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The Season 17 Hellmouth Cup series between the Ft. Worth Piano Tuners and the Orlando Business Majors was a clash of dissonant, musical chaos versus market-driven, mass-psychology chaos. The Business Majors, whose behavior was difficult to predict but considered ruthlessly efficient, carefully outmaneuvered the Piano Tuners to build up a 3-1 lead in the series. Just like Season 11, the Piano Tuners, facing elimination, turned nasty and fought like rats, including a narrow 8-point margin of victory in a chaotic Game 6.

In Game 7, to the massive relief of the entire league, the Business Majors implemented a formation called the Hostile Takeover, a risky and very expensive maneuver that was tailor-made for this type of end-of-the-line, Game 7 situation. They isolated the Tuners' frequencies, filtered them out, packaged them up, and sold them off. The Tuners quickly fell behind, and had no more tricks up their sleeve, no more last-minute gambits. The 177-111 victory by the Business Majors was considered a triumph for the entire league. And in some sense, it led the Piano Tuners to their downfall - the loss forced the Piano Tuners collective to consider "alternative victory techniques" by rigging random number generators in collusion with the Corporate Shells, which would set in motion the entire sordid affair of the Piano Tuners Hacking Scandal, the Cancel Texas Memo, and the Baltimore Diaspora.

Season 17 - Hellmouth Cup Results Table
Orlando Business Majors vs. Ft. Worth Piano Tuners
	Winner	W Score	Margin	L Score	Loser	Generations	Link
Game 1	Orlando Business Majors	144	7.64%	133	Ft. Worth Piano Tuners	1,105	4b906527-a96c-4de4-82a0-e00fe05bf43d
Game 2	Orlando Business Majors	281	96.44%	10	Ft. Worth Piano Tuners	1,188	2dcc8524-5445-4c96-b470-a22df05f0aca
Game 3	Ft. Worth Piano Tuners	185	55.14%	83	Orlando Business Majors	1,563	c22c53b8-dd0d-4867-9590-920e21a099c4
Game 4	Orlando Business Majors	240	73.75%	63	Ft. Worth Piano Tuners	3,231	fd362da4-1788-4b1d-a863-1f5daa2792a9
Game 5	Ft. Worth Piano Tuners	202	35.15%	131	Orlando Business Majors	2,519	9d05420c-edf2-4d1e-97b5-691d77d0791e
Game 6	Ft. Worth Piano Tuners	165	4.85%	157	Orlando Business Majors	1,575	a379aaca-6653-4224-988b-3319d8af2baa
Game 7	Orlando Business Majors	177	37.29%	111	Ft. Worth Piano Tuners	1,613	8b1ac131-091f-4842-8250-1b0ed5302f2b