The NASCAR in-season tournament just started… and every single bracket is already busted. Zero perfect brackets. Not one. You’d have better odds winning the lottery than predicting what happened in that first race. A demolition derby that flipped the whole bracket upside down.

• Denny Hamlin and Christopher Bell? Wrecked before the chaos even peaked.
• Ty Dillon took out Hamlin. Ricky Stenhouse Jr. beat Bell. Seriously.
• Hocevar over Blaney and Ryan Preece over Byron? Welcome to bracket hell.
• A few favorites like Chase Elliott and Chris Buescher survived, but barely.

This is either the most cursed bracket format ever or the most entertaining shake-up NASCAR has produced in years. The unpredictability factor? Off the charts. Every pre-race favorite is out, the field is wide open, and anyone still pretending their picks are intact is lying. If the rest of this tournament is anything like that first race, we’re in for absolute mayhem. And we kind of love it.

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