Best Tournament Results

I don't have much time to write today.

We had 234 voters select which tournament they thought was the best. Here are the results for the best tournament for 2008:

1. Centex - 93 votes
2. Trouble in Vegas - 81 votes
3. Southerns - 38 votes
4. Stanford Invite - 36 votes
5. CCC - 34 votes
6. Roll Call - 28 votes
and so on...

Centex
Why was it such a fun tournament? Centex is a preview of what Nationals will look like. At Nationals, there will be 16 teams. At Centex, there was 24. The smaller amount of elite teams at a tournament, the more fun. The teams that went to Centex had two days of worthy competition. The fields we play on awesome. Laying out on defense was a lot more fun compared to our dried up fields in Athens, GA. I remember having to pull out grass from my cleats multiple times in order to make cuts efficiently. For the past two years, Centex's highlight games have been blow outs. Fortunately this year, BC and UNC made it interesting with some pretty awesome layout D's. The dance off during the highlight game has become a fun event to watch as well. Other good things - the organization of the tournament, having a giant place to put the scores of the game, the amount of Nutella and bagels, the warm weather, the music (Radiohead In Rainbow's remix was a nice choice), the amazing place to get burritos in Texas (I believe it is called, "Freebird"), and the gear.

What can improve? Something that bothered me was the bathroom situation. I got nervous that I would miss a couple of points in the game because there were only two urinals and two commodes. Think about Port-o-Johns! Also, it would be cool to have a similar photographer booth like the one at Nationals. During the day, the photographers would take pictures and print them off in small "preview" shots. I think that would be a cool addition.