Round 2 arrived with a quiet kind of clarity: Burnside is just better than everyone else right now, and they are making no effort to hide it. River Stone dropped 32 points in the Breakers' win over St. Johns, and that number deserves a moment. In a 3v3 format with a 15-second shot clock where possessions are precious and spacing is everything, one player accounting for nearly half his team's 66-point output is not a balanced attack — it's a force of nature running through a league that hasn't yet found the answer. Ash Torrent added 20 alongside him, which means the Herons spent the night chasing two different problems and solved neither. Burnside wins that game 66-54, the Elam Ending activates, and they close it out anyway. That's the detail that stings: St. Johns got their shot at the dramatic finish and it didn't matter. Across town, Rosa Vex put up 26 for Rose City in a 57-44 win over the Hawthorne Hammers — a convincing enough margin, though Ember Kine's 29 points for Hawthorne tell a complicated story. Kine was the best individual scorer on either floor tonight, and her team still lost by 13. That's 3v3 in its cruelest form: one player can carry a team to competitiveness, but she cannot carry them to wins alone when the rest of the roster goes quiet. The Hammers fall to 0-and-2 with seven rounds left to claw their way back into playoff contention. The governance window is open this round, which adds an undercurrent to everything. With Burnside sitting unblemished at the top and looking increasingly like a dynasty in miniature — back-to-back championship seasons bookend the historical record — the question of whether anyone submits a rule proposal feels urgent in a way it hasn't before. Two seasons of silence from the governance table while the same team hoists the trophy. Whether that changes here, in the early rounds of a season where the Breakers are already pulling away, is the story running beneath the standings.