What Goes Up Must Come Down

One of the more intriguing items that will be determined at the end of the regular season is which teams will be moving up in division and which teams will be moving down.

Mountain Star Division

Within the Mountain Star Divisions, the New Kicks on the Block have all but guaranteed themselves a seat at the Sunrise Division's table next season. Considering this was the inaugural season for SCK's new format, in hindsight, New Kicks may have been over matched to compete in the top tier. However their consistent playoff success, made it feasible to consider they would compete at a high level.

The other two teams competing to keep from dropping in divisions are the Drunken Monkeyz and the Balls & Dolls. Just a week ago it was looking as if the Monkeyz would be joining the New Kicks in the Sunrise group; however after somehow scrapping together a win against Kixxx, they may have given themselves a small chance to stay with their Mountain Star cohorts. The first step is to pick up a win against #2 I'd Hit It, which seemed impossible a couple of weeks ago, but the Monkeyz have shown some small signs of life, so there may be a chance. Now the Balls & Dolls have an edge on the Monkeyz because they hold the tie breaker, but if Balls & Dolls ends up losing their last two games, they may be the ones dropping in division.

Sunrise Division

The Sunrise kiddos recently had four teams competing for the opportunity to raise up in division and play with the big boys. However after last week, it is becoming more likely that the Billy Bad Asses and Party Pandas will be the ones gearing up to venture into the top Mountain Star tier. Rookie team, Chilez Y Chilindrinas had a very good opportunity to be the ones to move up in division, but that was until the veteran Billy Bad Asses quickly crushed their dreams in a knock out, drag out game this past Wednesday. I'm sure it was a tough loss for C&C to swallow as they had the lead for a majority of the game. However the Billy Bad Asses kept true to their name and played bad ass They had to continuously battle back and never quit, which ultimately earned them the win. So unless the Bad Asses or the Pandas shoot themselves in the foot, expect to see them populate the ranks of the Mountain Star Division next season. 

One More Shot will end up dropping in division, which may be best. This will give the veteran team sometime to regroup and just have some fun playing kickball again. The biggest surprise coming of the Sunrise group is the Balls of Steel, formerly the Runs, will be most likely be the other team dropping in division. This scenario was simply unexpected.

WRECK Division

News out of the WRECK Division is still limited and sketchy at best. Dubbed the " Fun Division", Kickball Nation has turned a blind eye to the WRECK group. However there are a couple of promising teams that will be coming out of the WRECK group. The Balls of Fury and Blue Ballers should be the two teams moving up to the Sunrise group. Both these teams are statistically superior when compared to all their other wrecked counter-parts, especially the Balls of Fury. Both these teams should fit well when they move up into the Sunrise Division.

Happy Kicking