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Season
Wins
Runs
Postseason
Main: Dragon/Season 17/Postseason
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| #1 |  Sand City Sidewinders
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| #4 |  Davenport Cliff Divers
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| #2 |  Boulder Creek Cardsharps
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| #3 |  Freedom Fries
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| #1 |  San Jose Avionics
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| #4 |  Hayward Pipelines
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| #2 | Berkeley Brutalists
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| #3 |  Sausalito Bouncy Castles
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The Squeaky Sweep
Main: Squeaky Sweep
In Dragon/Season 17 the Sand City Sidewinders
swept the Berkeley Brutalists
4-0 in the Season 17 Dragon Cup Series in the Squeaky Sweep. It was only the second sweep that had ever occurred in the Dragon Cup. It happened one season after the first sweep (see the Season 16 Dragon Cup Series).
The sweep earned the nickname The Squeaky Sweep because the Sand City Sidewinders
won the clinching Game 4 by one single point: the final score was 5,850 - 5,849 (
23792408-4863-4c88-9033-2a338076187f). When the loss occurred, and the game clock ticked its final tick, the grid was immediately rushed by Sidewinders fans, making it impossible for the Brutalists to challenge the ruling of the Grid Umpires - and leading to a slew of conspiracy theories that are widely and regularly discussed among the Brutalist collective. Brutalists fans have developed an elaborate oral tradition and a network of historians to preserve memories of the most culturally significant conspiracy theories surrounding the Squeaky Sweep.
The Brutalists are convinced that they can simply have the final call of the game declared incorrect after the fact by a Grid Umpire, which would lead to the outcome of the game getting tossed, which would force the entire series outcome to be invalidated, which would leave the final champion undetermined, which would make that postseason a violation of the rules, which would render it null, void, and invalid. (Despite the Dragon Cup having concluded, the Brutalists are still pursuing legal options.)
| Season 17 - Dragon Cup Results Table | |||||||
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| Sand City Sidewinders
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| Winner | W Score | Margin | L Score | Loser | Link | ||
| Game 1 | Sand City Sidewinders | 37,016 | 0.76% | 36,734 | Berkeley Brutalists | e9b85a8b-b6f1-43c9-8733-ae60672223d5
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| Game 2 | Sand City Sidewinders | 9,376 | 19.73% | 7,526 | Berkeley Brutalists | 802d91a1-4ed7-40ee-bb43-69e2d8417550
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| Game 3 | Sand City Sidewinders | 52,927 | 59.91% | 21,221 | Berkeley Brutalists | 9ee6c155-e4bc-4653-9be5-6261d948c771
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| Game 4 | Sand City Sidewinders | 5,850 | 0.02% | 5,849 | Berkeley Brutalists | 23792408-4863-4c88-9033-2a338076187f
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The Brutalists did manage to get revenge on the Sidewinders; the Sand City Sidewinders
had humiliated the Berkeley Brutalists
with a sweep in a Cup series, but fans generally viewed the Brutalists more favorably. Seizing on this, the Brutalists began a major media blitz, with ads featuring the Sidewinders nickname, "The One Point Wonder" - diminishing their victory and tarnishing their reputation. The ads included celebrities, actors, and puppies, and was a grand success and resulted in the Sidewinders' One Point Wonder nickname sticking permanently.
The Squeaky Sweep is considered the most significant single-season defeat since the stunning upset of the 
Oakland Bees
in the final generations of Game 7 of the Season 1 Pseudo Cup Series.
Promotional Poster
