The longest league night of the spring. The rest of Week 6 played first, then a full Week 7 right behind it. Boards stayed dry this time. Temperatures dropped a little, lawn chairs got pulled in closer, and the lot stayed full from a quarter past seven all the way past ten. By the time the last bag landed, the regular season was over, and the playoff bracket was locked.
Two storylines carried the night. Splash Bros. finished the regular season 28-0, joining a club of one in nine seasons of this league. And These Effin’ Guys staged the comeback of the spring against Born Fish, down 17 to 0 before clawing all the way back to win 21-20.
Who we missed
Four teams sat out. Shuck Your Cornhole, Mother Shuckers, and Hole Patrol each picked up another 0-4 for the week. Barnyard Baggers were in Las Vegas this weekend. Krista and Chuck got married, and Krista’s daughter, Hailey, was along for the trip. Big weekend for that family. Congrats to all three of you. Boards will be ready for round one of the playoffs next Thursday.
Back to Black caught a small breakout in the absences. With two of the missing teams scheduled to play them tonight, M&M ended up with a forfeit win on their card. They paired it with two played wins and finished 3-3 on the combined night.
Top three of the night
Three teams ran the night. The undefeated finished undefeated. The two teams chasing them both put up clinics of their own.
- Splash Bros. (6-0, 142 points, +105 differential). Charles and Dutty closed the regular season the way they opened it. Six games, six wins, an average margin north of seventeen points. They say they were tied or behind in three of them before the bags went where they needed to go in the closing rounds. The 28-0 mark is real.
- Air Mail (5-0, 113 points, +78 differential). Ryan and Brandon went undefeated tonight. Opened with a 21-18 finish over Baggin Dragons, then started piling on. 22-0 over Nuthin Butt Holes. Then handled Corndoggs, Corny Bastards, and Born Fish by 19, 20, and 14. The team that limped out of Week 6 turned around and finished the regular season undefeated tonight.
- DEEZ NUTS (5-1, 129 points, +82 differential). Brandon and Ray dropped one to Born Fish in the second round and ran the rest of the night. 24-12 over Fairways to open. 23-1 over Lucky Sacks. 24-1 over Natural Corn Killers. Then a 23-0 shutout of the Department of Bagriculture for good measure.
How the night played out
Forty-seven games. Week 6 makeups ran on four courts to start, then Week 7 opened a fifth court and ran on five. Twenty-eight games ended with a margin of fifteen points or more, which is 60 percent of the night. Seven shutouts. Only five games came down to a margin of five or less. Two of those five carried the recap.
Splash Bros. walked through the regular season finale. Lucky Sacks 24-14, BagStreet Boys 22-10, Ginger Ash Tornado 21-1, Back to Black 26-1, Natural Corn Killers 22-4, and a 27-7 closer over Corndoggs. Charles and Dutty came up under Crackle & Pop, the team that mentored them years before they joined this league. Crackle & Pop went 28-0 in the regular season and 28-0 in the playoffs in Spring 2024, the only team in the MLCL’s nine seasons to do so. Two more weeks of bracket play, and we find out if Splash Bros. have what it takes to match their teachers.
The comeback. Round two on Court 2. These Effin’ Guys versus Born Fish. Bill and Mike were down 17-0. Round three started, and they put up ten in a single round to start the climb. Two rounds later, 21 to 20, These Effin’ Guys, by one. Down seventeen with the whole league watching. Best comeback this spring. Half the lot was watching the last frame, and you could hear the bag hit the board from the back parking row.
Born Fish recovered. Chas and Mary lost the comeback to These Effin’ Guys, dropped a back-end 7-21 to Air Mail, and won everything in between. 23-12 over DEEZ NUTS. 27-3 over Tossin’ Turtles. 26-3 over Back to Black. The wins were clinical. The loss to Bill and Mike will sting through the playoffs.
BagStreet Boys shut out three opponents in five games. Anthony and Brian blanked. We thought the sign said Corndogs 23-0, Baggin’ Dragons 27-0, and Tossin’ Turtles 21-0. Beat Lucky Sacks 24-4 in between. The only loss was the 22-10 to Splash Bros. in the makeup round, third in the cumulative locked.
Fairways went 4-1 with one of the highest single-game point totals of the night. Ray opened a 12-24 to DEEZ NUTS, then hung 28 on Tossin’ Turtles in a 28-0 shutout. Beat Lucky Sacks 22-17 in the only close game of their night, then 21-1 over Baggin Dragons and 26-6 over Ginger Ash Tornado to close.
Your Hole is My Goal finished 4-1. Greg and Mark put up 23-5 over Natural Corn Killers to open, 26-16 over Department of Bagriculture, dropped the 11-22 to These Effin’ Guys in their only loss, then closed with 23-1 over Ginger Ash Tornado and 23-13 in the rematch with Department of Bagriculture.
Lucky Sacks had the toughest 4-game stretch in the league all night. Justin played Splash Bros., DEEZ NUTS, These Effin’ Guys, Fairways, and BagStreet Boys in five of his six games. Five top-five teams in the cumulative. The lone win came against We thought the sign said Corndogs 22-5. 1-5 on a brutal draw, but they held ninth in the cumulative anyway.
Baggin Dragons climbed into the A bracket on the strength of this combined night. Kristen and Jessica spent the last two weeks battling Barnyard Baggers and Department of Bagriculture for the tenth and final A bracket seed. Tonight they grabbed a 21-17 over Natural Corn Killers and a 23-3 over Nuthin Butt Holes. The 2-3 night, plus a Vegas trip from Barnyard Baggers, was enough to leapfrog into tenth. Two games separated tenth from twelfth in the final cumulative.
Department of Bagriculture finished 2-3. Justin played the night with Ray standing in for Trevor, and the team opened with a 23-3 demolition of Corndoggs, ate a back-to-back 16-26 from Your Hole is My Goal, then grabbed the second win 23-8 over We thought the sign said Corndogs. Dropped the 0-23 shutout to DEEZ NUTS and a 13-23 to Your Hole is My Goal in the rematch. Twelfth in the cumulative, headed to the B bracket.
Corndoggs finished 2-3. Caitlyn and Victoria edged Corny Bastards 23-16 in the closest non-comeback game of the night and beat Nuthin Butt Holes 21-8. Took the losses to the buzz saws.
Corny Bastards finished 2-2. Lauren and partner beat Ginger Ash tornado 20-1 in a complete shutdown and closed the night 24-11 over Back to Black—plus 5 differential on the night; only B-bracket team to finish positive.
Back to Black opened the night with the second-closest game, a 21-17 over Ginger Ash tornado. Then a 21-0 over Nuthin Butt Holes. The forfeit win and two losses to top-three teams sandwiched in. The 24-11 to Corny Bastards closed the night out.
Natural Corn Killers went 1-4. Tim found his win against Tossin’ Turtles 21-5 in the late slot. Lost the rest, but a 21-17 effort against Baggin Dragons in round three came within four points.
Ginger Ash Tornado, Tossin’ Turtles, We thought the sign said Corndogs, and Nuthin Butt Holes could not find a win between them. Paul and his partner went 0-5. The other three teams played with fill-ins or replacements all night and went 0-4 each. Four B bracket teams that will all reset to 0-0 next Thursday.
How the brackets shook out
The playoff brackets are officially set. The top ten in the cumulative go to the A bracket. Eleven through twenty-three go to the B bracket. Two trophies on the line, three weeks until we know who takes them home.
The race for the tenth and final A-bracket seed came down to the last Thursday. Baggin Dragons, Barnyard Baggers, and Department of Bagriculture spent the last two weeks battling it out for that one spot. Baggin Dragons took it. Kristen and Jessica went 2-3 on the night, just enough to leapfrog Barnyard Baggers (who were in Vegas) and hold off Department of Bagriculture. Two games separated tenth from twelfth in the final cumulative.
And the team to beat is the one nobody has beaten. Splash Bros. finished the regular season 28-0 and will enter the playoffs as the number one seed. The last team to do that, Crackle & Pop in Spring 2024, also went 28-0 through the playoffs and took the championship.
A Bracket
- Splash Bros.
- DEEZ NUTS
- BagStreet Boys
- Fairways
- Air Mail
- These Effin’ Guys
- Your Hole is My Goal
- Born Fish
- Lucky Sacks
- Baggin Dragons
B Bracket
- Barnyard Baggers
- Department of Bagriculture
- Ginger ash tornado
- Back to Black
- Corndoggs
- Natural Corn Killers
- Corny Bastards
- Tossin’ Turtles
- Nuthin Butt Holes
- Shuck Your Cornhole
- We thought the sign said Corndogs
- Mother Shuckers
- Hole Patrol
Margins that mattered
The 10th seed went down to two games. Baggin Dragons and Barnyard Baggers entered the combined night tied at 10-13 in the cumulative, with Barnyard Baggers holding the tenth seed on total points scored, 316 to 288. The Vegas trip cost Barnyard Baggers the seed. Had Krista and Chuck stayed home and gone even 2-3 on the night, they would have finished tied at 12-16 with Baggin Dragons and held the seed on total points scored. Instead, the 0-5 forfeit dropped them to 11th, and Kristen and Jessica climbed past them with two wins.
Department of Bagriculture finished twelfth at 9-19, but Justin and the team outscored Baggin Dragons 370 to 351 across the regular season. Twelve teams in the league finished with fewer total points than the Department of Bagriculture. The win column is what kept them out of the A bracket. They would have needed a 5-0 night to climb past Baggin Dragons. They went 2-3.
Up at the top of the A bracket, the seeding came down to total points twice. Fairways and Air Mail both finished 22-6 and head into the playoffs as the four- and five-seeds, separated by 46 total points on the season (588 to 542). These Effin’ Guys and Your Hole is My Goal both finished 20-8 and are the six and seven seeds, separated by 31 total points (554 to 523). And had Bill and Mike not pulled off the 21-20 comeback against Born Fish in the makeup round, they would have finished 19-9 instead of 20-8 and dropped to seventh or lower. The comeback held the seed.
How the playoffs work
- All team records reset to 0-0 at the start of the playoffs.
- Teams play only within their bracket in Weeks 8 and 9 (May 14 and May 21).
- Those two weeks of playoff results determine your seeding for the championship.
- The championship is a double-elimination tournament on Thursday, May 28.
- The cumulative standings will continue to be tracked week to week, but they do not affect bracket placement or anything in the playoffs. They are a record of the season at this point.
- The A Bracket champions will have their names added to the permanent plaques at Freddy J’s, joining the champions of past seasons.
Subs in the playoffs
One change for the bracket weeks. Substitutes are not allowed in the playoffs unless your opponent agrees to it. If your teammate cannot make it on Thursday and you want a sub, ask the team you are playing with. If they say yes, the sub plays. If they say no, you have two options. You can ghost the bag, meaning you throw both your bags and your missing partner’s bags solo. Or you can take the loss for that round and move on to the next one. Bracket games come down to the wire, so head up early.
Pick up your bottle caps.
One housekeeping question. Bottle caps have been collecting on the ground around the boards. Toss them in the trash or in the buckets at Freddy J’s. The lot is shared with Kneble’s Auto Service Center, the other six days of the week, and a stray bottle cap finds its way into a tire flap pretty quickly. We have to keep this lot clean if we want to keep playing here. Help us out.
Freddy J’s after the boards
Dollar wings and two-dollar Yuenglings every Thursday at Freddy J’s Bar and Kitchen. Buckets of High Noon, Stateside, Surfside, and beer on the menu. The kitchen is open the whole time we’re on the boards. Late-night happy hour kicks in around 9 when the games wrap, but tonight that came closer to 10 because the round count was double. The back bar was loud either way. Half the league finished the night arguing about playoff seeds over wings.
Thanks to the sponsors
Thanks to Freddy J’s Bar and Kitchen and Kneble’s Auto Service Center for the lot, the boards, the bar, and another full season of Thursdays.
Summer 2026 is open
Summer 2026 runs for 10 Thursdays, from June 11 through August 16: same lot, same format, fresh standings, brand new bracket. Solo entries get matched with a partner. Lock in your spot at mayslandingcornholeleague.com/signup/.
Quick thanks to the Corndoggs for catching that the signup link was broken last week. It is working again now. If you tried to register and got bounced, give it another shot.
Round one is Thursday, May 14
Round one of the playoffs runs Thursday, May 14, at 7 PM: same lot, fresh stakes, two brackets. Records reset, the seeding is set, and the bracket games are what count now.
Barnyard Baggers are back from Vegas. Splash Bros. have still not lost. Everyone in the A bracket has one job, and that is figuring out how to take down Charles and Dutty before the championship round. Everyone in the B bracket has a clean slate and a real shot at a title.
Week 6 final standings
Combines the games played on April 30 (which already appeared in last week’s partial recap) with the makeup games played at the start of last Thursday. Four games per team. Absent teams take 0-4.
| Rank | Team | W-L | Points | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Splash Bros. | 4-0 | 93 | +49 |
| 2 | Fairways | 3-1 | 91 | +48 |
| 3 | DEEZ NUTS | 3-1 | 88 | +34 |
| 4 | Born Fish | 3-1 | 86 | +55 |
| 5 | These Effin’ Guys | 3-1 | 86 | +22 |
| 6 | Your Hole is My Goal | 3-1 | 75 | +40 |
| 7 | Air Mail | 3-1 | 65 | +14 |
| 8 | BagStreet Boys | 2-2 | 75 | +29 |
| 9 | Department of Bagriculture | 2-2 | 60 | +12 |
| 10 | Natural Corn Killers | 1-3 | 50 | -22 |
| 11 | Baggin Dragons | 1-3 | 48 | -28 |
| 12 | Lucky Sacks | 1-3 | 38 | -37 |
| 13 | Corndoggs | 1-3 | 31 | -60 |
| 14 | Back to Black | 1-3 | 28 | -63 |
| 15 | Barnyard Baggers | 1-3 | 27 | -28 |
| 16 | Ginger ash tornado | 0-4 | 33 | -59 |
| 17 | Shuck Your Cornhole | 0-4 | 16 | -31 |
| 18 | Tossin’ Turtles | 0-4 | 0 | 0 |
| 19 | Corny Bastards | 0-4 | 0 | 0 |
| 20 | Nuthin Butt Holes | 0-4 | 0 | 0 |
| 21 | We thought the sign said Corndogs | 0-4 | 0 | 0 |
| 22 | Mother Shuckers | 0-4 | 0 | 0 |
| 23 | Hole Patrol | 0-4 | 0 | 0 |
Week 7 standings
Four games per team across five courts on the back half of the night. The four 4-0 teams set the tone for the bracket. Absent teams take 0-4.
| Rank | Team | W-L | Points | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fairways | 4-0 | 97 | +73 |
| 2 | Splash Bros. | 4-0 | 96 | +83 |
| 3 | BagStreet Boys | 4-0 | 95 | +91 |
| 4 | Air Mail | 4-0 | 92 | +75 |
| 5 | Born Fish | 3-1 | 83 | +44 |
| 6 | Your Hole is My Goal | 3-1 | 83 | +31 |
| 7 | DEEZ NUTS | 3-1 | 82 | +48 |
| 8 | These Effin’ Guys | 3-1 | 74 | +28 |
| 9 | Corny Bastards | 2-2 | 65 | +5 |
| 10 | Corndoggs | 2-2 | 56 | -19 |
| 11 | Baggin Dragons | 2-2 | 45 | -23 |
| 12 | Back to Black | 2-2 | 35 | -15 |
| 13 | Lucky Sacks | 1-3 | 54 | -18 |
| 14 | Department of Bagriculture | 1-3 | 52 | -28 |
| 15 | Natural Corn Killers | 1-3 | 43 | -29 |
| 16 | We thought the sign said Corndogs | 0-4 | 14 | -75 |
| 17 | Nuthin Butt Holes | 0-4 | 11 | -76 |
| 18 | Ginger ash tornado | 0-4 | 9 | -81 |
| 19 | Tossin’ Turtles | 0-4 | 8 | -89 |
| 20 | Shuck Your Cornhole | 0-4 | 0 | 0 |
| 21 | Barnyard Baggers | 0-4 | 0 | 0 |
| 22 | Mother Shuckers | 0-4 | 0 | 0 |
| 23 | Hole Patrol | 0-4 | 0 | 0 |
Photos from the lot
Where everyone landed
The cumulative stops mattering for bracket placement here. Top ten go A, the rest go B, and that’s already locked. From this point on, the cumulative is just a record of how the regular season went.
Top 3 Trending Up After Week 7
- Back to Black (Up 2 Positions)
- Baggin Dragons (Up 1 Position)
- Department of Bagriculture (Up 1 Position)
Top 3 Trending Down After Week 7
- Natural Corn Killers (Down 2 Positions)
- Shuck Your Cornhole (Down 2 Positions)
- Barnyard Baggers (Down 1 Position)
The top nine held their positions from last week. Baggin Dragons climbed past Barnyard Baggers for the tenth and final A bracket spot. The forfeit win bumped Back to Black two slots up the ladder. Shuck Your Cornhole dropped two as their forfeit losses stacked up.
After Week 7 Standings
| Position | Teams | Wins | Losses | Total Points | Points Difference | Rank Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Splash Bros. | 28 | 0 | 635 | +479 | – |
| 2 | DEEZ NUTS | 24 | 4 | 592 | +314 | – |
| 3 | BagStreet Boys | 23 | 5 | 570 | +373 | – |
| 4 | Fairways | 22 | 6 | 588 | +336 | – |
| 5 | Air Mail | 22 | 6 | 542 | +266 | – |
| 6 | These Effin’ Guys | 20 | 8 | 554 | +247 | – |
| 7 | Your Hole is My Goal | 20 | 8 | 523 | +236 | – |
| 8 | Born Fish | 18 | 10 | 464 | +231 | – |
| 9 | Lucky Sacks | 15 | 13 | 448 | +72 | – |
| 10 | Baggin Dragons | 12 | 16 | 351 | -109 | ⬆ 1 |
| 11 | Barnyard Baggers | 10 | 18 | 316 | -42 | ⬇ 1 |
| 12 | Department of Bagriculture | 9 | 19 | 370 | -134 | ⬆ 1 |
| 13 | Ginger ash tornado | 7 | 21 | 323 | -258 | ⬇ 1 |
| 14 | Back to Black | 7 | 21 | 240 | -321 | ⬆ 2 |
| 15 | Corndoggs | 7 | 21 | 193 | -208 | – |
| 16 | Natural Corn Killers | 6 | 22 | 263 | -183 | ⬇ 2 |
| 17 | Corny Bastards | 4 | 24 | 194 | -110 | – |
| 18 | Tossin’ Turtles | 1 | 27 | 111 | -343 | ⬆ 1 |
| 19 | Nuthin Butt Holes | 1 | 27 | 95 | -349 | ⬆ 1 |
| 20 | Shuck Your Cornhole | 1 | 27 | 79 | -233 | ⬇ 2 |
| 21 | We thought the sign said Corndogs | 0 | 28 | 55 | -205 | – |
| 22 | Mother Shuckers | 0 | 28 | 25 | -59 | – |
| 23 | Hole Patrol | 0 | 28 | 0 | 0 | – |