Heat Check All-Stars has cemented itself as one of the elite teams in “The League” over its first 14 seasons. It’s one of two teams to make the playoffs at least 12 times, owning first place for much of the 2011-12 campaign before conceding the top spot in the final week of the regular season. It then advanced to the title game before falling to DBuddaZ. 2012-13 was a little more of a struggle as Heat Check All-Stars battled some injuries and questionable rotations early in the season. But it righted the ship and turned into the team we’ve come to expect, winning nine of its last 11 weekly matchups. However, it ran into the red-hot and eventual champion Swooping and Hooping in the quarterfinals.

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Even though it faltered in 2016-17 with its first non-playoff season, Heat Check All-Stars has consistently been one of “The League’s” best regular-season teams. Heat Check All-Stars won three straight regular-season titles, putting together the best single season in league history in 2014-15. It also owns the best all-time regular-season record in league history, but that has meant little in the postseason. That 2014-15 season looked like its year, but it lost a closely fought battle to Lopez Towers in the championship game. The following season was the same story, different year as the franchise won its third straight regular-season title but failed to win when it matters most in the postseason.

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And then there were the next three seasons. We inexplicably saw Heat Check All-Stars struggle like we’ve never seen it struggle before during the 2016-17 season. It lost a single-season franchise-worst 14 weekly matchups, including a franchise-worst eight straight towards the end of the season, and missed the postseason for the first time in franchise history. It got back to the postseason the following season and became the second team to advance to three finals, but it had its heart broken again in the final week. It fell to 0-3 in championship games, but this was the toughest: It was the first postseason game decided by the tiebreaker, and it lost by one 3-pointer and .001 free throw percentage points.

Another great regular season five seasons ago ended short of a championship as well when it lost to DBuddaZ in the quarterfinals. It was looking like it was on its way to another regular-season title in 2020, but the coronavirus halted another golden opportunity for a title and added to the list of what-ifs for the franchise. It had lost a league-record five straight playoff games before its 2025 quarterfinal victory over Black Kemba, but it's still in search of that elusive first championship.