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A.J. BrownAaron JonesBrandon AiyukBrock BowersChristian McCaffreyD'Onta ForemanDallas GoedertDerrick HenryDylan SampsonGarrett WilsonGeorge PickensJalen TolbertJayden DanielsJaylen Waddle
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A.J. Brown

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AJ Brown is identified as a superior draft option compared to Garrett Wilson at the eighth overall pick.

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Aaron Jones

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Aaron Jones was a core member of Avery's championship-winning roster, acquired via a trade with Nathan.

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Brandon Aiyuk

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Brandon Aiyuk was acquired by Bush in a trade that was cited as a massive reason for Bush losing the league.

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Brock Bowers

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Brock Bowers was a key starter on Avery's championship-winning team, acquired in a trade with Nathan.

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Christian McCaffrey

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Christian McCaffrey was a foundational piece of a league-winning draft strategy, selected as one of the first three picks by a manager who dominated the season with a 12-2 record.

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D'Onta Foreman

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D'Onta Foreman was acquired by Bush in a trade that was cited as a massive reason for Bush losing the league.

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Dallas Goedert

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Dallas Goedert was traded away by Nathan in a deal described as a 'horrible trade' that contributed to Nathan's poor performance.

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Derrick Henry

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Derrick Henry was acquired by a manager in a trade, but his addition was not enough to prevent that team from losing the league.

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Dylan Sampson

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Dylan Sampson was a starting running back on a fantasy team that ultimately lost the league.

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Garrett Wilson

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Bush is criticized for drafting Garrett Wilson at pick eight over higher-value options like Justin Jefferson, AJ Brown, and Jonathan Taylor.

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George Pickens

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George Pickens served as a key starter on a championship-winning fantasy team that finished the season with a 12-2 record.

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Jalen Tolbert

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Jalen Tolbert was acquired by Bush in a trade that was cited as a massive reason for Bush losing the league.

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Jayden Daniels

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Jayden Daniels was a key starter in Avery's championship-winning fantasy lineup.

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Jaylen Waddle

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The source acquired Jaylen Waddle in a trade, sending Nico Collins to the other team in exchange for Waddle plus additional assets.

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Jonathan Taylor

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Jonathan Taylor is considered a superior draft option compared to Garrett Wilson at the eighth overall pick. He was also a key component of a league-winning draft strategy, selected as one of the first three picks by a manager who finished the season with a 12-2 record.

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Justin Jefferson

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Justin Jefferson was a core starter on Avery's championship-winning team, acquired in a trade with Nathan. However, he became unusable for Danny's team down the stretch, particularly with J.J. McCarthy under center.

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Kyren Williams

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Kyren Williams was traded away by Nathan in a deal described as a 'horrible trade' that contributed to Nathan's poor performance.

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Michael Pittman

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Michael Pittman Jr. was traded away by Nathan in a deal described as a 'horrible trade' that contributed to Nathan's poor performance.

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Nico Collins

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The source targeted Nico Collins in the mid-second round of the draft, viewing him as a high-value pick worth sniping from a league mate. He was later traded away in a package to acquire Jaylen Waddle.

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Tank Bigsby

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Tank Bigsby was acquired by Avery in a trade with Nathan that helped secure a championship run.

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Tony Pollard

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Tony Pollard was traded away by Nathan in a deal described as a 'horrible trade' that contributed to Nathan's poor performance.

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TreVeyon Henderson

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TreVeyon Henderson was a starting running back on a fantasy team that ultimately lost the league.

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Trey McBride

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Trey McBride was selected as one of the first three picks by a manager who utilized a league-winning draft strategy to finish the season with a 12-2 record.

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Tyrone Tracy

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Tyrone Tracy Jr. was a starting running back on a championship-winning fantasy team.

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Episode Transcript

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0:00The Flock League is the most popular
0:01fantasy football league in the world,
0:03and it is my favorite thing ever. I want
0:05to give you the history of it. Before we
0:07got Jinxy to join the league before the
0:09prize pool was $200,000
0:12for a 12 team league, going all the way
0:14back to the first year where we started
0:16the league in 2024, we have the Flock
0:18League, the Inyou girl inaugural,
0:20whatever we're calling it these days.
0:22Now, when I initially had the idea of
0:23the Flock League, I wasn't thinking,
0:25"Oh, this would be a super popular thing
0:28that people would love to watch." My
0:30thought was, "Oh, I really enjoy hanging
0:32out with these guys. We all work
0:33together on flockfantasy.com,
0:36and it would be really fun if we did a
0:37fantasy league together. We could record
0:39the draft. We could vlog it because
0:41everybody was flying to Austin, Texas in
0:442024, not for us to make a fantasy
0:47football draft video. We were actually
0:49making fantasy football advice videos
0:52where from the time we woke up to the
0:54time we went to bed every single day, we
0:56were just talking about guys you wanted
0:58to target in your drafts, avoid in your
1:00drafts and overall fantasy football
1:02strategy. And the last day we were
1:05there, we were like, "Okay, well, we
1:07have the cameras. Let's go ahead. Let's
1:09record the draft that we are going to do
1:11anyway, and let's just upload it on a
1:13brand new channel called the Flock
1:15League." How we decided our draft order
1:17that day was we were like, "Oh, okay.
1:19Let's just play a game of knockout to
1:21see who picks first, who picks last."
1:23And the reason we came to that
1:24conclusion is we had about 30 minutes to
1:27do it and we had a basketball court in
1:29the backyard of the Airbnb. So, year
1:31one, we played knockout. Then we went
1:33through fired up the draft. The members
1:36of the Flock League this year consisted
1:37of the creators on flockfantasy.com
1:40which is myself, Nathan Avery from
1:43domain fantasy football, Bush, Danny
1:46from Fantasy Stock Exchange, Zack Madaki
1:48from Fantasy Land, the developers of
1:51Flock Fantasy.com, which include Joe
1:54Austin and Tom, my editor to the Flock
1:57Fantasy YouTube channel, which was
1:59Thomas, and then just a friend of mine,
2:02Salvetri, who lived in Austin, and I
2:04texted him day of and I was like, "Hey
2:05man, are you sure you don't want to do
2:07this fantasy league with us? We're
2:08probably going to start the draft at
2:09about 7:00 p.m." And thank God that he
2:12showed up. Now, we did the draft, had a
2:14ton of fun, eating pizza, a lot of the
2:16guys were drinking, just having a good
2:17time. The first place prize this year
2:20was $1,000, and I don't necessarily
2:23think anybody was taking it that
2:25seriously, to be honest. We didn't know
2:26anybody at all was going to be watching
2:27it on YouTube. We just thought we were
2:29having fun and hanging out. And yes,
2:32after we uploaded the first draft video,
2:35the first video ever on that channel, it
2:37got a couple hundred,000 views and we
2:39went, "Oh crap." Um, I guess people want
2:41to watch this. And then about a week
2:43later, we had our first trade ever in
2:46the Flock League. In the draft, I
2:47actually sniped Danny on Nico Collins.
2:50And of course, as Danny always would, he
2:52screamed in pain as if he got shot.
2:55Mid-second round, I'm licking my lips. I
2:57see Nico Collins one pick away from me.
2:59and we are going to go ahead take Nico
3:01Collins.
3:01>> Are you kidding me? Are you kidding?
3:04>> So about a week after the draft, we went
3:06through, we got in conversations and I
3:09ended up trading him Nico Collins for
3:11Jaylen Waddle Plus. We weren't really
3:13thinking, oh, we need to make a YouTube
3:14video about this, but a bunch of people
3:16were talking about it in our group chat.
3:18They ended up sending in clips.
3:20>> I I'm also just absolutely ticked that
3:22Mason got what he wanted. Then I had
3:24Thomas, the editor of my YouTube
3:26channel, Flock Fantasy, just spin up a
3:29quick video for it and see if we could
3:31upload it on the YouTube channel. So, he
3:33spun up a video, had no idea what it was
3:35going to be like. We uploaded it and it
3:37almost got 100,000 views. And we were
3:39like, "Oh, okay. Well, crap. Um, do we
3:41need to start making videos for this
3:43channel regularly? Is this something
3:45that we can do that's more than just a
3:47fun fantasy league on the side?" And
3:49then I actually had a Tik Tok editor at
3:51the time that I was like, "Hey, man. uh
3:53do you want to edit these Flock League
3:55videos? We'll do like one or two a week
3:56and all you got to do is download clips
3:58that a bunch of creators send in. Create
4:00like a montage style video. He was in.
4:03So that's what gave birth to us giving
4:05consistent uploads with videos of me
4:08going through screaming of course when
4:10Amari Cooper dropped the ball. Watch
4:12this. Oh my gosh. Watch this. This is
4:17Amari the guy that I need. Look,
4:21how how many how many points did that
4:23cost me?
4:23>> And how that season played out is at the
4:26very end of the year, the standings were
4:29Zack at one. Zach had the best season.
4:31It wasn't even that close during the
4:33regular season. Then I was the second
4:35best team in the league at 9 and five.
4:37Then we had Austin Hood, which is one of
4:39the developers of flockfantasy.com at
4:41three. Avery at four, Joe, who is
4:44another developer of flockfantasy.com at
4:46five. Thomas at six, the editor of the
4:49Flock Fantasy YouTube channel. Badaki at
4:51seven, S at eight, Nathan at nine, Danny
4:55at 10, Bush at 11, and then Tom, the
4:59last developer of Flockfasy.com at 12.
5:02Then we had the playoffs. Now, the teams
5:04that earned a buy that year were Zachary
5:07Savage and myself. Avery ended up
5:09beating Joe the developer to advance to
5:11the semifinals. Thomas beat Austin the
5:14developer to advance to the semi-finals
5:16as well. And in the semi-finals matchup,
5:18Avery upsetted Zack to go to the
5:21championship. And Thomas, my editor,
5:24dropped 189 points and sent me to the
5:27third place matchup. And finally, Avery
5:30verse Thomas in the championship week
5:32was a complete blowout. Avery won the
5:34championship. Didn't even come close.
5:36Avery's starting lineup for that
5:37championship run was Jaden Daniels,
5:40gross running backs. He was streaming
5:42like Isaac Garindo, Aaron Jones, wide
5:44receivers T. Higgins, Jacobe Meyers, and
5:47then he had Justin Jefferson, Ahmad Ross
5:49St. Brown, and Brock Bowers. Now, the
5:51most important trade that got Avery to
5:54winning this league was actually him
5:57sending a deal to Nathan, his channel
6:00partner at Domain, where Avery picked up
6:03Justin Jefferson, Brock Bowers, Aaron
6:06Jones, as well as Tank Bsby. and Nathan
6:09got Dallas Gddard, Tony Pard, Michael
6:12Pitman Jr., and Kairen Williams. Now,
6:15you may be thinking, "Oh, that looks
6:17very unfair. Um, fantasy football has
6:19changed over the years." No, it was very
6:21unfair at the time. We called collusion,
6:23and I still stand by that. Okay, that is
6:25a joke. It wasn't collusion, but still,
6:27Nathan made a horrible trade. Now, going
6:28over to the toilet bowl, the most
6:30important thing was Nathan was going up
6:33against Bush. BCH ended up only scoring
6:36106 fantasy points, losing the league.
6:39Now, there were a couple different
6:41reasons why BCH lost the league. I want
6:43to point to one trade that he had in
6:46particular with Zack. And this is what
6:48gave Zack the number one record in the
6:50regular season, and this is a big reason
6:52why Cory lost the league this year, is
6:54Bush traded away JSN, Bucky Irving,
6:58Amari Cooper, and Kareem Hunt. and the
7:00only thing he got in return was Brandon
7:02Iayuk, Deontto Foreman, and Jaylen
7:05Tolbert. Massive reason why Bush lost
7:07the league. Another reason was he
7:09decided to take Garrett Wilson at pick
7:12eight over guys like Justin Jefferson,
7:15AJ Brown, and Jonathan Taylor, who went
7:17immediately after. Now, the punishment
7:19for Bush losing the league that year, it
7:21wasn't that severe, right? First place
7:23was only $1,000. So, the punishment
7:25couldn't have been that that bad. All he
7:27had to do was the following week wear a
7:29t-shirt with the face of Avery on it
7:31saying that Avery knows fantasy football
7:33and he doesn't. And then we made him
7:35scooter to the draft event while we all
7:37rode in a limo in 2025. But 2025 we
7:41raised the stakes, right? We went
7:43through and we made the first place
7:45prize $10,000. This was a complete
7:47surprise. Nobody knew this was going to
7:49happen but myself.
7:54We got $10,000 cash for the winner this
7:57year.
7:58>> Holy cow. Until they got to Austin and
8:01right before we did our draft order
8:02competition, which our draft order
8:04competition was, we went through and we
8:06did a kick, punt, pass for accuracy. And
8:10the winning person of that competition
8:12was actually a new member of the league.
8:14The members of the league this year were
8:16obviously the same creators from
8:18flockfantasy.com, but we did a couple
8:20different things. one. At this point, we
8:23knew the Flock League was becoming
8:24something really big, way bigger than we
8:26ever intended it to be. So, I actually
8:28hired a dedicated editor for the
8:30channel, Nick the editor, and we allowed
8:33him to join the league that year. That
8:35way, he could follow along and just be a
8:37member and have way more context as he
8:39made the videos. We kept Thomas the
8:41editor at the time, the editor of the
8:43Flocked Fantasy YouTube channel. We
8:45still had S, but to make space for not
8:48only the editor, but also a new member
8:51of the league where I had the idea to
8:53make a fan competition where fans of the
8:56Flock League got to submit clips to
8:59audition and tell us why they should be
9:01in the league. The winner that year
9:03ended up being Samuel L. Stacks, who did
9:06a Drake parody. He won everybody over.
9:08he got into the league and then he
9:10immediately won the draft order
9:13competition getting to pick his draft
9:15selection first. Now, we're going a
9:16little out of order here, but funny
9:18enough with Samuel L. Stacks, he went
9:20from winning the fan spot in the Flock
9:23League, then to a couple weeks into the
9:25year, he actually got hired to be head
9:27of customer support at flockfantasy.com.
9:30So, if you ever have any problems with
9:32flockfantasy.com or the Flock Fantasy
9:35app and you're going through and
9:36emailing support, there's a damn good
9:38chance that you are talking to Sammy,
9:40who obviously is in those Flock League
9:42videos. Now, going through and looking
9:44at the standings at the end of this
9:46season, we actually had Salvetrey
9:49sweeping everybody. Absolutely dominated
9:53one of the best drafts ever where he
9:54went through and he took McAffrey,
9:56Jonathan Taylor, and Trey McBride with
9:58his first three picks. He finished at
10:0012-2. I yet again finishes the second
10:03best team in the league at 10 and four.
10:05Then we had Sammy Stacks in at third. We
10:07had the dev team in at four. We have
10:10Avery at five, Thomas the editor at six,
10:13then Corey was seven, barely missing the
10:16playoffs. Then we have Bodaki at 8,
10:18Nathan at nine, Danny at 10, Zack at 11,
10:22and then Nick the new editor at 12. Now,
10:26as we go over to the playoff bracket and
10:29the toilet bowl, one thing that is
10:31important to note here is the developers
10:33and the editors, the guys that don't
10:35make fantasy football YouTube videos,
10:37they were immune to the punishment. And
10:40we had stepped up the punishment where
10:42this year the loser was going to have to
10:44spend 24 hours inside of Denny's and
10:47every pancake that he ate was one hour
10:49off. So, everybody was eligible to win
10:52the $10,000 the first, but only the
10:54creators were eligible to be punished.
10:57Now, for the championship week,
10:59obviously myself as well as S, we were
11:02the two guys that had the buys going
11:04straight to the semi-finals, but we did
11:06end up getting the dev team beating
11:08Avery in the first round and then Sammy
11:11barely beat Thomas in the first round as
11:14well where we had both the fan as well
11:17as the dev team advancing to round two.
11:19Now, S because he was the number one
11:21team in the league in the semi-finals
11:23this year, he actually got the choice to
11:25pick his matchup between Sammy, myself,
11:28and the dev team. What S decided to do
11:30is he decided to pick the fan Sammy to
11:33go up against, and S easily beat him
11:36advancing to the championship. I lost to
11:39the dev team in the semifinals. So,
11:41back-to-back years, finishing with the
11:43second best record in the league,
11:44getting a buy going to the semis and
11:46then immediately losing in week 16,
11:49which is absolutely brutal. In the
11:51championship week, S beat the dev team,
11:53and yet again, it wasn't even remotely
11:55close. Back-to-back years, our
11:57championship has been a true blowout.
11:59Now, going over to the toilet bowl, the
12:02guys that were battling it at the very
12:05end was Mr. Zachary Savage as well as
12:08the Ladster Danny. Now, one thing that
12:11was very important to note of this year
12:13is about weeks 10 or 11, I don't exactly
12:16remember, the dev team trolled Danny so
12:20hard that Danny completely removed
12:23himself from our chats. Well, the FSE
12:26guys have officially banned the devs
12:30from this league. I have no idea how
12:33these commissioners think that they can
12:35abuse their power. Like, it's a literal
12:39joke. He kicked the dev team from our
12:41league and then he removed himself from
12:43our chats essentially rage quitting the
12:45league. He was still submitting his
12:47starting lineup. He was still making
12:48waiverss. He was still making trades.
12:50But in terms of actually submitting
12:53clips to be posted on YouTube, he
12:55stopped. It was radio silence from the
12:57Ladster. So him losing the league was
13:00that much worse because we hadn't heard
13:03from him in four or five weeks and he
13:05was going to have to do the punishment
13:07the following year. Now looking at the
13:09starting lineup from Sal's winning team,
13:11he had Brock Pery, Christian McAffrey,
13:13Jonathan Taylor, George Pickkins, Chris
13:15Ave, Trey McBride, Jacobe Meyers, and
13:17Tyrone Tracy. So just absolute killers.
13:20Looking at Danny's losing lineup from
13:23this season, Danny was starting Dak
13:25Prescott, Trevian Henderson, Dylan
13:27Samson, Justin Jefferson, CD Lamb,
13:30Coloulston Loveland, Trey Tucker, as
13:33well as Jaylen Coker. Now, the trade
13:36that ended up losing Danny in the league
13:38was actually a deal that everybody
13:40thought he won initially. Nathan traded
13:42Danny, Dererick Henry, Justin Jefferson,
13:45and Jordan Addison. And Danny sent away
13:48Pukanua, Jaylen Warren, and Alec Pierce.
13:51Now, down the stretch, turned out that
13:53Puka was like the best player in fantasy
13:56football. Alec Pierce was great. Jaylen
13:58Warren was great. And then Justin
14:01Jefferson and Jordan Addison with JJ
14:03McCarthy under center were completely
14:05unusable and Dererick Henry was not
14:08enough to save Danny from losing the
14:10league. So not only did we have to
14:12punish Danny from losing the league, but
14:15we also had to punish Danny going into
14:17the next season for no longer submitting
14:19clips on YouTube the final five or 6
14:22weeks after he rage quitted. So, the
14:24punishment for him losing the league was
14:26going to Denny's and having to live
14:28stream there from 24 hours, eating
14:30pancakes. We were waxing his chest. We
14:33were making him a throw up, eating gross
14:35food. It was truly a horrendous
14:38punishment that the man had to go
14:40through. It seems like everybody on
14:42YouTube, everybody in the league, um we
14:44are all far past him rage quitting. He
14:46did everything that we ever could have
14:48possibly asked for him. We absolutely
14:49love the Ladster. Super happy that he's
14:51in the league again this year. of course
14:53having to be punished by having to share
14:55a team with the fan Sammy Stacks because
14:59going back to last season with the fan
15:01competition, what I said then and I
15:03still say now is if you're a fan that
15:06wins our fan competition spot, unless
15:09you win the league, you are out of the
15:11league the following year. Sammy got
15:13lucky because he did get hired by
15:15flockfantasy.com. So now technically
15:17since he works with us, very similar to
15:19the devs and very similar to the
15:21editors, he kind of has pigeon holed
15:23himself into the league, but he didn't
15:25know that was going to be the case since
15:27again the rule is any fans, you're a one
15:30and done unless you win the league. And
15:32that brings us to 2026. We did our draft
15:36a few weeks ago. There have already been
15:38three trades done in the league since
15:40then. And the stakes are significantly
15:42higher this year than any other. Again,
15:45we went from $1,000 to first place year
15:471, $10,000 to first place year two,
15:50$100,000 to first place year three. We
15:53are also adding in an additional
15:55$100,000 worth of prizes sprinkled in
15:58throughout second place, third place,
16:00and the highest scoring team. Every
16:02week, we are doing weekly punishments
16:04for the lowest scoring team every single
16:06week. We are doing two live stream
16:08punishments. You have to one be punished
16:11the day after you lose the league
16:13because in week 17 we are all going to a
16:16beach house. We are all hanging out
16:18together watching all the games live
16:20streaming it on YouTube. It's going to
16:21be a ton of fun. But you're going to get
16:23punished the day after you lose the
16:24league with a 24-hour live stream and
16:27the day before the 2027 draft with a
16:3124-hour live stream as well. Now, the
16:33members of the league in 2026, the guys
16:37returning Mason Avery S Nathan
16:42Bush, Zack, Danny, the editors, and the
16:46dev team. One difference is we are
16:48making Thomas and Nick now come into one
16:51and have one editing team. We opened up
16:54two fan spots and we actually did fan
16:57auditions going into the season. And the
17:00two fans we had were Zufa, who
17:02auditioned in 2025, didn't get in then,
17:05but he auditioned again in 2026, finally
17:08earning that spot. And Rome as well got
17:10that second fan placement. And then the
17:13wild card, which was the coolest thing
17:15ever, somebody that I watch all the
17:17time, and I think his clips are the
17:19funniest thing in the world. We somehow
17:21someway convinced Jinxy aka Junko aka
17:25Nicholas, whatever the hell you want to
17:27call him, to join the league with us
17:29this year as well, which is probably the
17:32coolest thing that's ever happened to me
17:33on YouTube. So, I can't wait for the
17:36league this season. Again, it's my
17:38favorite thing in the world. And it's
17:40going to be so much bigger this year
17:42than it's ever been because we are doing
17:44the weekly punishments, the weekly first
17:46place prize, five videos a week, Monday
17:49through Friday, every single week. The
17:52week 17 beach trip where we watch all
17:55the championship and all the toilet bowl
17:57games together live. It's going to be
17:58the best year ever. I can't wait for it.
18:00And I absolutely love my

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