Task 01: (Written, 3 TPE)
You are at the airport awaiting a flight to meet back up with your team after spending the day being honoured as a 'Hometown Hero' in the place where you grew up! Tell us about your day... what did they have planned for you? Who did you see there? What were you given? How did it turn out? ... In 150 words or more, tell us all about this big moment as hometown hero.

Leopold Lockhart is a good old Massachusetts boy. He was born in Boston, but he was raised in Concord, so he was proud as hell when Concord honored him with the title of Hometown Hero. Cameras followed him around all day, beginning with him making breakfast for his family at his parents' house. After that, Leo donned his Pride jersey and they all went to the Town Hall where he met the mayor and was given the ceremonial key to the city. After that, he and some of his hometown friends from various hockey teams he's been on in the past played a game of street hockey with a bunch of kids from the Big Brother Big Sister program. After the game, there was a parade downtown that they closed a couple of city blocks for, followed by a city-wide celebration in one of the local parks, There was lots of food and music and fireworks after dark. It was a great day with family and friends, including Leo's parents, his two best friends from Concord, and his little sisters.



Task 07: (Written, 3 TPE)
You have been given the responsibility of organizing the National Anthem(s) for both teams in the Challenge Cup Finals. With the entire world watching the league feels its imperative that who ever you choose really encapusates the persona of the team and their fanbase. In 150 words or more, let us know who you chose for both teams, why you believe they represent that franchise and anything notable about their performance,, IE outfits, accompaniment, etc.

What's more synonymous with Florida than boy bands? Okay, maybe that statement is less true now than it was in the late 90's/early 2000's. Regardless, when selecting an artist or group to perform the national anthems at West Kendall Platoon home games during the challenge cup finals, the committee (and by committee, I obviously mean me) thought it an obvious choice to choose the Backstreet Boys. NSync would have been better, but since Justin Timberlake is still crushing dreams and refusing to reunite, the Backstreet Boys were the next best thing. When they perform, they all wear Mikko Linna jerseys even though he's not a current roster member. In Calgary, the anthems will be sung by Tommy Chong. He's not a singer, but who cares? He was born in Edmonton, but lived in Calgary as a kid, and he was the only person we could get to agree to eat an entire chicken parm sandwich prior to performing. Funnily enough, Chong also wears a Mikko Linna jersey.



Task 09: (Written, 3 TPE)
Which organization that didnt make it to the finals would you consider to be the biggest disappointment? What do you think are the main reasons why they fell short this season? (Must be 150 words or more)

There's no question that the elimination of the San Franciso Pride was the biggest disappointment in this season's playoffs for me personally. I was disappointed because that's my fuckin' team, not because I expected the team to fare well in post season games. On the contrary, actually. I was a little surprised we made playoffs at all. (And that's definitely part of it, right? Because making it when you didn't expect to make it really does make it more disappointing when you're eliminated because start to expect to be able to pull off shit you know you technically shouldn't be able to pull off.) The main reason why we shouldn't have been able to pull it off in the first place is because we have been pretty lack-luster offensively. If we could have gotten some consistent offense going, it wouldn't have been a surprise that we made playoffs at all, and we definitely would have made it past the first round. I think we'll only improve from here, which is a good place to be.

Task 05: (Written, up to 6 TPE)
Pick up to 6 challenge cup related topics to write about! Each topic is worth '1' TPE. Each answer must be '50' words or more.


2. A major managerial showdown is about to take place Between WKP's (Jr95, Wongy) and Calgarys (Steelhead77, C00kies) which set of GM's have the tactical/managerial advantage in this series and why?

This is a really tough question for me to answer objectively because I played for both teams with my last player, was a big fan of both sets of GMs, and won a cup with both teams. So in my opinion, there is no obvious winner here. I'll be happy whichever way it goes down, and both sets of GMs should be proud that they've been contenders so consistently in recent seasons.

5. After trading off there best players and declaring themselves in a full rebuild back in S45, The Calgary Dragons have made it to the S47 finals.. just 2 seasons later. Choose: ('No surprise', 'mild surprise', 'major surprise' or 'in shock') and explain why.

No surprise. Esa is a great general manager. He's drafted some great players and he knows how to use them. Besides it doesn't matter who they traded away, they still had some great players left. I'm not sure I'd call it a "full rebuild". A younger Dragon's team is still a dangerous Dragon's team. That really shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone.

7. The West Kendall Platoon are back in the finals after a season out of the playoffs and a team that was in serious regression Choose: ('No surprise', 'mild surprise', 'major surprise' or 'in shock') and explain why.

The answer to this one, same as the other question just like this, is no surprise. Again, this team has great management and that management team knows what to do with their players. They've got some great younger players and their players in regression are still trucking right along. Missing the playoffs last season hardly constitutes a trend of bad play, and they shouldn't have been written off as contenders.


8. Star netminders Kata Vilde and Beaujeaux Biscuit have both carried there teams into the finals. Which franchise goalie has a better chance to carry their franchise to a title?

You know what, I really don't care enough to have an opinion on this, but I'm gonna go ahead and go with Kata Vilde because Vilde had 3 assists and Bojo only had 2. That's a completely arbitrary stat to base goalie success on, but I don't care. It's a fun one. I'm gonna predict that Vilde assists on the cup winning goal, just for funzies.




TASK 13: (*CASUAL MEMBER SPECIAL* Send answer in PM, up to 3 TPE)
Its trivia time with 4 questions related to our Challenge Cup participants!


1. Who is the all time goals leader on the West Kendall Platoon?
2. Who won Calgary's Jesster Award (Team MVP) for season 46?
3. Who are the current 3 captains per there team info page (C, A and A) on the West Kendall Platoon?
4. What is the name of the stadium where the Calgary Dragons play there home games?

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