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BNN Weekly Report

This Week in the CBO, BMU, GBRL, and BYDL

by Nat Wright-Kawolski

6 March 2302

2302 CBO Nuka Cup Preseason Tournament

The fourth round is the second elimination round where 4 more of the 24 teams will be going home, as well as the battle into the bracket championship for the remaining Winners Bracket teams. Four teams will earn themselves a bye and a 1-0 lead in Round 6 for a four-game set. Like all other rounds, there will be a three-game series with the team winning two or three games advancing and the team winning zero games or one game either being eliminated (Losers Bracket games) or moving to the Losers Bracket (Winners Bracket games).

Round 4 Results

4 March
Starlight 7, Nordhagen Beach 6
Finch Farm 11, Concord 1
Jamaica Plain 7, Fort Hagen 1
County Crossing 5, Roxbury 4
Sunshine Tidings 3, Atom 2
Diamond City 13, FHE 4
Vault 81 6, The Slog 5
University Point 14, Goodneighbor 4

5 March
Nordhagen Beach 9, Starlight 6
Concord 7, Finch Farm 5
Fort Hagen 5, Jamaica Plain 3
County Crossing 3, Roxbury 1 (County Crossing clinches series)
Atom 3, Sunshine Tidings 1
Diamond City 14, FHE 7 (Diamond City clinches series, FHE eliminated)
Vault 81 3, The Slog 2 (Vault 81 clinches series, The Slog eliminated)
University Point 7, Goodneighbor 2 (University Point clinches series)

6 March
Nordhagen Beach 4, Starlight 3 (Nordhagen Beach clinches series)
Concord 7, Finch Farm 5 (Concord clinches series, Finch Farm eliminated)
Fort Hagen 2, Jamaica Plain 0 (Fort Hagen clinches series, Jamaica Plain eliminated)
County Crossing 10, Roxbury 1
Atom 4, Sunshine Tidings 3 (Atom clinches series)
Diamond City 5, FHE 4, 11 inn.
Vault 81 8, The Slog 1
Goodneighbor 6, University Point 3

Nuka Cup Commentary: Is the CBO in Repeat Mode?

The traditional annual CBO preseason tournaments have not always been great predictors of regular season success. Yes, last season the Nordhagen Beach Party Boys won the Nuka Cup and went on to win the Sole Survivor Series. Yet, the team they beat in the finals, the Sunshine Tidings Chemists, went on to a miserable 40-68 season.

But this Nuka Cup feels different. With four rounds behind us, this is true. All four host teams are still in the Winners Bracket, meaning all will be in their bracket finals and have the advantage of being at home and being up 1-0 in the first team to three wins bracket championships. All four hosts represent the 2301 playoffs' final four teams, thus the honor of hosting.

Beyond the #1 seeds of each bracket, all #2 seeds were also 2301 playoff teams. All four #2 seeds--Fort Hagen, Diamond City, Vault 81, and Concord--are still alive. For #3 seeds, 2301 playoff participants, the Starlight Lady Killers, are also still alive. That means, of the remaining 12 teams in the 2302 Nuka Cup, 9 of the 10 2301 playoff teams are in that number, with Jamaica Plain being the only team to bow out. The Red Rockets were eliminated by the Silver Shroud.

The only teams with a thrill left are down to three in the underdog role. The most curious is that Sunshine Tidings as a 6th seed is in the top half again. They probably will not get past both Fort Hagen and the Atom Cats, but they are fun to watch in March. Roxbury is also a 6th-seed, still alive in the County Crossing Bracket, and Goodneighbor as a #3 in the University Point Bracket makes it the last of the final 12.

The brackets are below, but here is a breakdown of seeds remaining in the 2302 Nuka Cup Tournament:
1 - 4 teams (Atom, County Crossing, Nordhagen Beach, University Point)
2 - 4 teams (Concord, Diamond City, Fort Hagen, Vault 81)
3 - 2 teams (Goodneighbor, Starlight)
4 - 0 teams
5 - 0 teams
6 - 2 teams (Roxbury, Sunshine Tidings)