Archives for August 2013

Congrats to all our champions. The trophy presentation in the courtyard immediately outside the Renaissance Downtown DC will begin at 8pm.

As of 6:45pm, the DJ is spinning and food and drinks are available.

An exciting day of games at Fairland Park, capped off with the following championship winners:

CHAMPIONSHIP TEAMS:
A Division: Houston Force
B Division: Boston Blizzard
C Division: Orlando Fury Unleashed
D Division: Mid-Atlantic Lightning
Masters Division: Southern New England Cranky Yankees

TROPHY WINNERS:

A Division:
Champions: Houston Force
2nd: Phoenix Toros
3rd: San Francisco Steel
4th: Orlando Force

B Division:
Champions: Boston Blizzard
2nd: Atlanta Genesis
3rd: Twin Cities Frostbite
4th: Dallas X-Plosion

C Division:
Champions: Orlando Fury Unleashed
2nd: Los Angeles Softball Cartel
3rd: Philadelphia Triple Play
4th: Tampa Hammerheads

D Division:
Champions: Mid-Atlantic Lightning
2nd: Houston Dirty
3rd: Los Angeles Honey Badgers
4th (tie): Austin Pride & Ft. Lauderdale Bombers

Masters Division
Champions: Southern New England Cranky Yankees
2nd: Tampa Sluggers
3rd: Los Angeles Gang Grey
4th: San Francisco United

CONSOLATION BRACKET RESULTS

B Consolation:
Winner: Philadelphia Outlaws
Runner-Up: Portland Assault

C1 Consolation:
Winner: Dallas Wreckin’ Crew
Runner-Up: Long Beach Outlaws

C2 Consolation:
Winner: Atlanta Menace
Runner-Up: Twin Cities Steel

D1 Consolation:
Winner: Dallas Demolition Crew
Runner-Up: Palm Spring Gorillas

D2 Consolation:
Winner: Rhode Island Rebels
Runner-Up: Los Angeles Diablos

Click here for the various B, C, and D Division brackets:

B Division: Schedule Grid & Brackets

C Division: Schedule Grid & Brackets

D Division: Schedule Grid & Brackets

Seedings for double elimination play will be announced shortly after the completion of the 11:50am games in each division.

MONDAY, AUGUST 26, 1:00 PM

A couple of hours earlier than planned, the Pool play schedules for the B, C, and Divisions have just been released on myGSWS.com. To find your team’s schedule, follow the menus above for 2013 GSWS Team Pages — or just click through to this page: http://www.mygsws.com/teampages.

Pool games for the B, C, and D Divisions begin tomorrow and conclude early on Wednesday. Something new this year: Double elimination play begins on Tuesday afternoon. You can track your team’s results — and learn your Wednesday afternoon double elimination game time by following along on myGSWS.com.

The A Division and Masters Division begin play on Thursday. Pool play schedules for those divisions will be released here tomorrow.

If you have any questions about the layout, feel free to post them in the comment section below.

SUNDAY, AUGUST 25 — 7 pm ET

The online scores and results features at myGSWS.com will be back online again this year for the 2013 Gay Softball World Series. Competition in Washington, D.C., starts on Tuesday, August 27. Each team’s pool play schedule will be posted to myGSWS.com at 3 p.m. Monday.

In addition to all the team pages on the website, check back with myGSWS.com for tournament news throughout the week.

Games run through Saturday, August 31, with championship games played at Fairland Regional Park in Laurel, Maryland.

We’re getting remarkably close to the start of the 2013 Gay Softball World Series. Many of you already visiting myGSWS.com to see what information might already be available.

As of Friday, August 16, we’re feverishly working on all the behind-the-scenes work to make this website just as helpful as it was in 2012 — and hopefully even more so.

We have new features planned for Washington, D.C., and we’ll let you know as soon as they’re published. The countdown begins — only 10 days until Opening Ceremonies.