BNN Weekly Report
This Week in the CBO, BMU, and GBRL
by Nat Wright-Kawolski
14 March 2306
2306 Nuka Cup
The Round Robin round of the regionals are complete, and eight teams are standing. In the Quarterfinals, Semifinals, and Finals rounds, the higher seed will be the home team.
In the Quaterfinals Round, the winner of the regional bracket will be the home team. For example, the winner of the University Point Regional will host the second-place finisher of the County Crossing Regional.
In the Semifinals Round, the regional winners will host if they play a second-seeded team. If both teams have the same seed, then the team with the top overall seed will be the host. The same will be true in the Finals Round.
All remaining rounds are the same three-game series with the team winning two or three games considered the series winner.
Group A - University Point
Starlight had only one possible way to become the #1 seed from the University Point Regional, and they got just that. In the four-way tie scenario where the Killers, The Slog, FHE, and University Point was tied at 3-2, Starlight would be the #1 seed due to tiebreakers with a 2-1 advantage over the other three teams, including the other team that went 2-1 against 1st-place teams, the Ghouls.
Since the Ghouls held tiebreakers over the Deathclaws and Yaou Guai, the sixth-seeded team is the #2 seed representative of the University Point Regional.
Group B - County Crossing
The Roxbury Rad Sox got what they needed, defeating County Crossing and watching Diamond City lose their series to Quincy. That makes the Sox the winners of the County Crossing Regional.
With both Concord and the Swatters finishing tied for 2nd, the Radstags get the nod due to their earlier series win over Diamond City.
Therefore, Roxbury will host The Slog in the Quarterfinals Round, while the Radstags will visit Starlight.
Group C - Nordhagen Beach
When this regional began, the host Party Boys started 0-2, losing to both the 6th and 5th seeds. The path to make the Quarterfinals Round looked impossible. However, in the last three series, Nordhagen Beach got exactly what it needed, winning all three series and then having a four-way tie that gave them the tiebreakers edge. That makes the Boys the #1 seed from the Nordhagen Beach Regional.
Despite losing their last series to the Boys, Jamaica Plain is the #2 seed as the #2 seed, winning tiebreakers over both Finch Farm and Salem for the right to play the winner of the Egret Regional.
Group D - Egret
This regional was all about seeding in the final series, with the Sunshine Tidings Chemists winning two of three over the host Ninjas.
That means that the Chemists are the winner of the Egret Regional and face Jamaica Plain at home in the Quarterfinals. Meanwhile, the Ninjas will travel to Nordhagen Beach for the Quarterfinals matchup.
