Field Tested №02 · Case study · September 2026Loomis, Rocklin and Roseville, CA
The 2026 Sierra Shootout: 55 teams, four brackets, one public page.
The 31st Annual Chuck McCollum Sierra Shootout, girls varsity water polo. Fifty-five teams, 110 games, four venues, two days. The schedule came from the host’s own workbook, the weekend was scored live on Eggbeater, and two years of results became a history page of stories the bracket doesn’t tell.
- 55 teams, four brackets
- Del Oro, Whitney, West Park and Sierra College
- September 11 and 12, 2026
- By Eggbeater Water Polo
By the numbers
110
games on the host’s schedule, 55 each day, across four brackets and five pools. Every one of them was published to one public page, under one code.
- Teams
- 55
- Brackets · Platinum, Gold, Silver and Bronze
- 4
- Venues, five pools · Del Oro, Whitney, West Park, Sierra College
- 4
- Goals, in the games the host posted a score for
- 1,770
- Overtime games
- 6
- Goal to phone, when a game is scored on Eggbeater
- About 5 s
On September 11 and 12, 2026, 55 girls varsity teams played the 31st Annual Chuck McCollum Sierra Shootout at four venues in Loomis, Rocklin and Roseville, California: Del Oro High School, Whitney High School, West Park High School and Sierra College. The host’s schedule held 110 games in four brackets. Merced won Platinum, 17 to 11 over Buchanan. College Park won Gold, 12 to 8 over Foothill. Atwater won Silver, 11 to 7 over Oakdale. Del Oro JV won Bronze, which was decided by a three-team round robin.
The champions
Four brackets, four titles
- PlatinumMercedMerced 17, Buchanan 11. Champion in 2025 as well.
- GoldCollege ParkCollege Park 12, Foothill 8. Champion in 2025 as well.
- SilverAtwaterAtwater 11, Oakdale 7.
- BronzeDel Oro JVWon the three-team round robin for the title.
Two Gold placement games, for 7th and for 15th place, had no score posted by the host. The final standings place those four teams in the order of the host’s 2026 preseed.
One page for the whole weekend.
The schedule came from the tournament host’s own workbook. Eggbeater published it as one public page and one code, SIERRA: all four brackets, both days, with every game’s seeds, start time and pool.
The page now carries what was played: each final score beside each name, the top three in every bracket, and the road to each title, round by round. Last year’s final standings sit beside this year’s draw, showing where each 2025 team played in 2026.
Venues, parking, admission and the tournament’s rules are on the same page, with a calendar file for the weekend.
The tournament code
SIERRA
One code for the whole event: every game, all four brackets, both days.
Live scores, then the record.
The weekend was scored live on Eggbeater, all 110 games. When a game is scored on Eggbeater, the live score reaches phones in about five seconds.
The scores and each team’s path through its bracket are still there to follow, on the event page and in the app.
After the weekend, the 2026 scores in the host’s workbook were checked game by game against Eggbeater’s live feed.
The stories the bracket doesn’t tell.
The history page is computed from the host’s results for 2025 and 2026: every champion, every final standing, and what changed between the two years. Eleven teams were new to the tournament in 2026, and 14 from 2025 did not return. Four of its stories:
2025 to 2026 · Back to back
Two champions did it again.
Merced (Platinum) and College Park (Gold) won their brackets in 2025 and again in 2026, each entering 2026 as the top seed, and each holding it.
The Cinderella · Gold
Seeded 15th. Finished 2nd.
Foothill entered the Gold bracket as the 15th seed of 16, a team that had just moved up after finishing 3rd in Silver in 2025. It won its semifinal 6 to 5 over Granada in overtime, then lost the final 12 to 8 to College Park. No team in the 2026 tournament beat its seed by more: 13 places.
The ladder · 2025 to 2026
Last in Gold. Champion of Silver.
Atwater finished 16th in Gold in 2025 and played 2026 one bracket down. It won the Silver final 11 to 7 over Oakdale. Seven teams changed brackets between the two years: four up, three down.
The climb · same bracket
Oakdale: up 12 places.
Oakdale went from 14th to 2nd in Silver, the biggest year-over-year climb by any team that stayed in its bracket. Del Oro JV went from 8th to the Bronze title, from the 6th seed, the lowest seed to win any bracket this year.
What it took.
The short list.
- One share code: SIERRA.
- The host’s schedule workbook, covering all four brackets.
- The host’s results for two years, 2025 and 2026, for the history page.
- A check before the method was trusted: run on the 2025 games, it reproduces the host’s published 2025 final standings exactly, all 58 places.
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Put your event on one page and one code, or start with your school’s own page.
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31st Annual Chuck McCollum Sierra Shootout · Loomis, Rocklin and Roseville, California · September 2026.
Written by Eggbeater Water Polo. Schedule and results from the tournament host’s workbooks.
2026 Sierra Shootout: the event pageSierra Shootout history: champions and final standings
Eggbeater is not affiliated with the tournament host. The host’s published results always win: if something here is wrong, tell us and we will fix it.