Is it time for the annual monthlong debate of who's on which team? The Reigning Champion East Team has five players returning by my count: Finn, Thurman, Sturges, Steele, and Fry. We also have Doak returning from the 2013 team, and I understand that Hoover's contract with the West expired last year and the East has offered a huge qualifying sheet to him that the West is unlikely to match after a few years of alleged tampering.
There are a lot of geographic Easterners attending this event who have played for Team West in years past. The East welcomes defectors who are willing to fully renounce their loyalties to the hour-behind former empire.