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The Huddle: The Sockeye zone didn't seem to challenge many throws, but was still able to force many throws. What made the zone successful?

Andrew Fleming: Sockeye's conservative zone takes away the yardage throws and yields the easy reset. In this wind, even the easy reset leads to several near-turnovers. Bravo shows great patience with the zone, but gets trapped on the downwind corner. Just as Bravo's D-team had on the previous point, Sockeye's D rolls the dice with the tough upwind flick huck.

Mike Whitaker: The Sockeye zone did a nice job of matching up on downfield wings and poppers to prevent big gaining throws and used a contain cup to funnel the disc to the downwind sideline. Part of the reason for the high number of throws is that the Bravo handlers chose to keep the disc is the middle of the field with short, relatively uncontested throws and then look for holes in the cup as opposed to throwing long swings that are difficult in that level of wind and generally would end up with the disc on the downwind trap sideline.