Here are your first round pairings. We will play four rounds and cut to a top 4, who will then face off against the European top 4. Please email me your results along with House/Agenda by midnight Monday, March 1.

1. Erick Butzlaff vs. Jonathan Benton
2. Peter Thomas vs. Dan Strouhal
3. John Kraus vs. Wade Freeman
4. Steven Dueck vs. Daniel Machado
5. Rob Jones vs. Josh Staton
6. Paul Tapias vs. Tony Sullivan
7. Luke Reed vs. Anthony Bonilla
8. Nathan Bradley vs. Damon Stone
bye - Perthius

Check your inbox for email list of opponents.

Could I make the suggestion that we move these threads to the Meta forums? It avoids cluttering this forum, and really isn't any extra work for those of us participating.

longclaw said:

And since I want locations so we can smack talk more let me see how well I can do on remembering:

Erick: DC

Jonathan: TN

Dan: DC

John: San Diego (stupid South Dakota ruining my two letter abbreviations)

Wade: TN

Daniel: Oakland (or maybe i should just blame California for being overly large)

Rob: VA (but non-DCish?)

Josh: IL

Paul: NY

Luke: IA

Damon: TX

Perthius: OZ

Leaving Peter, Steven, Tony, Anthony, and Nathan unidentified... Though I'm thinking that either Anthony or Tony is from the NYC area if my memory serves. And how did I end up having to defend the honor of the midwest with only Staton at my side. You'd think Greg/dobbler was raising 4 kids.

Okay, so Luke says the U.S. doesn't look as pretty as the Europeans...

Maester_LUke said:

I use to be in Hampton Roads area of VA, but now reside in TN. (with alot of travel to DC). Consider myself part of the TN meta with floater ties to DC meta :-).

We look better :-) Anyway I didn't filled location under "Location" field cause we are 70% italian and not understood well how the software calculate pairings. I had fear that equal location had greater % to match up... am I wrong?