Quote:Written Option #2: For one of the above competitions, what one player would you bet on to win it? Why are you picking them - what makes you think they have the best chance to take home the hardware? (150+ words)

My bet for the fastest skater category has got to be Mikhail Lokitonov. Why, you might ask? Well, he might not be the fastest skater in the league, nor is he the nimblest. However, he possesses a single quality that none of the other contestants also possess -- he is Mikhail Lokitonov, famous tank commander of the Toronto North Stars. This means that he doesn't need to be the fastest, he simply needs to outpace the other skaters. This is not a hard task when Loki shows up to the rink in a panzer and runs over everyone else. After the race is over and the tank commander emerges from his hatch, to everyone's surprise, it wasn't actually Mikhail in the tank. No, although the contestant was racing under the guise of Lokitonov, it was actually Guy Zheng all along. Zheng had stolen Lokitonov's moniker as the tank commander, and now he had stolen Mikhail's glory as well. At least, that's how I envision it in my head.