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The first round saw an intercity matchup between Seattle's Sockeye and Voodoo. The game demonstrated a stark contrast in offensive strategy and temperment. At one end of the spectrum, Voodoo's play was twitchy and impatient. Unable to get easy under-cuts or reset the disc regularly, they looked deep early. And often. However, hucking seemed to work for them from the beginning, breaking Sockeye and going up 3-2.

But their success would be unsustainable. Sockeye made defensive adjustments, and ate up all the deep hucks.

At the other end of the spectrum, Sockeye's play was the definition of patience. They easily reset the disc to the dump, set up their downfield cuts to get seperation, space, and yardage, and picked their spots to take high percentage deep shots.

Sockeye took half 7-4 and never looked back. The took the second half 6-1, winning 13-5.

The next field over, Portland's Rhino took on the Bay Area's Revolver. Both teams looked a bit shakey to begin the tournament. Revolver was unable to find seperation on their deep cuts, and around the endzone they were unable to put in easy goals. Rhino found themselves standing around in their vertical stack. Without any dynamic motion, Revolver's D squad was able to get turnovers and turn them into breaks. Revolver's failings during this first game were far less agregious than Rhinos, and they easily took the game 13-5.

And over on the far field, New York's PoNY played the Santa Barbara Condors. PoNY and the Condors both came out flying. The Condors looked to win on sheer atheleticism. They'd put up deep shots and run after it, lay it out on D, and put their bodies on the line. Unfortunately their efforts found them little results. The New York offense was fast and able to win most discs. And it seemed the Condors keyed too much on Steve Dugan, making their offense a bit one-dimensional.

PoNY gritted out the victory, taking it 13-10.