Thanks to you the sports fan, we’ve got our 16 nominees for Loser-ville, U.S.A. Here’s the criteria for how we’re going to do this. Because misery loves company. And sports fans love lists!

SCOTT JACOBS

This summer, you the sports fan nominated cities across the United States of America for the distinction of Loser-ville, U.S.A. We gave you one week to nominate the cities across America that belonged in the elite of the defeat. We gave you a basic criterion, and announced the 21 nominees. After deliberate thought and fan voting to eliminate two undeserving teams off the list, we have hit our magic number of 16. To simplify things, Juiced Sports has decided to base the competition on the four major sports (yes, we are counting hockey, deal with it!)

Through the month of August we will give you each city’s case for being Loser-ville, U.S.A.

We have bracketed the 16 nominees into four regions (Northeast, South, Midwest, and West). Once we give you the case for the four cities in a region we will open it up to voting (Because, we’re not interested in what we think, we want to know from you).

The city with the most votes FOR Loser-ville, U.S.A from each region will advance to the Unfortunate Four. From there we will interview some sports bloggers from the four finalists to give you other takes and opinions. Once each city has had their turn, we will re-open up the polls to determine Loser-ville, U.S.A.

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Fans will have two weeks to vote. And the winner will be announced at which time we will crown them, Loser-ville, U.S.A

Heck, maybe we’ll have them face off versus Valdosta, GA for… oh, never mind.

Let’s get this party, or pity-fest I should say, started!…

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SEEDS

WEST:
1. Seattle
2. Phoenix
3. San Diego
4.Oakland

Early Word: Seattle just lost their team. Is that good enough to push them out of the wild west?

MIDWEST:
1. Cleveland
2. Cincinnati
3. Minnesota
4. Milwaukee

Early Word: Loaded with heartbreak and title droughts, the Midwest is stacked from bottom to uh, bottom.

NORTHEAST:
1. Buffalo
2. Philadelphia
3. Washington D.C.
4. Charlotte

Early Word: The top seeds in the Northeast have seen their fair share of failure. But D.C. and Charlotte haven’t really done much of anything in a while, so they could be sleeper picks to make it out.

SOUTH:
1. Atlanta
2. New Orleans
3. Houston
4.Tampa Bay

Early Word: Atlanta was once dubbed the city of losers back in the day. How will they fare in the ultimate loser’s competition?

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HOW WE’RE DOING THIS:

The Process will consist of research and opinion

Based on a 1-5 “L” ranking (1 being not that bad, 5 being awful) this scale asserts how the Loser-ville nominee stacks up based on our criteria:

Twenty First Century Blues
How bad have their pro teams done since 2000 (aka: Y2k)

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How many titles have the city’s pro teams won?; A breakdown by sport, and number of seasons.

Twenty year Bubble Burst
How many championships has the city won since 1988. How many playoff appearances?

Guys, get in the car, we’re moving to…
The magnitude of impact a team’s move would have on the town. Would X team be missed?

Heartaches and Headaches
Some of the city’s memorable glorified failures and collapses

Should we really be in this “beat” company?
All these cities have had their moments, but when you think of losers, does this city truly, truly belong on the elite of the defeat?

Overall Fall
Number of “L’s” a city finishes with based on criteria

SCOTT JACOBS

We searched near and far, high and low, North and South, East and West, East, Central, Mountain, and Pacific time zones, and we have assembled the much anticipated list that you guys have all been waiting for: the candidates for Loser-ville, U.S.A. In case you don’t remember the criteria, you can see it again here.

Now, Juiced Sports is simply posting the 21 cities you guys nominated, so if you think a city that isn’t on this list should be here, or if you think that a city on this list shouldn’t be here, we are open to suggestion.

The envelope please. Your 21 Loser-ville U.S.A choices. This ought to be fun. The list in no particular order:

Seattle, WA

Cincinnati, OH

New Orleans, LA

Philadelphia, PA

Cleveland, OH

Buffalo, NY

Atlanta, GA

Auburn, AL

San Diego, CA

Prairie View, TX

Detroit, MI

Minneapolis, MN

Oakland, CA

New Jersey (unspecified where)

Dallas, TX

Washington, D.C.

Phoenix, AZ

Milwaukee, WI

Houston, TX

Tampa Bay, FL

Charlotte, NC

We’ll let you look over the nominees for a few days, before announcing the format of how this whole thing will work. So in the meantime, feel free to salute our list (your list really, we just wrote down what you said) or completely destroy it (again, we didn’t come up with the places), it doesn’t matter. There are some strange cities on this list (Dallas maybe?) and some obvious ones (Buffalo, Miami) and some interesting nominees (Auburn?) so soak everything up, and we’ll be back to hand feed you the details in the coming days.

SCOTT JACOBS

In honor of ESPN’s horrifically dumb idea to turn 20 places into Titletown, the good folks at Juiced Spots figured, what if you flip the script. What if there was a competition for the Anti-Title town? The area so bad, that their fans are almost ashamed to root for their so called ‘teams.’

So what’s the criteria?

Well, it’s rather simple really.

The town has to either:
a) been absolutley awful recently, whether it be in pro sports or college. And if you can find a high school bad enough in sports that they deserve to be on this list, well, we commend you, and we’d be more then happy to consider them.

b) be historically bad, whether it be an area that hasn’t won a championship in years (like 20) or if its a college, a school that hasn’t won a meaningful championship in only who knows when.

c) have atrocious fan support, so bad that the teams are either just about out the door or that their fans stopped showing up.

d) have been run so poorly that there seems like there is absolutley no hope whatsoever, and that makes you sad.

So get your city or school out there because, we’re looking for the worst of the worst. Cities so bad that if ESPN featured them on Titletown as a joke, you’d laugh so hard you’d pee yourself.

In the meantime, as we garner your suggestions and eventually compile our list, we’d like you to suggest some players or coaches or even owners, that would represent “Loser-ville” and make them proud.

So that’s it. That’s our story and we’re sticking to it. Your only job is to give us your city or town, or just a place that you think fits the title of “Loser-ville.” Remember, in this competition, no one wins. But everybody loses!