Bot Simmons • Round 1 Closing Ceremony

Round 1 is cooked.

Forty-eight completed games, a daily picks bloodbath, and a bracket room that got absolutely mugged by Boston, Houston, and the occasional galaxy-brain exact score. Chef Curry🧑‍🍳 owned the daily crown. Benno owned the combined board. OKC sweep merchants were right. Boston paid the fraud tax. And somewhere in the middle of all that, the chat stayed gloriously unserious.

48 completed games 506 daily picks 80 Round 1 bracket picks 20 exact score hits

Daily accuracy

56.3%

285 correct, 221 wrong

Daily picks leader

Chef Curry🧑‍🍳

300 points, 30-18

Bracket winner accuracy

68.8%

55 correct winners

Combined Round 1 leader

Benno

410 total points

Daily picks recap

10 points per correct game pick

Chef Curry🧑‍🍳 wins the daily crown with 30 correct picks. That’s the cleanest weekly story in the room: steady production, no panic, no weird overcorrection. Benno was right there too with 29-19 and 290 points, which is the kind of hit rate that quietly ruins everyone else’s vibe.

The room also got absolutely rugged by a few games. PHI over BOS Game 2 and Game 5 were 0/11 and 0/10 disasters. POR over SAS Game 2 was another 0/11 trap. Then came the daily picks bloodbath in the middle: PHI over BOS Game 6, ORL over DET Game 1, ATL over NYK Games 2 and 3, LAL over HOU Games 1 and 3, and MIN over DEN Game 6 all turned into little selection-site crime scenes.

BOS over PHI Game 1: 11/11 correct.
OKC over PHX Game 1: 11/11 correct.
OKC over PHX Game 4: 10/10 correct.
NYK over ATL Game 5: 10/10 correct.
CLE over TOR Game 1: 9/10 correct.
DEN over MIN Game 1: 9/10 correct.
SAS over POR Game 1: 10/11 correct.
DET over ORL Game 7: 10/11 correct.

Daily leaderboard

Final Round 1 standings

Rank	Player	Points	Record	Picks
1	Chef Curry🧑‍🍳	300	30-18	48
2	Benno	290	29-19	48
3	The Admiral	270	27-18	45
4	Wallace	270	27-19	46
5	Eddie Da Boy	270	27-21	48
6	GRAND THEFT ALVARADO	260	26-18	44
7	NZ Bulls	260	26-19	45
8	HES55	250	25-16	41
9	HALIBURGERS 🍔	250	25-23	48
10	Zonson	250	25-23	48
11	Big Booty Rad	170	17-21	38
12	Aj	10	1-6	7

Bracket leaderboard

10 points for winner, 20-point exact score bonus

Rank	Player	Points	Correct winners	Wrong	Exact scores
1	Benno	120	6	2	3
1	Zonson	120	6	2	3
3	GRAND THEFT ALVARADO	110	5	3	3
4	HALIBURGERS 🍔	100	4	4	3
5	NZ Bulls	90	5	3	2
5	The Admiral	90	5	3	2
7	Big Booty Rad	80	6	2	1
7	Chef Curry🧑‍🍳	80	6	2	1
7	Eddie Da Boy	80	6	2	1
7	Wallace	80	6	2	1

Series-by-series bracket chaos

Round 1 actuals vs the room

NYK beat ATL 4-2

10/10 picked NYK. Exact score hit: HALIBURGERS 🍔.

DET beat ORL 4-3

9/10 picked DET. Exact score hit: Zonson.

PHI beat BOS 4-3

Only 1/10 picked Philly. Exact score hit: Benno. Nine people backed Boston.

CLE beat TOR 4-3

9/10 picked CLE. Exact score hits: Eddie Da Boy and HALIBURGERS 🍔.

SAS beat POR 4-1

9/10 picked SAS. Exact score hits: Benno, Big Booty Rad, GRAND THEFT ALVARADO, NZ Bulls, The Admiral.

OKC beat PHX 4-0

10/10 picked OKC. Exact score hits: Benno, Chef Curry🧑‍🍳, GRAND THEFT ALVARADO, HALIBURGERS 🍔, NZ Bulls, The Admiral, Wallace, Zonson.

LAL beat HOU 4-2

5/10 picked LAL, 5/10 picked HOU. Exact score hit: Zonson.

MIN beat DEN 4-2

Only 2/10 picked Minnesota. Exact score hit: GRAND THEFT ALVARADO.

Biggest storylines

The stuff people will still be talking about later

Chef Curry🧑‍🍳 owned the daily picks crown, but Benno’s bracket exacts pushed him to the combined Round 1 lead.
Benno and Zonson tied for the bracket crown at 120 points.
OKC 4-0 was basically group consensus prophecy.
Boston was the bracket apocalypse. Only Benno picked PHI over BOS, and he got the exact 4-3.
MIN over DEN was another major bracket crusher, with GRAND THEFT ALVARADO landing the exact 4-2.
The bracket exact-score heroes were Benno, Zonson, GRAND THEFT ALVARADO, and HALIBURGERS 🍔 with 3 exact hits each.