The cup has reached the round of 64. And I thought I'd do a little coverage:
• There are 16 D.IV teams, 21 D.III teams, 19 D.II teams, and 8 NBBA teams remaining in the cup.
• Three games pit D.IV teams against each other, guaranteeing that at least three D.IV teams will make it to the round of 32.
• There is one NBBA vs NBBA matchup– 18 Footpath_Leapers vs. 1 Eugene Register-Guard– ensuring that no more than seven NBBA teams will advance to the round of 32.
• The matchup between two teams of the closest rank is 271 Jade Dragons vs. 274 UofDallas.
• The matchup with lowest ranked favorite is 421 Lebron Slams Up who plays 458 Mouthbreathers.
• The lowest ranked team still in the cup is 910 Upsyndrome, who stomped two bots and pulled off four upsets to make it this far.
• The highest ranked team to have exited the cup is the 5 Arizona Cacti, who were taken out by Mouthbreathers.
• There are:
• five dog themed teams in the cup, (including a matchup between BU Terriers and Beware of Dogs)
• five warrior/knight/soldier themed teams,
• four teams with meteorological phenomena in their name,
• three red teams,
• two sea bird teams,
• lions and tigers and bears (well, red pandas are close, right?) Oh my!
• five California teams,
• two Oregon teams,
• teams from Georgia, Texas, Kentucky, Florida, Maine, Massachusetts, Missouri, Wisconsin, and Lithuania(!?)
• teams whose managers are fans of Firefly, Sherlock Holmes, and Dexter.
• The Bullies play the Bulls.
• The TarTeam plays the Pleasant-Team.
I'm sure there's other fun stuff to know about the cup. But you'll have to figure that out on your own, because I'm losing my buzz and its time to sleep. Enjoy this edition of February Madness!!!