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The Fiesta

The Midseason Fiesta took place in Gamma 4 as a part of the last Short Circuit. It was intended to be a losers tournament where teams were able to party and gain additional stat boosts partway through the season, and the winner was awarded an unnamed prize.

The Beginning

The Fiesta kicked off with a message from the Monitor announcing the start of the Fiesta:

hey winners siesta go to sleep okay losers fiesta everybody make some noise get loud

[CROWD NOISE]

Game 1

The first day of games for the Fiesta all of the participating teams were given the Party Time modification and able to party. Fans immediately noticed that there was a significantly higher rate for partying than normal, with multiple players partying within the first few innings across the four ongoing games. by the end of the games, there had been sixty-three parties across all games, with the New York Millennials in particular partying thirteen times and gaining 20.8 total stars for their team.

The game's Live Feed covered in conversational Emojis

In addition to the players enjoying their parties, Fans were able to interact with the live feed of the game by reacting to events using a set of pre-selected emojis, with other fans being able to see their reactions in real time. Emojis that were available were:

• 😱
• 💀
• 🎉
• ❤
• 🤔
• ⚾
• 📎
• 😐
• 🏈

Expand Band

Game 2

The second day of games for the Fiesta began with all participating teams losing their Party Time modification, as well as the pitcher rotation inexplicably moving from the fourth position straight to the second position. No teams were able to party, however Fans were still able to cheer for their favourite teams.

The Canada Moist Talkers experienced a Night Shift in their game against the Hellmouth Sunbeams, which saw hitter Roland Magehands sent to the Shadows in exchange for Eloise Butterworth. While this change was reflected on the Moist Talkers' roster, Butterworth only completed a single at-bat during the game, and Magehands stayed in the batting order until the end of game, batting from the Shadows.

After the games had completed, Fans noticed that the Seattle Garages' logo had begun propagating over the Fiesta's bracket, replacing both the San Francisco Lovers and the Houston Spies.

Game 3

The third day of games for the Fiesta began to exhibit issues. As the second day ended and betting became available Fans noticed that there were in fact two versions of each game to bet on, for a total of six games. For some reason the odds were different for several of them despite there being no changes to the team compositions - though weather did vary on some of them. The games listed were the:

• Millennials vs Crabs (Eclipse)
• Millennials vs Crabs (Eclipse)
• Pies vs Jazz Hands (Night)
• Pies vs Jazz Hands (Snow)
• Sunbeams vs Moist Talkers (Peanuts)
• Sunbeams vs Moist Talkers (Peanuts)

When play began games played out as normal, except that they were happening in two divergent instances. As players in the Jazz Hands and Pies matchup were frozen under the Snow of one game, in the Night weather of the other players were being effected by that change. Squid Psst was Night Shifted out and was removed from both games. When games ended the Night Shifted Squid Psst returned to the Jazz Hands' roster to pitch after being Frozen in a game they weren't playing.

The scores began to diverge in the double sets of games and while the Millennials beat the Crabs in both of their games, the Jazz Hands, Pies, Moist Talkers, and Sunbeams all had two wins for their respective series as they both won and lost one instance of their games.

Fans eagerly awaited to see what would happen next.

Game 4

The fourth day of games for the Fiesta appeared as soon as the third round ended and sparked an immediate round of confusion. The games showed both the New York Millennials and Seattle Garages set to play themselves in the next round - with the Garages having 50/50 odds displayed against themselves, and the Millennials having 51/49 odds for some reason. The Party Time modification was restored for all teams still in the tournament. Several teams that should be participating were missing from the bracket.

A siesta was called, with members of The Game Band working to figure out how to complete the Fiesta as scheduled, with one tweet reading that "if it can run, we'll let it run (we don't think it can)"

Noise Complaint

In the end, the Fiesta was forced to be cancelled early, with the potential issues of teams playing themselves proving to be hazarous to the remainder of the circuit. The Monitor appeared to give the news on the site:

hey
uh
bad news
noise complaint
crashed the fiesta
seeing double
had to shut it down
sorry
can't leave empty handed
so uh
moist talkers?
sure why not
you won
what did you win
how about this
shiny