Could I get an upset? (Moment of the Year Championship paring)

by Jake on Jul 25, 2008 2:30 PM PDT in News

By now, some of you may be aware that we're conducting a small "Moment of the Year" tournament on Building the Dam. Why? Because we can.

Well, it's not going so well. I mean, it's going, but it's not very exciting.

Let me back up.

When I sat down to plan this tournament, there were four "moments" that stuck in my mind to be superior to the rest. Those four were the Civil War win, the win against Cal, Ryan Ortiz's grand slam against UCLA, and the Emerald Bowl win. Those became the top four seeds.

Then, I handed a list of potential 5-8 seeds to you and told you to vote. You did, and after two rounds of voting, four more "moments" emerged.

In the first round, those four 5-8 seeds were quickly wiped out by the top four seeds.

Then, we moved to the second round. Voting ended today, and both finalists emerged victorious by ridiculous landslides.

In the 1 vs. 4 matchup, the Civil War victory won over the Emerald Bowl victory 24 votes to 1. That's understandable, I guess.

In the 2 vs. 3 matchup, the Cal victory won 32 votes to 1 over Ryan Ortiz's Grand Slam over UCLA. There's only one die-hard baseball fan out there?

Okay, I know, that one is understandable too.

So, now we move on to the championship round. Here's the bracket:

Will we see a Moment of the Year upset for the first time in Building the Dam history? Probably not.

But, as they say, that's why you play the game.

Voting will begin Monday.

GO BEAVERS!

--JB--

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I tried!

On the Ortiz grand slam like I wrote I can understand the Cal win being a bigger moment for it was huge for me too.

But I tried making a case for baseball mixing up the finals this year! I gave it my my best shot! But sometimes I guess the favored ones always end up winning…

By the way, and you might have wrote this before and I missed it and does sound like above this has gone on before, but is this the first time for the moment of the year? The year before last would have been very interesting with baseball winning it all again, and also football beating USC, Oregon, Hawaii, and winning the Sun Bowl.

-RVM

by rvm on Jul 27, 2008 10:12 AM PDT 0 recs

Yes, this is the first year.

I wished I would have done it last year too. Maybe it’s not too late….

--JB--

by Jake on Jul 28, 2008 9:36 AM PDT up 0 recs

Don't know if I could choose!

From the year before, wow, the choices! The first Super Regional win with the Michigan no hitter going through nine or beating Hawaii there when we suppose to get smoked? Baseball wins it all again versus Sun Bowl! Civil War versus USC win! USC versus baseball wins back to back?

Don’t know if I could pick only one! And wow thinking back on it what a year!

-RVM

by rvm on Jul 28, 2008 10:54 AM PDT up 0 recs

What if we did like a reverse poll or something

Where we started with a whole bunch of choices from ‘07, then voted. The winner would be the number one, then it would get knocked off the list. Then we would vote again for #2, etc.

--JB--

by Jake on Jul 29, 2008 9:02 AM PDT up 0 recs

Would be fun for me!

But would other people be up for it? Just finished this last round for ‘08 so don’t know if people would be up for another one so soon.

But I’m game! Would be fun to revisit that year since as I noted there was a lot going on for Beaver Nation.

-RVM

by rvm on Jul 29, 2008 10:03 AM PDT up 0 recs

Yeah, I agree.

It’s getting closer to football season… maybe we’ll do it sometime down the road.

The advantage of waiting so long is that people can vote based more on what meant more to them now that a year has passed? Ya know? If we voted in July after the College World Series, almost everyone would vote for the CWS Championship. But a year later, that might not mean as much. Even thought that was very very awesome. Just a thought.

--JB--

by Jake on Jul 29, 2008 11:34 AM PDT up 0 recs