If you are not familiar with how the playoff work for MLR, here is how it works. The top three teams from both conferences make the playoffs. The top teams from each conference have have a bye in the eliminator round and will play the winner of the eliminator round in the conference final. The other two teams from each conference will face off in the eliminator round to decide who will face the top team from both conference in the conference finals. This year the teams from the western conference are: The San Diego Legion ( 15wins 1 Loses & 74 points), The Seattle Seawolves ( 12wins 4 Loses & 59 points) and The Houston SaberCats ( 10wins 6 Loses & 53 points). For the eastern conference the teams for this year are: The New England Free Jacks ( 14wins 2 Loses & 68 points), The New York Ironworkers ( 8wins 8 Loses & 43 points), last is Old Glory DC ( 7wins 8 Loses & 43 points). The eliminator rounds are between Seattle Seawolves vs Houston SaberCats on June 24th @5pm CDT for the western conference. As for the eastern conference eliminator round it is between the New York Ironworkers vs Old Glory DC and will take place on June 25th @5pm CDT. For North American fans tune in on FS2 and international fans can tune in at https://www.therugbynetwork.com/. Thanks for reading and lets hope for some amazing matches for this years MLR playoffs.
what team do you have winning it all ?
Oh Lord, I dunno. Usually I root for teams based on arbitrary loyalties, except the problem is I don’t have any arbitrary loyalties to any of the teams.
Or at least, for some I have conflicting loyalties.
I originally liked Seattle, but they’ve been too good for too long.
I can’t root for New York just based on principle. Same goes for the Free Jacks.
Legion is pretty meh.
Houston is just blah.
I guess I’ll go with Old Glory?
Like, literally all the teams that didn’t make it would have ranked higher in my arbitrary loyalties list.
I am very happy that Chicago is hosting the final though. That’s going to be dope.
Edit: as for who I think will actually win? Probably Legion. But really that’s still a very gut level choice.
SDL v NEFJ is I think what everyone is expecting, and SDL has been so consistent where NEFJ had to find their stride. Legion won the only regular season matchup between the two, and Houston were the only team to be the Legion during the regular season but we’ve now been eliminated (stupid fumble by our “ringer”, should have played Boyer!). As a Cats fan, I have loyalty to Windsor for having carried the team through our crappy early seasons, so I’m rooting for RUNY in the East. In the West I’d love to see SDL crush Seattle, because Seattle has already been in 3 out of 4 championship matches.
Between writing that comment and now, I changed teams and went with Houston because an internet friend is from there. Then I looked up the schedule and found out that they already lost. :(
We still had a chance to pull through until the last two minutes, then we just fumbled it right into their hands and they ran it in for the kill. No tackle or anything, dude was out by himself and the ball just popped out of his hands and right into Futi. Coetzer managed to squeeze in on last try within the closing seconds but it was too late.