Board 8 > Best of the Trope Season 2: Day 3 - Opposing Sports Team

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Hello everyone, and welcome back to Best of the Trope!

Here are the rules. Each day, I will post a trope from TV Tropes, and each poster can name up to three examples of that trope. Whichever nomination gets the most mentions wins! Posters may also name as many Honourable Mentions as they like, but they are purely optional and will not count towards the running score. You may look at the TV Tropes page for that day's trope for examples, but you do not have to pick all your examples from the page. You can nominate whatever examples you like, as long as they qualify for the trope. Each trope will last around 24 hours before the next one goes up.

Posters may also nominate any tropes they wish to see come up during the series. This is optional, and you don't have to do it every day, or at all. Just bear in mind that I may close trope nominations temporarily if the list gets too long. Tropes will be randomly selected from the list each day, except for some occasions where I will pick a thematically appropriate trope that may or may not be on the list.

Here's the list of previous tropes, so if you wish to nominate some tropes, check on here that it wasn't previously done in Season 1. http://board8.wikia.com/wiki/Best_of_the_Trope

Here is the current list of tropes.

Evil Brit
Calling Your Attacks
Interface Screw
Signature Move
Jack-of-All-Stats
Karmic Death
Cold Sniper
The Gunslinger
Arc Words
Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain
Laughably Evil

Without further ado, let's get started!

Yesterday's trope, Continuity Reboot, was a tie between Batman Begins and Tomb Raider (2013), which scored 3 votes each.

Previous winners:
Un-Canceled - Futurama

Today's trope is Opposing Sports Team. Here is the link: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/OpposingSportsTeam

The villains of any sports series or movie, the Opposing Sports Team is the number one team before the main hero's eventual victory. They seem to be made up of Designated Villains and Villainy Free Villains, but they are not: they got to this point not because of Team Spirit, but because of either cheating and/or bullying and abusive behaviour or at the best of times a grueling, soulless regimen that goes against whatever the Aesop of the show is. They almost always wear a uniform that is mostly black. These may be to sports what the "Stop Having Fun" Guys are to video games; the types who play the game solely to win, and will resort to any means to do so.

TL,DR: The main team or opponent the heroes face off against in a sports story. They have bad attitudes and are often cheaters.

Nominations:
Monstars (Space Jam)
Globo Gym Purple Cobras (Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story)
Luca Goers (Final Fantasy X)

Globo Gym (Dodgeball)
The True Nightwings (Pyre)
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Rankings so far:

Globo Gym Purple Cobras - 2 votes
Monstars
Luca Goers
The True Nightwings

Luca Goers
Barden University Treblemakers (Pitch Perfect)
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Valley High School (Saved by the Bell)
Mighty Mountain (Arthur)
Perfecto Prep (Tiny Toon Adventures)
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Monstars
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