Power and Rubin stage stunning 20-2 comeback to win cornhole title

Jordan Power and Jay Rubin trailed 20-2 in the ACL Pro Doubles World Championship final before finishing the comeback the American Cornhole League labeled The Greatest Comeback in Cornhole History. Their rally at the Rock Hill Sports and Events Center in Rock Hill, South Carolina, turned a title match into one of the sport’s defining pressure wins.

The championship came on the last day of the 2022 ACL World Championships, which ran from July 29 through August 7 and carried more than $250,000 in guaranteed cash payouts. The final against Mark Richards and Philip Lopez was already loaded with stakes, and it became even sharper because Richards had won the singles world title earlier in the week. That set up a showdown between a player chasing a second major trophy and a doubles team that refused to let the bracket end on anyone else’s terms.

Ultra Cornhole said Power and Rubin won on Sunday, August 7, 2022, and erased an 18-point deficit to claim Ultra’s first Pro World Championship. The ACL’s own description put the hole even deeper, at 20-2, underscoring how little margin the pair had before the match flipped. However the count is framed, the finish was the same: Power and Rubin kept stacking points until the deficit disappeared and the title changed hands.

Ultra also said the champions threw Ultra Widow-B bags in the win, tying the comeback to the equipment choices that often matter in elite cornhole as much as the player names on the board. The company added that it signed a deal with the ACL in 2020 and that pros including Power and Rubin have used Ultra bags to win world titles, national championships and open events.

The finish has traveled far beyond the cornhole core. The ACL’s YouTube page shows the comeback video drew roughly 596,000 views, a sign of how quickly the match became shorthand for what doubles cornhole can look like at its most unforgiving. In a sport where every bag can swing the score, Power and Rubin’s rally remains a benchmark for composure under pressure and for how fast a championship can tilt from collapse to control.