3 + 3 + 2 + 3 + 1 + 3 + 1 = 16 TPE
2 + 4 + 5 + 8 + 12c + 15 + 17

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

Pokemon! Everyone loves em, and if you don't, you didn't have a childhood. Or adulthood. Anyways, let's imagine all SHL and SMJHL players are now pokemon. Assemble your team! On top of that, what is your strategy to navigate the POKESHL? Try to get the strongest pokemon and become champion? Catch all of the possible players and complete your pokedex? UwU Breed them? Catch low level juniors players and train them? Or become a gym leader, helping others on their path to greatness? I'd love to hear your approach.

I’ll attempt to assemble a team to become a Fighting Type Gym Leader:
First, I’ll grab @juniped‘s player Juni Panda, a super strong Fighting Type Pokemon.  I’m torn between making them a Pangoro because of the Panda reference, or a Machamp because they got better once they were traded (and for you non-Pokemon Masters, you can only get a Machamp through trading a Machoke).  I think I’ll go with the Machamp due to the symbolism there.
Next up would be @Fantobens‘ player Joseph Fantobens. With Texas’ Primary color being Black, lets have them be Scrafty, the Fighting/Dark Pokemon..
Follow that up with @bbp‘s bruiser Niccolo Livius.  With 20 in Fighting, and coming in at 300 lbs, we’ll give this beefy boy the big Fighting Type Hariyama.
Next will be @The__Y-man__100's player Boris Proshenko.  With how much Boris has had to move around the league (New England, New Orleans, Calgary, Montreal briefly, Chicago), I’ll give them the Flying/Fighting Type Pokemon, Hawlucha.
Finally, as Gym Leaders only have a max of 5 Pokemon, I will go with @LimJahey‘s player Boris Petrov, the SMJHL bruiser.  Since they’ve been inactive for a little bit, I’ll make them a Fighting/Ghost Type, Marshadow.
This is a well-rounded team with good Type Coverage.
    (210 words)

Quote:4. Written, 3 TPE (60 words min.)
Ugh, poetry is so 17th century, we're ditching that prompt. Earlier in the season I had you flex your songwriting in an SHL style parody, but this time you don't have a song to lean on. You're writing your very own diss track about something SHL related. A player, A team, A GM, anything. You can write a diss track about CW if you want.

Here are the rules: At least 12 lines (and at least 60 words total) but if you wanna do more go for it. I'm not laying out a specific rhyme scheme but there has to be rhyme in it. Be creative! This prompt is not for everyone, if you have a problem with it there are like 15 other prompts I made for ya. NOTE: THIS IS ALL IN JEST; ANYTHING OVERLY MEAN OR MALICIOUS WILL NOT BE GRADED. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED

Great Lakes
Hot Takes
It was not a Division full of any fakes.

Number One
The Champion
But missing Playoffs was not fun.

One moved West
Stood the test
Leaving the rest of the League impressed

Two new teams
Joined the regime
But can they keep up their self-esteem

Continuing the tradition
Dominance by definition
Beating the rest of the League into submission.
(63 words)

Quote: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.

I think the competitiveness that comes from a couple of teams missing out on the playoffs can really drive teams to be competitive throughout the whole season to be able to make the Playoffs, rather than just falling back into the Playoffs and making a hot run in those very few games.  Sure the SMJHL is a developmental league, and that more games is always more fun, but I think that having it be that there would be 1 team from each Conference that misses the Post Season will push teams to make sure they are keeping everyone active and involved throughout the whole season.
(105 words)

Quote:8. Graphic, 3 TPE

I'm pretty sure y'all were doing the ring prompt in like 5 minutes on a website... so we'll do something harder. Sorry. Depict the championship parade of either team in the finals. Fans should be wearing the appropriate color clothes and the logo of the winning team should be depicted at least twice in the image.

Quote:12c. Everyone's a critic: Nitpick one thing about either team's logo, jersey, rink design, goal horn, or general site demeanor.

I will forever be against the Buffalo Stampede team mascot.  The city of Buffalo already has plenty of teams with the buffalo animal iconography in the real world: the NFL with the Bills, the NHL when the Sabres had the Buffalo/Slug hybrid (buffaslug), and the Triple-A Baseball with the Bisons.  I just personally feel like it was a lazy selection.
(60 words)

Quote: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.

Fresh

Quote:17. Milestones, up to 3 TPE

Milestones are folded in with CW. So just link your Milestone claim as task 16 for up to 3 TPE towards your 16 total.

1 Milestone Claimed