CH.BTL / Season 6 / Bowl Path · as of May 5, 3:05 AM PDT

The Bowl is no longer abstract.

The two-week table is past its midpoint. This page is the structural read on top of the live scoreboard — what the lock band looks like, who is on the bubble by structure, what boss fields decide the second half, and where today sits inside the 14-day Sprint Room. For current wins, points, and fan counts, the Battle Desk is the source of truth; this page's live state is also readable as JSON.

D8 · Rivalry test night 6 days to lock 8 founding gangs

Lock status reads as pending until a beat brings real signal. The page shows structural framing in the meantime — no fabricated records.

Lock / bubble / out

Three bands by D14.

LOCK

Lock band

Requirement: 8+ wins by D14

Population: top 4 of 8

Earns a Bowl seed and the rights-receipt package. Win column does the work; tiebreakers fall to points, then fan count, then rivalry record.

BUBBLE

Bubble band

Requirement: 5–7 wins by D14

Population: middle 2–3

Plays the play-in slate. One Sprint-Storm boss field decides at least one bubble seat every season. Re-staking the roster pre-lock is the move.

OUT

Out band

Requirement: 4 or fewer wins by D14

Population: bottom 1–2

Builder Circuit relegation lane opens. Imported nations get a graduation slot if the bottom seat is structurally vacant.

House league

The eight gangs that fill the bracket.

Standings live; identities don't. Each gang has a stable color, a stable Noun, and a structural reason it does or doesn't survive a given boss field.

  1. TN

    Tomato Noggles

    S01

    Face of the league since S01. Clean reads, fast starts; getting punished by weather in S6.

  2. CF

    Cobalt Frames

    S02

    Best structure, best captain tree. Cleanest paper path back to the Bowl.

  3. GN

    Golden Nouncil

    Quiet runs are easy to miss. Watch the points column, not the wins column.

  4. GS

    Garden Stack

    S03

    Built for messy reads. Scrap Storm and Monsoon Rift turn that into a second-half lever.

  5. PU

    Pixel Union

    Chaos pick. If the fields skew weird, scrappy matchups become a meme season.

  6. NA

    Night Auction

    S04

    Heel run from S04. Auction-tower volleys still the most clip-friendly archetype in the league.

  7. SP

    Sunset Prop House

    S06 wildcard. Rivalry-test night format favors them; rights-receipt week does not.

  8. MC

    Mint Condition

    S05 · DEF

    Defending champ. No gang has gone back-to-back; the table has learned how to drag them late.

Live wins, points, and fan count → Battle Desk · Game JSON

Sprint Room · 14 days

Where today sits in the lock cycle.

  1. D0

    Commissioner kickoff

    Recap link pinned, intake lane published, season story named.

    DONE

  2. D2

    Expansion combine

    Imported nations submit colors, code, roster, home, proof, rivalry seed.

    DONE

  3. D5

    Media week packet

    Preview cards, MVP watch, upset watch, sponsor reads, repeatable rundown.

    DONE

  4. D8

    Rivalry test night

    Named exhibitions before promising a full season. Great rivalries graduate; weak ones stay clips.

    NOW

  5. D12

    Rights and receipts

    Watch frames, JSON routes, score envelopes, archive pages, sponsor inventory.

    NEXT

  6. D14

    Bowl lock

    Slate freezes, the final gets promoted, agents pick up the postgame publishing checklist.

    NEXT

Film room

Four boss fields decide the second half.

The boss-field rotation is the league's volatility engine. Same matchup, different field, materially different result distributions. The reason you can't read a single weekend in isolation — look at three.

MR

Monsoon Rift

Wet, low-visibility lane fights. Healers over-perform. Punishes drafts that lean on clean range trades.

NC

Neon Crown

Clean field, no weather modifier. Paper advantages cash in. The "default" boss, but it is rarer than people remember.

SS

Scrap Storm

Debris hazards and broken sightlines. Scrappy gangs and emergency-mint healers eat clean teams alive.

BF

Blackout Fog

Reduced read distance. Auction-tower volleys and chant-based morale plays exit the meta; ambushes return.

Sports Desk cadence

The desk shows up on a schedule.

A trilogy proved the Thu→Sat→Mon shape. The next beat lands Thursday, with this page to point at if the table has tightened by then.

  1. 0411 Thu Apr 30 Open Late-April leagues + Battler S6 checkpoint.
  2. 0422 Sat May 2 Follow 48-hour follow. Boss-field rotation doing the heavy lifting.
  3. 0434 Mon May 4 Cap Trilogy capper. Cadence as the editorial product.
  4. —— Thu May 7 Next Bowl-path scoreboard if the table has tightened by then.

Fast paths

Where to look next.