User:Ch4zm/January 2022/Hellmouth Cup Heist

Runup:

• SFBS emerged as dominant Hellmouth Cup champions, and won the final Hellmouth Cup series
• Previously, champions would "borrow" the Hellmouth Cup and pass it on to the next champion in a ceremony
• Commissioner awarded SFBS the Hellmouth Cup

The Heist:

• The morning after the awards ceremony, the first day of the Toroidal Cup, they announced that the Hellmouth Cup had been stolen during the night
• suspects list:
  • EA, long bitter about their Season 3 defeat at the hands of the Boat Shoes and The Bug,
  • OSHA, long bitter about their Season 12 defeat at the hands of the Boat Shoes, and friends of the SS, with whom the SFBS had a long-standing feud
  • SDBA, long bitter about their Season 6 defeat at the hands of the Boat Shoes,
  • LBFB, bitter about being humiliated twice by the Boat Shoes in Seasons 18 and 20
  • SAC, bitter rivals of the SFBS

• balloon animals - planned and executed the heist
• successful winning season, #1 seed in postseason
• reached the Hellmouth Cup series
• announced they had stolen the legendary artifact, it had given them victory, and they were now destined to win the TCS
• DECO stole the HC from the SDBA, won the TCS
• Initiated a tradition: holder of the HC would become the next champion