Your PGF Season 7 Teams!!!

Here are your teams:

TEAM 1ST PHORM

Coach: Roger Gracie                   

1. Paul Ardila   

2. Adam Bradley

3. Kyle Chambers

4. Kyle Boehm 

5. Dory Aoun

Reserve: Devyson Souza            

Reserve: Sam Schwartz

TEAM CONSTELLATION

Coach: Dean Lister                      

1. Kemoy Anderson

2. Sebastian Attard

3. Marcin Maciulewicz

4. Fedor Nikolov

5. Chris Wojcik

Reserve: Drew Dyer

Reserve: ⁠Jack Bidwell

TEAM NEW HOPE REGENERATION

Coach: Pedro Sauer                     

1. Travis Thomas

2. Brad Schneider

3. Ernesto Rivera

4. Cam Hurd

5. Ryan Aitken

Reserve: ⁠Cristos Papadelos

Reserve: Jacob Howarth

TEAM: INTRANA

Coach: Carlos Machado                            

Quickly, we can see some athletes by virtue of their team selection do not have to face competitors who they’ve faced in other competitions. For example, from Team 1st Phorm, Adam Bradley and Kyle Boehm have faced each other twice in the last year – but now they’re teammates. So, any disadvantage Bradley or Boehm would have faced going against someone who has experience against them is wiped away.

Similarly, we see Team Intrana’s Elijah Carlton teamed up with Davis Asare and Andre Porfirio. Elijah has split matches against Asare and lost to Porfirio. Now as teammates, these prior opponents do not have to worry about each other.

Team Constellation features Kemoy Anderson who was the runner-up for PGF Season 5 and Fedor Nikolov who also made it to the playoffs that season. They both don’t have to face each other this time around during the regular season and they can give advice to their teammates on navigating the unique experience that is the PGF.

For Team New Hope Regeneration, Ryan Aitken and Travis Thomas had previously met in the ADCC Trials, with Aitken scoring a submission. Now they will work to submit everyone else. Really everyone on Team New Hope Regeneration has history with at least one, if not two, of their teammates. Now their prior opponents can provide each other insight on possible weaknesses and strengths they saw from across the mat to help their teammates tighten up their games for the gauntlet that is the PGF.

Keep checking back as we will provide fantasy analysis for Day 1’s matches later today.