/p/ History
2016 Spring Babby Cup Qualifiers
/p/ was slotted into Group C - with /y/, /trv/ and /t/. /p/ played it's first match ever against /y/ - where Gearfag notched the first goal in /p/ history. Eventually /y/ would tie it up and end the game draw. /p/ responded big time in the following match against /t/ - putting 4 goals up and gaining the critical 3 points. Captain Ken Rockwell put up a hat trick and Crush the Blacks got the game winner. On the 3rd and final Matchday of the Qualifiers, /y/ and /t/ tied, causing /p/ to clinch top 2 and qualification into the full babby cup, no matter the results against /trv/. /p/ went onto face /trv/ in a match that meant little but for pride. Despite a pair of early goals for /trv/, the Gearaffes snagged a draw from the jaws of defeat in a back and forth 3-3 game.
/p/ ended the group with 1 win and 2 draws. 8 goals for and 7 goals against.
2016 Spring Babby Cup
/p/ has grouped with fellow 2004 board /b/, spooky /x/ and /vp/. The first match of the group pitted /p/ against /b/ in the "Snap and Shit" 04 Derby. Resize your Shit started off the day with the goal, followed by Gearfag and then two by Ken Rockwell, giving /p/ a comfortable 4-2 win. A few days later with qualification to Summer 2016 at stake, /p/ took on /x/ at the void. /x/ took a 2-0 lead at 55th minute and despite some pressure, things looked bleak for Gearaffes, however, Crush the Blacks would net one at 67' to pull within one, setting up one of the best comebacks of the tournament. /p/ desperately drove forward, trying to get the equalizer that would put them in better position to qualify, and at the 90th minute Ken Rockwell found the ball sitting in the box and zoomed it pass the keeper to make the match level, but Rockwell was not done. In the dying 4 minutes of stoppage /p/ intercepted the ball after kickoff, bringing a wide attack on and with a few nice passes got it to Captain Clutch Ken Rockwell in the 90th+4 to give /p/ an amazing 3-2 win, securing their place in the playoff and Summer 2016 Elite Cup. /p/ ended Group Play clinched and facing a /vp/ side that shut them out 3-0, giving /p/ it's first loss. /p/ shook it off and readied itself against /r9k/. Missed chances by /p/ and less then stellar defense pushed /p/ out of the cup with a 6-3 loss.
Despite the last two results /p/ looks onto the 2016 Summer Cup with high hopes for the elites.
Rockwell celebrates his 90th minute tying goal vs /x/, turning his backs to the amateur photographers using zoom lenses. Minutes later he'd score at 90+4 for the game winner to send /p/ to Summer.
2016 Summer Cup
The 2016 Summer Cup offered the debut in the elite's for /p/. /p/ was grouped with /f/ /r9k/ and /s/ in group E. /p/ faced /f/ for their elite debut, handily taking the win with a 5-3 victory. /p/ went onto face /r9k/ in what at the time was the highest scoring game in 4CC history. Multiple goal leads were gained and blown by both teams, Gearfag notched 4 goals but /p/ fell to a surging /r9k/ 8-5. On the final day of group play /p/ had the opportunity to move forward with a win against declining /s/ but wasn't able to focus and missed the shot, giving them a depressing 5-3 loss to allow /f/ to move forward into the Round of 16.
Despite not moving forward and being sent back to the Babbys /p/ had an entertaining and competitive cup and defied most predictions of Golden Spoons.
/f/ agonizes F-Stop's closed aperture
2016 Autumn Babby Cup Group Stage
For the 2016 Autumn Babby Cup, /p/ was put into Group H with /his/, /wg/ and /int/. The first game featured a matchup of two newcomers to the Cup, as /p/ faced the far less successful /his/. The game was a back and forth barnburner, two goals by Gearfag and Ken Rockwell gave /p/ as 4-3 lead. Late in the game in the 88th minute, a decent push by /p/ ended in a keeper throw by /his/ goalie Julius Caesar was intercepted and volleyed into the net in one of the most hilarious goals in 4cc history. Amazingly a 90+er by /his/ made this goal the game winner, giving /p/ a huge win and 3 points in Group H. /p/'s next match put them against a former elite cup champion, /wg/. Captain Ken Rockwell started the match in the 9th minute with a goal from Gearfag, quickly following up with another one at 15'. /wg/ got within a goal but Kai chipped in for his first /p/ goal. /p/ exploded at the half with Ken Rockwell running away with 3 goals giving him 5 on the night for an easy 6-2 win that would bring them into the 2016 Winter Cup. /p/ faced /int/ in the final game of the group stage, a tense 1-1 game ended with a last second goal by Go Outside giving them the 9 points and first in group.
2016 Autumn Babby Cup Knockout Rounds
/p/'s first match against /n/ saw themselves up early on a Ken Rockwell goal, the game would stay 1-0 until Ken Rockwell doubled his efforts at the 77th minute, enough for /p/ to get a 2-1 and bring themselves passed the Round of 16 for the first time ever. The Gearaffes would be slotted against tournament favorite /tv/ in the quarterfinals and in a back and forth, thrilling match match /p/ took a hat trick from golden boot winner Ken Rockwell and a 90+4 goal from Go Outside to snap their way into the semi-finals. /p/ looked onto /vr/ in yet another thrilling, Gearfag, Crush the Blacks, and Kai would contribute goals but the timely debut goal for Megapickles would send them to the finals at the 115th minute in extra time.
In the finals /p/ would face /jp/ and ultimately fall short of glory. Despite dominating nearly 70% of possession /jp/'s counter attack prooved too much and /p/ would fall 3-1 in the finals. Despite dropping the finals /p/ looks to continue the amazing run into the 2017 Winter Cup.
Ken Rockwell would end up with the Golden Boot and F-Stop would take home the Golden Glove in the 2016 Autumn Babby Cup.
Go Outside sends /tv/ outside with a 90+4 winner - one of the many thrilling finishes and moments for /p/ in the 2016 Autumn Babby Cup.
2017 Winter Cup
The first cup on a new version of PES that did not reward hyper-aggressive tactics the way that 16 did yielded /p/'s poorest cup performance. In between two losses, a vigorous back-and-forth draw against /b/ allowed the team to narrowly avoid the Wooden Spoon. But hey, F-Stop tackled FUG so hard he got carded for it! That was pretty fun.
2017 Spring Babby Cup
After middling performances against /t/ and /adv/ using a Zona Mista tactic that was devised by the manager just hours before the deadline, /p/ managed a 2-0 win against /po/ to secure themselves the coveted 17th place in the cup. This marked the end of the yo-yo, and the /p/ team was (along with two of the three other teams in the group) put to rest after the cup was completed.
2017 Autumn Babby Cup
/p/ came back from their rest in time for Autumn with a revamped roster and comically offensive 3-3-4 tactics. These tactics brought back /p/'s goalscoring prowess, however they also brought back the bad defending, leading to /p/ blowing a 2-1 lead against /o/ and failing to capitalize on their comeback from 2-0 down against /fit/. A win over eventual wooden spoon /ck/ prevented /p/ from bottoming the group.
2018 Spring Babby Cup
With the Megababby brought back and /p/ finally getting a new manager, /p/ had an impressive start with an upset win over /sp/ thanks to Ken Rockwell converting a penalty kick and a dominating win over /wsg/. Against a /i/ staring at the unwanted record of longest winless streak, Ansel Adams put in an early blooter, but a late game /i/ rally cost /p/ one (and nearly three) points. With /sp/ surging, /p/ needed to at least draw /vg/ to secure their spot in Summer; it looked like that would happen after the first half, but again late game rallying killed /p/ as /vg/ took the top spot in the group for themselves. /p/ would still advance if /sp/ failed to beat /vg/ in their next match, but /sp/ won and /p/ got another 17th place finish.
2018 Summer Cup
Despite their late stumbles in Spring, /p/ still finished 17th and eventually got into the Summer Cup anyway thanks to >/soc/ being too busy partying to show up. Unlike most /p/ runs, this one wasn't too memorable due to two 0-0 draws, one against /vr/ to start the group stage and another against /h/ to end it. /p/ did win a match, 2-1 against /lit/, which did create some history: /p/ became the first team ever to fail to advance from an official cup's (4-team) group stage with 5 points.
2018 Autumn Babby Cup
Another one of /p/'s less memorable runs, this time thanks to them being eliminated early with months-old tactics. All /p/ could manage were consolation goals against /3/ and /lit/, but they did get a consolation victory over future semifinalists /w/.
2019 Spring Babby Cup+Qualifiers
/p/'s Qualifiers group, their first since the start of the team, put them up against autopilot and future cup powerhouse /cm/, former cup powerhouse /asp/, and new-manager /fa/. /p/ fought back from two deficits to take a point off of /cm/, a 2-2 result that was one of the few /cm/ would give up over a run of perennial cup contention. An easy 2-0 win against /asp/ thanks in part to nonmedal Andy Filter and another win 3-1 over /fa/ gave them 7 points and a +4 GD. In a normal group, this would be enough to top, but /cm/ had won by even larger margins and unlike /p/ neither /asp/ nor /fa/ could even score a goal against them. This meant /p/ had to play two matches in a playoff round for the Spring Babby Cup. Against /toy/, another powerhouse autopilot, /p/ held out until the very end of the match, when /toy/ finally broke them open and doomed them to another match. They would play /out/, and quickly scored two goals to take full control at the 39th minute. Two crashes and one /out/ consolation goal later, /p/ had held on and would play in the Spring Babby Cup. Their goalkeeper, the Angry "Photographer", set a 4CC record for most saves in a single tournament that stands to this day with 35 in five matches.
Their Spring Babby Cup group draw gave them relegated /sp/ and /co/ along with best-of-the-worst /aco/. Unfortunately, /p/ had nowhere near the success of their Qualifiers run. In fact, they failed to even score a goal. The highlight of their first match against /sp/, a 0-0 draw, was a mid-match crash. /aco/ dominated to the tune of a 3-0 win, Gaston kept them out of the net as /co/ won 1-0. In case Autumn 2018 hadn't raised enough questions about /p/'s sustainability, Spring 2019 further compounded the issue.
2019 4chan Autumn Babby Cup Qualifiers
/p/'s manager at the time of Spring 2019 took a break after their goalless disaster run in the Babby proper, and with no manager, /p/ had to run on autopilot again for the following Autumn. /p/ were drawn with /a/, /tv/, and /bant/. Their first match, against /a/, saw them take an early lead before allowing three unanswered and ultimately falling 3-2. One lucky 1-1 draw against /tv/ and an /a/ comeback from 2-0 down against the same team later, all /p/ needed to do to not be aborted was beat already-advanced /bant/. /p/ never even took the lead, ultimately losing 4-3 and bottoming out; the run was significantly more entertaining than Spring, but ultimately just as fruitless. Only /cgl/'s botched 0-point revival kept them from a fetus spoon.
2020 4chan Spring Babby Cup
/p/'s manager came back for Spring 2020, ready to start fresh on a new PES. /p/'s abortion meant they were immune from the next Qualifier and immediately tossed back into the Babby. A group draw featuring /wsg/, /co/, and now-autopilot /g/ gave them a little hope; all of these teams had mediocre histories. /p/ even won their first match, 1-0 against /co/ thanks to Ken Rockwell closing out the first half with a goal. Unfortunately, the newest meme tactics faltered quickly, and consecutive 3-0 losses to future final day teams /g/ and /wsg/ meant /p/ would spend another season away from the Elites. They did, at least, finish in the top half of teams that failed to advance, which combined with a smaller fetus format meant they were unlikely to see the next Qualifier.
2020 4chan Autumn Babby Cup
/p/ came back for the Autumn Babby ready to take things a little more seriously; instead of trying out questionable meme tactics, they spent the offseason taking notes from other teams and put some of their own spin on things. In a group with autopilot-again /fa/, /r9k/, and /gd/, the results weren't immediately apparent; the first match, thrilling as it was, was a 5-4 /p/ loss to /fa/. This despite /p/ taking a 3-2 lead through the 53rd minute of play. A significantly more defensive approach led to /p/ having to wait until very late for goals, but when they came they came big. /p/ defeated /r9k/ 2-0, eliminating one threat to their advancement (/fa/, who advanced, would play /r9k/ to end the group) and putting themselves in a favorable position to advance. Through twenty minutes, it didn't look like /p/ would need all the cushioning, as they took a very quick 2-0 lead. By the end of the match, after /gd/ had shot just accurately enough to even the score at the very end, /p/ were thankful they had cushioning. For the first time in four years, /p/ had properly promoted into an Elite Cup. A comeback from 1-0 down to defeat surprise promotion /an/ 3-1 in the Round of 16 was gravy; by the time they scored two against future Babby finalist /mu/, they were already four down and looking ahead to the Winter Cup. A mere 4-2 loss was somehow the least bad of the quarterfinal losses, letting them take fifth place into the Winter Cup.
2021 4chan Winter Cup
/p/ were back in the Elites, for reasons other than teams ahead of them dying this time. Still sticking to largely the same strategy that got them there, /p/ would draw a true Group of Death. /cm/ came back to fight them a star richer, /m/ had once again re-established themselves in the Elites, and /asp/ were just kinda along for the ride. /p/ once again fought /cm/ better than almost any other team could, but an early kick in the dick from a Suicidal Hooni gave them a 1-0 loss to start off the group. The angry /p/hotographers, despite long since having cut their goalkeeping Angry Photographer from the squad, took it all out on /asp/. They scored two in each half, won 4-0, and again gave themselves the kind of cushion they needed to get out of Autumn. No such luck this time around, unfortunately. Despite an even first half, /m/ dominance in the second led to them scoring two goals and handing /p/ a 3-1 loss. The effect of this meant /p/ would play in the next Babby; said Babby, however, would not take place until Autumn, as the Spring Babby Cup was cancelled in favor of a gigantic World Cup to celebrate the first decade of virtual divegrass for a bunch of losers on the internet.
2021 4chan World Cup
SOON™ (spoiler alert: it was pretty good)