Congrats G for winning the cup! Back to back championship seasons for Flashover
I asked the stat guys at buzzerbeaterreference.com to dig into the history of cup champs to see how many non-playoff teams have won.
Flashover is the first ever 7 seed to win the cup (assuming they dont somehow pass Pressure to get 6th on the last game), and is 1 of only 9 non-NBBA playoff teams to ever win the cup. The last one was Orcs in season 65 with other NBBA relegation teams winning in seasons 29 (Delta 9 as a 6 seed), 25 (Arizona dessert storm as a 6 seed), 21 (KDB as a 6 seed), 20 (Visionaries as a 6 seed), and 9 (Chicago Bulls as a 5 seed)
Shockingly, there have been 3 cup champions who won while in D2, although one of them doesn't really count as it was Season 1 (Chicago Bulls). The other two times a d2 team won, it was the same team: Marshland Mammals in seasons 37 and 43. They then went on to win multiple more cups titles while in NBBA