In sports, there's a winner and there's a loser. The winner celebrated, the loser booed, jeered, ignored. After a sport has gone on for long enough, fans begin to create new ways of celebrating the winner. Scorigami, title belts, unique statlines. The tie game, the most controversial end to a game, has it's own uniqueness. Impossible or against the rules in some sports, rare as hens teeth in others. In the NSFL, there has only been 2 tie games ever. And with a third one recently scrubbed off due to a file corruption, it's unlikely we'll see another for a while.
And then there's the loss. All teams dread it. It is the harbinger of bad records, stats, and disappointment. Some teams are unfortunately used to having many losses in a season, while others have had many seasons with few. There have been 3 instances of a 1 loss season, and no undefeated seasons. As of this article's publishing the Otters are 7-0. If we can say anything about the Otters quest for perfection, it's that the odds are very much stacked against them. On the flip side, there's been many bad seasons. The last time the Yeti had a winning season was Season 13. They had 32 losses in a row between seasons 5 to 8. 2 0-14 seasons in a row. The Liberty and Copperheads have also gone winless in a season. No matter how painful losses are, they're a natural part of sports. Everyone has had their share of losing.
So for once, let us celebrate the loser with
THE VICTUS BELT
Victus is Latin for loser, or defeated. To obtain the Victus Belt, you must lose to the team who possesses it. If you win to the possessor, they keep it. In the rare instance you tie to the Victus holder, the belt remains with the possessor. To track this belt, we must start with the most important loss in NSFL history; Ultimus I. Losing the Ultimus is the greatest example of heartbreak in this league. Your shot at greatness taken away by sim luck. To lose the first one is to lose your shot at immortality.
It's only fitting that it was the Yeti who lost.
Due to the nature of the Victus, it will never be side by side with the Ultimus again. On Ultimus I, the winner and loser was created. You can never be both at once. It is possible for it to reach the playoffs, but will never progress past round 1. Because there must always be a loser.
That being said, there must also always be a winner. Earlier today, @ddrector gave us The Title Belt, which was given to the winner of Ultimus I, the Outlaws. The Title Belt was inspired by the NFL's Title Belt. The Victus Belt is an inspiration of ddrector's post. I've yet to find an NFL version of this. This must be a new concept.
I'm sure you've had it with reading this by now. Let's follow the Victus.
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242 weeks. 5 playoff games. 247 total. The Victus Belt has been exchanged 67 times. Despite my bold mentions about the Yeti, it's actually the Second Line who have held the most Victus Belts with 67. That's 2 more Belts than the Otters have held Title Belts. In second is the Yeti (they can't even win at losing...) with 58. The Liberty have 31. The Sabercats have 30. The Outlaws 28. Hawks 11. Otters and Copperheads 8. Can you believe that? The Copperheads have the same amount of Belt possessions in 3 1/2 seasons as the Otters have had in 18 1/2. The Butchers have 4. And the thing that caught me off guard the most is the Wraiths. They have 2 Victus possessions. One in Season 3 and the other in Season 14. They have been able to evade the Victus better than anyone else. They win when it counts.
As I stated earlier, it's possible for the Victus Belt to be brought into the playoffs. We've got to see that 5 times so far. Until Season 8, I didn't think we have ever had it happen before. It took a perennial good team in the Otters to bite the loss in the last week to bring the Victus to it's first ever playoff game, where it stayed with the Otters after a loss to the Second Line.
On the topic of the Second Line, let's talk for a second about it's dark first 4 seasons. Prior to season 6, they were the Las Vegas Legion. They were a season 2 expansion team along with the Liberty. They won 9 games in 4 seasons. They possessed the Victus Belt 33 times in that time. Things were so bad in Las Vegas that there was a mass retirement on the team. Following that, they were re-branded into what we know today as the New Orleans Second Line, where they possessed the Victus 6 more times in season 6 before they passed it on to the Yeti. They didn't see the Victus again until season 12.
That Yeti team is also a notable piece of league history. Prior to taking the Victus, they had lost their 8 prior games. What people didn't know was that the Yeti was in the middle of the longest loss streak in NSFL history. They would possess the Victus Belt 24 times in their 32 game loss streak. They would not win another game until Week 3 Season 8, against the Arizona Outlaws. They won 13-10. After just over 7 seasons since the Yeti were defeated by the Outlaws in the Ultimus and banished into mediocrity, they finally gave the first Ultimus winner their share of losing.
Fast forward 2 seasons and we find the Liberty in a winless season. They are able to take the Victus Belt from the Sabercats early in the season, where they held onto in for 14 games, the second longest Victus streak.
In the Season 14 playoffs, something unique happened. The Liberty went into round 1 with the Victus Belt after losing 3 in a row. They were pitted against the Baltimore Hawks, who had their own Victus streak a season prior. At this point, there were only 2 other playoff games that determined the Victus possession. In both games, the Victus remained with it's initial possessor. This time, it would go to the opposing team. In a 4th quarter rally, the Liberty came back from an 11 point deficit to win the game 31-28, thanks to a Kulture Fulture field goal to put them up 3 with 19 seconds left.
We've established that there's winners. We've established that there's losers. We've also established a way to trace the winning and losing streaks back to Ultimus I. One of the last things for us to do is find when these two streaks have overlapped. Which games have featured the owners of the Title Belt and Victus Belt in the same game? What do we call these games? Since I've come up with this concept, I will call it
The Vendicta Games
Vendicta in Latin roughly means revenge. I chose this name because of the history of the two belts. They were both created in the most important Ultimus game ever played. The game that established winners and losers. The belts, in spirit, play each other once more, one to claim what should've been theirs, and the other to defend what they rightfully won. Let's take a look at these coveted games:
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33 Vendicta Games have been played since Ultimus I. An interesting tidbit, the only season to not have a Vendicta played was season 2 (and season 1, but the Belts weren't around for that season). Otherwise, we've had at least 1 every season. You might notice that the game played on Season 6, week 4 is in red. That is because that was a tie game! What happens then on such a rare case? Everything stays the same. The belts stay with their respective owner.
Of these 33 games, only 4 have been won by the Victus. Ergo, the belts swapped their owners. This means that a belt swap is one of the rarest events in this league!
The following teams have represented the Victus in the 33 Vendicta Games:
Liberty 7x
Legion/Second Line 7x
Yeti 6x
Outlaws 4x
Sabercats 2x
Hawks 2x
Copperheads 2x
Otters 1x
Butchers 1x
Wraiths 1x
The following teams have represented the Title in the 33 Vendicta Games:
Otters 13x
Liberty 4x
Legion/Second Line 4x
Hawks 4x
Outlaws 3x
Wraiths 3x
Sabercats 2x
The following teams have never represented the Title in the 33 Vendicta Games:
Yeti
Copperheads
Butchers
I want to lastly talk about the first belt swap game; Season 8, week 14. Outlaws vs. Otters. Before this, The Victus holder had never won a Vendicta. The Title holder was 9-0 prior to this game. This was the last game of the season. Never before or since had that happened.
The Otters had already made the playoffs, and the Outlaws were eliminated. So in a sense, this game didn't matter much. But the game itself was one to follow. The Otters were down 7-30 at the half, but a 3rd quarter rally reduced the deficit from 23 to 2. The offense just needed to show up again in the 4th. But it didn't. Instead, Dean Jackson was able to put 2 field goals between the uprights to counter Bradley Madlad's 1 field goal to keep them up. A 40 yard Jackson field goal was the last score of the game. Outlaws won, 31 to 36.
I'll leave you to do some discovering in this chart. A lot of stories are told here. Comebacks, luck, domination, mediocrity, it's all here.
Next week, the Sabercats look to pass the Victus Belt on to the Copperheads. If they win in Austin and the Otters win in New Orleans, we could very much see another Vendicta week 9.
And then there's the loss. All teams dread it. It is the harbinger of bad records, stats, and disappointment. Some teams are unfortunately used to having many losses in a season, while others have had many seasons with few. There have been 3 instances of a 1 loss season, and no undefeated seasons. As of this article's publishing the Otters are 7-0. If we can say anything about the Otters quest for perfection, it's that the odds are very much stacked against them. On the flip side, there's been many bad seasons. The last time the Yeti had a winning season was Season 13. They had 32 losses in a row between seasons 5 to 8. 2 0-14 seasons in a row. The Liberty and Copperheads have also gone winless in a season. No matter how painful losses are, they're a natural part of sports. Everyone has had their share of losing.
So for once, let us celebrate the loser with
THE VICTUS BELT
Victus is Latin for loser, or defeated. To obtain the Victus Belt, you must lose to the team who possesses it. If you win to the possessor, they keep it. In the rare instance you tie to the Victus holder, the belt remains with the possessor. To track this belt, we must start with the most important loss in NSFL history; Ultimus I. Losing the Ultimus is the greatest example of heartbreak in this league. Your shot at greatness taken away by sim luck. To lose the first one is to lose your shot at immortality.
It's only fitting that it was the Yeti who lost.
Due to the nature of the Victus, it will never be side by side with the Ultimus again. On Ultimus I, the winner and loser was created. You can never be both at once. It is possible for it to reach the playoffs, but will never progress past round 1. Because there must always be a loser.
That being said, there must also always be a winner. Earlier today, @ddrector gave us The Title Belt, which was given to the winner of Ultimus I, the Outlaws. The Title Belt was inspired by the NFL's Title Belt. The Victus Belt is an inspiration of ddrector's post. I've yet to find an NFL version of this. This must be a new concept.
I'm sure you've had it with reading this by now. Let's follow the Victus.
242 weeks. 5 playoff games. 247 total. The Victus Belt has been exchanged 67 times. Despite my bold mentions about the Yeti, it's actually the Second Line who have held the most Victus Belts with 67. That's 2 more Belts than the Otters have held Title Belts. In second is the Yeti (they can't even win at losing...) with 58. The Liberty have 31. The Sabercats have 30. The Outlaws 28. Hawks 11. Otters and Copperheads 8. Can you believe that? The Copperheads have the same amount of Belt possessions in 3 1/2 seasons as the Otters have had in 18 1/2. The Butchers have 4. And the thing that caught me off guard the most is the Wraiths. They have 2 Victus possessions. One in Season 3 and the other in Season 14. They have been able to evade the Victus better than anyone else. They win when it counts.
As I stated earlier, it's possible for the Victus Belt to be brought into the playoffs. We've got to see that 5 times so far. Until Season 8, I didn't think we have ever had it happen before. It took a perennial good team in the Otters to bite the loss in the last week to bring the Victus to it's first ever playoff game, where it stayed with the Otters after a loss to the Second Line.
On the topic of the Second Line, let's talk for a second about it's dark first 4 seasons. Prior to season 6, they were the Las Vegas Legion. They were a season 2 expansion team along with the Liberty. They won 9 games in 4 seasons. They possessed the Victus Belt 33 times in that time. Things were so bad in Las Vegas that there was a mass retirement on the team. Following that, they were re-branded into what we know today as the New Orleans Second Line, where they possessed the Victus 6 more times in season 6 before they passed it on to the Yeti. They didn't see the Victus again until season 12.
That Yeti team is also a notable piece of league history. Prior to taking the Victus, they had lost their 8 prior games. What people didn't know was that the Yeti was in the middle of the longest loss streak in NSFL history. They would possess the Victus Belt 24 times in their 32 game loss streak. They would not win another game until Week 3 Season 8, against the Arizona Outlaws. They won 13-10. After just over 7 seasons since the Yeti were defeated by the Outlaws in the Ultimus and banished into mediocrity, they finally gave the first Ultimus winner their share of losing.
Fast forward 2 seasons and we find the Liberty in a winless season. They are able to take the Victus Belt from the Sabercats early in the season, where they held onto in for 14 games, the second longest Victus streak.
In the Season 14 playoffs, something unique happened. The Liberty went into round 1 with the Victus Belt after losing 3 in a row. They were pitted against the Baltimore Hawks, who had their own Victus streak a season prior. At this point, there were only 2 other playoff games that determined the Victus possession. In both games, the Victus remained with it's initial possessor. This time, it would go to the opposing team. In a 4th quarter rally, the Liberty came back from an 11 point deficit to win the game 31-28, thanks to a Kulture Fulture field goal to put them up 3 with 19 seconds left.
We've established that there's winners. We've established that there's losers. We've also established a way to trace the winning and losing streaks back to Ultimus I. One of the last things for us to do is find when these two streaks have overlapped. Which games have featured the owners of the Title Belt and Victus Belt in the same game? What do we call these games? Since I've come up with this concept, I will call it
The Vendicta Games
Vendicta in Latin roughly means revenge. I chose this name because of the history of the two belts. They were both created in the most important Ultimus game ever played. The game that established winners and losers. The belts, in spirit, play each other once more, one to claim what should've been theirs, and the other to defend what they rightfully won. Let's take a look at these coveted games:
33 Vendicta Games have been played since Ultimus I. An interesting tidbit, the only season to not have a Vendicta played was season 2 (and season 1, but the Belts weren't around for that season). Otherwise, we've had at least 1 every season. You might notice that the game played on Season 6, week 4 is in red. That is because that was a tie game! What happens then on such a rare case? Everything stays the same. The belts stay with their respective owner.
Of these 33 games, only 4 have been won by the Victus. Ergo, the belts swapped their owners. This means that a belt swap is one of the rarest events in this league!
The following teams have represented the Victus in the 33 Vendicta Games:
Liberty 7x
Legion/Second Line 7x
Yeti 6x
Outlaws 4x
Sabercats 2x
Hawks 2x
Copperheads 2x
Otters 1x
Butchers 1x
Wraiths 1x
The following teams have represented the Title in the 33 Vendicta Games:
Otters 13x
Liberty 4x
Legion/Second Line 4x
Hawks 4x
Outlaws 3x
Wraiths 3x
Sabercats 2x
The following teams have never represented the Title in the 33 Vendicta Games:
Yeti
Copperheads
Butchers
I want to lastly talk about the first belt swap game; Season 8, week 14. Outlaws vs. Otters. Before this, The Victus holder had never won a Vendicta. The Title holder was 9-0 prior to this game. This was the last game of the season. Never before or since had that happened.
The Otters had already made the playoffs, and the Outlaws were eliminated. So in a sense, this game didn't matter much. But the game itself was one to follow. The Otters were down 7-30 at the half, but a 3rd quarter rally reduced the deficit from 23 to 2. The offense just needed to show up again in the 4th. But it didn't. Instead, Dean Jackson was able to put 2 field goals between the uprights to counter Bradley Madlad's 1 field goal to keep them up. A 40 yard Jackson field goal was the last score of the game. Outlaws won, 31 to 36.
I'll leave you to do some discovering in this chart. A lot of stories are told here. Comebacks, luck, domination, mediocrity, it's all here.
Next week, the Sabercats look to pass the Victus Belt on to the Copperheads. If they win in Austin and the Otters win in New Orleans, we could very much see another Vendicta week 9.
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