Willow Lawn needs another Chick-fil-A

I just drove by there... It looks like the old dollar tree moved into the place where Conn's was???

Thanks! Fixed.

It's Richmond. People still call the Landmark Theater "The Mosque" even though it's none of those names.

I just now gave OP an award on your behalf

Any idea when they're going to make a decision on which of the three Southside routes will be the next Pulse route?

I'm definitely rooting for the Midlo Tpke pulse route but I understand why Hull Street and Route 1 are both viable candidates.

Spring Rock Green? Oh, you mean Beaufont Plaza. Didn't they rename this like 5 years ago?

Also, Stonebridge? Oh you mean Cloverleaf Mall?

Also TIL the Youfit gym that opened there before COVID is listed by Google as "permanently closed"

Also for those wondering, this is not 'in' Midlothian, it's in northern Chesterfield County at the Midlothian Turnpike exit of Powhite Chippenham Parkway.

Edit: fixed powhite

It's funny: Europeans don't know anything about March madness, and Americans don't know anything about the Eurovision song contest

Yes, how about read the comments where I actually explained it in excruciating detail two comments ago

They are starting to change the "not get paid" thing. Have you heard of the new Name Image Likeness (NIL) policies?

LOL kind of shocked that all these data people have no clue about March Madness or basketball tournament terms like seeds and sweet 16. Basketball stats are an AMAZING opportunity to explore rich data sets.

For those who need the ELI5 version: In the United States, many large colleges and universities have professional-calibur (but still technically amateur) sports teams that act as a preparation for the high dollar professional sports leagues. In exchange for playing for the school, athletes get free tuition and other perks.

Because there are literally hundreds of colleges and universities in the USA, teams can't play every other school's team. Each school has traditionally associated themselves with an "athletic conference" of approximately the same size of enrollment and geographical area. Each conference has around 10 or 15 teams in it. Schools within the same conference play each other multiple times during the season, so it's pretty easy to determine a conference champion.

So how can you tell what is the 'best college basketball team in the United States?" Since not all conferences are the same size or quality, you can't just look at a team's win-loss record to declare "the best" team. You could use advanced math to rank teams, but people will always clamor for a tournament playoff series to determine bragging rights This is where the National Collegiate Athletic Association, or NCAA tournament comes in.

At the end of the season, typically in March, the NCAA holds a Division I (large school) basketball tournament that people call "March Madness." Who gets invited? We don't know their exact formula, but the NCAA selection committee tries to select the 64 best teams. They definitely always have to invite the conference champions from each conference, plus they then look at coaches polls, journalists opinions, and consider the strength of each conference to give multiple bids (invitations) to powerful conferences.

The 64 teams are divided into 4 regions, and for fairness, each region is going to get a mix of the best and the worst teams. The assignment looks like this:

Rank - Seed - Region #1 - #1 - Region A #2 - #1 - Region B #3 - #1 - Region C #4 - #1 - Region D #5 - #2 - Region A #6 - #2 - Region B #7 - #2 - Region C #8 - #2 - Region D #9 - #3 - Region A #10 - #3 - Region B #11 - #3 - Region C #12 - #3 - Region D #13 - #4 - Region A #14 - #4 - Region B #15 - #4 - Region C #16 - #4 - Region D #17 - #5 - Region A #18 - #5 - Region B #19 - #5 - Region C #20 - #5 - Region D #21 - #6 - Region A #22 - #6 - Region B #23 - #6 - Region C #24 - #6 - Region D #25 - #7 - Region A #26 - #7 - Region B #27 - #7 - Region C #28 - #7 - Region D #29 - #8 - Region A #30 - #8 - Region B #31 - #8 - Region C #32 - #8 - Region D #33 - #9 - Region A #34 - #9 - Region B #35 - #9 - Region C #36 - #9 - Region D #37 - #10 - Region A #38 - #10 - Region B #39 - #10 - Region C #40 - #10 - Region D #41 - #11 - Region A #42 - #11 - Region B #43 - #11 - Region C #44 - #11 - Region D #45 - #12 - Region A #46 - #12 - Region B #47 - #12 - Region C #48 - #12 - Region D #49 - #13 - Region A #50 - #13 - Region B #51 - #13 - Region C #42 - #13 - Region D #53 - #14 - Region A #54 - #14 - Region B #55 - #14 - Region C #56 - #14 - Region D #57 - #15 - Region A #58 - #15 - Region B #59 - #15 - Region C #60 - #15 - Region D #61 - #16 - Region A #62 - #16 - Region B #63 - #16 - Region C #64 - #16 - Region D

As you can see, each region gets a 1, 2, 3... 16 seed . Often these are arranged into a "bracket" see sample bracket picture and people have fun filling out predictions of which teams will win each game.

For each region, the first round is played the same: 1 plays 16, 2 plays 15, 3 plays 14, 4 plays 11, 5 plays 12, 6 plays 10, 7 plays 11, and 8 plays 9. They call this the "round of 64" because there are 64 teams playing amongst the 4 regions.

The second round half the teams are gone, so they call this the "round of 32." After the second round, the teams are very tired, and the winners get about a week off to prepare for round 3

The third round consists of the 16 winners of the previous round paired against each other, so this is called the "SWEET SIXTEEN"

similarly, the fourth round is called the ELITE 8

similarly the fifth round is called the FINAL FOUR

and the sixth matchup, only two teams play to see who is the champion championship.

TLDR: seeds are a proxy for ranking within one of four regions, and the sweet sixteen is the third of six rounds of the single elimination tournament when the sixteen teams remain to compete for the title of "best college basketball teams in the USA" ... Its called "madness" because every year, you will see high-seeded (i.e, underdog) team defeat a low seeded (i.e., powerhouse) team, often at the last seconds of the game.

Now look at OP's chart. A higher y axis indicates more madness, where "worse" seeded teams advanced to the third round. Compare this to the least mad case, where the lowest possible y=40 would indicate that all four #1 seeds advanced, all 2 seeds advanced, all 3 seeds advanced, and all 4 seeds advanced. 1 +1+1+1+ 2+2+2+2+ 3+3+3+3+ 4+4+4+4= 40

This would never have happened to the Hell's Satans moped gang. #LiveFastRideSlow

Obviously Fall 2008 was not fun for a lot of ppl. On the one hand, everyone at Circuit City lost their job. On the other hand, lots of ppl were forced to found a startup ##CreativeDestruction

No, that's OVER.

They took a dumpy corner gas station and turned it into a 16-story apartment complex

Yes, all the Grace Street flop houses became fancy pants mansions again

Early 2000s to 2005 was late murder / early maximum weirdness. We're talking punchline magazine and Wadi and Alley katz.

2005 to 2010 was peak organically creative because everybody discovered each other through Myspace and craigslist and blogs and RVAMAG and created things like underground house shows and no BS brass and farmers markets.

2011 to 2016 was the early post-Lincoln movie branding period when everyone bought the RVA sticker for their car and send each other that one "RVA River City" YouTube video. we thought we were cool for having an international bike race in 2015. This is the period where people started getting brewskis at hardywood and all the other local breweries popped up in Scott's Addition. It feels like this is when Richmond was getting a lot of outside attention to include chef awards and such. A lot of international mural artists came in painted our city. There was a very small EDM scene at the time which I'm not sure I think it went away.

It's hard to say what 2016 to present has been. Covid 2020 definitely put a damper on the vibe.

/r/BonAir will have to become weirder once the city prices ppl out of buying their first homes there

The MAC in /r/BonAir

Also maybe SwimRVA???

Pepperoni pizza from Mary Angela's. And a roll of paper towel for the grease.

A social oasis!

I just think it's weird that the cheapest flights out of Richmond are to Boston.

Also for the longest time, there was no place to charge your phone near the baggage claim. I remember needing to get picked up and having my cell phone be totally dead.. so I had to sit on the floor over by the rental car areas so that I could charge my phone. It wasn't a charge zone for airport patrons.. it was like a place to plug in a vacuum cleaner or a floor polisher. it was very awkward.

I can vouch that they do practice landing Air Force One

That's the deceptive thing about RIC... Nine times out of 10, you're going to whisk right through the security.. but then 10% of the time you show up a half hour before your flight and the line for security is inexplicably long.

TBH if I were writing a book about showing up early at Richmond Airport I would have the character recount a story about how they had been burned and so now they just show up 3 hours early and go to Caribou coffee and people watch.

Keyword escrow.

TBH it's probably easier just to get a window unit. It will save you hours and hours of court time.