S60 Championship Week

S60 Championship Week

Chevy
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08-07-2021, 10:24 PM (This post was last modified: 08-10-2021, 05:40 PM by Chevy.)

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15. CW TRIVIA, 3 TPE max - 1 TPE for participation, 0.5 TPE for each correct answer. This is completed through a Google form linked below. Make sure to spell your answers correctly or you will not get credit. Post your verification word in your CW post.

Stromboli

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1. Written, 3 TPE, Ups and Downs (150 words min.)

So this was a tough season for everyone in the SHL. Dealing with trolls online, horrible PR from product endorsements, and on top of that all some minor identity fraud to add to the pile. Are these the worst things to happen to your player this season, or did something unimaginably horrible happen? On the flip side, were there any bright spots hidden in the countless nuisances and problems? What good things on and off the ice happened this season for you?

With the exception of Season 57 where Winnipeg went on a tear, each year in fighting a full blown rebuild has left some other successes to be desired. This season, feeling the effects of the beginning of a proper rebuild had left many on the team, myself included, cringing at best as our morale and hope began waning. On top of this, with the product snafu's and the official twitter account getting hacked (my attorney is still recovering from that incident as I type this), so far Season 59 has been hands down the worst season on record for me...both as a player and as a General Manager. On the bright side though, I did end up getting selected to lead one of the junior expansion teams and with @Ace being selected as the new Winnipeg GM, I know the place is left in good hands...which is always a great stress reliever and silver lining.

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

Freaky Friday.. or Monday. Tuesday? Anyhow, I think the finals will be over by Friday barring some kind of Re-sim :grimace: Anyways, I forgot the plot of the movie but there's something about a fortune cookie and now you're in your mom's body! But actually, it's the body of an SHL player, one from Chicago or Buffalo! (If you are on Buffalo or Chicago, you can't be yourself, pick a teammate or opponent). Now that you are them and they are you, what do you do during the big game? Play amazing and turn a scrub into a superstar? Play like a bum and try to help the other team win? Oggle yourself in the mirror? The world is so exciting in a new body...

Freaky day indeed. It was strange that day when I had bumped into Chicago netminder, Mat Smith downtown at Manny's. I forget what he had ordered but I was waiting, of all things, for a "Four Kinder" sandwich. He was excited to be in the Challenge Cup finals again and I had expressed my desire to eventually get there. It was crowded in there that day so once he was leaving we couldn't help but bump into each other. The next day it was strange. I was in a different apartment, in a different bed...with a different lady beside me. I was shocked at first before I caught a glimpse in the mirror. HOW COULD THIS BE! I WAS MAT!. Remembering the great plot of Disney's "Freaky Friday" (both the classic version and the pre-mental breakdown version with Lindsay Lohan), I knew exactly what i had to do. Mat is an accomplished goalie in his own right, but being just a little more veteran...and a master of taking pucks to the face (thanks in part to everyone seeming to take millions of shots when facing Winnipeg)...I knew that with the stronger defense of Chicago in front of me...I could easily help them steal the cup from Buffalo and set up Mat in the record books with an insane playoff save percentage and goals against average. It would be legen......wait for it.....dary!

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5. Written, 2 TPE (100 words min.)

We're adding 2 teams to the SMJHL this season. Do you think we should keep the current SMJHL playoff format of everyone makes it? Or is it time to just take the best 8 or 12 teams and let em duke it out? Defend your stance.

The SMJHL is a development league, hands down. The recruitment team brings people in, and its up to those teams in the juniors to keep people's interest as well as preparing them for the SHL. While I can understand, and appreciate, the idea of all teams making it to the playoffs as a way to maintain interest and excitement...at the same time, it can skew expectations. I believe with the addition of the Grizzlies and the Elk that it is time to take maybe, the top 12 teams only for the playoffs. Introducing a sense of urgency and drive behind the idea of "we could miss the playoffs" helps add to the immersion and realism that some of us try to provide in the SHL overall.

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

We're at a point in the SHL where a good chunk of the playerbase played back in the STHS era, and a good chunk has known nothing but FHM. If you're in the latter part of the league you must have heard the horror stories... so: Let's make a hypothetical.

Players who played in both eras: What would have happened if we just had one sim engine? Posture how your career would have gone if we stayed in STHS (sans exploits). Or what if you had created in FHM the whole time? Would things have gone better or worse?

I understand, sans exploits, that FHM is still the greater sim engine of the two being compared. With that being said, however, with the exception of of the Season 57 run in Winnipeg, all of Strom's best performances have been at the hands of Simon T Hockey Simulator. It isn't the greatest thing in the world, especially just spitting out text based results that ultimately ended up in hours long post-fests on the forum for play by plays...but it is hard to ignore, that for many of us that started in that era, once we made the switch to FHM our careers dropped...some significantly and are still recovering. If we had continued in Simon, I feel that I may have already had a challenge cup and hit career highs in wins, saves, and GAA just like many career goalies that have come before me. Alas, I will never know but must do what I can to salvage a career inside of FHM and hope for the best. If not, its to the retirement sin bin I will probably go.

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16. slash's secret bonus prompt SHHHHHH. Written, 2 TPE (100 words min.)

Luke let you keep the money you stole from him in the heist, and won't tell the authorities. But you have to take him on a wonderful date using the money. How does your evening go? What dining and activities do you have in store for good ol' Lukey boy?

Considering I could only snag about $250,000, it was such a nice gesture of him to let me keep it. We ended up doing, what any newly found rich person and a friend would end up doing. We went to the strip clubs and made new friends in Jasmine and Myrtle (she had a huge thing for Luke and Manhattan. Apparently she was originally from Queens). Then we went and dropped a bunch at the track hoping to extend what we had left into something more and then ultimately ended up reserving an uber for the rest of the night as we went from bar to bar before ending up at Madison Square Garden for a Knicks game. There was that incident where we were almost arrested at the Empire State building...but that's another story, for another time.

Milestones: 4

Total TPE: 19/16