This weekend, sixteen schools step outside their comfort zones (and divisions) and fight for the chance to play in the "second" Ro16 next week. Join CSL veterans McGill, Duke, and UCI for their second or third runs; cheer on playoff newcomers Binghamton and Ryerson; BM the team that knocked you to fourth place in divisions. Maybe even join channel CSL and challenge UVic to a rap battle.

Follow the Round of 16 (part I of II) this weekend, casted by our very own Mark Ha (DarthThienAn from Princeton), Peter Liu (Daisy P, Princeton coach), and Dennis Qian (menace from Rice).

Saturday, 8pm EST: McGill versus Toronto (www.livestream.com/darththienan)
Saturday, 8pm EST: Binghamton versus Duke (www.livestream.com/daisyp)

Sunday, 6pm PST: OSU versus USC (www.livestream.com/striderdoom) DAY9 SUP ^^
Sunday, 8pm PST: Purdue versus UVic (www.livestream.com/darththienan)
Sunday, 8pm PST: UCI versus Texas A&M (www.livestream.com/wrmenace)
Sunday, 8pm PST: UTennessee versus UC Berkeley (www.livestream.com/daisyp)

The number one seeds, in the meantime, have the luxury of watching and waiting for one extra week. Let's take a look at what they have to say from their pedestals...

University of Michigan says:

"Purdue: We didn't actually expect Purdue to make it to the playoffs, so congratulations! We were thinking like... Chicago would make it or something. Maybe we were underestimating Purdue or they will cheese all 4 sets :) If they somehow manage to beat UVic, trust UM to roll over them AGAIN. But even HARDER.

OSU: We were really hyped up for our head-to-head match, so much that Funnytoss decided to attempt to stream the match on his fail computer. And as such a 3-0 destruction was totally unexpected and disappointing, and we now expect OSU to roll over and die in the first round. That said, we kind of cheer for them to beat USC and then Washington so they can meet us and we can crush them once more. Honestly speaking though, OSU is a decent team but they'd be a lot stronger if Joel actually took it seriously and racepicked."

Rice University says:

"First off, its great being first seed. The top 3 teams were hella close and it was the losses that ultimately defined us. Can't help but feel that there was a team missing in our division though (UTexas MIA WTF?).

On A&M:
Their coordinator Morrell is improving but his crisis management is down the shithole. Freak him out in the game and hold to your own wits and you have it won.
Their best player has got to be Timothy Ege. That man had us scared when he was matched up against our worst Terran. A simple BBS answered the call. Something Timothy could work on would have to be carelessness and theory. His mechanics are spot on but he could play a bit smarter.
There seemed to be a missing player on A&M this year. What happened to that really bitchy and annoying kid sexymedic, who kept touting a B-? Oh right, he spent a good weekend laddering to B- and flunked a few tests. Oh the woes of collegiate starcraft. Lesson learned it seems.
As for the other two zergs and Cake on the a&m team, pull off some mean 5 pools/BBS, and your team might be able to beat UCI. (That means you Florian).

On uT;
Tennessee, what the fuck happened. Your team is the highest average Iccup ranked team in our division, you handed it to me in ACE in Round 1, but you couldn't get your lineup in on time in your last round to take top seed. Tennessee is definitely coming back with a vengeance in playoffs.

As far as I can tell being their first season and all, Polly (David Polly) and opia (Scott Stephenson) are holding it down. I hear Polly is a solid C+ and opia has only one loss to show. If Wrath and dyNo pull off something great against their Berkeley counterparts, uT has a big chance at shooting down Berkeley. While this may be an upset to many, we here in Texas don't give a fuck about Berkeley.

As for west division, UCSD.UVic will probably land in the finals. However, I'm interested to see how Michigan does. They seem very consistent and got top seed without much difficulty. I'd be interested to see them face UVic."