BNN Weekly Report
This Week in the CBO, BMU, and GBRL
by Nat Wright-Kawolski
5 January 2304
Spectacle Island Chooses Its Team
The Spectacle Island settlers are excited to announce that the new CBO team taking the place of the former Warwick Mirelurks has been selected. And the name never left the island.
In a three-round vote involving an elimination process per round, the final tally came between two possible team names. In the first round of voting, the Mirelurks and Patriots team names were eliminated with the Reapers winning the round. That means the BMU team to be named will maintain the Warwick Mirelurks name and the South Boston Patriots team will also remain.
In Round 2, both the Diners and Specters teams were eliminated, leaving the final two choices between the Radstorm and the namesake of the BYDL's Spectacle Island Reapers. In the 2nd round, the Radstorm team name won by a slight edge, but did not hit a majority vote, leading to a 3rd round of voting.
In the final round, the Reapers team name won by a 51.7% vote for the chosen name for the CBO.
Mayor Clack the Friendly Ghoul was excited by the choice. "We already have people walking around in Reapers gear, so we know that our settlers are on board. We get to keep the Reapers as a team and then give the boys team another name. The boys seemed excited, too."
The BYDL Spectacle Island team seemed to be the crusaders in helping get the Reapers name selected. They also loved the Specters team name and campaigned that their new name take on that namesake. Commissioner Nate Howard, who was on hand for the vote tallies, agreed that the Specters name fit the BYDL team well.
"I loved all six names," Howard said, "and would have welcomed any team as our Spectacle Island team. We now have the Diners and Radtorm names as new possibilities in the Commonwealth. I'll take that to the CBO office in Diamond City for our next big news."
Howard added that there would be meetings about more new teams as part of the CBO umbrella. He would not elaborate, stating that the teams needed to lead the announcements but invited us at BNN to the ceremonies in Diamond City.
The relocation of the Warwick franchise to Spectacle Island marks the first real relocation of a team. The only other team to change places was the Oberland franchise which played in Graygarden before their local stadium was complete. Other teams changed their names, including the now Easy Town Assaultrons and Roxbury Rad Sox.
Howard also has not elaborated on future relocations or expansion in the CBO but he has said that the CBO office is constantly collecting data on settlements and monitoring where the population trends are rising and falling. Howard cited the stagnation of the Warwick Homestead area as a contributing factor where the Warwick team was being supported financially based on the success of other teams.