pjwasz 16 Posted February 22, 2018 #141 Share Posted February 22, 2018 Team USA 2018 - Winter Olympics Schedule All times in PST Day 13 (February 22nd) Alpine Skiing Men's Slalom: 5:00pm Team USA David Chodounsky Mark EngelNolan Kasper Thoughts/Background Information Not a really good medal chance in this one. Women's Combined: Downhill: 6:30pm Slalom: 10:00pm Team USA Alice Merryweather Mikaela ShiffrinLindsey Vonn Thoughts/Background Information We have one of the best downhillers in the world and one of the best slalom skiers in the world. They need to be good in the other's discipline to win this race, and I think Mikaela has a strong advantage to do that. Biathlon Women's 4x6km Relay - 3:15am Team USA Susan Dunklee Clare Egan Emily Dreissigacker Madeleine Phaneuf Joanne Reid Thoughts/Background Information Considering that we didn't get a top 50 in the sprint, I'm not hopeful for a good finish in the relay. Curling Men's United States of America vs Canada - 3:05am Team USA John Shuster Tyler George Matt Hamilton John Landsteiner Team Canada Kevin Koe Marc Kennedy Brent Laing Ben Hebert Thoughts/Background Information Ooooooooh, boy! Here we go! Semifinals for the men. Winner goes to the final, loser to the bronze medal match. USA won the prelim game, but these are the Canadians, man. This would be the first time they wouldn't make the final if they lost. Freestyle Skiing Men's Ski Halfpipe - 6:30pm Team USA Aaron Blunck Alex Ferreira David Wise Torin Yater-Wallace Thoughts/Background Information We have 4 of the top halfpipe skiers ever. Honestly, we could medal sweep. Ice Hockey Women's United States of America vs Canada - 8:10pm [I don't want to type all of their names] Thoughts/Background Information THIS IS IT! The Gold Medal game! Get freakin hyped. The best rivalry in hockey, part...I don't even know at this point Nordic Combined Team Large Hill/4x5km - 6:30pm Team USA Bryan Fletcher Taylor Fletcher Ben Berend Ben Loomis Thoughts/Background Information It's a decent team, but not one that will likely win a medal. Snowboard Women's Big Air - 4:30pm Team USA Jamie Anderson Jessika Jenson Julia Marino Thoughts/Background Information Not the best Qualification results for these guys, but still, it's Big Air, anything's possible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pjwasz 16 Posted February 23, 2018 #142 Share Posted February 23, 2018 Team USA 2018 - Winter Olympics Results Day 13 (February 22nd) Alpine Skiing Men's Slalom Team USA David Chodounsky - 18th Mark Engel - 31stNolan Kasper - DNF Recap Not the worst result. Not the best. Pretty okay with this. Women's Combined: Team USA Alice Merryweather - 15th Mikaela Shiffrin - 2ndLindsey Vonn - DNF Recap Vonn going out on the slalom was a huge loss for the US. But Mikaela Shiffrin did a great job in both runs. Alice Merryweather did a good job finishing both runs. Biathlon Women's 4x6km Relay Team USA Susan Dunklee - 13th Clare Egan- 13th Emily Dreissigacker- 13th Joanne Reid- 13th Recap Susan Dunklee did a great job starting off, but our follow up wasn't quite there, as Emily and Joanna did, honestly, a pretty poor job shooting. Hopefully this team can improve. Curling Men's United States of America 3 vs 5 Canada Team USA John Shuster Tyler George Matt Hamilton John Landsteiner Team Canada Kevin Koe Marc Kennedy Brent Laing Ben Hebert Recap INCREDIBLE! What an upset! America is going to its first final, while Canada will not be going for the first time! And this is the second win for Shuster against Canada. What a Games for this team! Freestyle Skiing Men's Ski Halfpipe Team USA Aaron Blunck - 7th Alex Ferreira - 2nd David Wise - 1st Torin Yater-Wallace - 9th Recap Another incredible result for the US! An absolutely amazing performance for this team! What a day for the US! Ice Hockey Women's United States of America 3 vs 2 Canada [I don't want to type all of their names] Recap YEEEEEEEEEEEES! I lost so much sleep over this game and I don't regret one second of it! FINALLY got the Gold and beat Canada at the Olympics! These women are incredible! Nordic Combined Team Large Hill/4x5km Team USA Bryan Fletcher - 10th Taylor Fletcher- 10th Ben Berend- 10th Ben Loomis- 10th Recap There were only 10 teams. Snowboard Women's Big Air Team USA Jamie Anderson - 2nd Jessika Jenson - 11th Julia Marino - 10th Recap Nabbed another medal for the US in this event. Second medal for Jamie in these Olympics. Awesome performance for her! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pjwasz 16 Posted February 23, 2018 #143 Share Posted February 23, 2018 Team USA 2018 - Winter Olympics Schedule All times in PST Day 14 (February 23rd) Biathlon Men's 4x7.5km Relay - 3:15am Team USA Tim Burke Lowell Bailey Leif Nordgren Russell Currier Sean Doherty Thoughts/Background Information Bailey and Burke are pretty decent biathletes, but I'm not very hopeful for a medal here either. Figure Skating Ladies Free - 5:00pm Team USA Karen Chen Mirai Nagasu Bradie Tennell Thoughts/Background Information We are not in a good position to medal in this event. 9th, 10th, and 11th going into it, all 3 were unable to have a clean skate in the short, and that is going to basically eliminated from a medal. Speed Skating Men's 1000m - 2:00am Team USA Shani Davis Joey Mantia Mitchell Whitmore Recap All 3 of these gentlemen are strong skaters and could challenge for a medal if they are able to skate particularly well. Unfortunately, that hasn't been the case for the US these Olympics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maxim Fastovsky 124 Posted February 24, 2018 #144 Share Posted February 24, 2018 We can summarize the Olympics by now 9 Gold. 23 Total (well unless Diggins does something) and while there were many amazing surprises like Cross Country, womens Hockey or curling Golds, also some dissapointments come to mind. Another Skating Failure. Shiffrin in Slalom is another. No Cross medals, no golds in ski slopestyle, no medals in moguls or aerials. Overall because of diggins, shuster or womens Hockey i cannot say im overall dissapointed. But i was hoping for a better medal count. Rdbc 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rdbc 47 Posted February 25, 2018 #145 Share Posted February 25, 2018 Plans for 2018-2020 USA National Thread I notice that this National Thread is quite dead during the non Olympic months so I've created a system of posts that I will be posting from now until 2020. There will be three main different posts Week in Summer, Week in Winter, and Trek to Tokyo. Week in Summer: The Week in Summer posts will be all different USA Summer Olympic sport news that don't have a direct correlation to the Tokyo 2020 Olympics such as FINA World Diving Series or events like that. Week in Winter: These posts will be all different USA Winter Olympic sport news that don't have a direct correlation to the Beijing 2022 Olympics such as Curling World Championship or Alpine Skiing World Cup. NOTE: DUE TO SO MANY WINTER & SUMMER SPORTS THESE POSTS WILL BE AT THE END OF EACH WEEK RECAPPING THE WEEK! Trek to Tokyo: These posts are all about USA qualifying for the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics. The posts will come as matches happen for qualifying. NOTE: I know this will be a lot to handle but I've been working on a spreadsheet that helps me a ton, I think the only time I won't be able to post these is if I'm away from a computer (which is not much). As we get closer to the Summer Olympics there will be more and more posts on Trek to Tokyo and probably less on Week in Summer. I've not yet finished my spread sheet for all the sports yet (I'm working on the summer sports first) so It might take a week or two before the Week in Summer & Week in Winter posts start up! Sindo, George_D and Maxim Fastovsky 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pjwasz 16 Posted February 26, 2018 #146 Share Posted February 26, 2018 I am willing to help whenever. I have 2 text files that I update roughly every 3 months with upcoming events for various sports, USA or not, and also including e-sports events. I've attached them below. League Watch List are leagues that stretch out over long periods of time. Watch List is singular events newleaguewatchlist.txt watchlist.txt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rdbc 47 Posted February 27, 2018 #147 Share Posted February 27, 2018 1 hour ago, pjwasz said: I am willing to help whenever. I have 2 text files that I update roughly every 3 months with upcoming events for various sports, USA or not, and also including e-sports events. I've attached them below. League Watch List are leagues that stretch out over long periods of time. Watch List is singular events newleaguewatchlist.txt watchlist.txt What esports do you watch? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pjwasz 16 Posted February 27, 2018 #148 Share Posted February 27, 2018 1 minute ago, Rdbc said: What esports do you watch? So, here's the part where my crazy comes out: Predominantly Overwatch and Starcraft, sometimes CSGO and Rocket League, and the occasional Heroes of the Storm, Hearthstone, DotA and League. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rdbc 47 Posted February 27, 2018 #149 Share Posted February 27, 2018 Just now, pjwasz said: So, here's the part where my crazy comes out: Predominantly Overwatch and Starcraft, sometimes CSGO and Rocket League, and the occasional Heroes of the Storm, Hearthstone, DotA and League. Insane! I thought I watched a lot of esports. I watch CSGO, Rocket League and League of Legends mainly. I've never played Dota 2 or Overwatch but I'll still sometimes watch the matches. I'm not sure if you know who SK Gaming is (number 2 team in CSGO right now) But I'm actually friends with three of their main players and a few other players from different teams. So I mainly watch CSGO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pjwasz 16 Posted February 27, 2018 #150 Share Posted February 27, 2018 (edited) 1 minute ago, Rdbc said: Insane! I thought I watched a lot of esports. I watch CSGO, Rocket League and League of Legends mainly. I've never played Dota 2 or Overwatch but I'll still sometimes watch the matches. I'm not sure if you know who SK Gaming is (number 2 team in CSGO right now) But I'm actually friends with three of their main players and a few other players from different teams. So I mainly watch CSGO You mean the fer, coldzero, taco, and fallen SK Gaming??? That's amazing! Edited February 27, 2018 by pjwasz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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