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Hello everyone, I’m Greg Gumball and it’s time to announce the regions for the various debates that will take place among the various candidates.

To recap, there’s 4 regions (East, South, Midwest, and West) where candidates are seeded based on polls and other data.

It’s time to reveal the brackets. Brackets are set up to make things balanced/even as possible resulting in some politicians being placed outside their region of influence.

First, well reveal the East Bracket with our primary sponsor the Republican National Committee. These one-on-one debates will take place in Washington, DC

#1 Jeb Bush (Former FL Gov) takes on #4 Rick Santorum (Former PA Senator)
#2 Ben Carson (Doctor) takes on #3 Donald Trump (Real Estate/Businessman)

Next up is the Midwest. These debates will take place in Chicago.

#1 Scott Walker (WI Gov) takes on #4 George Pataki (Former NY Gov)
#2 Rand Paul (KY Sen) takes on #3 Rick Perry (Former TX Giv(

Then it’s the South. These debates will take place in Atlanta.

#1 Marco Rubio (FL Sen) takes on #4 Lindsey Graham (SC Sen)
#2 Mike Huckabee (Former AR Gov) takes on #3 Bobby Jindal (LA Gov)

Last is our west Region. These debates will take place in Denver

#1 Ted Cruz (TX Senator) takes on #4 Chris Christie (NJ Gov)
#2 John Kasich (OH Gov) takes on #3 Carly Fiorina (Former HP CEO)

Winner of the East debates the Winner of the Midwest and the Winner of the South debates the Winner of the West. These Semi-finals take place at the Reagan Library in Simi Valley, CA along with the Championship.

Thoughts? Seth? Clark?

Seth: Wow, I’m looking at that Midwest bracket as a real group of death there and the South is right there too. I wouldn’t sleep on Carly Fiorina either in the West.

Clark: I see that potential Bush/Walker showdown if Walker can get past what could be a tough 2nd round debate against Paul or Perry. On the other side, I’d like Rubio more but that bracket is brutal and we don’t know if Christie or Fiorina will make a charge out of the west.

Greg: Neither of you are sold on Ted Cruz being a #1 seed?

Seth: No, first off even if he gets out of there he’s got a very strong Rubio or other opponent, and then Walker/Bush. Frankly I see Christie winning that first round.

Clark: I do too.

Greg: What about Trump?

Seth: Well just looking at how the RNC set these regions up and the talking styles, it wouldn’t surprise me for Trump to upset Carson but the Bush people will be ready if that and Rick Santorum is your toughest competition, he might as well start prepping for the Midwest winner.

Greg: All-right we’ll see how it plays out. Before we go we have a special guest with us. Dick Vitale from ESPN has graciously agreed to provide some of his thoughts on the brackets.

Dickie V: Are you kidding me? Fiorina a 3 seed after she ripped Hillary a new one? RNC what are you doing baby? She should be a #2 at worst and a 1 given what she’s done so far. And Scotty Walker, could they have given him a harder path to win this thing? They might as well of put Rubio and Cruz in that bracket its already deadly. I’m saying it now. It’s Bush, Walker, Rubio, and Carly in Vegas baby. Scotty will be so battle tested by the time this is over he’ll mop the floor with Bush. It’s Walker. It’s Carly. It’s a done deal baby.

Greg: Thanks Dickie V. You can also vote online at our poll who will win the 2016 one-on-one debates. Lookin at a quick return of votes with just about 10,000 votes, Sen Ted Cruz has 27%, Scott Walker 26%, Bush 24%, Rubio 19%, others 5%. Interesting, Clark, Seth, the people say Ted Cruz is the man to beat, but nobody’s giving him much of chance in the 1 on 1s.

Seth: He’s over-seeded really and over-hyped.
Clark: He could win the West but it wouldn’t surprise me to see him out in the first wrong.

Greg: Thanks everyone. Let the debate begin.