Ya I heard Nightmare is coming back with a lot of new faces. Last year seemed like a down year for that area as far as conference teams goes. Makes sense that the players have joined other teams as well. Even MW wasn't as good as they usually are. It would be nice if you guys get that major...
Utah is one of the biggest sangbagging states there is. Your E teams would be D in CO. All the teams out there break up and stay at the same level. All you have to do is look at the history of Utah in these world tournaments to know.
Debating it as well, I do wish we had the chance to get the other "special" bats. I liked the weighting better on last years Portent, so basically that only leaves the DB as a potential bat.
All except the new associations
There were no local teams swinging Combat from what I saw, so probably just aren't used to seeing the "webbing" of the Combat. Same goes for World's depending on if you got a local umpire as well.
At the Houston major this year they were throwing out all the Combats that had any sort of tracking. They wouldn't do a compression test, just a visual.
Swung the new USSSA Portent last night. Almost feels like a midload on the bat. Swings a lot like the first Dirty. The ball was jumping off the bat from the first swing. Impressed with the performance.