We have a name for our all-inclusive 12-team Pacific high school football playoff. Call it the SCS, or SportsBlog Championship Series. Sort of sounds like BCS, only it works a whole lot better.

And our schedule begins with the first round of games on Halloween, with the winners to meet one of the top four seeds, each of which earned a first-round bye.

First round
Game 1 -- No. 12 Singapore Falcons at No. 5 Zama American.
Game 2 -- No. 9 John F. Kennedy at No. 8 Yokota.
Game 3 -- No. 10 Robert D. Edgren at No. 7 Father Duenas Memorial.
Game 4 -- No. 11 Simon Sanchez at No. 6 Guam High.

Quarterfinals will be played on Nov. 7.

So, who's gonna win? Shout it out! Be true to your school! And remember, you've entered THE "No-Hate Zone." :)

So ... what if American School In Japan, George Washington and other non-DODEA teams could be included in one all-inclusive Pacific high school football playoff?

It can't happen in reality, since the current DODEA Pacific football playoff structure doesn't permit it. Although it would be kind of nice to see how, say, a George Washington might make out against Kadena, or an American School In Japan against Daegu American, etc.

So, we're going to try that right here, right now over the next three weeks. A 12-team bracket, four league champions getting a first-round bye and the other eight seeded 5 vs. 12, 6 vs. 11, 7 vs.

UPDATED at 6 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 24:

-- American School In Japan 28, Zama American 12: First outright Kanto Plain Association of Secondary Schools title for Mustangs since 1983. Again, ASIJ's offense, powered by brother-brother quarterback Hayden and receiver Tom Jardine, fired on all cylinders and the Mustangs' defense had the answers for Zama's "Trojan Horses."

-- Yokota 26, Robert D. Edgren 7: Panthers right the ship after longest losing skid since 1998.

-- Kadena 47, Kubasaki 6: Shariff Coleman shines again. Panthers enter Class AA playoffs on 14-game winning streak over Dragons dating back to 2006 season.

-- Father Duenas Memorial 49, Okkodo 13: Friars dispatch Bulldogs easily, but now comes a date with No.

No expectations, she says, did she harbour entering Thursday's Kanto Plain Association of Secondary Schools tennis tournament at Shirako Tennis Complex. Well, not only did she surpass her goals of leaving it all on the court and perhaps reaching the semifinals, she won the whole shooting match. Erika Youngdahl, a freshman, not only became the first Yokota singles title wiinner -- she just might be the first DODDS-Japan player ever to do so.

Looks as if the Kadena Panthers boys cross-country team may be peaking at the right time.

So many Far East activities, academic, career-based and athletic, for a DODEA Pacific student to choose from can also mean making difficult choices about which ones to do. Click here to see the opportunites students have, and how having so many to choose can leave students torn and undecided.

For the third year in the annual DODEA Pacific Far East Journalism Conference, a handful of student-journalists got a chance to see how the other half lives, donning the mantle of beat reporters and photographers, boarding a bus from the New Sanno Hotel for Capps Gym at Yokota Air Base, an hour west.

Their mission -- cover a high school volleyball match, American School In Japan at Yokota. Watch the match's ebb and flow, keep their own statistics, interview coaches and players after the match, then head to the school's information center and science pod to find a computer, process photos and write stories for a real, daily deadline.

They simulated what guys like my photo associate, Gary Cashman, and myself go through on a daily basis.