An action packed day saw five matches decided in the playoffs and one match (Caruana-Xiong) made it all the way to Armageddon, finishing in a dramatic time scramble. After all was said and done, Aronian, Dominguez, Sevian, and Caruana from the Open Field along with Krush, Tokhirjonova, Lee, and Abrahamyan from the Women’s Field advanced to the next stage of the Champions Bracket. | Photos: Austin and Crystal Fuller, Saint Louis Chess Club, Lennart Ootes
The inaugural American Cup kicked off today with plenty of decisive action as several players drew first blood in their individual matches within the Champions Bracket. Samuel Sevian (pictured) caused the biggest upset: he won with Black against Wesley So. | Photos: Austin and Crystal Fuller, Saint Louis Chess Club
That is not a rhetorical question.
IL Indoor is opening it up to you to vote in a tournament-style bracket to decide which of the team that have captured the NLL championship in the 21st century would win if they were all competing for the title of grand champion.
We have seeded the 20 winners. To do so, we looked at won/loss records, goals for and against differential, where they finished in their division and overall in the NLL, considered all the variables and ranked them from 1 to 20.
Today we wrap up the play-in game to determine the final team for the Round of 16. The 16th seeded Colorado Mammoth of 2006 face the team that won the championship two years before them, the 17th seeded 2004 Calgary Roughnecks. Take a look at the tale of the tape, below, then cast your vote in the Twitter poll.