Yep - Four 30 second techs and I am all good with that. No need for any extended recreational viewing pleasure.
Spencer’s competition in Turkey
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Ironbird and Spencer's mom's glasses on suicide watch.
Ironbird and Spencer's mom's glasses off suicide watch. Close call.
random likes to run his mouth, but spencer's mom could kick his a$$
Well it said Thomas Gilman traveled to Istanbul just in case Spencer can’t compete. He said Spencer tweaked his knee again.
Who said it, I’m assuming it was our friend minnow?
Can you (or anyone) explain that form to me like I'm someone who doesn't understand what I am looking at?
List of competitors sorted alphabetically by country with the top 4 seeds noted.
It seems like it will be treated as a 32 wrestler bracket with five byes in the round of 32. Top 4 seeds plus random lucky draw for the 5th bye? Spencer will likely have to win four times on Saturday to qualify as a finalist. Anyone losing in the SF will then have to win Sunday in the 3rd place matchup to get to Paris.
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Spencer will get drawn in and his top competition for the gold at this tournament is Aman from India. Iran, Germany and china are all very good also.
This will be a tough tournament, he needs a top 3 to qualify the weight.
There is a repachage if you lose to a finalist.
Bracket is out. If Spencer wins his opener he gets the one seed his second match, so he defacto drew the 16 or 17 seed. You'd like to think if he wins that he makes the semis at least, or if he lost that guy could make the finals. Hopefully he just takes care of business and wins it himself.
I think they seed the top four only test are random draws
That's correct. That's what I meant by "de facto", Spencer and his first round opponent basically drew the equivalent of the 16/17 seeds randomly since the winner faces the one seed in the round of 16.
Tough break for the 1 seed.
India was who we wanted to avoid IMO. Good draw.
Im just spitballing here, but I believe his draw is not terrible, china is extremly tough, but believe the top half is the better path.
China was ranked 7th by flo, but is down to the teens now. Must have taken a bad loss in Asian championship.
I did not see that, I watched a few matches he is good. Spencer should roll to the finals, India is extremely tough and he has a motor.
They go through the repechage like normal but the third place guys wrestle each other for the final spot. I think that’s how all of these tourneys should be instead of two thirds.
For those new to international tourneys, repechage is the wrestle back of all the guys that were beat by the finalists. If you lose to a guy who doesn’t make the finals, you are done.
I don't think Spencer will have much trouble with Zou or anyone else on the top side of the bracket.
I think one of Spencer’s advantages is the cut isn’t bad for him. It’s an added bonus for the people cutting big weight, but he handled a larger Gilman so I’m confident in him.
Eh, Horst Lehr? Spencer turns him into fresh kielbasa < 3 minutes
So cool and a great experience for Drake. Clearly whatever drama we saw at soldier salute 2 years ago is a thing of the past. Kick ass this weekend Spencer!
