Author: Zigmister

DePaul Dodgeball #68 & NCDA Director of Officiating

Pacific Northwest Schools to Join the NCDA

SPOKANE, WA – Gonzaga Club Dodgeball will host Oregon State University Dodgeball Club (Corvallis, OR) in a double header this Saturday to open up the Northwest region. They are the last two of four teams to make their Induction Matches this weekend. Continue reading “Pacific Northwest Schools to Join the NCDA”

Midland Induction Match

FREMONT, NE – YMCA: Midland will be joining the League this Saturday the 28th as they host visiting team Nebraska Lincoln. Warmup is scheduled to begin at 10:00am, followed by a mixed scrimmage to acclimate to the NCDA ruleset. At 12:00pm UNL will face Midland in the Induction Match. Lincoln and Fremont are just an hour drive apart, so we hope to be seeing these teams thrive together.

I posted a few questions to Tanner and Anthony about this upcoming Saturday.  Continue reading “Midland Induction Match”

Standings as of 2017-10-24

It’s Tuesday, so let’s interpret the raw data from this weekend’s matches at the BGSU Invitational.

There were 7 ranked matches and 3 JV contests, which brings us to 75 ranked matches in the 2018 Season. That’s impressive and we keep breaking the record for most games played up to this point in the season (75 to last year’s 68 ranked matches up to the 4th Sunday of October.)

We also have 10 JV contests! The record for most JV games played in a Season is 11 contests in the 2015 Season, and we’re going to break that record before the winter break. A number of staff are impressed to see JV catching on this year, but keep in mind: it’s up to the leaders of each team to allow JV / B team / Second teams to see action. We’ll keep recording them as long as you keep scheduling time to bring them to events.  Continue reading “Standings as of 2017-10-24”

Dodgeball Canada Collegiate Invitational

MARKHAM, ON – Colts Gym: In the international Collegiate Invitational hosted by Dodgeball Canada,
USA Red def George Brown 7-1
USA Blue def UWO 6-3
USA Red def Humber 7-2
UWO def George Bwn 8-1
USA Red def UWO 7-3
Humber def USA Blue 6-5
Humber def UWO 6-5
USA Blue def George Bwn 6-1
Humber def George Bwn 8-1
USA Blue def USA Red 6-5 OT
UWO def George Bwn 6-2
Humber def USA Blue 7-1
UWO def USA Red 6-5
Humber def UWO

USA Blue and USA Red were representative teams of the NCDA, comprised of players from Kent, OSU, MSU, SV, Akron, Ball State, UMN, WMU, and St Cloud St.

Canada is represented by Humber Lakeshore, George Brown, and U of Western Ontario / Ontario Dodgeball League.

Games were played under the World Dodgeball Federation ruleset with foam dodgeballs.

Standings as of 2017-10-17

We had just one event this weekend, the third annual Pink Out hosted by Akron at the Goodyear Hall. This one event did have 17 ranked matches, three JV contests, and ten teams competing.

The Gonzalez System now includes 250 technical upsets in 1317 ranked matches, and we’re up to 67 matches this season which continues to break records. Seven JV contests as well.  Continue reading “Standings as of 2017-10-17”

Pink Out 3

AKRON – Goodyear: In the third Pink Out,
PSU def VCU 3-2 OT
BGSU def BW 5-1
CSU def DePaul 3-2
Kent def Ohio 3-2 OT
Akron def Miami 6-1
Miami def DePaul 3-2 OT
BGSU def PSU 4-1
Ohio def BW 5-1
OU-JV def BG-JV 5-1
Kent def VCU 3-2
Akron def CSU 5-0
CSU def BW 3-2
Ohio def DePaul 3-0
PSU def Akron 5-1
BGSU def VCU 2-1
Kent def Miami 3-0
CSU def Miami 2-1
Akron def DePaul 4-0
PSU-JV def OU-JV 3-1
PSU-JV def BG-JV 8-2

Standings as of 2017-10-11

This feature article was co-authored with Felix Perrone

In three events across a similarly expansive swath of the country as last week, we played 15 ranked matches and three JV contests. This has brought the records to a nice and round 1300 ranked matches. We saw a feature article with Dylan and Felix, in this feature article, Felix and I will present some more fun facts regarding that large chunk of data. Complete records span eight seasons, from the Opening Match on 2010-09-25 to this weekends games of 2017-10-08. While we have a number of matches recorded from 2005-2010, those records are not complete and as reliable so we refer to those as the dark times.

We had three events this weekend at PSU, GSU, and GVSU.

So far:

  • 50 matches played in the 2018 Season (another round number!)
  • 23 teams of our 32 active teams have played (not as round)
  • just 1 overtime (way under average)
  • 11 technical upsets (about on target)
  • a historical leader dips (more on that later)

Continue reading “Standings as of 2017-10-11”

Georgian Civil War II – Gonzalez Preview

North and South are back at it again. Our two college teams in Georgia are meeting for another Civil War double header in Statesboro. In case you were wondering, North Georgia has the Nighthawk and Georgia Southern the Eagle.

The first Georgian Civil War was an induction match for both teams (#42 and #43), with UNG coming out with both wins.

North Georgia starts off with a 37.119, and Georgia Southern starts off with a 37.489 and is given a +1 for home court advantage. That gives GSU the small favor here, but the matches are far from predictive with such a shallow Rating Gap (1.370). Because we have only two matches, we can talk about all the possibilities.  Continue reading “Georgian Civil War II – Gonzalez Preview”