Tier 4
Great representation here. Archers of Loafcross top 32! Kiwi Sheep Pimps and WHAIGH (shoutout BB-Will!) also made the top 64!
Tier 5
We are doing good on every tier! Rad Dads top 32, Allied Precise Gunmen top 32! Grand Ma Mas, Warroad, and SK Wolves top 64. Nice job to all of you!
Tier 6
Wow! Each tier I look at gets better! Bullets Forever made a great run all the way to the top 8 where they lost in double OT! What an awesome run from manager Naincom. D2 better watch out. Also making the knockout stages were New York Nugs, Missouri City Sounders (top 32), Fenway Flyers, Bloom County Boingers, Pittsburgh Peacocks (top 32), Sophys Slammers, and HumanFund. Nice representation by the USA in this tier.
From here down, in order to save time for myself I will only mention those that made at least top 16. This goes to show how good we did this season for BBM though, where many teams are making the top 64 and it is hard to keep track of all of them.
Tier 7
McKinley Marauders made the top 8. This was an awesome run lead by some young NT prospects. Keep an eye on Tristan Vickers, he might be a regular for the NT soon.
Tier 8
Now this was a tier dominated by USA teams. Florida Champs led the group stage at 7-0 and advanced to the top 16! Porch Pirates made the semifinals getting passed R3AP3RS in the top 8 (another USA team). Persevering Pride went on a huge run all the way to the final but ended up being knocked out by the same team as Florida Champs and Porch Pirates. These were tremendous runs by some great d3 rosters, and they almost brought home the gold. Congratulations to Persevering Pride on being the 2nd USA team to win a silver medal in BBM!
Tier 9
Slabs made the top 8! You may not know it, but Slabs had one of the most legendary seasons of any USA team this year. This BBM was awesome, but not even their best accomplishment. More to come on Slabs laters.
Tier 10
Blacksheep(Janopol) made top 16! CA Foreigners did one better and made the top 8 losing by only 2 points and barely missing the semifinals.
Tier 11
Resurrected Fury made a run to the top 8 on the backs of some strong young talent. Mortars made the top 16 losing to the same team that beat Resurrected Fury.
Tier 12-14 we had some good teams make the knockout stages, but nobody in the top 16.
Keep up the good work in BBM. I think the USA has gotten more competitive each season in BBM. We now just need somebody to take home the first gold BBM trophy and become a USA legend!
B3
Atelier made another solid showing for the USA, advancing to the knockout stage as a 3 seed. Unfortunately, they were upset in the round of 64.
National Tournament
The National Tournament. The only tournament where any USA team can play any USA team. You may question if any USA team can beat any USA team, but this tournament showed that was possible.
The first 2 rounds of the tournament went by quietly with bots getting defeated by the real USA users (with the exception of one unnamed NBBA team). However, round 3 would go down in history. In what looked like it would be a routine win for 3-time defending cup champion and million-dollar payroll Atelier, the game became anything but. Slabs, while in division 4, came to play. The game went back and forth all throughout and came down to the wire. Slabs grabbed the lead and held off last second comeback attempts by Atelier’s players to win 100-99. The secret to their victory? Free Throws. They shot 29-29 from the FT line in a one-point victory and the biggest upset in the history of the USA tournament. Congratulations to Slabs.