Toroidal/Season 16
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Season
Wins
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Postseason
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| #1 |  Ft. Worth Piano Tuners
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| #4 |  Elko Astronauts
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| #1 | Ft. Worth Piano Tuners
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| #2 |  Long Beach Flightless Birds
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| #3 |  Tucson Butchers
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 Sacramento Boot Lickers
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| #1 |  Milwaukee Flamingos
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| #4 |  Detroit Grape Chews
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| #1 | Milwaukee Flamingos
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| #3 | Sacramento Boot Lickers
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| #2 |  Orlando Business Majors
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| #3 | Sacramento Boot Lickers
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Taste of Texas Series Rematch
With the Toroidal/Season 15 series being referred to as the "Taste of Texas Series," the rematch was very creatively referred to as the "Taste of Texas Series Rematch."
Once the series was over and the Sacramento Boot Lickers
had been declared the champions, it became known as the "Taste of Texas Revenge Reversal."
Ft. Worth Piano Tuners Hacking Scandal
While the Toroidal/Season 16 postseason was still ongoing, the Piano Tuners became embroiled in a hacking scandal. Leaked documents showed that the Ft. Worth Piano Tuners had formed a secret partnership with the 
Delaware Corporate Shells
with the purpose of creating shell companies to sell backdoored random number generators to Golly's E Division (Engineering division, responsible for all Golly simulations). This had enabled the Piano Tuners to manipulate the outcome of both Toroidal/Season 15, in which the Piano Tuners emerged as champions, and Season 16.
One of the most unexpected consequences of tampering with the random number generators was that it led the Sacramento Boot Lickers
to undergo a drastic personality change. Over the course of Season 16 the normally-obsequious Boot Lickers became inexplicably nasty, uncharacteristically crushing their opponents, and displayed a stunning improvement in their post-game trash talking, leading commentators to speculate that the Boot Lickers had incorporated trash talk exercises into their offseason training routine.
When news of the hacking scandal broke amidst the Toroidal/Season 16 postseason run, the Boot Lickers realized that they had lost the previous season's Toroidal Cup to a pack of cheaters. The Boot Lickers set out on a bloody path for revenge against the Piano Tuners.
Season 16 was a rematch of the Taste of Texas Series, with the Tuners managing to cheat their way to the championship series, and the Boot Lickers reaching the championship game by crushing their opponents with a singular focus.
Unbeknownst to the Piano Tuners (who were completely unable unable to win matches without cheating), the Commissioner's Office had ordered E Division to deploy patched random number generators. The generators had been found in a dusty warehouse, and they made a tremendous racket, but they would allow E Division to simulate matches without relying on the Piano Tuners' backdoored random number generators.
The Ft. Worth Piano Tuners
were nearly eviscerated by the eventual champions, the Sacramento Boot Lickers
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Consequences of Hacking Scandal
The hacking scandal was the biggest scandal in Golly since the Season 3 Fixing Scandal in Season 3 of the Hellmouth Cup. It had several important consequences for Golly:
- Establishment of a research program in E Division to investigate using entropy crystals to channel more randomness from the entropy vortex
- Formation of S Division (to handle security) and A Division (to handle audits) before the start of Toroidal/Season 17; in the seasons following the hacking scandal, S Division quickly grew to become a powerful, mysterious force in the Golly bureaucracy, permanently changing the organization.
- Planting the seed of the Cancel Texas Memo; four seasons after the hacking scandal took place, the Cancel Texas Memo would announce the cancellation of Texas in Golly, the incineration of the Baltimore Texas, and the ultimate humiliation of the Piano Tuners, moving them to Baltimore and rebranding them as the Baltimore Piano Tuners.
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