The Germán Pomares Championship, officially the Campeonato Nacional de Béisbol Superior Cmte.
[3] Several professional baseball teams from the winter league LPBN also compete in the Pomares, which typically runs from February to August.
[4] The competition was formed in 1970 by Carlos García Solórzano, after Nicaragua's professional league collapsed in 1967.
[5] It was later renamed after Germán Pomares [es], a member of the Sandinista National Liberation Front and baseball enthusiast who died during the Nicaraguan Revolution in 1979.
In the first half, all 20 franchises face each other four times, with the top finishers moving on to a playoffs.