2009 BRACKETS!

2009 PLAYOFFS BRACKET—RD 1
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The 2009 Playoffs Bracket will be played the same as most years, with the exception being the division of teams into their respective conferences. Park City, Wasatch's #1 seed, gets a bye into the Wasatch Conference Concludings, where it will face the winner of the Twin Falls at Nephi Round 1 matchup. Zermatt, the World's #1 seed, gets a bye into the World Conference Concludings, where it waits for the Udorn at Maracaibo Round 1 winner.

The Wasatch and World will then meet in the WFBL Concludings, which this year will only be seven days long, instead of the previous years' ten days (due to the shortened schedule).

The Round 1 losers will then play each other for 5th place, and the Conference Concluding losers will face off for 3rd place.


2009 CONSOLATION LADDER—RD 1

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This year, instead of the Consolation Bracket following the format of the Playoffs Bracket, those less fortunate teams will be in what is known as the "Consolation Ladder".

This is new to the WFBL, but here's the gist: Every non-playoff team will have a game each of the three playoff weeks. The top non-playoff team (in this case, Salt Lake) will host the second-rated non-playoff team (New York) at the "top of the ladder" (or Game C1 for our purposes). The next highest teams, St. George and Richmond, will play one "rung" below (Game C2), and the final two teams, Rigby and Bayside, will play on the bottom "rung" (Game C3).

You win, you move up a rung. You lose, you move down a rung. And there you go. The tote bag awaits at the top of that ladder.