Best Home Field Advantage?

Qwest or Quest or however-you-spell-it field is the best. how can you people even consider a high-school field with a professional sport complex. probably because you havent played on it. i have, and i tell ya, its an experience like no other

the drummers have been there for years. and i believe the streakers were from your team. and this is about home field advantage, so having a crowned field, not slanted, is an advantage to the rock, as is the grass, which the mercer kids never play on.

so my last comment was deleted. guess it was a bit over the top. so i will say this in a more mannered way.

why is MI's field called the jungle?

too me it just sounds like a lame attempt to have school/island spirit or pride or something. which it fails at. people just laugh at the idea of "the jungle" since the nearest tree is a mile away.

a more suitable name would be "bus-topia"

or "field where rich boys drive by honking and yelling like complete losers and idiots in their lexus's that their parents gave them"

just to let you know, MI is covered in trees, but i guess this is a stupid argument and ur just upset that MI won the championship THREE YEARS IN A ROW!!

yah that must be it. nothing gets past you.

If you remember the semifinals you would remember that the grass obviously didn't hold back Mercer that much considering they won the game on the slanted field.

the food is way better than the microwaved hotdogs at mercer. and i believe mountains are a better view than school buses as well.

the food is way better than the microwaved hotdogs at mercer. and i believe mountains are a better view than school buses as well.

since when did they have hotdogs? its unbelievablely hard to find food on that forsaken island

Do you seriously think Issaquah fans are the funniest? Have you heard some of the things MI fans have said during games? And they don't make up their chants at "chant making parties" idiot.

yeah mercers hilarious. at the championship game they were wearing shirts that said FYI

not original at all though. Original was FYMI

FYMI isnt a common saying with double meaning. FYI is. so there.

I totally agree, one time when it was raining and our team was playing them, the ball got stuck in the mud three times, the ref had to stop the game and pull it out with his hands. The have some weird fans too, they come decked out in a tiger suit.

This might be the most ridiculous post Ive ever read in the short history of Walax polls. For one, Rainier Beach isnt that bad of a neighborhood...within three blocks is waterfront property with houses that sell for over 1/2 a mill. Second, and no offense to Prep, none of their fans will come that South to watch them play. Fans are more of an impact than the actual neighborhood a field is in. I really hope this was a joke that I took too seriously.

thats kinda of a stupid thing to say

At overlake we could make you play on turf or grass. we got both and if we wanted to we could make you play on the opposite of what you're used to. but we're nice, we use the turf.

because playing on "the opposite of what [we're] used to" would RRREEEEAAAALLLLLYYYYYY affect the us. yah, ok. that makes your guys field soooo good. because we focus all our attention before the game on what surface we're about to play on. we come totally unprepared for the game and we lose. good strategy, dont know how you guys didnt win the championship (in DII)

how about maple valley, when i played there it was almost a cow field with a spot of grass at X. everything else was mud, three inches deep

it had rained the day before our game and the water was over 3 inches deep where you'd face off

the biggest difference is the fans, while both get tons of fans for big games, the BI fans come with class, excited to watch good lacrosse. also, there is no comparison, the grill at BI is way better.

if your talking about class your right. but when it comes to ruthlessness, i have to give it to issaquah, because at the state game i was rooting for MI and some Pissy issaquah guy through hot coffee on me. maybe he was sad that they got destroyed by mi. anyways i think that its either MI or BI with the best homefield advantage.

great post-i couldnt have said it any better...

are you serious? great post?. thats the biggest b.s. ive ever heard. when did MI "destroy" Issaquah in a state final? just curious

BI is better for the fans, first of all there are more of them, creating a more exciting enviroment, the grill is always going with delicious burgers, the stands are covered in case it rains, and the scenery with seattle mount rainier and the cascades to the east and the olympics to the west is the best in the state. as for the playing field itself, thats another story as the grass gets chewed out later in the season(ie now) and the goal and face areas tend to have sand filling in the holes that develope, and it can get sloppy with mud in front of the cages when it rains. this being said it is still a fun place to play when the field's not muddy, and you get to ride the ferry.

curtis and issaquah both have nice stadiums with good turf, but they lack the enviroment.

[quote=1234567]BI is better for the fans, first of all there are more of them, creating a more exciting enviroment, the grill is always going with delicious burgers, the stands are covered in case it rains, and the scenery with seattle mount rainier and the cascades to the east and the olympics to the west is the best in the state. as for the playing field itself, thats another story as the grass gets chewed out later in the season(ie now) and the goal and face areas tend to have sand filling in the holes that develope, and it can get sloppy with mud in front of the cages when it rains. this being said it is still a fun place to play when the field's not muddy, and you get to ride the ferry.

curtis and issaquah both have nice stadiums with good turf, but they lack the enviroment.[/quote]

When we played BI at BI there wasnt a great amount of fans, id say splotches here and there of them. The burgers looked good, but mine was burnt, thus the burger maker is not consistent with the quality of every single burger, though they were free. Curtis's stadium could eat BI's, on the upper levels there are back rests, i dont know who else has that. Our stadium has mountains to be seen all around too, it depends where your stading. You should have been at the Maple Valley game and told us we didnt have alot of fans. Who also has a full fledged locker room painted the home colors and a sick sound system? That tops it right there, Curtis wins this one.

that was also a saturday game, so not as many people go to it, also more people go to games against the better teams, like Issaquah and MI, curtis does not have that reputation yet, though it looks like they may become a consistent winner in a couple years. as for the burgers, they are consistently good, that wasn't a busy game, so it was a burger made earlier, you just got unlucky.

maybe i played on an alternative field or something but curtis's field had no rubber in it what so ever. Maybe this doesnt matter to anyone else but i dont like playing on cement with plastic grass over it... other than the the stadium is nice

Curtis' main feild has really nice turf, and yes, it has rubber in it

true, i forgot about maple valley. although the fans never bothered me at all the field was horrible. i remember games there with inches of mud and not a speck of grass on the field. it also smelled like cow feces. not a hospitable environment