[Jon Stratis]

We found, generally speaking, that climbing and dumping was great for qualifications, but sucked for eliminations.

Simply put, in qualification matches there was so much randomness in the match-ups that, most often, climbing and dumping successfully would guarantee a win.

However, once we got to eliminations, the alliances were tougher, and often that 50 pts wasn't enough help to the alliance to guarantee a win. When you consider that, at the regional level, most alliances were set up as two scorers and 1 defender, that 50pts is essentially half of the alliances ability to score. When scores go over 100 points, you start to have a problem with not pulling your weight at just 50 points.

All that said, climbing and dumping was a great way to be picked. Either high-ranking teams figured they could handle enough frisbees that they wanted someone complimentary climbing, or lower ranked teams took a gamble on the potential big impact a climb and dump could have.

As a result, we did great at our first regional, seeding first and being picked first. We did worse at our second regional, seeding low and yet still being picked in the first round. In both cases we lost in the elims because our alliance just wasn't capable of putting up enough points to win.