The Knockout Round seeds are official and you may start to schedule at your leisure. The First Round is a home and away with aggregate goals being the only tiebreaker. If we have an aggregate tie, the higher seed will host the first tiebreaker game.
The first four seeds get that sweet bye and advance directly to the Quarters, so they get to rest and watch the rest of you duke it out.
As the games start to be scheduled, I will post the game date on the Knockout Round page in [red brackets.] The time frame for scheduling games runs through the 18th. If a series is involved in sudden death overtimes, the deadline for that series will be extended. If you win your series, don't start scheduling Quarterfinal games even if you know your opponent. Let's let the other series catch up to you.
The playoff seeding ended up being the following
#1 - FC Stolpen Steamroller (18 pts)
#2 - Swamp City Dragons (16 pts)
#3 - Bordeaux Fighting Bovines (15 pts)
#4 - North Polar Dragons FC (13 pts)
#5 - Club de Fútbol Deportivo Cotopaxi (12 pts)
#6 - the crutchanators of soccer (11 pts)
#7 - FC Trojans of SC (2nd pl, 13 pts)
#8 - Kobelco United Football Club (2nd pl 10 pts, +5 GD)
#9 - Fianna AFC (2nd pl, 10 pts, 0 GD)
#10 - FC Not Very Athletic (2nd pl, 9 pts, +2 GD)
#11 - Brighton AFC (2nd pl, 9 pts, +1 GD)
#12 - Burnaby Hillbillies (2nd pl, 8 pts)
Best of luck in the playoffs, everyone.