User:Ch4zm/January 2022/Hellmouth Cup Heist
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Runup:
- SFBS emerged as dominant Hellmouth Cup champions, and won the final Hellmouth Cup series
 - Previously, champions would "borrow" the Hellmouth Cup and pass it on to the next champion in a ceremony
 - Commissioner awarded SFBS the Hellmouth Cup
 
Hellmouth Cup Heist
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1st Annual Hellmouth Cup Heist
Main: Hellmouth Cup Heist/1
The Heist:
- The morning after the awards ceremony, the first day of the Toroidal Cup, they announced that the Hellmouth Cup had been stolen during the night
 - suspects list:
- EA, long bitter about their Season 3 defeat at the hands of the Boat Shoes and The Bug,
 - OSHA, long bitter about their Season 12 defeat at the hands of the Boat Shoes, and friends of the SS, with whom the SFBS had a long-standing feud
 - SDBA, long bitter about their Season 6 defeat at the hands of the Boat Shoes,
 - LBFB, bitter about being humiliated twice by the Boat Shoes in Seasons 18 and 20
 - SAC, bitter rivals of the SFBS
 
 
- balloon animals - planned and executed the heist
 - successful winning season, #1 seed in postseason
 - reached the Hellmouth Cup series
 - announced they had stolen the legendary artifact, it had given them victory, and they were now destined to win the TCS
 - DECO stole the HC from the SDBA, won the TCS
 - Initiated a tradition: holder of the HC would become the next champion
 
1st Annual Hellmouth Cup Heist infobox:
- SDBA steals it from SFBS
 
2nd Annual Hellmouth Cup Heist
- season 2: DET, completely desperate for a postseason appearance, steal the crown, and everything starts to go wrong
 
the grape chews begin their descent:
- great season counterbalanced by poor attendance
 - fistfights spread to the fans, grape chews booed loudly at home, while traveling, everywhere,
 - successfully made it to postseason
 - (behind the milwaukee flamingos)
 
postseason: toroidal season 2 LDS:
- DET facing SGE
 - kicked out of the only hotel in sugar grove, in the middle of the night, the night before the last game of the series
 - grape chews got carried away with the ol' Jersey Courage
 - accidentally trashed the hotel room
 - kicked out of the only hotel in sugar grove
 - stole a microwave from the room, drove to a field, rigged up the microwave with a car battery and a satellite dish and attempted to contact UFOs
 - arrested, released just before winning Game 4, permanently banned from ever returning to Sugar Grove
 
2nd Annual Hellmouth Cup Heist
- DET steals it from SDBA
 - it doesn't work
 - they return it
 
3rd Annual Hellmouth Cup Heist
- at end of S2, DET announces they took the Hellmouth Cup
 - they return it unceremoniously to the SFBS
 - Reported stolen the next day
 - EA announce they have taken it
 - HC S3 rightfully theirs, borrowing it to win, will return when done
 - straightforward and no-nonsense
 - here is the cup back
 
3rd annual hellmouth cup heist:
- EA steals it from SFBS
 - it works
 - they return it ceremoniously
 
4th Annual Hellmouth Cup Heist
- at the end of S3, EA ceremoniously returned the Hellmouth Cup
 - next morning, hellmouth cup was reported missing from the SFBS safehouse
 - (top floor of a 14-story building, former robber baron's roost)
 - it had been replaced with a life-sized marble statue of a cow
 - no one sure how it was humanly possible
 - harder to remove than an actual cow
 - suspicion fell upon the BTX
 - Double Choke
 - BTX returns it at the conclusion of the season, handing-over ceremony
 - many jokes about how this was the only way the BTX would ever meet a Hot League team