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Reverse the curse!

http://www.charleston.net/news/2008/may/16/wando_hoping_reverse_curse41032/

Champ is a good interview.

Where can you find a list of past Viking Cup winners?

I may be misremembering, but I thought in 1995 Wando went undefeated in the tournament. My thought is that there was not a playoff and that this was an exhibition format. Wando went on to win the state championship for the second straight year that year.

Also, the newspaper article states that Wando is playing for their fifth state title, but Wando's website says they have already won five and will be playing for six.

Wando has already won 5 state titles: in '94, '95, '97, 2004 and 2007. This would be their 6th.

The Curse works for the underdog. Mauldin's the underdog. I'd go with the curse on this one.

Pilgrim,

Of course the Taco Curse works for the underdog. What it says, fundamentally, is that if you're the best team at the begining of the season you'll have a hard time maintaining your edge all the way to the end of the season. Some have suggested that the Curse really doesn't exist at all but was only a device invented to distract Fort Mill in their attempt to run the table in 2005. Now it's in the papers so it has to be a real thing, I guess. But if it is a real curse it would have to work in favor of Mauldin this year.

Ryan, how many times has Maulding finished runner up in state since 2000?

firefly --

Don't try and say the curse was an invention against Fort Mill. I didn't invent it but I was the first preson to notice it. Here's the original post from 2005:

"Re: Taco Results
#45282 - 02/20/05 06:19 PM

By finishing second, does taht mean James Island has side stepped the Taco Curse? No Taco Bell 4-A champion has ever gone on to win state the same year, I think. Maybe the same in 3A."

And I understand the rest. Still, nobody has run the table yet. Wando would be the first. Or Mauldin will beat them and the curse will continue.