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Alewife Arsonists
Alewife Arsonists logo
"Burn it down!"
Team Information
Name Alewife Arsonists
Abbreviation AA
Primary Color #ff1717
Logo  AA.png 
Hometown Alewife, Boston, MA
Stadium The Concrete Cathedral (a.k.a. Alewife Station, Red Line)
Emoji 🔥
Status Active
Rivalry Crowns
Favorites
Mixtape 🔥Alewife🔥Arsonists🔥
Integer 25
Movie Backdraft
Divination
Element Fire
Power Word Troublemakers
Motto

Ex finibus ignis

(From the ends, fire)
 
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The AA.png Alewife Arsonists are a collective of commuters who hail from the Alewife Station of the Boston MTA Red Line.

The Concrete Cathedral (a.k.a. Alewife Station), home stadium of the AA.png Alewife Arsonists , is not merely a subway station; it is a massive intermodal transit hub, and celebrated masterpiece of Brutalist architecture. It is where the Red Line subway, a sprawling multi-story parking garage, and a cavernous busway all collide. It is the fabled End of the Line, the final stop on the Red Line, the place where the city's main artery frays into the suburbs and the adjacent Alewife Brook Reservation swampland.

The AA.png Alewife Arsonists draw their power from three distinct sources within Alewife Station, a commuting trinity of urban motion:

  • The Altar of Steel (Subway Platform): This is where matches are held, on the South End of Platform B. The game grid is a shimmering projection of light directly over the third rail. it draws its energy from the raw, pungent electricity powering the Red Line. The screech of an arriving train is the opening bell, while the automated "Stand clear of the closing doors" can freeze opposing teams like deer in the hedalights.
  • The Altar of Fumes (Busway): The Arsonists feed off of the commuter rage and chaotic energy of the commute. The cacophany of buses and clouds of diesel fumes fill the cavernous bus terminal. Psychic entities of the Alewife Arsonists can cause the idling buses to rev their engines in unison, sending waves of thick, vision-obscuring, pattern-disrupting diesel fumes onto the platform — a valuable home-field advantage.
  • The Altar of Rust (The Garage): The fans, as well as various unseen entities and generational spirits, plus a few ghosts, are not permitted to enter the hazardous platform area to watch matches in person. Instead, they gather in their traditional seats: the thousands of abandoned, rusted-out vehicles that haunt the dark corners of the Alewife Station parking garage, one of the largest and most confusing concrete labyrinths in the Commonwealth. There, they tune in to The Spark, a pirate radio broadcast emanating from deep within Alewife Station, and listen to the announcer, the mysterious Brake Master Cylinder, call the Alewife games in that signature gravelly voice.

The AA.png Alewife Arsonists are known for showering their opponents with chirps during games. They create a collective chorus of shouts, channeling every Townie who has ever shouted at a passing yuppie from a triple-parked sedan, every Southie who's ever shouted from the porch to keep walking, every Boston driver who's ever been cut off by someone who had to cross 4 lanes of traffic to do it, every Red Sox fan when there's a Yankee on the field. One of the Arsonists' favorite battle cries, reserved for their bitter rivals the BB.png Boylston Boogers , is "GO BACK TO WELLESLEY!"

Arsonist patterns are fueled by a mix of commuter impatience and frustration, plus an erratic aggressiveness that is prone to causing self-destructive flameouts. They don't win by being better than their opponents, they win by wearing down their opponents with noise, throwing them off guard with their erratic and aggressive play, and wearing them out until their defenses are lowered, at which point they either go for the win, or self-immolate.

Hellmouth Cup

History

The Alewife Salute

Season 8 of the Hellmouth Cup was the year it all worked for the AA.png Alewife Arsonists . The three altars were in perfect alignment. The diesel fumes from the busway were thick and nourishing, the Red Line ran on time, and Sully's '98 LeSabre was stocked with championship-grade Fluffernutters. In the final game against SS.png Seattle Sneakers , the mysterious Brake Master Cylinder fell silent for the final minute, letting the sounds of the station - the screech of wheels, the hum of the third rail - broadcast to the faithful. When the final Sneakers pattern dissolved, there was a sacred pause, and then, for the first time in history, the cacophony of a thousand dying car horns from the Altar of Rust echoed through the streets. "The Alewife Salute" became the official name for a championship celebration, a symphony of pure, unadulterated rust and rage. The Hellmouth Cup was brought to the garage, where it was filled with Narragansett Lager and used as a communal chalice.

The Hellmouth Hangover

The AA.png Alewife Arsonists loss to MILF.png Milwaukee Flamingos the very next season (Season 9 of the Hellmouth Cup) is blamed on the 'Gansett Curse (a.k.a. beer allergies, a.k.a. a hangover). The Arsonists, still basking in the glow of their victory, were extremely hung over. Their patterns were sluggish and unfocused, their rage diluted by satisfaction. Everybody was wearing sunglasses and trying not to get sick at the smell of the beer-soaked Milwaukee Flamingos. The mysterious Brake Master Cylinder lamented that the team seemed to have beer allergies in addition to sun allergies. They had burned so brightly winning the Season 8 Hellmouth Cup that their grand burning torch had been reduced to a tiny pilot light. It was a brutal reminder that for the Arsonists, contentment is a poison.

The Grape Wall of Alewife

The DET.png Detroit Grape Chews , who had established their "Big Purple Machine" reputation early in the Hellmouth Cup, saw their team narrative gradually morph into the Hot League Choke Artists - the team that was cursed with never winning a pennant. The AA.png Alewife Arsonists had a significant role in this shift in the narrative, repeatedly frustrating the Grape Chews by handing them Championship Series losses in Season 8, Season 11, and Season 19. While the Arsonists were hardly the only team to deny Detroit a pennant in the Hellmouth Cup, the Grape Chews found themselves particularly vulnerable to the bustling commuter energy and Brutalist designs the Arsonists brought to matches.

The Cartographic Defamation

The modern MTA Crown rivalry between the AA.png Alewife Arsonists and BB.png Boylston Boogers had its fuse lit in Season 14 not by a match, but by a mosaic. In a grand act of civic arrogance, the Boogers unveiled a massive, permanent tile subway system map at Boylston station. The Boogers had commissioned the work from Bartholomew Peabody Saltpeter Katzenberger Ridonovich Finch, a celebrated (but notoriously smug) artist from Wellesley who was a huge Boogers fan. The map was a masterpiece of passive aggression. It depicted the Green Line as a thick, vibrant artery of emerald and gold tile, pulsing with life, feeding all of Boston with its energy and vitality. In stark contrast, the Red Line was rendered as a thin, pathetic capillary of cracked crimson ceramic that withered and fizzled into a gray, featureless smudge at Alewife. This public insult, dubbed the Cartographic Defamation, was the moment the "GO BACK TO WELLESLEY!" chant was first shouted by an Arsonist at a Booger.

The Wellesley Heresy

This first encounter in the postseason between the AA.png Alewife Arsonists and BB.png 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.

Alewife in the Hellmouth Cup Season by Season

Performance Chart

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Summary

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Toroidal Cup

History

The Delawarehouse Fire

The Toroidal/Season 1 postseason began well for the AA.png Alewife Arsonists , who savored a moment of sweet revenge against the SFBS.png San Francisco Boat Shoes in the Division series, burning through the coastal fog that had left them clouded and confused in the Hellmouth Cup. But they were halted in their quest for a pennant by the DECO.png Delaware Corporate Shells .

The Shells and Arsonists became locked in what the mysterious Brake Master Cylinder called "a cosmic staredown" - the Arsonists deployed formations that formed an impenetrable firewall, while the Shells patterns formed equally impenetrable legal boilerplate. But in a true moment of self-destruction, the Alewife firewall collapsed on a technicality, and the Arsonists were eliminated.

The bitter and unexpected end to the series led the Arsonists to declare a formal rivalry, the Delawarehousefire Crown, with the Shells to resolve the unfinished business.

War of the Pothole

Toroidal/Season 8 was the postseason series AA.png Alewife Arsonists fans had craved for decades: the first postseason matchup against the BB.png Boylston Boogers since the ugly Cartographic Defamation and the psychological trauma of the Wellesley Heresy of the Hellmouth Cup.

The entire series was a brutal, ugly slog that was fought deep in the tunnels of the Red and Green Lines. In the deciding fifth game, the Boogers deployed a massive, elegant, and seemingly unstoppable pattern. But the Boogers' beautiful construct hit a tiny snag in the formation, with a single pixel out of place (the so-called "Pothole Pixel" in Alewife Station, well-known to all Arsonists as a glitchy cell to be avoided), and the entire Boogers formation instantly collapsed into an ash field. The Arsonists' resulting victory was not glorious, and it was nothing more than a lucky break, but it was righteous. It was a win for Alewife and for broken, unmaintained streets everywhere.

Red Rum Series

After the emotional high of finally vanquishing their cross-town rivals, the BB.png Boylston Boogers , in the Toroidal/Season 8 League Division Series, the AA.png Alewife Arsonists were wholly unprepared for the TB.png 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
TB.png Tucson Butchers vs. AA.png Alewife Arsonists
  Winner W Score Margin L Score Loser Generations Link
Game 1 Tucson Butchers 288 69.44% 88 Alewife Arsonists 1,410 ToroidalCup.png ca57d79d-cbf2-4d90-bb7d-9f4b33c316db
Game 2 Tucson Butchers 169 26.04% 125 Alewife Arsonists 2,631 ToroidalCup.png af77070b-ae2e-430d-820e-28a447085495
Game 3 Tucson Butchers 245 85.31% 36 Alewife Arsonists 1,974 ToroidalCup.png 46160a97-5be1-4ffd-a838-09d743c78d5d
Game 4 Alewife Arsonists 191 20.42% 152 Tucson Butchers 3,291 ToroidalCup.png c1b19433-04da-4b1d-8bc1-1046a23fee2f
Game 5 Tucson Butchers 212 36.32% 135 Alewife Arsonists 1,207 ToroidalCup.png fbad2472-f4f4-4819-bfb5-62449cb4c75c

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.

Static Warfare

The AA.png Alewife Arsonists loss to the SGE.png Sugar Grove Eavesdroppers in Toroidal/Season 5 League Division Series was a paranoid nightmare. The Eavesdroppers' strategy was information warfare. They didn't counter the Arsonists' patterns - they anticipated them. Like a form of mind control, the Eavesdroppers could read the Arsonists' stream of consciousness. Similarly, the mysterious Brake Master Cylinder's pirate broadcast from deep within Alewife Station was plagued by phantom signals and weird, whispering static. Fans in the garage swore they could hear the Arsonists' own chaotic thoughts being played back to them, twisted and distorted. The Arsonists became hesitant and confused, and their patterns sputtered. They second-guessed themselves into oblivion, resulting in a silent, unremarkable defeat. Since then, Brake Master Cylinder will start each broadcast of matches against the Eavesdroppers with a full minute of pure, cleansing static to "clear the lines".

Alewife in the Toroidal Cup Season by Season

Chart

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Summary

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Rainbow Cup

History

Alewife in the Rainbow Cup Season by Season

Performance Chart

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Summary

{{RainbowRankList SeasonAllTime Chron AA}}


Klein Cup

History

Alewife in the Klein Cup Season by Season

Performance Chart

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Summary

{{KleinRankList SeasonAllTime Chron AA}}


Hellmouth II Cup

History

Alewife in the Hellmouth II Cup

Performance Chart

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Summary

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Hellmouth III Cup

History

Alewife in the Hellmouth III Cup Season by Season

Performance Chart

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Summary

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Hellmouth IV Cup

History

Alewife in the Hellmouth IV Cup

Performance Chart

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Summary

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Hellmouth V Cup

History

Alewife in the Hellmouth V Cup

Performance Chart

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Summary

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Hellmouth V League Teams

Hellmouth IV Cup logo

Hellmouth V Cup
Teams 		Cold Fire Division

BTX2.png Baltimore Texas II

EA.png Elko Astronauts

LBFB.png Long Beach Flightless Birds

SLC.png Salt Lake Turbulence

SS.png Seattle Sneakers

Cold Water Division

FF.png Phoenix Freshrolls

TB.png Tucson Butchers

ABQ.png Albuquerque Solarpunks

SDBA.png San Diego Balloon Animals

SAC.png Sacramento Boot Lickers

Hot Fire Division

VV.png Vegas Vampires

DET.png Detroit Grape Chews

MILF.png Milwaukee Flamingos

SFBS.png San Francisco Boat Shoes

FFF.png Fargo Flea Flickers

Hot Water Division

AA.png Alewife Arsonists

BB.png Boylston Boogers

DECO.png Delaware Corporate Shells

SGE.png Sugar Grove Eavesdroppers

OSHA.png Jersey OSHA Violations

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