S55 Championship Week

S55 Championship Week

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09-04-2020, 02:04 AM

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

Reflection on your season - how did your player fare on the ice this season? Did you meet or surpass your individual player goals or did you come up short? Whether you excelled or disappointed - what can you attribute that to? What will you try to do better next season?

Personally, I think that while my player was a great defenseman this season, he didn't live up to the expectations I had for him. And honestly, he may not have even been a great defenseman. He had a very significant number of blocked shots, 79, which was good for 19th in the league, and being top 20 in any stat makes me pretty proud as an undrafted free agent coming back from failure. But the rest of it just wasn't too hot. Only 14 points across the 50 game season, 13 of them being assists. My single, solitary goal was the unsatisfying filling sandwiched between the whopping 53 missed or saved shots I made. So not a disappointment, because of the blocked shots, but I need to work on a lot. And the single biggest thing I need to work on should be pretty self-evident: I need to make my shooting and scoring better. Upgrade accuracy, upgrade range, possibly even redistribute away from passing some. Whatever I need to do to make Kimanje into the sniping clutchmaster I want him to be.

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This offseason will be extra exciting, as it features the rare expansion draft! Write about how you think the expansion draft will play out, either for one or both of the expansion teams or from an SHL team's perspective.

As a double general manager in both the International Simulation Football League and the Pro Baseball Experience, I have been a part of two expansions so far and will be a part of another two in only days. Generally, you will have a team that selects mostly older players who have a couple or three seasons left in them that will help them make a run at an early trophy, and then a team that takes all lower-TPE players and takes the approach of 'tank now so we can be good later.' This past PBE expansion, the Detroit Demons (which I was awarded and am the current GM of) took the former route and the New Orleans Rougarous took the latter. Detroit is now a bottom feeder of the league and are having to rebuild because of some unexpected retirements by 1200+ TPE players, while New Orleans has a great young core and is set to be a force to be reckoned with in years to come. In the S22 ISFL expansion, the Sarasota Sailfish took the former route and the Honolulu Hahalua took the latter route, although the differences were not as pronounced in this league. Strangely, with one fourth of the season left to play in S24, both teams sit atop their divisions as the 1 seeds. Both have had equal success, but whether attributed to the different sims or how easy it is to be good in ISFL as compared to PBE, it's hard to say. However, I would be very confident in saying that the SHL expansion draft will play out the same way.

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It's too late for this go-around of expansion, so hypothetically - should there be SHL franchises in other continents? I saw some interesting European proposals in the PT. Should these - or proposals for any other continent that's not North America - 

 become a reality in the SHL?

I most definitely think expansion teams should be allowed on other continents. As shown by now both the International Simulation Football League and the Pro Baseball Experience, international teams can have very fascinating brandings and color schemes. We are in a simulation world, after all, and nearly 50 years into the future. Why not add some expansion teams to other continents? I'd love to see an expansion team in South Africa, or Australia, or Peru, or perhaps Russia. It allows for a greater diversification of the league, it interacts with a wider userbase, even if it is only slightly wider, and perhaps most importantly, allows for some incredible unique brandings based on the continent's culture. I love the idea.

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6. Written, 2 TPE (100 words min.) The world's hottest app is TikTok - which SHL or SMJHL player would have the biggest following on TikTok? What do they post there?

It's gotta be my player, James Kimanje. He's from Uganda, so he has a beautiful, silky smooth Ugandan accent. He's familiar with American trends, but has no idea what many of those trends mean. James would gain his popularity and build his following by creating reaction videos to the hottest trends at the time. He would ask the audience what was going on in the video he was watching and make surprised comments in his deep voice, which when combined with the facial expressions of confusion, excitement, shock, horror, and humor he would make, I cannot think of any SHL player that would be more successful on the app.

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13. Written, up to 4 TPE Pick up to 4 Challenge Cup related topics to write about! Each topic is worth 1 TPE. Each answer must be 50+ words.

e. There are several animal names in this series - which of these animals is the coolest? sloth, hippo, otter, monkey, fox, kirby.

Otters! They are known for being the adorable little aquatic creatures that have a special rock that they love like a pet. They will go looking for their rock if they lose it and will cuddle with it as they float asleep on their backs. Also, in the ISFL, the Otters have won 8 Ultimus and are GMed by yours truly!