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After the emotional high of finally vanquishing their cross-town rivals, the 
Boylston Boogers
, in the Toroidal/Season 8 League Division Series, the 
Alewife Arsonists
were wholly unprepared for the 
Tucson Butchers
, and the result was that the Toroidal/Season 8 Toroidal Cup series was a messy slaughter.
The Arsonists brought fire, but the Butchers brought knives, and laid the Arsonists out on the chopping block for a quick 3-0 lead in the series. The Butchers spent most of Game 4 chasing the Arsonists around the grid with the pattern of a bloody knife while the Arsonists kept running from corner to corner, escaping with their lives each time thanks to the periodic grid layout. They managed to outlast the Butchers and win Game 4, but quickly succumbed in a quick and bloody Game 5.
| Season 8 - Toroidal Cup Results Table | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tucson Butchers
vs. Alewife Arsonists
| |||||||
| Winner | W Score | Margin | L Score | Loser | Generations | Link | |
| Game 1 | Tucson Butchers | 288 | 69.44% | 88 | Alewife Arsonists | 1,410 |  ca57d79d-cbf2-4d90-bb7d-9f4b33c316db
|
| Game 2 | Tucson Butchers | 169 | 26.04% | 125 | Alewife Arsonists | 2,631 | af77070b-ae2e-430d-820e-28a447085495
|
| Game 3 | Tucson Butchers | 245 | 85.31% | 36 | Alewife Arsonists | 1,974 | 46160a97-5be1-4ffd-a838-09d743c78d5d
|
| Game 4 | Alewife Arsonists | 191 | 20.42% | 152 | Tucson Butchers | 3,291 | c1b19433-04da-4b1d-8bc1-1046a23fee2f
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| Game 5 | Tucson Butchers | 212 | 36.32% | 135 | Alewife Arsonists | 1,207 | fbad2472-f4f4-4819-bfb5-62449cb4c75c
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The scarlet patterns of Tucson were not chaotic spatters; they were brutally efficient, the cellular automata equivalent of a butcher's cleaver sectioning a side of beef. The mysterious Brake Master Cylinder, pirate broadcaster for the Arsonists, described with awe the way the Butchers exposed not just the soft underbelly but also the marbled fat of the Arsonists' defense, turning entire defensive formations into delicious platters of sliders.
The fire of the Arsonists was messy and wild, no match for Tucson's methodical dismantlement. The "Red Rum" series, so-called because is a bloody stain on the collective's memory. Many fans, however, fondly remember this series as having the most epic team-mashup playlist of any Cup series ever.
