And the battle begins! An exciting first week in UHXFBL3 - Still Fantaseain' where the fresh new faces are making quite a splash, as is the case for Chris' Weird Beard team coming out with a huge 8-2 victory over Burr's TheHolyTrinities. All we can do is slap our foreheads and ask, what happened!?

"It wasn't all that surprising to me." Burr said, "If you'll look back on my track record from last year, you'll see I had a lot of such losses." There are rumors that Season One Champion Kyle K. might be working with Burr to improve his lineup. Burr admits, "Kyle visited me on Friday and he was none too enthused about my lineup." The rules don't prohibit this kind of help, and we'll see if Week 2 shows any signs of Kyle's rumored "golden touch".

And in case you're wondering about the name of Burr's TheHolyTrinities, he adds, "I did win the three pointers category, which was what I was going for in terms of the name."

Weird Beard's Manager Chris doesn't have quite the bravado you'd expect from the team with the best record in week one. "I think that I got lucky this week," Chris says, "I did pick up a couple of new players. I have a feeling my work may be cut out for me this week."

OFFICIAL RESULTS Week 1:

Curt K.'s RoundMoundOfRebounds.6
Steve's Jefferson Democrats....4

J.John's KellyJellyRolls.......7
Morgan's The Mo Malones........3

Josh's Swamp Champ.............5
Ben's Wilma Fingerdoo..........5

Eli's Eli......................7
Kevin's Loopahoopahs...........3

Chris' Weird Beard.............8
Burr's TheHolyTrinities........2

Andrew's California Gold Men...7
Becca's Castle Doozers.........3

So an incredibly strong first week for Chris' Weird Beard and an excellent start to the season for J.John and his KellyJellyRolls, Eli's creatively named Eli and Andrew's theme team, the California Gold Men. Let's take a look at the overall standings:

1. Chris' Weird Beard.............8
2. Eli's Eli......................7
2. Andrew's California Gold Men...7
2. J.John's KellyJellyRolls.......7
5. Curt K.'s RoundMoundOfRebounds.6
6. Josh's Swamp Champ.............5
6. Ben's Wilma Fingerdoo..........5
8. Steve's Jefferson Democrats....4
9. Morgan's The Mo Malones........3
9. Kevin's Loopahoopahs...........3
9. Becca's Castle Doozers.........3
12. Burr's TheHolyTrinities.......2

But it's only week one, and we have a lot of Fantasy Basketball to go. It's easily anyone's game.

The Ultimate Fantasy

In the world of Fantasy Fantasy Basketball Curt's South by North collected 25 points, as did Mike's Meta Fantasy Inc. team. That's an average of five points per player, which is pretty poor.

Curt's South by North:....25
- Curt K...................6
- Steve....................4
- Ben......................5
- Burr.....................2
- Chris....................8
vs.
Mike's Meta Fantasy Inc.:.25
- Josh.....................5
- Kevin....................3
- J.John...................7
- Andrew...................7
- Becca....................3

Curt's North by South high scoring player (Chris) was playing another on his own team (Burr), thus the 8 points that Burrow scored were averaged to 5. This was also the case for Curt K. and Steve. This made Curt's North by South team's only chance of getting an above-average score rested on Ben, who ended up scoring 5 points.

Mike's Meta Fantasy Inc. faced a similar fate. Facing off against Ben was Josh, who scored the other 5 points. Becca scored 3 points, but played Andrew, bringing the average back to 5. And While both J.John and Kevin played against free agents, giving Mike the best opportunity to pull ahead, they scored 7 and 3 respectively, which brings us back to that 5 point average.

So a tie for week one in the ultimate fantasy. Curt is dropping Burr and picking up Eli. Mike is going to keep his lineup for another week and hope his luck improves.