Impact wins ASA State Championship

MOUNT PROSPECT, IL - Impact beat the Bucketheads two out of three times Sunday to win the 2006 ASA State Championship at the Metro-Majewski Complex in Mt. Prospect. Impact finished the weekend with six wins and one loss, losing to the Bucketheads in the first championship game in the double-elimination tournament only to beat them again later in the night to take the championship.

Impact started the tournament by beating the Mavericks 8-2, went on to beat Punch 7-6 in the round of 16, beat Steel Gold 6-3 in the quater-finals, handled the Forty-Fives 9-6 in the semi-finals, and beat the Bucketheads 7-4 in the finals of the winners bracket. The Bucketheads beat the Forty-Fives 5-1 in the final game of the consolation bracket and came back to beat Impact 4-2 in the first championship game only to be given a 2nd loss by losing to Impact 5-0 in the final game.

The final eight teams in the winners bracket on Sunday were Traffic, Forty-Fives, Bucketheads, Outsiders, Maxim, Binge, Steel Gold, and Impact.

Final Tournament bracket