The first inaugural PLL Championship Series gets underway tonight down in Washington DC.
“What in the actual frick is the Championship Series?
“you may be asking yourself right now.
Well I’ll tell ya.
The tournament consists of a 3-game round robin, semifinals, and a championship.
You know, how tournaments often work.
But what makes the Championship Series different than just your ordinary playoffs?
5v5 lacrosse + a goalie.
No long poles for defensemen.
Shorter field, shorter shot clock, no faceoffs after goals, and a shit ton of scoring.
Jeff Teat, Tom Schreiber, Matt Rambo, etc).
As I mentioned before, there are going to be a shit ton of goals scored in this tournament.
There are 6 round robin games, and then 3 playoff games.
Grant Ament hasn’t had to dodge against a shortstick defender since elementary school.
Same goes for guys like Matt Moore and Will Manny.
A guy like Ryan Aughavin has plenty to come out here and prove this week.
In my very humble yet extremely expert opinion, the Atlas have the best team heading into this tournament.
The key to Sixes is to have the best two-way players.
But the key is to have guys who can clamp down on defense and score at will in transition.
I love the Atlas in this tournament.
The Chrome are bringing a ton of beef to this tournament.
Kevin Rogers and Justin Anderson are a couple of guys who should be dangerous in transition.
As previously mentioned, Sixes is all about having the best two-way players you’re able to get.
And there aren’t many better two-way guys than Ty Warner.
Guys like Brad Smith and Justin Guterding should be able to fill that void pretty well though.
Pretty sure they’re the only two guys in this tournament who do.
The two games on Thursday night will have our very sweet boy Jake Marsh on the call.
So confirm to have ESPN+ dialed up for Thursday night at 6:30 and 8:30pm.
The semifinals will be Saturday night at 5pm and 7pm on ESPN+.
And then the championship game will be on ESPNU Sunday morning at 11:30am.
But I like Atlas -132 and Chrome +110 for tonight’s games.
