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No PA announcement was made but it looks like 14+ black belt matches have officially been reduced to 2 rounds of 1 minute where a few minutes ago there were 3 of 90 seconds.
Considering that they just called 40-80 I am pretty sure we have a few more hours. Oh and I just noticed the software is taking points away for kyongos instead of awarding points to the opponent.
OK, so 2:10AM and I just got home. We actually left the venue at 11:45 but we had to drop Sam off at her place and then her boyfriend off at his place, otherwise the wife and I would have been home about an hour earlier.
So at 10:45 2 announcement were made:
1) All remaining fights would be reduced to 2 rounds, 90 seconds. Not sure if the 2 rings that were already doing 2 rounds of 60 seconds increased their round length to 90 at this point. I doubt it.
2) Free pizza for anyone still in the building, and there were lots of people still in the building.
OK so now onto the bizarre ending and I am not sure how this is going to reflect on divisions at nationals.
Sam finally fought her first fight at 11:30. There were 7 girls that were in the bracket and to my knowledge all were still present and suited up to fight. I saw 4 of them for sure and I am pretty sure the other 3 were there close by. So Sam fought and lost, 3-1 to Madison Motoyasu while 2 others in the same division were fighting in a different ring. At the end of Sam's fight, the referee declared the division complete and gave Madi gold for winning in what was the quarter finals and Sam silver for losing in the quarter finals. As for the other 5 girls in the division, I have no idea.
When we left there was still 1 Team-Xer waiting for at least 2 more fights and possibly 3. The rest of Team-X all won gold with the exception of 1 other silver besides Sam. So it was a pretty good day for the team overall.
Hopefully Sam gets a decent night's rest for the remainder of the night as she is taking the ASVAB test tomorrow.
That has got to be the dumbest **** I have heard giving out medals before the brackets are done...
More than just that Terry, who won the division? They took the F < 57kg division and split it into at least 2 and maybe more divisions completely.
Well they cannot send to 1st place from the same division toNational because it will just mess up the whole ranking system used for matches. How can anybody running a qualifier not know this or did they just not care?
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We will see how USAT chooses to deal with it.
Well they cannot send to 1st place from the same division toNational because it will just mess up the whole ranking system used for matches. How can anybody running a qualifier not know this or did they just not care?
Wow. Cory was called @1120. His 1st bowed out. His semifinal opp walked up and said see ya cause he qualified by making it to semis.he then bowed out to his friend because he had already qualified in san diego as a featherweight and this was lightweight.
So that means he registered, paid his entry fee, made weight and had to change to higher class , stay in hotel, spent all day there and never got to fight.
Now is qualified as feather and light.....
Allen won all 3 matches and is new 1q yr old state champ!
Help me out guys, I am kind of confused on why you would want to qualify for two different divisions. Isn't this some what unfair to the other competitors. Can you even fight at both divisions at nationals?
Qualifying in multiple divisions gives you flexibility when Nationals does come around. You cannot fight in multiple divisions but before the registration deadline you can choose which of the divisions that you want to fight in in which you qualified. Naturally you would pick the division that you feel you would have the best chance of winning in based on who and or how many are in each of the divisions that you did qualify for.