For what it's worth, even with the shortcomings in the system, I would rather go ahead and play the "lightning round" games like we did today as opposed to not getting to come out and play at all. We did get a chance to test ourselves against some good teams, even if it was only a short sparring match. I would have loved to have an opportunity to go the distance with each of them; it's difficult to decide a match in 20 minutes unless you get pretty lucky, and we had a bracket of four very evenly matched teams. Ultimately, it was a PK that tipped the scales and gave one team the tie-breaking advantage to win the bracket. That is one thing I was pleased about; no lopsided, run-away matchups...good competition all the way throughout our bracket.
