• Wisconsin
• Winona State
• Notre Dame
• LSU
• Tulane
• Iowa State
• Arkansas
• Michigan
• St. Benedict
• Oklahoma St
• North Texas
• Truman St
• Georgia
• Grinnell
• Texas
• Texas B
• Wisconsin Stevens Point
• Iowa
• Indiana
• Illinois
• Texas Christian
• Florida
• Missouri
• Oklahoma
• Michigan B

Congratulations to Wisconsin for winning the tournament and the prize money. Wisconsin beat Georgia in the finals. More details to come soon...

Pre-Tournament Hype:
Written by Miriam Allersma

The roster of 26 teams has been announced:

www.mardigrasultimate.com/teams.html

With 12 of the 26 from the South region, including last year's Nationals qualifiers Texas and Texas A&M, the tournament looks like a preview of South regionals. The Central region sends seven, Great Lakes five and Atlantic Coast two teams. This looks to be the first tournament for many as only three of the teams are currently listed in the UPA RRI (Florida #3, Michigan #7 and Michigan-B #27).

Several other teams were competing at Trouble in Vegas (Wisconsin and Texas A&M) and Hendrix Ultimate Experience (Arkansas, Iowa, Oklahoma St, North Texas and Oklahoma) the same weekend as QCTU, but the results were not entered into the UPA score reporter soon enough for the lastest RRI update.

Based on the 2005 series and a few fall and early season tournaments, I would pick the following teams as favorites to make quarters:

Texas - Semis Nats05
Florida - won CCC and QCTU
Wisconsin - Semis TIV, Quarters CCC
Iowa - Quarters Nats05
Texas A&M - 13th Nats05, Quarters CCC
Michigan - 3rd GL05, Quarters QCTU
Georgia - 3rd AC05

Exactly who rounds out the top eight is up for grabs. GL contenders Illinois, Notre Dame and Indiana all have a shot (OK, I admit my GL bias). But perhaps another team from the South such as Arkansas, Tulane or Oklahoma (the next highest finishers at SO05 regionals) will break through. Finally, Iowa State should also be in the running as they finished 4th in the Central last year.

Looking forward to the King Cake.