After two full days of cardboard-wall-to-cardboard-wall action, the first round of The Crude Life 2020 March Madness Tournament is officially in the books.
There will be no 16-over-1 this year, but upsets weren’t completely ruled out. Thursday evening in the Powder River Region provided back-to-back upsets the first day, and you can assign a lot of credit to No. 12 seed Energy Expo and No. 13 seed K9 Pipe Inspection for those memories.
The Permian Region provided some excitement with No. 10 seed Meckler Marketing Consulting and No. 9 seed The Earth’s Champion Johnny Green pulling off upsets.
“We are still on cloud nine,” Brian Meckler, head coach of Meckler Marketing Consulting said. “Up next for us is Target Hospitality and they have one of the largest fan bases in the tournament, but our guys know how to be scrappy and innovative. I like our chances.”
The top four seeded teams in each region won their matchups respectively. One match up to note was No. 3 seed Probus Energy Services and No. 14 seed Razor Services by digging out of early holes to avoid a Fyre Festival-like disaster.
The 12-over-5 curse seemed skip one digit this year and settle in on the No. 6 seed and No. 11 seed. No. 12 seed Energy Expo was the only coveted 12 who won there first round match up. Meanwhile, No. 6 seeds Industrial Metal Finishing, Super Heaters of ND and Public Energy Number One all lost to No. 11 seeds, with Mile High Employment Solutions the lone No. 6 seed left in the tournament. If you’re not sensing the trend here, I’ll fill you in: The 12-over-5 is officially over, baby. It’s 11-over-6 now.
Elsewhere in The Crude Life’s madness, No. 2 seed Brigade Energy Services escaped No. 15 seed Earth Protection Alliance, No. 3 seed Absolute Energy Field Products rolled over of No. 14 seed Bernard Specialties, and No. 1 seed Creedence Energy Services dispatched of No. 16 seed Couch Potato Radio’s Cinderella Story in this year’s field.
The Crude Life 2020 March Madness First Round:
Thursday Night’s Match Ups
Marcellus Region
Final: (1) Swan Energy over (16) The Country Twins 93-67
Final: (2) Knighten Industries over (15) The Energy Pragmatist 92-71
Final: (7) The Navitas Organization over (10) NaturalGasNow 65-64 in Overtime
Final: (9) WellDatabase over (8) Public Energy Number One 66-63
Permian Region
Final: (1) MBI Energy Services over (16) Shale Play Media 87-68
Final: (4) Oilman Magazine over (13) Hatch Coaching 81-73
Final: (5) Trunkline over (12) Eagle Ford Facebook Page 75-69
Final: (9) The Earth’s Champion Johnny Green over (8) PermainShale Facebook Page 87-64
Bakken Region
Final: (2) Bakken Facebook Page over (15) Agassiz Chemical 86-59
Final: (3) Aries Buildings over (14) Josh Swanson 73-66
Final: (7) McKenzie County Econ Dev over (10) Building the Bakken 67-64
Final: (11) Bakken BBQ over (6) Super Heaters of ND 84-70
Powder River Region
Final: (1) Crestwood Midstream over (16) NiobraraChalk FB Page 89-65
Final: (9) W.I.C. over (8) Black Creek Pipeline Leak Detection 68-62
Final: (12) Energy Exposition over (5) Energy Advisors Group 73-68
Final: (13) K9 Pipe Inspections over (4) Northland Industrial Specialties 71-70 in Overtime
Friday’s Games and Match Ups
Marcellus Region
Final: (3) Probus Energy Services over (14) Razor Services 94-86
Final: (4) Royal Creek Consulting over (13) Resource Analytics 90-69
Final: (5) Great Lakes Research Center over (12) Marcellus Facebook Page 76-70
Final: (11) MRC Global over (6) Marcellus Drilling News 81-75
Permian Region
Final: (2) Target Hospitality over (15) Haynesville Facebook Page 84-69
Final: (3) Absolute Energy Field Products over (14) Bernard Specialties 91-78
Final: (10) Meckler Marketing Consulting over (7) Vanoco Energy Solutions 82-73
Final: (11) AE Partners over (6) Industrial Metal Finishing 82-81
Bakken Region
Final: (1) Creedence Energy Services over (16) Couch Potato Radio 103-67
Final: (4) Hawker Well Works over (13) API Dickinson 84-69
Final: (5) Badlands Contracting over (12) MineralTracker 79-64
Final: (9) Elite Energy Services over (8) Northern Colorado Legal Support 91-73
Powder River Region
Final: (2) Brigade Energy Services over (15) Earth Protection Alliance 87-65
Final: (3) Becker Safety and Supply over (14) LFS Chemistry, Inc. 72-68
Final: (6) Mile High Employment Solutions over (11) Knight Energy 76-60
Final: (7) Clark Energy Consulting over (10) Guide Energy Solutions 77-73
Second Round Match Ups
** Due to COVID-19 canceling the NCAA March Madness Tournament and the creation of actual work for The Crude Life 2020 March Madness Tournament, Saturday’s games were postponed until Sunday. Video broadcasts of Sunday’s games will begin posting Sunday evening at 6pm CT.
Marcellus Region
(1) Swan Energy vs. (9) WellDataBase
(5) Great Lakes Research Center vs. (4) Royal Creek Consulting
(11) MRC Global vs. (3) Probus Energy Services
(2) Knighten Industries vs. (7) The Navitas Group
Permian Region
(1) MBI Energy Services vs. (9) The Earth’s Champion Johnny Green
(5) Trunkline vs. (4) The Oilman Magazine
(11) AE Partners vs. (3) Absolute Energy Field Products and Services
(2) Target Hospitality vs. (10) Meckler Marketing Consulting
Bakken Region
(1) Creedence Energy Services vs. (9) Elite Energy Services
(5) Badlands Contracting vs. (4) Hawker Well Works
(11) Bakken BBQ vs. (3) Aries Buildings
(2) Bakken Facebook Page vs. (7) McKenzie County Economic Development
Powder River Region
(1) Crestwood Midstream Partners vs. (9) W.I.C.
(12) Energy Exposition vs. (13) K9 Pipe Inspections
(6) Mile High Employment Solutions vs. (3) Becker Safety & Supply
(2) Brigade Energy Services vs. (7) Clark Energy Consulting
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