Predictions Week 1: Kickoff

[Rizner]

One thing I'd like to point out is there will be higher scoring games than you think. I believe the quals will be higher scoring than elimination, as defense isn't necessarily the best offense at that point. In trying to get higher seeding scores, teams won't be better off winning by defense as they will be winning with offense. Don't get me wrong, defense will be played. By early saturday, though teams may figure it out -- they have shown what they can do and w hy they should be picked (those with defense) and then start going for higher scoring games. If it hasn't started by Saturday, see week 2 regionals for the scoring quals to start big, but eliminations will have much lower scores overall this year.

highest score this week: 14. It will happen late Friday at one of the regionals. One team will see they're down by a lot and don't know how they will come back, realize this and not play defense looking for a higher ranking score. It will be one of this years qualification strategies -- when there's blowouts the gap will widen.