Bottom Feeders Bracket/Futile Four 2010

[joecct]

Re: Bottom Feeders Bracket/Futile Four 2010

Give it time. Deliberations in South Dakota take longer than most other places due to an obscure state law.

Whew, I thought you fell into an abandoned ICBM silo!

[FlagDUDE08]

Re: Bottom Feeders Bracket/Futile Four 2010

Give it time. Deliberations in South Dakota take longer than most other places due to an obscure state law.

[Douglas]

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Well...?!?!

[huskyfan]

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this thing is so f'ed up. I say cancel the whole thing and try again next year.

what a grand ending.

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

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1. Declaring a victory by forfeit to BG, thus awarding AIC with the title.
2. Declaring a draw.
3. Declaring a state of emergency and cancelling the entire event.
4. Rescheduling the game after the AIC players are released on bail.
5. Having the team mascots face off in a CCHA-style shootout.

I'd support any kind of shootout/"lack of skills" competition. It'd be fitting for an event of this calibre.

[Patman]

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Rapid City SD. BFB Chairman Francis Bedwetter was finally reached for comment on the unusual events which took place earlier today in New Mexico. "We are relieved to know that the AIC team has been found, and equally happy to find that their disappearance was not part of a larger plot to disrupt our event" Bedwetter said.

Committee members, tournament personnel and the Bowling Green State University team had all been held in protective custody at a trailer park on the outskirts of this remote city in west-central South Dakota. "We have had threats before" Bedwetter continued, "from hockey purists, elitist snobs, Canadians and other fringe kooks. They consider our event an affront to the dignity of the sport...and it is!"

Bedwetter declined to answer questions about the completion of this year's tournament, but unnamed sources close to the committee are said to have overheard the committee discussing several options, including:

1. Declaring a victory by forfeit to BG, thus awarding AIC with the title.
2. Declaring a draw.
3. Declaring a state of emergency and cancelling the entire event.
4. Rescheduling the game after the AIC players are released on bail.
5. Having the team mascots face off in a CCHA-style shootout.

Surely you haven't tried to consult with the prison where the young men are being held... there must be enough butter to slick up a good chow hall.

[Freddie]

Re: Bottom Feeders Bracket/Futile Four 2010

Rapid City SD. BFB Chairman Francis Bedwetter was finally reached for comment on the unusual events which took place earlier today in New Mexico. "We are relieved to know that the AIC team has been found, and equally happy to find that their disappearance was not part of a larger plot to disrupt our event" Bedwetter said.

Committee members, tournament personnel and the Bowling Green State University team had all been held in protective custody at a trailer park on the outskirts of this remote city in west-central South Dakota. "We have had threats before" Bedwetter continued, "from hockey purists, elitist snobs, Canadians and other fringe kooks. They consider our event an affront to the dignity of the sport...and it is!"

Bedwetter declined to answer questions about the completion of this year's tournament, but unnamed sources close to the committee are said to have overheard the committee discussing several options, including:

1. Declaring a victory by forfeit to BG, thus awarding AIC with the title.
2. Declaring a draw.
3. Declaring a state of emergency and cancelling the entire event.
4. Rescheduling the game after the AIC players are released on bail.
5. Having the team mascots face off in a CCHA-style shootout.

[MUhawks628]

Re: Bottom Feeders Bracket/Futile Four 2010

Are you sure that some of them got into the Miami Locker room?
Possibly a goalie uni ?

Keep kicking, it feels good.

[huskyfan]

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most excellent. dude.

[Freddie]

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Taos, NM Sixteen members of of a New England college ice hockey team were among fifty two people arrested in an early morning raid of a ramshackle compound just north of this New Mexico community. The men's hockey team from American International College in Springfield Mass, had been abducted on April 6 in Flowood Miss as they were traveling by bus to the chumpionship game of the BottomFeedersBracket/FutileFour.

The pre-dawn raid, a joint effort of Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) and a truant officer from Taos Municipal Schools, had been in the planning stages for several weeks according to a statement from the office of the school superintendent.

Solving the mystery of the missing hockey team appears to have been completely accidental, as preparations for the raid were well underway long before their abduction. Speculation is rampant that the hockey players were overtaken by the Stockholm Syndrome, a rare psychological phenomenon wherein hostages develop positive relationships with, and sympathy for the causes of their captors.

Confiscated materials included: 240 kilos of marijuana, 32 pounds of methamphetamine, an undisclosed number of weapons and a bootlegged VHS recording of the Allman Brothers Band 1971 Fillmore East concerts. Two mobile homes filled with laboratory equipment and supplies for the production of methamphetamine were still being inventoried at the time of this article's release, and agents have begun the process of destroying "several thousand" marijuana plants found in various stages of cultivation on the property.

The remaining members of the AIC team remain unaccounted for, altho statements overheard among those being arrested lead this reporter to believe that they had left freely earlier in the week. Depending on which version you choose to believe, the missing players either went out mushroom hunting, or were planning to hitchhike to Venice California to pursue careers in the adult film industry. It is also possible that they simply went home.

Attempts to reach anyone connected with the BFB/F4 have not met with any success.

[alfablue]

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The question about game times and time zones was concerning the semi-finals and finals in Flowood Mississippi, NOT Moscow Idaho. Mississippi, of course, is in the central time zone.

Oh, I missed that- the regional was in Moscow. And all of my friends were looking forward to cleaning up after the chumpionship. Apparently, they didn't miss anything.

[Freddie]

Re: Bottom Feeders Bracket/Futile Four 2010

Uh, may want to update the teams on that- local in Moscow, ID is Pacific...

The question about game times and time zones was concerning the semi-finals and finals in Flowood Mississippi, NOT Moscow Idaho. Mississippi, of course, is in the central time zone.

[Proud2baLaker]

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Perhaps the AIC team has finally showed up and they are still caught in a marathon overtime tied at the riveting score of 0-0?

[alfablue]

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Local (Central Daylight) Time, altho the committee is not sure if that is one hour ahead or behind eastern time. We can never seem to keep that straight.

Uh, may want to update the teams on that- local in Moscow, ID is Pacific...

[alfablue]

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Since there's strong feelings for Football stadiums, I'd like to place a bid for next year at the Rose Bowl.

While it's in the middle of a large metro area, and arguably, one of the easiest places to get to by plane, it's probably the area that has some of the least interest in College Hockey, and I'm sure that the natural turf will cause havoc in making ice- let alone the sun. May have to have some cure for heat stroke. For resurfacing, they can turn the chillers off with 1-2 min left in the period, let the top melt, and then re-freeze. I'm sure the teams wont notice.

But the best part will be the dozen or so spectators, since they have to be there to keep the grounds clean.

BTW, how's the ice up in Moscow?

(my brother actually helped build that rink....)