You May Not Be Ready To Go Home But Someone Has To So Quit Saying That People

“I’m tired of fighting

Fighting for a lost cause”

                --Beck

Friends and followers of TSAVFL, we have TWO big battles going on in the standings right now!  Post knockouts the Live Round Bonus kicks in, and it has split TSAVFL just about in half.  There are no less than five teams in a donnybrook at the top – Hummingbird Lightfoot has squeaked to the lead with 26 points but he has two other teams right on his heels at 25 each:  Spring Breakers and The Big Short.  Right behind that Can’t Truss It! (23 points) and Carson’s Way (21) are ready to step up and take advantage of any weakness in the teams above them.

This is where I call out our award coordinator Erin for once again going above and beyond – WE HAVE A LOSER TROPHY AND IT IS MAGNIFICENT!  I meant to put a picture with it but will follow up with that later, suffice to say that as the CURRENT HOLDER of this award I could not be prouder of my humiliating loss and one of these teams:  Johnny 5 is Alive (12 points), Under Pressure (11) and Train a Comin’ (9) are all in the running to inherit it at the end of the season.  Each of these three are down to one singer, so it’s anyone’s game there as they tussle for TSAVFL’s lost cause.  Erin, the trophy is another Thing Of Beauty and we are a better league for it.

BONUS PICKS ARE DUE THIS WEEK!  EMAIL THEM TO ME!  Remember, we’ve bumped up the point total to 5 for each successful guess given just how goddamn hard it has been to pick these correctly so don’t lose out!  I hear that like last year the coaches may bring someone back – same rule applies as last year, no credit for the knockouts but will get a live round bonus and points going forward.

As of now, here are the coaches teams ranked by me (and the singers will be in best to worst order as well):

Team Xtina:  Alisan Parker, Ryan Quinn, Bryan Bautista, Tamar Davis and Kata Hay.  The team to beat, no?

Team Adam (god I hate myself):  Caroline Burns (THEY ARE SAVING HER FOR THE LIVE ROUNDS!!), Owen Danoff, Shalyah Fearing, Brian Nhira and Laith Al-Saddi.  I always expect Laith to lose but then he comes out and is delightful every time so far.  I could see him catching on a bit in live voting.  Shalyah and Brian both have that potential to get better as the season goes along.  Stronger team from Adam than I anticipated but I feel confident he’ll find a way to mess it up, and with my luck it will be Caroline.

Team Pharrell:  Hannah Huston, Emily Keener, Caity Peters, Moushumi and Lacy Mandigo.  Love Hannah as I’ve said, like Emily a lot though not sure she’ll be consistent enough to go all the way.  Caity hasn’t done much for me so far but who knows?

Team Blake:  Mary Sarah, Adam Wakefield, Joe Maye, Katie Basden and Paxton Ingram.  Mary Sarah is definitely a contender, maybe Adam.  Joe Maye was way weaker than I expected in the knockouts and Katie & Paxton are just meh for me so far.

I didn’t take a ton of notes this week because I was either getting tired of battles or was bored.  Was very sad to see Abby Celso go though, I liked her a bunch. 

Line of the week from Debbie talking about Kata Hay:  It’s like her face is a confluence of everything gone wrong.   Deb is not enamored with Kata.

Next week WE GO LIVE!!  Standings as usual can be found HERE.

While dreaming of TSAVFL hardware, I remain, yer pal,

Brother Pat