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Match Madness Tournament!

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  1. Grizzly Adam

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    The Match Madness Round one (burn-in round) begins now. Day 1 Match ups are:

    16 Lodgepole Pine vs 16 Balsa

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    16 Catalpa vs 16 Basswood
     
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    The Lodgepole Pines and the Catalpa Catfish Trees are both out to an early lead.
     
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    Shouldn't the 16 seed play a 1?
     
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    This is the "play in" round, the winner takes on the 1 in the next round. Just like NCAA does theirs, except we dont mess with the eleven seeds like they do.
     
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    Gotcha.
     
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    So are the 16's at large bids or automatic?;)
     
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    We dont do automatic bids, otherwise Super Cedars and Compressed Sawdust logs would be on the bracket.
     
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    :rofl: :lol:
     
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    Lodge pole is blowing them out!
     
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    Lodgepole Pine stomps Balsa 12-0 and Catalpa wins over Basswood 8-3. The tournament continues tomorrow with the other two First Round match-ups. bracket.png
     
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    NO LARCH???? Lodgepole pine and no larch?
     
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    Well, you did put in your ballot after the bracket was drawn up. Cant say I have heard of larch but we will see if it does better next year.
     
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    Ah heck. Larch aka tamarrack
     
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    At least doug firs up there
     
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    Yeah, dougfir is pretty popular up in the northland!
     
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    Yup thats my bread and butter. When did the voting end?
     
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    Voting for the weekly poll ended earlier today, tournament bracket was created Sunday. Voting on today's matchups ended around 8 CST.
     
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    Gotcha il get in on the next round
     
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    My guess is that madrone or hedge will win it all.
     
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    Ash is the sleeper of the tournament.
     
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