Well! Round 1 is over, and we had some upsets, a couple of blow-outs, and quite a few expected wins. Apparently, primary producers are rather dependable: nothing all that exciting going on in that group. But some things of note elsewhere.
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| Exactly what happened. |
As few would have denied (except for me. Too much CERP sampling has biased me towards the little man), the alligator trounced the marsh killifish; the panther consumed the woodrat; sawgrass dominated love vine; and the mosquito swarmed the deer fly. The lobate lac scale was absolutely embarrassed by the Mayan cichlid (West Virginia/Kentucky style). BUT we also had some surprise victories: the largemouth bass was fish food for the ibis (some UM fans voting?! And not enough Rehage labbers!), the upside-down jellyfish out-charisma-ed the apple snail, the green iguana mangled the
Melaleuca (apparently there's still some bitterness towards
Melaleuca out there), and it took a come-from-behind victory for the crocodile to digest the white-tailed deer
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| (Pretend it's a Burmese python, okay?) |
But the biggest upset of all came down to a buzzer beater in double overtime (Robert Horry style. Read: coin toss, best of 5): Burmese python, ranked no. 1 in the Invasives class and - by all accounts - a wily beast, lost at the last second to the FERAL CAT 16!! Apparently, the sheer number of fresh (i.e. disease-ridden) underclassmen recruited from FIU outside ECS was too much for the python to handle. It was a close one, but we already have the biggest upset the marsh is likely to see - but with the python gone, who's really complaining?
We proceed to the Round of 32. I realized my mistake on the original bracket, but the matchups in the poll are accurate. Remember, you should have 4 votes per poll, one vote per pair of 'teams'.
Without ado:
Round of 32: Vertebrates
Round of 32: Invasives
Round of 32: Primary Producers
Round of 32: Invertebrates
Updated bracket:
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