Saturday, February 20, 2010

First Bracket Unveiled

Each of the four brackets are named for the four most successful franchises in world history: Kansas City, Pawtucket, Jacksonville, and Texas.

Today I'll show you the Kansas City bracket.

This bracket features two World Series Champions, as well as 3 World Series runner-ups.

The AL Champion Jacksonville Juggernauts of season 8 are the brackets #1 seed. In the first round, they will face off with the Houston Aggies of season 1, and wildcard team who made a run to game 7 of the ALCS before losing.

The winner of this game will play the winner of the season 9 Fresno Fire Dragons/season 6 Texas Tittyballs game. The Fire Dragons 104 wins in season 9 was among the highest totals ever for a team that could not win its division. Meanwhile, the season 6 Tittyballs were the first of back to back NL Championship teams for owner longdayintro.

In the #5 seed are the Kansas City Shuffle of season 7, the first KC team in 5 seasons to not win the AL Pennant. They face off against the 12th seeded Colorado Springs AltiDUDES of season 8, which was the 7th straight team ohiopirate had put into the playoffs, but looking to become the first to reach the NLCS.

Awaiting the winner of this matchup is the World Series Champion Pawtucket Polythene of season 8, the 4th seed in the KC bracket. That is, of course, if they can beat the Rochester Raging Rhinos of season 4, the NL North Champions who got upset by a 6th seed in their only playoff series that year.

In the bottom portion of this bracket, is the 6th seeded Cheyenne Chillipeppers of season 7, who lost the division to 5th seeded Kansas City, and then lost to them in the ALDS. They will face off with 11th seeded Pawtucket of season 3, one of six Polythene teams in this tournament who lost in the NLCS.

World Series Champion Kansas City, of season 6, sits in the 3 seed, facing off with the season 12 Charlotte knights for the right to face Cheyenne of Pawtucket in the round of 32.

Meanwhile, NL Champion Colorado Springs of season 12, led by Christopher Ramirez (who has 11 teams in this tournament), take the #7 seed in this bracket. They will face off with a forgotten great team of season 1, the 10th seeded Atlanta City Slickers, who won their division & a first round bye.

And closing out the bracket, in the 2/15 matchup, is the Kansas City Shuffle of season 2, the only KC team of the first 6 seasons to not win the AL Pennant, facing off with the Santa Cruz Bay Kings of season 1, yet another wildcard team to reach the LCS.

To view the bracket, click here. When viewing the bracket, the first number in parentheses is the teams seed in this tournament. The number in parentheses following the team name is what season that particular team is from.

The second bracket, the Texas bracket, will be released tomorrow, featuring first seeded Colorado Springs of season 10, the only #1 seed in the tournament from the National League.

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