Little League does not want you to know what is going on with the Tulsa National program during the ongoing softball tournament. The organization hid its Southwest Region bracket so you cannot track the Oklahoma team amid its ongoing scandal.
It probably did not think anyone would notice!
UPDATE: Tulsa National has been disqualified from the softball tournament after a series of formal complaints. It will not be allowed to compete in the Little League World Series. The bracket will eventually be updated to reflect the new development. A championship game will no longer take place as scheduled on Wednesday.
An ongoing eligibility scandal raised formal complaints.
Three separate teams filed a formal complaint against the Tulsa National program over the last few days. It is accused of violating eligibility regulations to stack its roster for the postseason. Six specific players are at the center of the protests.
Tulsa National faced similar scrutiny last season after it finished in third place overall at the World Series. Little League ignored incriminating evidence during a failed attempt to move past the eligibility scandal. And, to make matters worse, those same officials had a track record of past failures. The whole thing was a mess.
Nine of the 10 players from last year’s roster returned to the team in 2026. As did all three coaches. Rinse, repeat.
The formal complaints filed against Tulsa National in 2026 claim that six rostered players should not be eligible because they do not meet residency or school criteria. One of the new players on the team allegedly lives in a state outside of Oklahoma. None of the players participated with this specific team during the regular season even though they are required to play at least eight regular season games to be eligible for the postseason. The filing also accused Tulsa of entering the regional tournament as a nearly intact travel team, in direct violation of League Regulation V(d).
You can read more information about the complaint HERE but that is the gist. Tulsa National rostered inelible players.
Little League doesn’t want you to track the Oklahoma softball team.
The Southwest Region Tournament is currently underway from Waco, Texas. The final semifinal game took place on Tuesday with the championship game scheduled for 12:45 p.m. CT on Wednesday. It will air live on ESPN.
However, as of this writing, the game information is not published on the Little League website. That was not the case on Monday.
Lets start first with the regional websites. When you go to the Southeast Region website, you will find two separate brackets listed — one for baseball, one for softball.
That is not the case in the Southwest Region. It only shows baseball.
The website was changed at some point between 10:07 a.m. CT on Monday and 3:00 p.m. CT on Tuesday. I saw with my own two eyes that the Southwest Region website listed both baseball and softball on Monday.
Lets also take a look at the Little League Softball Region 2026 Tournament websites. These are specific only to the Little League Softball World Series. Every region is listed with a link out to each specific tournament.
When you click the ‘Tournament Link’ for each specific regional, it pulls a separate page with all of the information you could need for that specific tournament. There are two additional tabs listed up top: ‘PDF BRACKET’ and ‘VISITOR INFO’
For example, here is the Central Region website:
When you click ‘PDF BRACKET,’ it pulls a PDF bracket with updated scores for every game played thus far.
That is NOT the case for the Southwest Region. The PDF Bracket has been pulled.
As it would turn out, there is a reason for this removal. It stems from breaking news regarding Tulsa National.
UPDATE: Tulsa National has been disqualified.
As I was writing about the suspicious decision to take the PDF bracket off of the Little League website, Maren Angus-Coombs of Softball on SI broke the news about Tulsa National’s disqualification. The team, which was supposed to play in the Southwest Region championship game on Wednesday, is no longer eligible to compete.
Little League released the following statement to Softball on SI:
“Following additional protests and information provided regarding the eligibility of players on the Tulsa National Little League Softball team, the Little League International Tournament Committee has determined that the adult volunteers and parents did not provide sufficient documentation to verify that all players are eligible to participate in the International Tournament based on either their school enrollment or bona fide habitation within the league’s official boundaries. As a result, the Tournament Committee has removed Tulsa National Little League from the Little League Softball Southwest Region Tournament and declared its previous game a forfeit […] the decision of the Little League International Tournament Committee is final and binding.”
The winner of Tuesday night’s game between Greater Helotes (Texas West) and Eastbank (Louisiana) will advance to the Little League World Series as the representative of the Southwest Region. Oklahoma cannot advance.