#9 North Carolina State Alpha's run into the nationals bracket in 2021 was cut short after they ran into Michigan on a heater. Trevor Lynch and co are back hoping for another great run. A surprising loss to Vermont in pool play of Queen City wasn't the start they wanted, but they cleaned things up to make the prequarter against in-region opponent Maryland Space Bastards. Maryland has been a bubble nationals squad for the past few years. Will they put things together again this year?
#12 Virginia Hydra went 2-1 in pool play, but their sizable loss to #14 Tufts was cause for concern as they headed into bracket play. Michigan Flywheel had a tough day on Saturday, going 1-3 and only beating bottom seed Columbia by 1. Both teams lost important pieces from their expanded fall rost...
The Maryland Space Bastards make their 2022 season debut against the Case Western Reserve Fighting Gobies. After being 1-point away from making the game-to-go to nationals in the fall, Maryland hopes to coalesce a little further this year and get back to the big event. Case was a darling low-seed...
#7 BYU CHI has had a strong start to their year so far, compiling a 3-2 record at SBI (lost both games by a combined 3 points to top-5 opponents), and going 2-1 at Queen City. Their final matchup of the event comes against 1-2 Michigan Flywheel, who split universe point games with Columbia and #2...