americans slipped past Farside 112 to 104 total points, leaving the misfits in last place in the bracket with 23 points.
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