Atlanta Chain Lightning vs. Washington DC Truck Stop | 2023 National Championships 

Dude straight throwing shade at Langdon on the first point. Dudes been E.L.I.T.E for years.

Great game by both teams

legit great game

great game by all 7 teams

8:13, first turnover. DC D-line looks ok on O. Not great. A little cluttered and anxious. Too many going at once. But they score and break. 8:38, Flat side O, FOS wins inside 9:23, sometimes when playing D off disc, being in position to maintain the force is more important than attempting a block or staying tight... Here the D mindlessly runs past and gives up the break side. Easy goal. 11:41, scoober over a low mark, on the flat side, then jogs downfield and gets an upline so easily 11:54, two give-gos and they score. Kinda weak defense here. --> This is also a case of shoulder checking on the wrong side. Merriman shoulder checks the open side, when he should be checking the break side! --> Also note the change of pace the guy who scores uses, which Rowan has mentioned several times. It's not that much, but you can see the defender, with the balaclava, slowing and staying to the outside shoulder and then falling behind. --> 12:48, a better angle of the goal. Drone view. 14:15, truck on flat side starting from stoppage. Perfect FOS coverage. shut down! 14:18, Rowan in his office. Unguardable at the FOS 14:24, Buttery break. Starts the flat side third flow. Nice inside upline continuation from Malks 14:25, big block, ugh 14:55, What on earth --- Chain is playing a bunchy, 5 person ho stack?? They cut like its a split stack... 15:13, flat side dump, and runaway. No give-go. Almost stranded. Lovely shimmy to get the inside window open more. FOS defender (Malks?) just barely can't win the battle. Very close to getting a block or shutting em down. *15:22, unusual cut to get the OS reset. Then the D overcommits to the block, can't hold force, and Chain can throw a break side huck. (Same as mentioned of 9:23) --> The defender downfield was beat deep, but given the field position, there was twice as much space on the break side as the open side. Had the mark held force, it would've required a throw over the shoulder of the cutter. Something even harder to read, not just that there was less width to throw to. --> Also, given the positioning and the time that the disc hung in the air, there was a chance for Truck to bracket and switch. The guy deep on O came under into the open side, while the guy in the open side struck deep. Those defenders could've switched, they likely just didn't realize where the other was. But given that the disc hung in the air, they could've used that time to look around which takes a quarter of a second. 17:34, I like this flat side goal. Roy scores by going upline. So much separation. Starts with a nice around break from Jurek. 19:23, Flat side D in the handler area. FOS able to get inside. 19:33, Easy upline from BS 19:39, Merriman block on an under 21:00, That's a pretty tough result. That's definitely a foul on the mark being too close. But is it technically in the throwing motion? Cranston could've not thrown it... And yet it affected the throw, throwing him off balance a bit, and slowing his momentum taking some yards off the throw... 22:25, phenomenal grab. Merriman probably could've D'd it but probably wasn't expecting that so jumped late. *23:06, Truck ho stack off pull... not much happens really but they go into flow quickly. Rowan considers this one of Truck's best points of the season. 23:20, nice movement from Rowan. very tight inside from this angle it looks. Then gets it back with a nice move and then throws another tight inside. He's playing his game. Chain isn't stopping it. 25:23, Easy upline from BS 25:30, an example of breaking the mark with a half pivot when the full pivot doesn't work. 27:20, Chain zone D... Where Chain gets in Truck's heads (?) with BS travel calls. Long point too. *33:23, Ruled a catch. Maintained catch through enough ground contact... Mitch set this precedent. 33:59, Regarding 32:59: "Probably the worst spike we'll see all weekend..." Oh sir... you have no idea. 35:10, Chain zone D *35:39, Unusual upline. More of a slip. Give-go shut down by a switch, but nice quick break by Rowan to continue the flow. 35:47, upline give-go 35:55, Cheeky Chain players trying to get in the heads of Truck again? No reason for that... 38:53, A good bid by Boxley where he's not able to get the block but is able to stay in position to mark immediately after. 39:00, Reset to space works despite reset going the wrong way when throw goes up 40:14, a drone look at this play shows what kind of separation is enough for good teams/players to throw to. Ie, barely any 43:30, Walk, walk, walk, cut. Ok he jogs, but he didn't need to do much to get open deep despite being backed by his defender. 51:05, *start of second half* *53:05, Nice move by Jurek to get open deep 56:01, Rowan with the half pivot backhand *56:30, Rowan with the nice FOS cutting 58:10, Truck D give up some ground off of pull in order to prevent a quick huck goal. Decide against junk zone. Interesting. 58:35, wheel, but the disc is too floaty and leads the play the wrong way. *59:10, I love this non-standard OS reset. Huls sets up almost directly behind the thrower, allowing him to cut towards the weak side (sort of up and away) instead of upline into the strong side (well guarded by Truck D). This takes the disc into the area with D on the wrong side of their checks. And they score off the flow. Also note that this reset positioning puts the mark behind the thrower should he look for a reset throw, ie 180 degrees opposite. 1:00:52, Chain zone D. Truck huck to get past it. 1:03:03, Bh around reset. Good angle 1:08:05, upline give-go shut down with a switch 1:08:15, Wheel continuation stopped by mark. Hard no inside. *1:10:08, Nice cut deep. But a perfect example of how to play D on a deep strike when you're out of position. Run to the guy first. Don't worry about the disc until you're there. Also a third example of Chain being a douchey team with their calls. (The angle at 1:10:48 shows it all.) Although there was much more non-call related stuff. 1:12:55, Abandons the disc in Callahan territory. Like what???? Dude, you're next. Go to FOS and continuate. 1:13:55, Chain play same third down 90% of the field. Can't finish. Turnover 1:16:02, Disc starting at own endzone forced sideline 1:20:42, How not to poach. Yellow card. 1:21:27, Nice upline move by Rowan to get the goal. 1:23:32, whole team behind disc play. Chain huck 1:25:10, Another look at Truck's simple ho pull play start. Not a play, just a way to get going. Question: What do they like about this? 1:26:10, That's surprising that that's an O foul. White is too close. No disc space. Wtf. Compare this to one against Snell yesterday? I can't remember if I got the timestamp... and I think Malks had one called against him in this game very early on. But those made sense bc the mark was in a fair spot. Here he's not. 1:27:40, Nice holster. FOS moves too early or sensed the mark was making a play. 1:27:47, Nice OS reset 1:27:53, Watch Rowan's path after he dishes the reset. It's not the common inside give-go path. He takes a loopy and slow moving (like 50% at first), which lulls the defender into a less aware state, and gets him trailing. Then Rowan can make his move. He gets several yards of separation. --> I mean, yeah it's to the breakside, so the trailing is to be expected. But the separation is massive. Like 10 feet. --> Drone angle at 1:28:37 1:27:56, an interesting choice to switch on the breakside upline give-go (ie, the guy could've just set a force instead of switching to take Boxley) 1:29:51, Scoober reset on bh force 1:30:35, Nothing, has to throw a break. And does... Hmmm. How can the mark play better here? I think he's too close. He's about a foot away when the throw goes up. He starts like 3 feet away, but then steps in. 1:30:57, siiiiiiiick block on a flat side huck 1:31:46, BS backfield reset 1:32:32, A bit of a struggle on the Flat side here for Truck, but they get it off the sideline easily when Chain poaches and the smart handler recognizes. Notice how quickly Merriman clears out after the give-go doesn't work. 1:32:45, interesting choices here. Scared me. Doesn't choose the rather open under. Almost throws it OB on the break. Then a fun push pass on the open side upline 1:32:58, Push pass to an OS upline Goals 1 - 4:17 2 - 6:00 3 - 9:09 4 - 11:50 5 - 15:23, Chain huck 6 - 17:34, 7 - 21:17, Chain huck 8 - 23:20, Rowan creating the play. 9 - 25:45, Chain break throw punishes poach 10 - 30:54 and 31:35 (drone angle) - Zone O goal. Rowan assist. 11 - 32:59, Chain huck from brick. (Not a drop) 12 - 36:15, (37:25 Drone angle), DC swing to score 13 - 39:15, Chain don't huck 14 - 41:27, Truck look like they score with ease 15 - 43:27, Chain huck 8-7 chain at half 16 - 52:10, Truck huck. Gotta see it from the 53:05 angle. 17 - 53:50, Chain huck 18 - 56:30, Rowan 4th assist. Chain makes a questionable poach 19 - 59:15, Chain score with small ball movement 20 - 1:00:52, Truck huck, zone o. Rowan's 5th 21 - 1:03:19, Chain smallball 22 - 1:05:05, Truck Huck! Pull play? (Drone angle at 1:05:50) 23 - 1:08:25, Truck break. Merriman save. 24 - 1:18:51, Longest point of the game. Chain score with smallball, using width of field 25 - 1:21:27, Rowan goal. Uses backfield fake on an upline. (Drone Footage at 1:21:55) 26 - 1:23:32, Chain huck plus some quick movement 27 - 1:27:53, Rowan's 3rd goal - holy fuck. Drone angle at 1:28:37 28 - 1:32:50, push pass Turns 8:13, Chain 14:25, Truck 19:35, Chain (Merriman block) 19:55, Truck, on the huck. But almost poached on the FOS 1:07:05, Chain 1:10:10, Merriman, second block. No foul. Great positioning 1:13:07, Truck huck 1:14:12, Chain 1:15:50, Truck 1:17:14, Chain. Offensive foul against the Truck defender trying to make a play. Ruled as a turnover! Interesting. questionable, but Truck player had good position. 1:18:32, Truck 1:30:57, Chain. Sick Jurek block, alt angle at 1:31:22