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The San Francisco Boat Shoes entered the inaugural Rainbow/Season 1 with their customary regular-season excellence, securing the #1 seed in the West League and clinching the pennant over the Phoenix Freshrolls . However, the four-way chaos of the Rainbow Cup final proved to be harsh and difficult to navigate. The Boat Shoes were badly outmaneuvered, finishing in a distant and disappointing fourth place with a meager 35🌈, a full 18🌈 behind the champion Jersey OSHA Violations . (Adding salt to the wound was the fact that the OSHA Violations finally broke the Curse of the Silly Goat, something for which the Boat Shoes were regularly blamed.) The tactics that had served them so well in the Hellmouth Cup and had let them down in the Toroidal Cup needed a radical overhaul for this new era.