User:Ch4zm/January 2022/Hellmouth Cup Heist
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Runup
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