A bracket ad showing where the different contestants stand for Mascot Bowl IV. In Liga Betances, #4 seed Potremura, the bold steed, has fallen to #5 Formotín, the liberatory woodpecker, which will now face #1 Curricanoso, the grizzled otter. #3 Saunigozo, the cozy cat, has beaten #6 Vueltáspide, the healing snake, and now faces #2 Dialborozo, the bright-eyed sun. In Liga Hostos, #5 Zanganóplita the clueless manatee absolutely romped on #4 Navatajón, the flaming knife, and now faces #1 Guaplumetón, the living quill, while #6 Tandatómica, the happy lithium atom, has defeated #3 Esferinata, the balloon cow, and now faces #2 Buhonrado, the illustrious owl.

After the Preliminary Round, here's the #MascotBowl4 bracket.

🔴 BETANCES:
#5 ⚖️ #LibertadoresGUY vs. #1 🎣 #PescadoresSAL

#3 🛁 #TermalesCOA vs.
#2 ☀️ #SolesLUQ.

🔷 HOSTOS:
#5 🏛️ #AcropolitanosMAN vs.
#1 📜 #PoetasTOA

#6 ⚙️ #IngenierosRIN vs.
#2 🦉 #IlustresBRR.

Trading card for Buhonrado, the mascot of the Ilustres de Barranquitas, whose purple “B” logo in bold cursive font sits on a gold league flap. Buhonrado is a white owl with what amounts to a toga praetexta: there’s purple markings on its wings and purple feathers along the bottom, as well as at the hem of its body feathers; its claws, collar, beak and eyelids are also purple, while its eyes themselves and eyebrows are golden, and it wears a golden belt as it spreads a wing wide in imitation of speechifying. It’s a Flying/Psychic type, with the following moves: Chatter (Flying), Mind Blown (Fire), Calm Mind (Psychic), Mirror Move (Flying). The card itself is blue, with white striping.

Hostos #2: Buhonrado
(🦉 #IlustresBRR)

If you let this Ciceronian owl get started, it'll be declaiming florid but grammatically impeccable speeches on every subject under the sun for the next several hours. Too bad it's also generally upstanding enough that you can't be mad at it.

López of the #ArzobisposAGD ✝️ and Suazo of the #IlustresBRR 🦉 were not surprises either. Both had been very recently hired before the war, and they haven't managed to do much with their clubs, despite getting a decent amount of talent for their rosters.