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    This episode prepares listeners for the upcoming World Championships. Hosts Jake and Trey break down the singles and doubles brackets, discussing which players and teams they believe can win. They also talk about the ACL International Invitational, where a European team will compete against North America, and evaluate which players might emerge from the challenge brackets to reach the final four. The description notes that the show ends with the hosts’ signature “Hole‑y Hot Takes” and invites listeners to leave a review at RateThisPodcast. Heat. Heat. Welcome to the world's episode of Around the ACL. It's Michelle Thompson here with Trey Ryder and Jake Brandon getting ready for the big event of the season. We are going to get into the brackets for singles and doubles. We are going to talk about some international stuff happening at Worlds. That's why it's Worlds after all, right? Can't just be us folk. Got to have everybody come down and play. We're excited about that. And then we're going to talk about all those players that'll be in the challenger brackets and who we think might be able to make their way into those main brackets to try to get a title themselves. Trey, what'd you do this weekend? Anything fun? I was in the most magical place on earth.

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    In this pre‑World Championships episode, Michelle Thompson is joined by Anthony and Trey to preview the event. They review the top 100 professional players and top doubles teams, randomly pick teams for the Pro Invitational, and debate nominees for the Stevie Awards. The hosts share insights and predictions before finishing with their signature hot takes about the upcoming Worlds. Heat. Heat. Welcome into Around the ACL. It's Michelle Thompson here with Trey Ryder and Anthony Ion getting ready for the World Championships, baby. Let's go. We made it to the end of the season. So, uh, lots of good stuff to talk about. So, the next couple episodes, we'll be getting everybody ready for that incredible event coming up at the end of July. And today, we're going to be talking about who are those top 100 pros that made it now that we have all of our signatures completed. We're going to do the drawing for our Pro Invitational and finish up with our Stevie Award ballots. So, lots of good stuff. Trey, how you feeling? You pumped up? Pumped up. Ready to go. I mean, it's uh you know, this is a nice appropriate break of a couple weeks right before the World Championships.

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    Michelle Thompson, Trey Ryder and Jake Brandon gear up for the final Signature event of the season. They review the singles and doubles brackets, predict potential winners, and Trey explains several important changes planned for the 2026 season. As always, the episode concludes with their “Hole‑y Hot Takes” segment. Heat. Heat. What's up everyone? Welcome to Around the ACL. Shell Thompson here with Trey Ryder and Jake Brandon. Thanks for holding it down for me last week. I did listen on the plane and uh you guys did great as always. Um, I was in New York City and my first time in the big city and being from Los Angeles, I thought that I would hate it because I hated living in Los Angeles for 20 years. Completely different. Absolutely loved it. I even told Nick, I think we should move there for like a year just for fun. He's like, we are never living there. I just thought it was so cool. It's so different from anything else. But my favorite thing about New York besides the good food and the shows and all that stuff is you get to just see everybody outside living, right? I live in a rural area. So the only people who are outside living are transients, homeless people.

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    Hosts Jake, Trey and Wally catch up and recap the fifth Signature event of the season, held in Utica, New York. They examine the singles and doubles standings, debate whether a new female player might shake up the pro field, discuss ACL team standings, and play a segment of “Buy or Sell” before finishing with their “Hole‑y Hot Takes”. Heat. Heat. What's up, Cornhole fans, and welcome to another episode of Around the ACL. This is not Michelle Thompson. This is Trey Ryder alongside Jake Brandon and Wall-E K9 Castler. Michelle is off gallivanting in New York City. Probably drinking a Paloma right now. Gonna watch this from from her room. No, she's not going to watch this at all. So, we can we can just rag on her as much as we want. So, um appreciate it tuning in. Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Yes. She's she's having too much fun talking about Harry Potter and doing eating pizza and bagels. So, we'll see. Uh, we'll see what she says when she comes back. But we're just coming off of our fifth signature event of the year up in Udica, New York. I will say I did not realize that Udica had so many food delicacies. I had myself Udica Greens for the first time.

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    In this episode Jake, Trey and Michelle discuss the fifth Signature event as the ACL season winds down. Players head to New York to compete and prepare for the World Championships. The crew breaks down singles and doubles brackets and discusses team matchups before finishing with their usual “Hole‑y Hot Takes”. Heat. Heat. Welcome everyone to Around the ACL. Michelle Thompson here with Trey Ryder and Jake Brandon. And we have our fifth signature coming up this weekend in Utica, New York. So, going to get into our brackets for that as well as our teams lineup. And that'll pretty much be the entire show. We've got a lot to get to. It always takes a while to go through our brackets. And I was telling Jake before we hopped on, it is so hard this season not to just go chalk. Like, it's so boring making our picks. Like, I'm like, I don't know how I could pick anybody but number one or number two. So, going to be interesting to see if we can break that streak or if it's going to continue to be our our highlevel seeds making it to the end. But it's definitely hard to bet against them. Uh Trey, I hesitate to ask how you're doing.