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This first encounter in the postseason between the Alewife Arsonists
and
Boylston Boogers
in Season 14 was an instant classic, but one that served up a dose of heartbreak to Alewife. Riding high as the #1 seed going into the postseason, the Arsonists were consumed with fury over the Cartographic Defamation incident. But they handled it poorly, their rage was too personal, and their patterns became rigid and artless. The Boogers, in contrast, played in a cool, mocking style. The final winning formation from the Boogers was a perfect formation of stable oscillators, a victory of infuriating poise against blind aggression. As the mysterious Brake Master Cylinder put it, "The Boogers turned our fire to glass, and showed us our own reflection. To which we all say... GO BACK TO WELLESLEY!" The loss, which came to be known as the Wellesley Heresy, ignited the rivalry that burns to this day in an intense inferno.