At Large Berths -- aka, The long bus ride of despair

[SF Band dad]

There are 3 at-large berths in 5A, 4 in 4A,..... who gets 'em?

I'm thinking that the 5th place team out of 4A-6 will be in. Could be Myrtle Beach, North Myrtle Beach, or Hartsville. I would not look forward to hosting any of these teams in the first round.

[bringthewood]

might be the best thread title ever.....

[GoBigGreen]

Do the lower state at large berths have to come from the lower state? With the top 4 from Region 5, 6 and 7 all making it in, and taking the projection as reality, that would leave 0-8 Stall(Reg7), 2-7 Stratford(Reg6) and 2-7 Socastee(Reg5). With Region 4 being split across the upper and lower brackets the only team left out is 3-6 Chapin(Reg4). With 2 at large berths in the lower state, will 2 of these 4 teams fill the spots?

[STChamp 92]

This is what I'm wondering as well.. Boiling Springs doesn't actually have a game this week and are on a bye... but they are practicing just in case we end up being one of these "at large" teams... record is 2-8 overall, but 0-4 in region 2 5a.

[sparked_up]

Great question. To load all the at large berths in 4A to the low state would be flat wrong. That is where they are bracketed, but need to be next 4 best. Balanced at the minimum. Region 3 4A should get one of the at large spots.

[CITYSLICKER]

BEAUTIFUL, BOOK IT DANO, MY STAGS GOT THREE WAYS INTO THE GOLD.

[SCPrepTalk]

Just got a message

4A - At large bids are statewide…..No criteria only a selection committee.



From the bracket posted at the SCHSL
5A At-large berths
https://schsl.org/archives/8390
1. Automatic Qualifiers- Top 5 in 6 team region, Top 3 in a five team region
2. Region 1-3 and the #1 and #4 teams in Region 4 the Upper State. Region 5-7 and the #2 and #3 place team from Region 4 are the Lower State.
3. Upper State will have 15 automatic qualifiers and select 1 at large teams from the next team out of playoffs in Region 1-3
4. Lower State will have 14 automatic qualifiers and select 2 at large team from the next team out of the playoffs in Region 4-7

[GoBigGreen]

Should point 1 state Top 4 in a five team region instead of Top 3? Looking at the brackets that appears to be the case. If so, from regions 4-7 only 1 team from each region will not be an automatic qualifier. Of the 4 teams that do not get the automatic qualifier, 2 will get at large entries leaving only 2 teams not making it in from regions 4-7. One of those teams is 0-8 Stall. So from this week's games for regions 4-7 we will determine that last team out and the final playoff seedings.