Who won at 2023 55 & Over Mixed Nationals? Warm weather sections dominate!

The 55 & over Mixed Nationals Invitational was held this weekend which means there are some new champions.

At the 6.0 level, four 4-0 teams made the semis in Texas, PNW, Northern, and NorCal, all four of these in the top-5 of my simulation, and Texas won it call beating Northern 2-1 in the final.

At the 7.0 level, there were five 4-0 teams and Eastern went home without making the semis.  Florida, Caribbean, Southern, and Midwest did make the semis, all four of these in the top-5 of my simulation, and Florida beat Southern 2-1 in the final.

At the 8.0 level, there were four 4-0 teams in SoCal, Florida, Middle States, and Southwest advancing, and again, all four teams were in the top-5 of my simulation.  This event had Southwest win 2-1 over Middle States.

Last, at the 9.0 level, with just nine teams, all four semi-finalists were at 3-1 or better, those being Southwest, MoValley, Florida, and NorCal.  Two of these teams were in the top-4 of the simulation.  Southwest won this one too beating Florida 2-1.

An interesting observation is that every champion was a warm weather section.  And 11 of 16 semi-finalists were from warm weather sections.