CO Mile High Power Rankings (FINAL FOUR)

The weekly power rankings are determined by a poll of 15 Denver-area sports journalists. Commentary is provided by Kip Sayless, former Catalina Wine Mixers beat writer and author of Seven Reasons Logic Can Be Defeated By Yelling.

Championship Week.

Perhaps the most competitive season in CO Mile High history will come to an end Friday night. Will a new champion be crowned, or will American Riff Raff defend its Spring 2012 title? The time for talk is over. The team best at palming abnormally sized balls will win. Any team with blue balls will lose. LET'S GET IT ON.

Week 1 of the playoffs was rife with upsets. Season-long powerhouse Ball Lawbers took a shocking first-round exit, while four of the five last-place teams somehow found a way to stumble drunkenly into Week 2.

1. American Riff Raff (7-2) -- After limping out of the gates early this season, the defending champs have seemingly regained their mojo. Only five things can stop them now: STU GOTZ, Coming From Behind, Dice., a tornado ripping through their trailer park or the sudden outlawing of Budweiser.

2. STU GOTZ (6-2-1) – The Gotz Mob spent most of Playoffs Week 1 first-pumping to Carly Rae Jepsen. The focus now turns to ensuring 4 girls and 4 guys show up Friday, which will no doubt be a challenge with Coming From Behind's players already preparing the flaming 151 shots.

3. Coming From Behind (7-2) – When DWAK managed to field a full and legal team last week, the sigh of despair unleashed by the entire Reach Around roster could be heard as far away as Amarillo. After squeaking out a win in CFB's first actual game action since the spring league, team captain Luis Barrios was quick to remind his players, "It's OK guys, we're still only two forfeits away from a title."

4. Your Mom (4-4-1) – Losing to arch-rival American Riff Raff two weeks in a row had to be painful. Not quite as painful, however, as the Audi I saw on I-25 the other day with a license plate reading YOURMOM. Fess up. Which one of you was it? AJ? Brooke? This only leads to more questions. Does the whole team have these? Are plates with YOURMOM1 and YOURMOM2 floating around out there? I'm so confused.

5. Drinkers With A Kicking Problem (4-6) – Snuck by a team that was short a pitcher, catcher, first-baseman, second-baseman, shortstop, third-baseman, left fielder, left-center fielder, short fielder, right-center fielder, right fielder and a coach in the first round and put up a heck of a fight against Coming From Behind in the second round. In all seriousness (for once), we at the GMOT hope DWAK continues to field a team in coming seasons. Y'all are a ton of fun and not far off from competing with the best.

6. Bob Loblaws Ball Lawbers (1-8) – David defeated Goliath. There's no other way to put it.

7. Dice. (8-1) – Dice. commands and deserves respect, which is why ranking the team No. 7 is funny. I hope the joke is now transparent enough. Sorry for misleading you all these weeks, national kickball pundits!

8. Pitches Be Crazy (3-6) -- The Pitches will continue to get better in coming seasons as long as they get some meds that "balance them out."

9. Drunken Monkeys (3-7) – Lost to Dice. 18-0, but this always-fun team assuredly had a blast on the sideline. That's what kickball is all about.

10. Shenanigans (2-7) -- "Friday nights during the summer are inconvenient," said the Shenanigans team captain and almost everyone else in the league after Shenanigans' forfeit. "We're fixing that for future seasons," the Kicktator responded.