Grid League 2026 – Wolves vs Wild: New York Takes Walking Dead 19-10 and Moves to 3-1

The New York Wolves beat the Atlanta Wild 19-10 at the Mesquite Convention Center in Mesquite, Texas on the opening day of the Dallas weekend, in the Walking Dead format.

Atlanta arrived without two of their heaviest strength specialists and without Amanda Fischer, the best player on their roster. Walking Dead is the wrong day to be missing that kind of weight. The format leans on heavy loading, and the Wild failed to finish five races, starting with the Partner Forward that opened the match.

The Ladder ran the same direction. New York scored 65 to Atlanta’s 38, and a Ladder margin above ten points zeroes out the losing side, so the Wild took nothing from a race they were still working through when the cap hit. Both teams came up short on the Sprint Relay, so the closing race ended 0-0 instead of handing three points to a winner.

Some of that margin belongs to who was not on the floor across from them. The rest of it New York earned. The Wolves finished 3-1 with the most match wins in the East in their first season, and take the top seed and a first-round bye at the championship on October 3 and 4 in Lakeland.

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