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As word of the Ft. Worth Piano Tuners ' stolen postseason spot spread throughout different Golly fan bases, their Season 11 postseason run continued to attract greater scrutiny and criticism. In Game 1 of the Division Series against the #1 seeded Elko Astronauts , the match went just 1,006 generations - only 6 generations more than the bare minimum mandated by the league. It was borderline unimaginable that the Party Animals could pull off such an upset against a #1 seed that no one believed the Tuners would go all the way. The Tuners established a microscopic, barely-stable tub pattern, the Astronauts were called on a technical foul before they could even launch their first spaceship, and the match was over before fans had even reached their seats. Everyone was mad - fans, team collectives, concession stands, even the Commissioner - everyone except the Piano Tuners. This only served to fuel their hubris.

When the Piano Tuners defeated the Seattle Sneakers 3 games to 1 and clinched the Cold League pennant, many people expected a repeat of the Piano Tuners' Season 7 Cup series flameout. But when the Piano Tuners snuffed out the Alewife Arsonists 4 games to 1, clinching the Hellmouth Cup for Ft. Worth, the entire league was stunned. Somehow, a middle-of-the-pack team that never should have been in the postseason to begin with had turned a bug in the tiebreaker code into an improbable run for the Cup, poking their opponents in the eye, defying the league's low expectations and low opinions of them, and humiliating the Commissioner and E Division in one fell swoop. The tiebreaker mistake that snowballed into a stolen Cup blew a hole in the notion of a benevolent Commissioner.