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==Team Character==
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The Milwaukee Flamingos are legendary throughout the league for their benevolence and splortsmanship. Milwaukee Flamingos are known to be fun, chill, and universally likeable.
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Perhaps the most important characteristic of the Flamingos, though, is their love of gambling. When traveling for away games, the Flamingos will book their own hotel and turn the entire hotel into a gigantic multi-room casino. The Milwaukee Flamingos have enough players that they have developed their own economy, interest rates, and loans, so that every player can gamble all of the time.
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Flamingos players are also bureaucratic experts, with every team function being run according to Robert's Rules of Order. The team had 1,562 parliamentarians in the last team census.
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==Midwest Crown and Rivalry with Detroit Grape Chews==
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{{Main|Midwest Crown}}
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===Hellmouth Cup===
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The rivalry between the {{Team|DET|color=true}} and the Milwaukee Flamingos is a long and storied rivalry. At the start of the [[Hellmouth Cup]], the rivalry was considered one of the three Crown Jewels of Golly rivalries. On-field fistfights during Grape Chews-Flamingos matches were more intense and resulted in far more injuries than fistfights between the Grape Chews and any other team.
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However, as the Hellmouth Cup progressed, the rivalry became much more one-way, with the Detroit Grape Chews building much of their team identity around the rivalry, but the Milwaukee Flamingos losing interest in the rivalry. The Flamingos have cited a desire to establish their own identity as a benevolent flock of birds, and distance themselves from the Grape Chews. It is a well-known fact that Milwaukee Flamingos players have never gotten into a single fistfight outside of their matches with the Detroit Grape Chews.
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===The Valentines Day Series===
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The [[Season 9]] and [[Season 10]] Hellmouth Cup saw the Flamingos and the {{CTeam|TB}} fall deeply into a messy, complicated anti-rivalry, which many historians agree was the genesis of their increasing indifference about the rivalry and increasing coldness toward the Detroit Grape Chews.
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The Grape Chews, unable to find healthy outlets for their aggression, and rejected by their closest rivals, began manifesting their rejection by consistently choking in important postseason games, and collected zero pennants in 24 seasons of the Hellmouth Cup.
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Meanwhile, the Milwaukee Flamingos successfully established a dynasty and their own unique identity as one of the strongest teams in the Hot League.
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The rivalry has grown more intense with time, as the Flamingos have become increasingly cold toward the Grape Chews and increasingly benevolent toward the rest of the league, which leads the Grape Chews to feel slighted, intensifying their aggression toward the Flamingos. Reports that the Flamingos were developing a new and intense anti-rivalry with the {{Team|TB|color=true}} fanned the flames further.
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In [[Season 10]] the Milwaukee Flamingos raced to reach the postseason and face off with their new anti-rivals, the Tucson Butchers, while the Grape Chews were unable to focus throughout the season and had a disappointing performance, failing to reach the postseason for only the second time in ten seasons.
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==Hellmouth Cup==
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===Season 9 Snowbird Series and Anti-Rivalry with Tucson Butchers===
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{{Main|Season 9#Snowbird Series}}
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Being in the [[Leagues|Hot League]], the Milwaukee Flamingos have primarily only faced other Hot League teams. In [[Season 5]], however, the Flamingos made it to the [[Hellmouth Cup]], where they faced off against the {{CTeam|EA}}. Word of the Flamingos' benevolence spread fast through the Cold League, including to the {{CTeam|TB}}, the anti-rivals of the Astronauts, who heard stories about Flamingos who were fun-loving, compulsive gamblers, and dreamed of one day getting to meat the Flamingos.
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In [[Season 9]] the {{CTeam|MILF}} and {{CTeam|TB}} finally faced off in the [[Hellmouth Cup]], in a matchup dubbed the "Snowbird Series". The two teams fell deeply and instantly into a messy, complicated, inter-tangled anti-rivalry. Both teams finished the season eager to meet their anti-rivals on the grid again.
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===Season 10 Valentines Day Series and Continuing Anti-Rivalry with Butchers===
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{{Main|Season 10#Valentines Day Series}}
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Due to the many unresovled storylines and tangled loose ends from the [[Season 9]] [[Hellmouth Cup]] and newly budding anti-rivalry between the Flamingos and the Butchers, the two teams resolved to meet again soon in the [[Hellmouth Cup]].
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Working feverishly toward that end, both teams spent [[Season 10]] attempting to make the finals. Both teams were successful, and won each round of their playoffs bracket. The two teams met for a second time on Valentine's Day, forever cementing the second series continuing their anti-rivalry as the Valentine's Day Series in the Golly history books.
  
 
==History==
 
==History==
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* In [[Season 1]] the Milwaukee Flamingos finished last in the [[Leagues|Hot Fire Division]] and did not make the playoffs.
 
* In [[Season 1]] the Milwaukee Flamingos finished last in the [[Leagues|Hot Fire Division]] and did not make the playoffs.
 
* In [[Season 2]] the Milwaukee Flamingos were the #4 seed in the Hot League, but were knocked out in the Championship Series by the {{Team|ORL|color=true}}.
 
* In [[Season 2]] the Milwaukee Flamingos were the #4 seed in the Hot League, but were knocked out in the Championship Series by the {{Team|ORL|color=true}}.
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* In [[Season 3]] the Milwaukee Flamingos did not make the playoffs.
 
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* In [[Season 4]] the Milwaukee Flamingos did not make the playoffs.
 
 
* In [[Season 5]] the Milwaukee Flamingos were the #1 seed in the Hot League, and won the Hot League pennant. They lost the [[Hellmouth Cup]] series to the {{Team|EA|color=true}}.
 
* In [[Season 5]] the Milwaukee Flamingos were the #1 seed in the Hot League, and won the Hot League pennant. They lost the [[Hellmouth Cup]] series to the {{Team|EA|color=true}}.
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* In [[Season 6]] the Milwaukee Flamingos did not make the playoffs.
 
 
* In [[Season 7]] the Milwaukee Flamingos were the #4 seed in the Hot League, but were knocked out in the Division Series by the {{Team|AA|color=true}}.
 
* In [[Season 7]] the Milwaukee Flamingos were the #4 seed in the Hot League, but were knocked out in the Division Series by the {{Team|AA|color=true}}.
 
* In [[Season 8]] the Milwaukee Flamingos were the #4 seed in the Hot League, but were knocked out in the Division Series by their [[Midwest Crown]] rivals, the {{Team|DET|color=true}}.
 
* In [[Season 8]] the Milwaukee Flamingos were the #4 seed in the Hot League, but were knocked out in the Division Series by their [[Midwest Crown]] rivals, the {{Team|DET|color=true}}.
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* In [[Season 10]] the Milwaukee Flamingos were the #4 seed in the Hot League, and won the Hot League pennant. They went on to win the [[Hellmouth Cup]] series 4-3 against the {{Team|TB|color=true}}, continuing their complicated, messy anti-rivalry with the Butchers in the [[Valentines Day Series]].
 
* In [[Season 10]] the Milwaukee Flamingos were the #4 seed in the Hot League, and won the Hot League pennant. They went on to win the [[Hellmouth Cup]] series 4-3 against the {{Team|TB|color=true}}, continuing their complicated, messy anti-rivalry with the Butchers in the [[Valentines Day Series]].
 
* In [[Season 11]] the Milwaukee Flamingos did not make the playoffs. They were the first Hot League team to [[Partytime]] on Day 47.
 
* In [[Season 11]] the Milwaukee Flamingos did not make the playoffs. They were the first Hot League team to [[Partytime]] on Day 47.
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* In [[Season 12]] the Milwaukee Flamingos did not make the playoffs.
 
 
* In [[Season 13]] the Milwaukee Flamingos were the #2 seed in the Hot League. They clinched the Hot League pennant, and then won the [[Hellmouth Cup]] against the {{Team|EA|color=true}} in a rematch of the [[Season 5]] [[Hellmouth Cup]].
 
* In [[Season 13]] the Milwaukee Flamingos were the #2 seed in the Hot League. They clinched the Hot League pennant, and then won the [[Hellmouth Cup]] against the {{Team|EA|color=true}} in a rematch of the [[Season 5]] [[Hellmouth Cup]].
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* In [[Season 14]] the Milwaukee Flamingos did not make the playoffs.
 
 
* In [[Season 15]] the Milwaukee Flamingos were the #1 seed in the Hot League. They were knocked out in the Hot League Division Series by their [[Midwest Crown]] rivals, the {{Team|DET|color=true}}.
 
* In [[Season 15]] the Milwaukee Flamingos were the #1 seed in the Hot League. They were knocked out in the Hot League Division Series by their [[Midwest Crown]] rivals, the {{Team|DET|color=true}}.
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* In [[Season 16]] the Milwaukee Flamingos did not make the playoffs.
 
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* In [[Season 17]] the Milwaukee Flamingos did not make the playoffs.
 
 
* In [[Season 18]] the Milwaukee Flamingos did not make the playoffs. They were the first Hot League team to [[Partytime]] on Day 44.
 
* In [[Season 18]] the Milwaukee Flamingos did not make the playoffs. They were the first Hot League team to [[Partytime]] on Day 44.
 
* In [[Season 19]] the Milwaukee Flamingos did not make the playoffs. They were the first Hot League team to [[Partytime]] on Day 45.
 
* In [[Season 19]] the Milwaukee Flamingos did not make the playoffs. They were the first Hot League team to [[Partytime]] on Day 45.
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The Milwaukee Flamingos are legendary throughout the league for their benevolence and splortsmanship. Milwaukee Flamingos are known to be fun, chill, and universally likeable.
 
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Perhaps the most important characteristic of the Flamingos, though, is their love of gambling. When traveling for away games, the Flamingos will book their own hotel and turn the entire hotel into a gigantic multi-room casino. The Milwaukee Flamingos have enough players that they have developed their own economy, interest rates, and loans, so that every player can gamble all of the time.
 
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The Milwaukee Flamingos were the second Golly team to develop their own economy, after the [[Delaware Corporate Shells]] were the first team to establish a team economy as part of the [[Delaware Embezzlement Scandals|First Delaware Embezzlement Scandal]] in [[Season 3]].
 
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Flamingos players are also bureaucratic experts, with every team function being run according to Robert's Rules of Order. The team had 1,562 parliamentarians in the last team census.
 
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==Midwest Crown and Rivalry with Detroit Grape Chews==
 
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{{Main|Midwest Crown}}
 
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The rivalry between the {{Team|DET|color=true}} and the Milwaukee Flamingos is one of the most storied rivalries in all of Golly. Much of the Detroit Grape Chews' team identity has been formed from the rivalry, and evidence has shown that the on-field fistfights during Grape Chews-Flamingos matches are more intense and result in more injuries than fistfights between the Grape Chews and any other team.
 
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Unlike the Grape Chews, however, the Flamingos have worked hard to establish their own identity as a benevolent flock of birds and distance themselves from the Grape Chews. While many of the Milwaukee Flamingos players sport the black eyes and broken teeth of their Midwest Crown rivals, Flamingos players have never been known to get into a single fistfight outside of their matches with the Detroit Grape Chews.
 
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The rivalry has grown more intense with time, as the Flamingos have become increasingly cold toward the Grape Chews and increasingly benevolent toward the rest of the league, which leads the Grape Chews to feel slighted, intensifying their aggression toward the Flamingos. Reports that the Flamingos were developing a new and intense anti-rivalry with the {{Team|TB|color=true}} fanned the flames further.
 
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In [[Season 10]] the Milwaukee Flamingos raced to reach the postseason and face off with their new anti-rivals, the Tucson Butchers, while the Grape Chews were unable to focus throughout the season and had a disappointing performance, failing to reach the postseason for only the second time in ten seasons.
 
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==Hellmouth Cup==
 
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===Season 9 Snowbird Series and Anti-Rivalry with Tucson Butchers===
 
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{{Main|Season 9#Snowbird Series}}
 
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Being in the [[Leagues|Hot League]], the Milwaukee Flamingos have primarily only faced other Hot League teams. In [[Season 5]], however, the Flamingos made it to the [[Hellmouth Cup]], where they faced off against the {{CTeam|EA}}. Word of the Flamingos' benevolence spread fast through the Cold League, including to the {{CTeam|TB}}, the anti-rivals of the Astronauts, who heard stories about Flamingos who were fun-loving, compulsive gamblers, and dreamed of one day getting to meat the Flamingos.
 
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In [[Season 9]] the {{CTeam|MILF}} and {{CTeam|TB}} finally faced off in the [[Hellmouth Cup]], in a matchup dubbed the "Snowbird Series". The two teams fell deeply and instantly into a messy, complicated, inter-tangled anti-rivalry. Both teams finished the season eager to meet their anti-rivals on the grid again.
 
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===Season 10 Valentines Day Series and Continuing Anti-Rivalry with Butchers===
 
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{{Main|Season 10#Valentines Day Series}}
 
  
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Due to the many unresovled storylines and tangled loose ends from the [[Season 9]] [[Hellmouth Cup]] and newly budding anti-rivalry between the Flamingos and the Butchers, the two teams resolved to meet again soon in the [[Hellmouth Cup]].
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Working feverishly toward that end, both teams spent [[Season 10]] attempting to make the finals. Both teams were successful, and won each round of their playoffs bracket. The two teams met for a second time on Valentine's Day, forever cementing the second series continuing their anti-rivalry as the Valentine's Day Series in the Golly history books.
 
  
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Revision as of 03:40, 13 October 2021

The Milwaukee Flamingos are a Golly team from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. They are a benevolent flock of birds who love to gamble, and have an unofficial anti-rival status with every team they have ever played.

They are the only team to achieve Dynasty status in two separate cups (the Hellmouth Cup and the Toroidal Cup).

Milwaukee Flamingos
Milwaukee Flamingos logo
"Birds with bad attitudes at high latitudes"
Team Information
Name Milwaukee Flamingos
Abbreviation MILF
Primary Color #ff66cc
Logo  MILF.png 
Hometown Milwaukee
Emoji
Status Active
Rivalry Crowns
None
Favorites
Divination
Motto
 
Template:Infobox team   •   edit
 

Team Character

The Milwaukee Flamingos are legendary throughout the league for their benevolence and splortsmanship. Milwaukee Flamingos are known to be fun, chill, and universally likeable.

Perhaps the most important characteristic of the Flamingos, though, is their love of gambling. When traveling for away games, the Flamingos will book their own hotel and turn the entire hotel into a gigantic multi-room casino. The Milwaukee Flamingos have enough players that they have developed their own economy, interest rates, and loans, so that every player can gamble all of the time.

Flamingos players are also bureaucratic experts, with every team function being run according to Robert's Rules of Order. The team had 1,562 parliamentarians in the last team census.

Midwest Crown and Rivalry with Detroit Grape Chews

Main: Midwest Crown

Hellmouth Cup

The rivalry between the DET.png Detroit Grape Chews and the Milwaukee Flamingos is a long and storied rivalry. At the start of the Hellmouth Cup, the rivalry was considered one of the three Crown Jewels of Golly rivalries. On-field fistfights during Grape Chews-Flamingos matches were more intense and resulted in far more injuries than fistfights between the Grape Chews and any other team.

However, as the Hellmouth Cup progressed, the rivalry became much more one-way, with the Detroit Grape Chews building much of their team identity around the rivalry, but the Milwaukee Flamingos losing interest in the rivalry. The Flamingos have cited a desire to establish their own identity as a benevolent flock of birds, and distance themselves from the Grape Chews. It is a well-known fact that Milwaukee Flamingos players have never gotten into a single fistfight outside of their matches with the Detroit Grape Chews.

The Valentines Day Series

The Season 9 and Season 10 Hellmouth Cup saw the Flamingos and the TB.png Tucson Butchers fall deeply into a messy, complicated anti-rivalry, which many historians agree was the genesis of their increasing indifference about the rivalry and increasing coldness toward the Detroit Grape Chews.

The Grape Chews, unable to find healthy outlets for their aggression, and rejected by their closest rivals, began manifesting their rejection by consistently choking in important postseason games, and collected zero pennants in 24 seasons of the Hellmouth Cup.

Meanwhile, the Milwaukee Flamingos successfully established a dynasty and their own unique identity as one of the strongest teams in the Hot League.



The rivalry has grown more intense with time, as the Flamingos have become increasingly cold toward the Grape Chews and increasingly benevolent toward the rest of the league, which leads the Grape Chews to feel slighted, intensifying their aggression toward the Flamingos. Reports that the Flamingos were developing a new and intense anti-rivalry with the TB.png Tucson Butchers fanned the flames further.

In Season 10 the Milwaukee Flamingos raced to reach the postseason and face off with their new anti-rivals, the Tucson Butchers, while the Grape Chews were unable to focus throughout the season and had a disappointing performance, failing to reach the postseason for only the second time in ten seasons.

Hellmouth Cup

Season 9 Snowbird Series and Anti-Rivalry with Tucson Butchers

Main: Season 9#Snowbird Series

Being in the Hot League, the Milwaukee Flamingos have primarily only faced other Hot League teams. In Season 5, however, the Flamingos made it to the Hellmouth Cup, where they faced off against the EA.png Elko Astronauts . Word of the Flamingos' benevolence spread fast through the Cold League, including to the TB.png Tucson Butchers , the anti-rivals of the Astronauts, who heard stories about Flamingos who were fun-loving, compulsive gamblers, and dreamed of one day getting to meat the Flamingos.

In Season 9 the MILF.png Milwaukee Flamingos and TB.png Tucson Butchers finally faced off in the Hellmouth Cup, in a matchup dubbed the "Snowbird Series". The two teams fell deeply and instantly into a messy, complicated, inter-tangled anti-rivalry. Both teams finished the season eager to meet their anti-rivals on the grid again.

Season 10 Valentines Day Series and Continuing Anti-Rivalry with Butchers

Main: Season 10#Valentines Day Series

Due to the many unresovled storylines and tangled loose ends from the Season 9 Hellmouth Cup and newly budding anti-rivalry between the Flamingos and the Butchers, the two teams resolved to meet again soon in the Hellmouth Cup.

Working feverishly toward that end, both teams spent Season 10 attempting to make the finals. Both teams were successful, and won each round of their playoffs bracket. The two teams met for a second time on Valentine's Day, forever cementing the second series continuing their anti-rivalry as the Valentine's Day Series in the Golly history books.

History

The Flamingos been in the Golly league since Season 1.

A brief season-by-season summary:

Art

Milwaukee Flamingos team logo:

MilwaukeeFlamingos Logo.png

Season 5 Hellmouth Cup Poster

Season5 HellmouthCup Poster.png

Season 9 Hellmouth Cup Poster

The Artists Union created a promotional poster for the Season 9 Hellmouth Cup series between the MILF.png Milwaukee Flamingos and the TB.png Tucson Butchers :

Season9 HellmouthCup Poster.png

Season 10 Hellmouth Cup Poster

The Artists Union copied and pasted the following promotional poster for the Season 10 Hellmouth Cup series between the MILF.png Milwaukee Flamingos and the TB.png Tucson Butchers :

Season10 HellmouthCup Poster.png

(NOTE: The Artists Union charged full price for both posters.)

Season 13 Hellmouth Cup Poster

Season 13 was a rematch of the Season 5 Hellmouth Cup. The Artists' Union was delighted to be able to copy-and-paste another poster and still charge full price for it:

Season13 HellmouthCup Poster.png


Hellmouth Cup Teams

Hellmouth Cup logo

Hellmouth Cup
Teams 		Cold Fire Division

BTX.png Baltimore Texas

EA.png Elko Astronauts

LBFB.png Long Beach Flightless Birds

SLC.png Salt Lake Turbulence

SS.png Seattle Sneakers

Cold Water Division

FF.png Phoenix Freshrolls

FWPT.png Ft. Worth Piano Tuners

OSHA.png Jersey OSHA Violations

SDBA.png San Diego Balloon Animals

TB.png Tucson Butchers

Hot Fire Division

DECOOLD.png Delaware Corporate Shells

DET.png Detroit Grape Chews

MILF.png Milwaukee Flamingos

SFBS.png San Francisco Boat Shoes

SGE.png Sugar Grove Eavesdroppers

Hot Water Division

AA.png Alewife Arsonists

BB.png Boylston Boogers

ABQ.png Albuquerque Solarpunks

ORL.png Orlando Business Majors

SAC.png Sacramento Boot Lickers

ATL.png Atlanta Glitter Sharks (quitters)

Navbox Info:
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Toroidal Cup Teams

Toroidal Cup logo

Toroidal Cup
Teams 		Cold Fire Division

BTX.png Baltimore Texas (incinerated)

BPT.png Baltimore Piano Tuners

EA.png Elko Astronauts

LBFB.png Long Beach Flightless Birds

SLC.png Salt Lake Turbulence

SS.png Seattle Sneakers

Cold Water Division

FF.png Phoenix Freshrolls

FWPT.png Ft. Worth Piano Tuners (moved to Baltimore)

LIL.png Louisville Illusionists

OSHA.png Jersey OSHA Violations

SDBA.png San Diego Balloon Animals

TB.png Tucson Butchers

Hot Fire Division

DECOOLD.png Delaware Corporate Shells (suspended pending litigation)

VV.png Vegas Vampires

DET.png Detroit Grape Chews

MILF.png Milwaukee Flamingos

SFBS.png San Francisco Boat Shoes

SGE.png Sugar Grove Eavesdroppers

Hot Water Division

AA.png Alewife Arsonists

BB.png Boylston Boogers

ABQ.png Albuquerque Solarpunks

ORL.png Orlando Business Majors

SAC.png Sacramento Boot Lickers

Navbox Info:
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Rainbow Cup Teams

Rainbow Cup logo

Rainbow Cup
Teams 		Unwest League, Cold Division

MILF.png Milwaukee Flamingos

DET.png Detroit Grape Chews

FFF.png Fargo Flea Flickers

BPT.png Baltimore Piano Tuners

Unwest League, Northunwest Division

DECO.png Delaware Corporate Shells

OSHA.png Jersey OSHA Violations

AA.png Alewife Arsonists

BB.png Boylston Boogers

Unwest League, South Division

SGE.png Sugar Grove Eavesdroppers

ORL.png Orlando Business Majors

LIL.png Louisville Illusionists

MW.png Mobile Wheels

West League, Mountain Division

EA.png Elko Astronauts

ABQ.png Albuquerque Solarpunks

GJC.png Grand Junction Conjunctions

SLC.png Salt Lake Turbulence

West League, Pacific Division

SS.png Seattle Sneakers

SFBS.png San Francisco Boat Shoes

SAC.png Sacramento Boot Lickers

VV.png Vegas Vampires

West League, Southwest Division

TB.png Tucson Butchers

FF.png Phoenix Freshrolls

SDBA.png San Diego Balloon Animals

LBFB.png Long Beach Flightless Birds

Navbox Info:
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