ACL preview focuses on rankings pressure at Fort Worth Signature #5
Fort Worth’s bracket pressure was real: Logan Chamberlain won singles, and the crowded top of the rankings meant one bad draw could flip the season.
The Fort Worth stop was never going to reward drift. With the brackets set for Signature #5 at Will Rogers Memorial Center, the American Cornhole League’s preview centered on one blunt reality: the standings at the top of pro singles were packed tight enough that one weekend could redraw the season. Colin Hodet entered with 4,058 points, Mark Richards had 4,025, Zack Aiken 4,004, Jamie Graham 3,979 and Logan Chamberlain 3,973, a cluster narrow enough to make every early round matter.
Around the ACL episode 219, “Fort Worth Preview: Signature #5 Brackets Are Here,” Jake, Anthony and Meesh spent the show on the pressure points that could crack the field. The episode promised a breakdown of all four Pro Singles brackets and all four Pro Doubles brackets, along with a look at favorable draws, sleepers, upset paths and the players with the roughest road to Championship Sunday. That framing fit the event itself: the 2025-26 ACL Fort Worth Signature Open ran June 5-7, 2026, offered more than $100,000 guaranteed in prizes and cash payouts, and mixed pro action with open play and Week 3 of ACL Pro Teams competition.
The bracket layout alone explained why the preview leaned so heavily on path instead of reputation. Fort Worth featured Pro Singles brackets A through D, then a Final 4, plus the same structure in Pro Doubles. In a season with six Signature Opens and an expanded Pro Division full of veteran icons, rising stars and breakout rookies, getting the right side of the draw mattered as much as being one of the biggest names in the room.
Fort Worth proved the point. Chamberlain won Pro Singles and took $8,000, with Ryan Wiedenfeld second at $6,000. Gabriel Clauson and Jacob Trzcienski tied for third at $4,000 each, while Richards, Graham and Aiken were among the tied fifth-place finishers. In Pro Doubles, Ethan Farias and Gabriel Clauson claimed the title and $10,000, while Collin Powers and Richard Nyberg finished second for $7,000.
That kind of spread is why the Fort Worth preview treated rankings pressure as the story. Chamberlain’s singles win, Farias and Clauson’s doubles title, and the early exits by several players near the top of the leaderboard showed how quickly a Signature weekend could tilt momentum, money and positioning before the summer stretch took hold.
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