Park Place

Park Place doesn't do subtle. Two 10-goal players — Hilario Ulloa and Bartolome Castagnola — on the same team is the polo equivalent of stacking the deck. Add Mariano 'Peke' Gonzalez Jr. at 8 goals and you have a top three that could compete at the highest levels of the sport anywhere in the world.

The 33-goal roster in Bracket II is built for one thing: winning the U.S. Open. Mariano 'Nino' Obregon (5) fills out the professional lineup, while four patron-level players — Andrey Borodin, Christian Weisz, Santiago Vilgre La Madrid, and Varvara Borodina, all rated 0 — rotate through the fourth position. Eight players is the deepest squad in the tournament.

What makes Park Place dangerous isn't just the firepower. It's that opponents have to pick who to stop. Double-mark Ulloa and Castagnola runs free. Collapse on Castagnola and Gonzalez Jr. finds space through the middle. Most teams at U.S. Open level have a defensive plan built around neutralising one star player. Park Place has three.