Badminton Poll Week #8.1

BADMINTON POLL WEEK #8.1

At this point I had hoped to have all the brackets ready with match numbers, opponents, and rough estimates on starting times. There was a last minute curve ball, and the release of that individual schedule will now take place sometime on Monday when all the Ts are crossed and the Is (or is it eyes) are dotted. I was five minutes from the finish when production halted and had to start over.

So, a word about the seeds—-The seeds, using the constraint that no school will face a teammate until the title match (or third place match), are not necessarily the ranks. In other words, Johnson’s number two doubles just finished the St. Paul City tournament in second place with their teammates at number one doubles in first. That means they can not be in the top half of the doubles bracket (like a #4 or #5 seed), they need to be in the bottom half of the bracket—#2, #3, #6 or #7 for example.

Right now, 14 singles, and 13 doubles teams will receive byes, which will be listed below.

Also, when the full game flow chart is released on Monday it will be: School and what flight (first singles, second singles). That is the way I am listing the information below.

The format will be:

Match 1 Team A2 vs Team B1 Winner moving to match 34.

The courts will be assigned when they become available. It is not predetermined. It will be important for teams and players to monitor the clock, pay attention to the last match called out and stay ready to be answer the call.

By the way there are 101 matches scheduled for Thursday. Things will move quickly. Time between matches will not stretch out to six minutes (like I have witnessed in the last week). Things must keep moving with all matches squeezing into the Thursday evening time frame.

The seeded players, if they made it to the title game, will be playing five matches on Thursday. It will be vital that the players maintain good lifestyle habits whether it is eating, hydrating, sleeping reasonable hours and handling stress. Matches will become more contentious as the day goes on. Time on the court could go to 30 minutes in some matches. Be prepared.

The Tuesday and Wednesday team information was released last week. There are no changes in that schedule.

If you are wondering why Singles gets 14 byes and doubles get 13, it is because there are 51 doubles entries, 50 singles.

SINGLES

  1. Highland Park 1
  2. Burnsville 1
  3. Harding 1
  4. Johnson 1
  5. Edina 1
  6. Edina 2
  7. Highland Park 2
  8. Washington 1
  9. Central 1
  10. Como Park 1
  11. Johnson 2
  12. Burnsville 2
  13. North St. Paul 13
  14. Trinity 14

DOUBLES

  1. Johnson 1
  2. Edina 1
  3. Burnsville 1
  4. Harding 1
  5. Washington 1
  6. Johnson 2
  7. Highland Park 1
  8. Burnsville 2
  9. Trinity 1
  10. Eden Prairie 1
  11. Harding 2
  12. Como Park 1
  13. Edina 2

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