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          Second-Place Showdown
          In honor of the 43rd President of the United States (heh, heh, heh), 
          The Al Gore Cup is a forum for teams that finished second and most 
          likely feel that they're more deserving than all of the other 
          first-place teams to be in the championship bracket. 
            
          Teams are seeded 1-4 based on regular season records and play a 
          best-of-seven semifinal round followed by another seven game series to 
          crown the winner. 
            
          The winner receives a bonus of 1 million Benchwarmer Bucks.  
          The runner-up gets 500,000. 
            
          The 2012 Entrants (in order of seeding): 
          
            - Fukushima (89-62)
 
            - Bellvue (83-67)
 
            - Chernobyl (81-69)
 
            - Machu Picchu (67-83)
 
           
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           Semifinals - Machu Picchu vs Fukushima; Chernobyl vs Bellvue 
            
          Finals - Chernobyl vs Fukushima - Fukushima won the season series 
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          2012 Gore Cup Winner - Chernobyl in 5 Games 
            
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                    Finals
                    
                      
      
        
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          Chernobyl vs. Fukushima | 
         
        
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Chernobyl | 6 | 10 | 1 | Box  |  | Fukushima | 4 | 9 | 2 |  WP - Y.Darvish (1-0)  LP - Y.Gallardo (0-1) HR: Cher: C.Gonzalez (1); Fuk: J.Hamilton (1) Chernobyl leads 1-0 |   
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Chernobyl | 5 | 12 | 0 | Box  |  | Fukushima | 3 | 9 | 1 |  WP - R.Dickey (1-0)  LP - Fuk BP (0-1) HR: Cher: N.Aoki (1), J.Heyward (1), C.Johnson (1); Fuk: R.Weeks (1), J.Hamilton (2) Chernobyl leads 2-0 |   
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Fukushima | 2 | 5 | 1 | Box  |  | Chernobyl | 5 | 9 | 2 |  WP - D.Price (1-0)  LP - C.Sale (0-1) HR: Cher: J.Heyward (2) Chernobyl leads 3-0 |   
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Fukushima | 7 | 11 | 0 | Box  |  | Chernobyl | 6 | 7 | 1 |  WP - Fuk BP (1-1)  LP - Cher BP (0-1) HR: Fuk: B.Harper (1), R.Weeks (2), J.Hamilton (3), A.Soriano (1); Cher: J.Heyward (3) Chernobyl leads 3-1 |   
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Fukushima | 1 | 6 | 1 | Box  |  | Chernobyl | 4 | 9 | 0 |  WP - M.Minor (1-0)  LP - Fuk BP (1-2) HR: Fuk: A.Soriano (2), B.Moss (1); Cher: N.Aoki (2), B.Posey (1) Chernobyl wins series 4-1 |   
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          | Game | 
          Semifinal One | 
          Semifinal Two | 
         
        
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Machu Picchu | 1 | 5 | 0 | Box  |  | Fukushima | 7 | 12 | 0 |  WP - Y.Gallardo (1-0)  LP - J.Johnson (0-1) HR: MP: A.Pujols (1); Fuk: R.Weeks (1), A.Soriano (1), I.Desmond (1) Fukushima leads 1-0 |      | 
          
          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Chernobyl | 5 | 11 | 2 | Box  |  | Bellvue Hospital | 2 | 7 | 0 |  WP - Y.Darvish (1-0)  LP - B.Anderson (0-1) HR: Cher: J.Rollins (1) Chernobyl leads 1-0 |      | 
         
        
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Machu Picchu | 5 | 11 | 0 | Box  |  | Fukushima | 11 | 17 | 0 |  WP - Fuk BP (1-0)  LP - J.Vargas (0-1) HR: Fuk: B.Harper (1), J.Hamilton (1), J.Lucroy (1) Fukushima leads 2-0 |      | 
          
          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Chernobyl | 4 | 0 | 0 | Box  |  | Bellvue Hospital | 0 | 0 | 0 |  WP - R.Dickey (1-0) LP - C. Buchholz (0-1) Chernobyl leads 2-0 |      | 
         
        
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Fukushima | 6 | 9 | 0 | Box  |  | Machu Picchu | 4 | 10 | 1 |  WP - Fuk BP (2-0)  LP - T.Hanson (0-1) HR: Fuk: R.Howard (1); MP: E.Encarnacion (1) Fukushima leads 3-0 |      | 
          
          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Bellvue Hospital | 1 | 11 | 0 | Box  |  | Chernobyl | 6 | 11 | 0 |  WP - D.Price (1-0)  LP - BH BP (0-1) HR: BH: M.Kemp (1); Cher: B.Posey (1), Y.Cespedes (1) Chernobyl leads 3-0 |      | 
         
        
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Fukushima | 2 | 9 | 3 | Box  |  | Machu Picchu | 10 | 15 | 1 |  WP - J.Saunders (1-0)  LP - S.Diamond (0-1) HR: MP: A.Pujols 2 (3), A.Rios 2 (2), J.Rutledge (1) Fukushima leads 3-1 |      | 
          
          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Bellvue Hospital | 2 | 10 | 0 | Box  |  | Chernobyl | 7 | 12 | 4 |  WP - Cher BP (1-0)  LP - W.Rodriguez (0-1) HR: BH: M.Ellis (1), M.Montero (1), C.Pena (1); Cher: C.Johnson (1) Chernobyl wins series 4-0 |      | 
         
        
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          |   | R | H | E |   |  | Fukushima | 7 | 9 | 0 | Box  |  | Machu Picchu | 6 | 9 | 0 |  WP - M.Fiers (1-0)  LP - G.Floyd (0-1) HR: Fuk: R.Howard (2), I.Desmond (2); MP: E.Encarnacion (2), C.Headley (1), A.Pujols (4) Fukushima wins series 4-1 |      | 
          
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