Playoffs. Playoffs?

Sept. 23, 2020

The Spiders — some of them — return to action tonight to compete in the 2019–20 season-ending tournament. It’s been 194 days since the Spiders last took the ice, and needless to say, much (and much of nothing) has happened since then.

The league is putting on a season-ending tournament of sorts for those teams still willing and/or able to play, which means 22 teams at C3 from the original 26 teams will participate. All remaining regular season games on the schedule that were postponed back in March, which includes game 20 for the Spiders and Nordeasters, are now canceled.

Each team is guaranteed at least two games, in a bracket-style seeding, with two pools, with winners making their way through to the Asterisk Cup, and loser-winners for a chance to play for the Toilet Bowl.

The Spiders, the 9th seed in bracket 1 (17th overall in C3) take on the 8th seed (16th overall in C3) Arctic Wolves at Richfield Wednesday night at 9:30 p.m. for the chance to play the number 1 overall seed on Saturday, the Moose, who went 18–1 in the season.

Tournament seeds

Bracket 1

#1 Moose (18–1–0–0)
#4 Royals (14–4–0–0)
#5 Fighting Piranhas (13–3–1–1)
#8 Bulls (11–4–4–1)
#9 Knights (11–5–2–0)
#12 Pines (10–5–5–0)
#13 Wildcats (9–7–2–0)
#16 Arctic Wolves (8–9–0–1)
#17 Spiders (7–9–2–1)
#20 Nordeasters (4–12–2–0)
#21 Fighting Loons (3–4–2–1)

Bracket 2

#2 Hooligans (15–2–1–0)
#3 Maroons (15–2–3–0)
#6 Fighting Walleye (12–3–3–2)
#7 Spartans (12–5–1–1)
#10 Troopers (11–5–1–1)
#11 Blade Runners (11–6–1–0)
#14 Gold Rush (9–7–3–1)
#15 Slashing Pumpkins (8–8–4–0)
#18 Black Ice (5–11–2–0)
#19 Ice Hawks (5–13–0–0)
#22 LED Nord (3–15–1–0)

Tournament schedule

Bracket 1 tournament schedule
Game	Date	Location	Time	Home	Away
1	Wednesday, Sept. 23	Richfield 2	9:30 p.m.	Arctic Wolves (16)	Spiders (17)
2	Wednesday, Sept. 23	Richfield 2	7:45 p.m.	Pines (12)	Fighting Loons (21)
3	Thursday, Sept. 24	Richfield 2	8:45 p.m.	Wildcats (13)	Nordeasters (20)
8	Saturday, Sept. 26	Super Rink 2	11:30 a.m.	Moose (1)	TBD (16 vs. 17)
9	Saturday, Sept. 26	Super Rink 5	9:15 a.m.	Bulls (8)	Knights (9)
10	Saturday, Sept. 26	Super Rink 2	9:45 a.m.	Fighting Piranhas (5)	TBD (12 vs. 21)
11	Saturday, Sept. 26	Super Rink 5	11:00 a.m.	Royals (4)	TBD (13 vs. 20)
16	Sunday, Sept. 27	Super Rink 2	3:45 p.m.	TBD	TBD
17	Sunday, Sept. 27	Super Rink 4	2:45 p.m.	TBD	TBD
21	Monday, Sept. 28	Woog 1	7:45 p.m.	TBD	TBD
23	Wednesday, Sept. 30	Woog 1	7:45 p.m.	TBD	TBD
24	Wednesday, Sept. 30	Woog 1	9:30 p.m.	TBD	TBD
25	Friday, Oct. 2	BIG 3	9:30 p.m.	TBD	TBD
26	Friday, Oct. 2	Richfield 1	9:00 p.m.	TBD	TBD
31	Saturday, Oct. 3	BIG 2	3:15 p.m.	TBD	TBD
33	Sunday, Oct. 4	BIG 1	12:30 p.m.	TBD	TBD
34	Sunday, Oct. 4	Woog 2	5:30 p.m.	TBD	TBD
37	Saturday, Oct. 10	SLP E	5:45 p.m.	C3 Tier Championship

Bracket 2 tournament schedule
Game	Date	Location	Time	Home	Away
4	Friday, Sept. 25	Super Rink 4	9:15 p.m.	Slashing Pumpkins (15)	Black Ice (18)
6	Friday, Sept. 25	Super Rink 5	5:45 p.m.	Blade Runners (11)	Les Etoiles du Nord (22)
7	Friday, Sept. 25	Super Rink 5	7:30 p.m.	Gold Rush (14)	Ice Hawks (19)
12	Saturday, Sept. 26	Super Rink 2	3:00 p.m.	Hooligans (2)	TBD (15 vs. 18)
13	Saturday, Sept. 26	Super Rink 5	2:30 p.m.	Spartans (7)	Troopers (10)
14	Saturday, Sept. 26	Super Rink 2	1:15 p.m.	Fighting Walleye (6)	TBD (11 vs. 22)
15	Saturday, Sept. 26	Super Rink 5	12:45 p.m.	Maroons (3)	TBD (14 vs. 19)
18	Sunday, Sept. 27	Richfield 2	11:30 a.m.	TBD	TBD
19	Sunday, Sept. 27	Highland N	7:40 p.m.	TBD	TBD
20	Sunday, Sept. 27	Highland N	9:30 p.m.	TBD	TBD
22	Monday, Sept. 28	Woog 1	9:30 p.m.	TBD	TBD
27	Friday, Oct. 2	SLP W	6:00 p.m.	TBD	TBD
28	Friday, Oct. 2	SLP W	7:45 p.m.	TBD	TBD
29	Saturday, Oct. 3	BIG 2	11:15 a.m.	TBD	TBD
30	Saturday, Oct. 3	BIG 2	1:15 p.m.	TBD	TBD
32	Sunday, Oct. 4	BIG 1	10:30 a.m.	TBD	TBD
35	Sunday, Oct. 4	Woog 2	7:10 p.m.	TBD	TBD
36	Tuesday, Oct. 6	Woog 2	9:40 p.m.	TBD	TBD
37	Saturday, Oct. 10	SLP E	5:45 p.m.	C3 Tier Championship