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If the Season 11 Hellmouth Cup series victory by the Ft. Worth Piano Tuners was a glitch, their Season 15 Hellmouth Cup series victory was a crime scene. On their way to winning the Cup against the Delaware Corporate Shells , the Tuners robbed every one of their opponents blind, series by series, leaving a trail of furious, stunned opponents who couldn't understand how their pockets had been picked.

The Butcher Shop Heist

The Season 15 League Division Series began with the Ft. Worth Piano Tuners facing off against the Tucson Butchers , a collective known for heavy, grinding, physical play. In Game 1, the Butchers dominated the board for 95% of the simulation, battering the Tuners’ defenses into dust. But in the final generations, amidst the debris, a single Tuner glider slipped through a hole in the Butcher line that shouldn't have been there. The resulting bloom formation left the final score 107-102, in favor of the Tuners - a theft so brazen that Butchers fans reportedly checked the rulebook to see if "winning while being dismembered" was legal. The Tuners dragged the series out to the maximum five games, scraping by with wins that felt less like victories and more like accounting errors.

Season 15 Cold League Division Series Results Table
Ft. Worth Piano Tuners vs. Tucson Butchers
	Winner	W Score	Margin	L Score	Loser	Generations	Link
Game 1	Ft. Worth Piano Tuners	107	4.67%	102	Tucson Butchers	1,510	832d696d-e0c1-4a72-a2cd-d586c48c028b
Game 2	Tucson Butchers	203	41.87%	118	Ft. Worth Piano Tuners	1,313	1e98cd95-aefb-4bce-9e2c-1e500639a106
Game 3	Tucson Butchers	95	42.11%	55	Ft. Worth Piano Tuners	1,419	a0af30cd-356f-4ed2-acea-f162f0d938c7
Game 4	Ft. Worth Piano Tuners	108	26.85%	79	Tucson Butchers	1,433	8d30ed16-6940-421e-b149-b2d5822f53e2
Game 5	Ft. Worth Piano Tuners	162	48.77%	83	Tucson Butchers	1,853	e0ae979a-ebe0-4f53-bec9-e3a15e8d60af

The Two Point Eye Poke

The Hellmouth Cup Season 15 LCS was a grudge match between the Ft. Worth Piano Tuners and the Long Beach Flightless Birds , who were still seething from a controversial 3-way tiebreaker loss to the Piano Tuners in Season 11. The Birds played with a cold, oscillating fury, determined to bury the "imposters" once and for all.

The series went the distance, culminating in a Game 5 that is now mandatory study material for chaos theorists. For dozens of generations, the two teams were deadlocked. In the dying moments, the Flightless Birds executed a perfect period-4 stabilization, assuming they had won. But a rogue patch of Piano Tuner "noise" attached itself to the Birds' structure, counting just enough live cells to tip the scale. The Tuners won 127-125 - a devastating two-point margin. The Flightless Birds didn't lose, they were robbed.

Season 15 Cold League Championship Series Results Table
Ft. Worth Piano Tuners vs. Long Beach Flightless Birds
	Winner	W Score	Margin	L Score	Loser	Generations	Link
Game 1	Ft. Worth Piano Tuners	98	25.51%	73	Long Beach Flightless Birds	1,550	433babb0-d748-43c0-bd86-29143e4bad5b
Game 2	Long Beach Flightless Birds	221	28.51%	158	Ft. Worth Piano Tuners	1,434	6b935f3e-0020-41f5-81d5-112803910aaf
Game 3	Long Beach Flightless Birds	222	47.75%	116	Ft. Worth Piano Tuners	1,831	1ba4800e-d267-4a53-9952-465fc67712e7
Game 4	Ft. Worth Piano Tuners	168	49.40%	85	Long Beach Flightless Birds	2,416	c63f70e6-35e0-4b04-abb4-20b07164d645
Game 5	Ft. Worth Piano Tuners	127	1.57%	125	Long Beach Flightless Birds	1,630	a1a4a179-54ba-46c2-952b-3e0b95d4a423

Robbery At One-Point

The final Season 15 Hellmouth Cup series between the Ft. Worth Piano Tuners and the Delaware Corporate Shells was supposed to be an easy layup for the Shells - an efficient, ruthless, and terrifyingly wealthy collective. The Shells took an early and commanding lead, 3 games to 1, and had mapped out all of the Tuners' strategies, analyzed their noise signature, and prepared the confetti.

Then came Game 6. Facing elimination, the Tuners played nasty, like a cornered rat. The game was an ugly, sprawling mess that defied all logic. As the clock hit zero, the scoreboard flickered: 166-165. The Piano Tuners had won by one single cell. A single pixel of difference between death and Game 7.

The Shells' algorithms crashed under the extreme conditions of Game 6. That left them vulnerable in the Game 7 opening, due to their logic cores rebooting, and, not being one to pass up a shortcut to victory, the Tuners stole Game 7 while the Shells were incapacitated. Their improbable Season 15 postseason run was like a bank robbery where the thieves left the guards napping, walked in the safe, walked out the front door, and left the bank with nothing but a handful of points.

Season 15 - Hellmouth Cup Results Table
Ft. Worth Piano Tuners vs. Delaware Corporate Shells
	Winner	W Score	Margin	L Score	Loser	Generations	Link
Game 1	Delaware Corporate Shells	195	71.28%	56	Ft. Worth Piano Tuners	1,637	71bf2592-a5d4-49c4-a62c-9b4454dc40f2
Game 2	Delaware Corporate Shells	155	1.94%	152	Ft. Worth Piano Tuners	1,659	ce250dc0-66b5-470c-98e8-27168b9bebca
Game 3	Ft. Worth Piano Tuners	140	55.71%	62	Delaware Corporate Shells	1,162	3aa0e5d2-96f9-401c-bfd1-9c756ae1bab5
Game 4	Delaware Corporate Shells	252	71.43%	72	Ft. Worth Piano Tuners	3,962	46cf7d4b-289d-4628-ae21-aeef8084b891
Game 5	Ft. Worth Piano Tuners	171	46.20%	92	Delaware Corporate Shells	3,159	9438b40a-36f1-4eaf-b561-2255ce542058
Game 6	Ft. Worth Piano Tuners	166	0.60%	165	Delaware Corporate Shells	1,283	1da93c7b-d378-4548-94fa-74d1d0e55fe7
Game 7	Ft. Worth Piano Tuners	90	54.44%	41	Delaware Corporate Shells	1,320	3e0836f7-e232-47d0-8130-d3bca328571f