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USQ’s spring regional championships kick off this weekend at Saluda Shoals Park and Irmo High School's W.C. Hawkins Stadium with the 2023 South Regional Championship. This regional will see five collegiate teams and 11 club teams compete for the title of regional champion as well as for bids for US Quadball Cup 2023. Information about how to stay updated on the action (including livestream) is below.
Important location and schedule updates! The tournament has been split into two locations. There have been some changes to the club division schedule. A summary of the changes are as follows:
Multiple club games have been reordered, though the pools have remained the same, as well as the number of games on Saturday.
Boom Train, Earth Wake, and the Black Pandas will each play their two Saturday games at the Saluda Shoals Soccer Park (6065 St Andrews Rd, Columbia, SC 29212) at the 11am, 12:30pm, and 2pm timeslots.
The final club games on Saturday will be held in the 2pm timeslot, at both Saluda Shoals Soccer Park and W. C. Hawkins Stadium (6671 St Andrews Rd, Columbia, SC 29212).
Collegiate games will remain at Saluda Shoals Soccer Park, however, should the rain increase in the afternoon, all collegiate games will move to the turf at W. C. Hawkins Stadium (6671 St Andrews Rd, Columbia, SC 29212).
There are no changes at this time for Sunday.
Tickets
Tickets are still on sale for this weekend! Support USQ and purchase online today.
Schedule
Games start at 9 am ET on Saturday and 9 am ET on Sunday. The schedule is available on our website. Click the Scores & Standings tab, select a division, and scroll down.
Teams and Rosters
The list of attending teams is available below. To view rosters, go to the Scores & Standings tab of the Live section of our website, or go to the event in Tourney Machine here. Click the division, then the team name.
Collegiate Division
FGCU Quadball - FGCU
Florida State University - FSU
UNC-Chapel Hill Quadball Club - UNC
University of Florida Club Quadball - UF
Virginia Reunited - VARU
Club Division
Atlantic Dragons - AD
Boom Train - BOOM
Bosnyan Bearsharks - BOSNY
Boston Black Pandas - BPAN
Boston Red Pandas - RPAN
DCQC - DCQC
Earth Wake - WAKE
Orlando Spider-Knights - OSK
Philadelphia Freedom Quadball Club - PFQC
Terminus Atlanta - TERM
The Warriors - WAR
Gameplay Schedule
The collegiate round robin will take place across Saturday. The club pool play games will take place over the course of Saturday with bracket play on Sunday. All game times are in ET.
Gameplay Format
Club
The 11 club teams competing at this event will compete in a pool play format into bracket play, with pool play over the course of Saturday for teams into bracket play on Sunday. The pools were generated by creating pots based on USQ standings, and then a random number generator to create pools, before considerations for season rematches were taken into account. 2 pools of 4 and 1 pool of 3 were created for pool play games due to the lower number of fields available for club play. On Sunday, the top 2 teams from each pool will advance, and teams will be seeded into a bracket based on Day 1 performance and USQ tiebreakers. To standardize for the 3 team pool, bracket seeding will not account for games played against pot 4 teams.
The final game of Saturday will be scheduled to begin at 2pm, while the final Sunday game is scheduled to begin at 3:30pm weather permitting. Since this schedule would provide an overwhelmingly lower amount of games to teams that do not advance to bracket, consolation games may be played Sunday to provide teams a chance to reach at-large gameplay requirements. On Sunday, the bracket will decide the regional champion, in addition to the 2 club championship bids.
College
The five collegiate teams attending this tournament will compete in a full round robin over the course of Saturday. To preserve fields at this event, collegiate games will be played on one pitch at a time, alternating between field 1 and field 2 over the course of the day. At the end of the day, based on pool play results, the regional champion will be awarded, in addition to the 2 D1 and 1 D2 bids available.
Watching Online
Club games may be streamed on the USQ Twitch channel, pending weather. Additional club games as well as the collegiate division games may be recorded and uploaded to YouTube by the end of February, again weather permitting. We recommend following the Twitch channel in advance in order to receive notifications when matches go live.
Attending In Person
Location, Parking, and Site Map
The 2023 South Regional Championship is being held at Saluda Shoals Park (6065 St Andrews Rd, Columbia, SC 29212) and W.C. Hawkins Stadium at Irmo High School (6671 St Andrews Rd, Columbia, SC 29212).
Parking is free. Spectators should proceed to the merch tent (located next to HQ) to either purchase tickets or check-in to receive a wristband.
There is food available to purchase at both Saluda Shoals Park and Irmo High School, provided by Tin Can Kettle Corn.
Weather
The forecast on Saturday is rainy with a high of 52 degrees. The forecast on Sunday is also rain, with a high of 47 degrees. The event will take place rain or shine, and we encourage attendees to come prepared for the weather. Pop-up tents and canopies may be set up on the grass but may not be staked into the ground or left overnight.
More information on the forecast can be found on the National Weather Service website. Weather updates will be communicated directly to attendees on-site as well as online through USQ’s Discord server and the Facebook event.
Merch
This weekend, USQ is selling apparel from our new line from VC Ultimate as well as trading cards. Trading cards can also be purchased online.
Social Media and Event Updates
Make sure you “like” us on Facebook at US Quadball to stay connected throughout the weekend. We will be posting updates, photos, videos, and more to these pages. Updates will also be shared occasionally to the Facebook event here.
Get a front-row seat to everything happening at South Regionals Follow us on Instagram to make sure you don’t miss out on a second of the action.
Keep up with the action on Twitter. Make sure to follow @USQuadball for general event updates and @USQScores for scores.
Scores
The Scores & Standings section of the Live section of our website, linked here, will regularly update with new score information after games conclude. Scores will be posted on Twitter, too.
City Partner
We’d like to extend a special thanks to our city partners Experience Columbia SC Sports and the Irmo Chapin Recreation Commission for their support of this event. Additionally, we’d like to thank Irmo High School and School District Five of Lexington and Richland Counties for permitting us to use the stadium at Irmo High School this weekend. Experience Columbia SC Sports is responsible for spreading tourism throughout the midland region of South Carolina. Their goal is to bring in new sporting events and facilities to increase the economic development of our special city. Learn more on their website.
Questions
Still have questions? Reach out via email to info@usquadball.org.