Note: This post was written by Kevin Bailey. Introduction An interesting topic of discussion within the roundnet community revolves around the debate over which region is the strongest in the sport, or the way I like to word it: what is roundnet's "regional hierarchy"? There are great teams and great players representing each region. Nationals was certainly a testament to that, as the final four featured at least one player from each region. Yet, outside of the results from the Nationals Premier Division bracket, is there another (hopefully more accurate) way to determine which part of the country actually produces the best group of roundnet players? As the 2017 season came to a close, I decided to take a closer...
This is the latest edition of the Men's Power Rankings for the 2017 season. The list was formed by a panel of 8 individuals, spanning all regions, who discuss the rankings team-by-team. Injured and inactive teams have been removed from contention. A team is considered active if either (1) the team has competed in the past three months, or (2) one player from the team has competed in the past month. Cisek/Showalter ended a near perfect season with a National Championship. Cisek and Showalter defeated three top 10 teams on the way but did battle for three games with two of them. Strange Embrace's Jarratt Rouse tore his right rotator cuff a week before Nationals. Hindered by this, Rouse was forced to...
From left to right, Spicy Rubi (Daniel McPartland and Anthony Rentsch, second), Cisek/Showalter (Peter Jon Showalter and Tyler Cisek, first), and 2 Guys (Preston Bies and Troy Mauk, third) pose for a picture after 2017 Nationals. After a wild morning, 53 Premier-level teams made their way to the Grasshopper indoor turf facility in Hillside, IL, for the 2017 Spikeball™ Roundnet Association (SRA) National Championship. As expected, the #1 team in roundnet, Cisek/Showalter (Tyler Cisek and Peter Jon Showalter), took home first place after an exciting final that ended at midnight. This is a long one, so use these to skip to coverage of a certain round: Pool Play Seeding Round of 64 Round of 32 Round of 16 Quarterfinals Semifinals...
