Philadelphia Fire Ants (2) vs. St. Louis Spartans (3)

Predictions

Michel Bourassa: Fire Ants in 5

Matt Burch: Ants in 7

Guy Flaming: Fire Ants in 6

Gary Graves: Spartans in 5

Kasim Husain: The Spartans are the team no-one in the World Conference wants to face. An offensive juggernaut with a solid tender to back up their run and gun style, they are the one team that can and should knock off a vaunted Philadelphia squad that won the most closely played five games series in the first round against Hamburg.

Spartans in 6

Mark MacRae: All the top seeds are alive in the World Conference. At least for now... we all know Norm's got to go down sooner or later. Despite overwhelming regular season evidence to the contrary, I'm picking now as that time.

Spartans in 6

Don Morrison: Spartans have upped their game this year , but do they have enough to beat the Ants? No, Norms gang wins

Fire Ants in 6

Eric Schneider: The Ants just have too much speed for the talented but slow Aces' defence to handle. Plus, I bet against Norm last round and he won, so I won't be making that mistake again.

Fire Ants in 5

Henry Skey: Fire Ants in 7