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Boulder will create a beautiful backdrop, but how will it effect the competitors?

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Matt Lane

Mile High

While it won’t be the most exciting article ever published here, we hope that it is one of the most helpful and informative. With the best teams in the country headed to Boulder, and many playing for the first time over a mile high, the effects can not be taken too lightly. Remembering the difficulty of some in adapting to the conditions in Austin in 2003, we encourage every athlete to read and digest the information. Much of the early discussion is very technical, but nonetheless important to understanding the adjustments over the next week.

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Men's NUMP Poll


1	Florida
2	Wisconsin
3	Colorado
4	Michigan
5	Carleton
6	Texas
7	Arizona
8	Georgia
9	Illinois
10	UC-Santa Cruz


1	British Columbia
2	Ottawa
3	UCLA
4	Washington
5	UC-Santa Barbara
6	Oregon
7	Wisconsin
8	Michigan
9	Texas
10	Maryland

Before the seeds and schedules are released, there are some match-ups you should already have circled. With everything up in the air after Florida at one, there is no telling where these games might fall. What looks to some like a Pool Play game could end up being a Semi-Final. Even before the seeds are set, it seems unlikely that the Quarterfinals will see only one team advance by virtue of an upset, in the form of the 9th seed over the 8th, like both of the last two seasons in Columbus. In spite of similar travel schedules, many of the top teams have yet to play this season.

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This Is MSSUI

MSSUI is the product of many hopes and past efforts of centralizing and professionalizing coverage of a game that is infectious to everyone who gets involved. The site is dedicated to the ever-evolving task of gathering information in all realms of Ultimate and delivering it in a manner befitting of the energy and resources that its participants devote.

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Colorado's Mac Taylor and Wisconsin's Shane Hohenstein know full well the path to the Final.

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Matt Lane

The Road Map

Dartmouth and Harvard filled out the strongest field of sixteen since 2004, and now the focus shifts firmly to the question of who will win. With the schedule not likely to be released until Friday, and very difficult decisions to be made on most of the seeds, the roadmap to this National Championship isn’t going to come into focus for a few more days. Looking to the past, there exist some clear trends this decade that narrow the Championship contenders to Florida, Wisconsin, and Michigan, but that reveals little about the route those teams must traverse for the Title.