2023 Sandbag Tournament, Sweet 16
There were a couple of upsets in the first knockout round of the Sandbag Tournament last night, but most of the top seeds advanced:
59,712 1) Danny K's, Orange CAno score 16) Alabama's Little Bit of Texas, Wetumpka AL
21,651 8) Hanko's Sports Bar & Grill, Lake Oswego OR
45,184 9) Corner Pocket, Montgomery AL47,917 5) Big Guys, Winnipeg MB2,625 12) Phat Turtle BBQ, Cave Creek AZ
43,666 4) Moose McGuire's, Ottawa ON40,005 13) Wallaby's, Lenexa KS
50,564 3) Teaser's, Chicago IL40,184 14) Okie Tonk Cafe, Moore OK
59,429 6) The Beast of Blacksburg, Blacksburg VA35,108 11) Arch II Bar and Grill, Rocky Hill CT
26,292 7) Time Out West Sports Pub, Hanover Park IL
50,443 10) Primetime Sports Grill, Tampa FL54,409 2) The Fellowship (Punts & Pints/Red Fox), Cuyahoga Falls OH28,165 15) Broadway Bar and Grill East, Orleans ON
(As usual, brackets and standings can be found on Don Denton's tournament page. Thanks as always to him for doing this for the community:
https://ntn.donrdenton.com/elimination.php?KeyCol=22)
Congrats to Danny K's for the win, and to The Beast of Blacksburg for putting up a monster score last night. Congrats, too, to Corner Pocket and Primetime for pulling off the upset in their brackets.
Before moving on, I would like to take the chance to thank Alabama's Little Bit of Texas, Hanko's, Phat Turtle BBQ, Wallaby's, Okie Tonk, Arch II, Time Out West, and Broadway Bar and Grill for participating in the tournament and making the field as competitive as it was. It was great to have you in the tournament and I hope we will see you in the McCarthy Cup this coming spring.
Congrats to all of the teams that will be advancing to the quarterfinals! There will be some good matchups this week:
1) Danny K's
9) Corner Pocket
4) Moose McGuires
5) Big Guys
3) Teaser's
6) The Beast of Blacksburg
2) The Fellowship (Red Fox/Punts and Pints)
10) Primetime
One might think that some of these matches are foregone conclusions. If that's what One thinks, though, One would be wrong. Most of the lower-seeded teams beaten the higher-seeded team at least once since the beginning of October, and Big Guys and The Beast of Blacksburg had higher scores than their upcoming opponent just last night. When it gets to this phase of the tournament, any team is more than capable of pulling off the upset, no matter who they are facing.
Good skill to all quarterfinal teams this week!