Sutro Tower

The Sutro Tower is an entity in the Peninsula Expansion League located in San Francisco, California. The Sutro Tower is a unique, singular entity formed by a collective of alive cells (compared to the normal team biology of each individual cell being occupied by an individual player). The Sutro Tower is best known for its supernatural abilities. The Tower receives signals from unseen dimensions, and is capable of channeling the spirits of the living and the dead. This ability is said to stem from the tower's proximity to the ghosts of Sutro Forest, a forest on Mount Sutro in San Francsico.

Team Character

Sutro Tower is a mysterious and spiritual being that rarely shares details or insights about itself. Sutro Tower communicates routinely with ghosts and spirits, and receives signals From Beyond, but no one knows the full extent of its powers, or how it is able to transmit signals To Beyond.

Sutro Tower in the Pseudo Cup

Connection to San Francisco Boat Shoes

When the Hellmouth Cup ended, and a new expansion league was looking for a home, the Commissioner decided to locate the new Peninsula Expansion League on the San Francisco peninsula, as a result of the incredible success of the San Francisco Boat Shoes in the Hellmouth Cup. The Boat Shoes achieved six championship wins, two flawless dynasties, and the longest winning streak of all time, and as a result were rewarded with an expansion league in their back yard.

As the only team located in San Francisco, the Sutro Tower were heavy favorites to dominate the Pseudo Cup and become the spiritual successors to the San Francisco Boat Shoes when the league was first formed. The Tower's first championship came in Pseudo/Season 2 against the Boulder Creek Cardsharps (nicknamed the Christmas Cup).

The 1849 Crown and Rivalry with Mountain View Miners

The 1849 Crown is the name given to the bitter rivalry between the Mountain View Miners and the Sutro Tower. It is considered one of the greatest all-time rivalries in the Peninsula Expansion League.

The  Mountain View Miners
 managers and players were frustrated by the media's focus on the Sutro Tower, and made multiple statements to the media that provoked the ire of the Sutro Tower, the  San Francisco Boat Shoes
, and residents of San Francisco. The back-and-forth press releases and news conferences led to fines being leveled on both teams by the Commissioner's Office.