User:YJSNPI/The Day One /jp/ Curse

The Day One /jp/ Curse is a curse that affects the teams that play /jp/  as their first opponent in the group stages. Regardless of the result of the match itself, teams that play /jp/ first will fail to advance to the knockouts in that tournament, meeting an even more severe fate in some cases. This curse has been in effect uninterrumpted since the 2014 4chan Spring Babby Cup.

History

2014 4chan Spring Babby Cup

/m/  was the first victim of the curse, after their 4-0 loss to /jp/, and additional losses to /s/, /wsg/, and /e/ the /m/echas finished the cup with 0 points and earning a Wooden Spoon, in one of the worst performances the team has seen.

2014 4chan Autumn Babby Cup

/pol/  and /jp/ played to a 0-0 draw in the inaugural match of the cup. After another 0-0 draw with /biz/, and losses against /tg/ and /vr/, /pol/ finished bottom of the group with 2 points. Some would argue that the true bearers of the curse in this instance were the viewers at home, who were subjected to 5 0-0 matches in the same group.

2015 4chan Winter Cup

/jp/ met /toy/  in the first appearance of the curse in an elite cup, with their 2-0 loss to Woody's team. Despite their earlier victory, /toy/ would end up failing to advance of the group with 4 points, having lost to /h/ 2-0 and tied /wg/ 0-0. /jp/s performance was much more pathetic this cup, failing to score a single goal in 3 games.

/toy/ has been the team that has come closest to beating the curse. Even though they failed to advance to the Round of 16, external drama after the cup made it so that the ninth and seventeenth placed teams, /wsg/ and /ic/ lost their standings, while /toy/, originally placed eighteenth, was moved up to the sixteenth place. This means that while they didn't advance to the knockouts in the cup proper, they avoided playing in the following babby and were automatically qualified for the Summer Cup.