re: New Orleans Rugby reaches Final Four in highest division, plus bonus clip

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For NOLA, their 1st game was in Chicago, 2nd and 3rd games were in Virginia.

Next rounds will be in Colorado.

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to make it worse, our first game should have been in New Orleans, as NOLA was South #2 and Griffins were Midwest #3. But Midwest and USA Rugby decided to punish the South very harshly as a result of Charlotte quitting the league, leaving us with only 3 teams in South Divsion 1.

As a result, it was ruled that we'd lose the #3 playoff seed, and that the South #2 would have to travel to Midwest #3. (Typically for the crossover playoffs, #1 hosts #4, #2 hosts #3)

The reasoning was that the South D1 is a terrible league with a poor history. Well guess who just placed two teams in the D1 final four? The South. So it's a great sense of satisfaction that not only did we get this far, we did it by knocking off the Chicago Griffins and Metropolis, both Midwestern sacred cows.