Quote:1. Written, 3 TPE (150 words min)

For the finals this season, Guy Zheng would prefer to go to games 1 and 2 in Edmonton because then he wouldn't have to stay in the home town of those dirty Hamilton players who sought to and succeeded in exploiting the way that our sacred hockey game is played. In addition to that, he's heard that Edmonton has a dope mall and is an actual city unlike Hamilton. In the city, Guy Zheng would probably spend as much money as he could trying to gamble and make enough money to pay for his equipment and training come next season since he's currently relying on the generosity of his teammates to coast by. Or, he would probably use the money to pay a think tank to think of easy ways for him to make money without having to spend time writing media, doing a job, or making graphics. It might even be possible that he might just do some money laundering and use SDCore's money directly for his equipment and training.

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Quote:2. Written, 3 TPE (150 words min)

In the alternate reality, the Hamilton players, coaches, and general managers did not spend any time trying to exploit the game that we all play and love, and instead we had a season just like any other and roughly the best two teams made it all the way to the finals. On the way to the finals, New England faces off against the Tampa Bay Barracuda and the series ends in nailbiting fashion as Bitties scores the series winning goal, cementing his place in the Simulation Hockey League hall of fame. In the Challenge Cup finals, we would have the New England Wolfpack versus the San Francisco Pride, where the series would go to seven games and end in quintuple overtime as Max Egger scores the game, series, and cup winning goal. Leitner is a brick wall through the whole playoffs, and Gordie Boomhover goes on to win the playoffs MVP award. Sadly, that is not the reality we live in, and instead we have what we have.

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Quote:3. Written, 3 TPE (150 words min)

The fundraiser should be geared towards raising money to support a team to develop a new simulation engine that would finally replace Simon T Hockey Simulator but also cover a lot of the drawbacks and difficulties of switching to Franchise Hockey Manager. This would also include the building of a new portal and player database system that is robust and much easier for players to use. We can then set up seamless integration between player updates and the simulation engine, meaning players can update any day of the week and have their updates be input to the simulation immediately for the following sim. We can also automate the simulations themselves, making them run at a certain time every day. This does take away the need for updaters and simmers (although we would need a few people to fix issues/provide oversight), so off the back of destroying so many jobs, the league should make everything cheaper. $1M training would go down to just $500k, and equipment would go to just a maximum of $4M per season.

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Quote:4. Written, 3 TPE (150 words min)

I would definitely be asked to play as a winger, or perhaps even start putting points into faceoffs in order to hold my own as a centre. This is because I seem to have a near optimal build for forwards in our new Simon T Hockey Simulator meta, where I have a lot of points in shooting and not as many points in passing. Because of this, I'll be able to wheel, snipe, and celly like no one's business. No longer are we getting pucks in deep, but our only focus from here on out is to get pucks on net -- because we all know that we miss a hundred percent of the shots we don't take. This is why I will be focused on slinging as many pucks on net as I can and worrying about nothing else. I think a line of Wagstrom, Clapper, and Zheng could be the highest scoring line in the league as long as we're all on the same page about shooting the puck as often as possible.

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Quote:15. Written, up to 5 TPE Pick up to 5 Challenge Cup related topics to write about! Each topic is worth 1 TPE. Each answer must be 50+ words to qualify.
D. Which player name is your favorite from the rosters of these two teams? (not your favorite player, but your favorite name)

Definitely Tony Pepperoni. That is almost the best name in the whole league, second perhaps only to Thicc Cheezy. With a name like that, Tony deserves to win evey award in the league and hoist the Challenge Cup at least 10 times in his career. If we're just going by quality of name alone, there's no one else in these finals who even comes close.

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Quote:18. Casual Member Special, 3 TPE max

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