Visualize Your Power

Chart showing the scores by generation for the Season 4 Day 25 match between the

Sacramento Boot Lickers , nicknamed the "Visualize Your Power" match.

"Visualize Your Power" is a match that occurred between the Sacramento Boot Lickers and Detroit Grape Chews on Season 4 Day 25 of the Hellmouth Cup.

During Season 4 of the Hellmouth Cup, the Sacramento Boot Lickers were down in the dumps about their bitter rivals, the San Francisco Boat Shoes , claiming their second champion title in three seasons, and were doubting their chances at making the playoffs. The team decided to change things up by starting a book club, and the whole team read a self-help book called "Visualize Your Power."

On Day 25, the Sacramento Boot Lickers , sitting at an 11-13 record, were in Detroit facing off against the Grape Chews, with a 16-8 record, in the third game of a set of four matches bcf3c48f-3563-472b-b5e1-bf0b078b3a23.

Despite the Boot Lickers trailing for most of the game, and despite having run out of formations and reached a steady state, the Boot Lickers nevertheless managed to pull off a one-point victory over the Grape Chews after a last minute formation by the Grape Chews backfired.

The post-match celebration in the visitors locker room in Detroit was joyful, triumphant, and chaotic, lasting until the wee hours of the morning. The celebration had the intensity and energy of a postseason victory celebration; nobody in Detroit could understand why the Boot Lickers would be so exuberant about a mid-season one-point victory. The Boot Lickers posed for a team photo, with all 120,000 players teared up and holding up their "Visualize Your Power" self help books that they had all read as part of the book club, and when the photo went viral the next day, the match earned the nickname "Visualize Your Power".

Following the Day 25 match, the Boot Lickers faced the Grape Chews again in Sacramento on Day 26, and lost by 100 points 06baaa1f-8701-4a70-93e7-439a2232f2e1. Regardless, the transformational "Visualize Your Power" game marked the start of an 18-7 run, vaulting the Sacramento Boot Lickers into the playoffs. The Boot Lickers would defeat the Grape Chews to clinch the Hot League pennant, and defeat the Long Beach Flightless Birds to become the Hellmouth Cup champions.