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

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Hellmouth Cup Heist

1st Annual Hellmouth Cup Heist

• SDBA steals it from SFBS

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• the next season, DET, completely desperate for a postseason appearance, steal the crown, and everything starts to go wrong

the grape chews begin their descent:

• great season counterbalanced by poor attendance
• fistfights spread to the fans, grape chews booed loudly at home, while traveling, everywhere,
• successfully made it to postseason
• (behind the milwaukee flamingos)

postseason: toroidal season 2 LDS:

• DET facing SGE
• kicked out of the only hotel in sugar grove, in the middle of the night, the night before the last game of the series
• grape chews got carried away with the ol' Jersey Courage
• accidentally trashed the hotel room
• kicked out of the only hotel in sugar grove
• stole a microwave from the room, drove to a field, rigged up the microwave with a car battery and a satellite dish and attempted to contact UFOs
• arrested, released just before winning Game 4, permanently banned from ever returning to Sugar Grove

2nd Annual Hellmouth Cup Heist

• DET steals it from SDBA
• it doesn't work
• they return it

3rd Annual Hellmouth Cup Heist

• EA steals it from SFBA a day after it's finally returned
• claim Hellmouth Cup Season 3 was rightfully theirs,
• very straightforward and no-nonsense
• we're borrowing it so we can win.
• they win.
• okay here is the Hellmouth Cup back.