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With the final week of the first half of this season right around the corner, certain teams are showing they're not going away as some expected, such as Dream Pool and Devine Cuez, while others are up "that" creek and left their paddles at home.

There's still life for a couple of those leagues though, and this match may carry as much significance here in week 7 as it could in week 14 when they square off again...

Of course, I'm talking about Break and Run and Pool Pals.

BNR has become almost a grab bag of low-to-mid-level players from other leagues, mixed in with the usual traditional Break and Run players. Yet even still, despite having a team on paper that looks decent at worst, they still sit at 0-6, a record shared by two other leagues both in the American League. And even then, Wasted Shotz has shown they'll beat a few teams and play spoiler. So really, BNR is only in the same light as Pool Loverz. But with all that said, they still have players that can knock off good players. The question this far into the season is, at 0-6 will some of these players show their true colors and abandon ship? IF BNR loses this match Wednesday night, it won't matter whether those players stay or go - they will only be playing 7 more weeks of MLP before the good teams take over in the Playoffs and leave the rest behind.

With Pool Pals, you have more of the same. An equally-abysmal 1-5 record and just not enough depth and interleague-savvy leadership week in and week out to put together a good match. Six weeks into this so far unsuccessful campaign we've seen the usual frustrations break out - players ripping on captains, early leads blown by momentum, charged by pessism. At this point, when the going gets tough on a given night, the team seems to just shut down and say "here we go again..." They're almost more infatuated with individual results rather than team results. A 3-4 or 2-5 loss is just fine for the winners, who might go off and hold those wins over the head of that game's opponent.

Having watched the Pool Fiction team I play for thrash them both in consecutive weeks, I am pretty much obligated to go with the team that took less of a beatdown. So I like Pool Pals to win this Match of the Weak, as they did the last one 2 weeks ago against Lucky Shots. PP wins on Wednesday night, 5-2.