S60 Championship Week

S60 Championship Week

hhh81
SHL GM
Brennan Lee Mulligan Stan

#77

08-10-2021, 08:00 PM

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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.

Like in Pokemon, my goal is not to be champion if I were to step into the PokeSHL. In real life, I would aspire to be a talented trainer who works as an early gym leader. Sure, I have some really powerful Pokemon in my back pocket to crush the life out of rookies, but I rather help the young folks build their confidence early in their journey. I’ll challenge you, push you to become your best, but be okay when you move onto bigger things down the road. The PokeSHL is the same—I love the J and think it’s the best part of the site, so I would want to take on a similar role in the new PokeSHL and turn young guns into monsters. I don’t like breeder so much as turn a profit on helping young rookie PokePlayers transform and move on to bigger lights.

Don’t ask me what Pokemon different players would be. Nothing good will amount from that idea. ( @sve7en is Farfetch’d; don’t ask me why).

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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...

Oh man, you aren’t even ready for this. So I would pull the ol’ double switcheroo. I would first inhabit the body of league superstar Aron Hernadivic just to MonStars his elite passing and skill and then take it to put it into everyone’s favorite Swedish meatball, Gunnar Soderberg @sköldpaddor. The old man of the Syndicate’s forward group has been up and down coming off his knee surgery. He put up a career high in points in the regular season jut to fall off in the playoffs. For these finals, on his way to playoffs MVP, I would revive Soderberg’s previous finals accolades by going on a dominant stretch to pull Chicago to the Cup win and his second Razov trophy. You go, Gunnar! To beat the best, you gotta take down the best, and Hernadivic’s star has to dim for Soderberg to retake his place in the sun for one more glory moment.

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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.

I know my stance is not well-received by many, but I’ve been a staunch pro-everyone makes playoffs person for a long time. The purpose of the SMJHL is to orient new users to the site/community and drive involvement. Having everyone in playoffs helps in that regard. I can understand the detractors—the playoff format is flawed, it devalues the purpose of the playoffs, it makes things too long (okay the last two I don’t buy into), etc. I think at the end of the day, the purpose of the league needs to take center stage (and the purpose isn’t winning at all costs). I want to see everyone in the playoffs; more rounds leads to more series, which can help build up some rivalries (see the forever matchups between Maine and Newfoundland or those great CAR-VAN series we’ve seen throughout the S50s). I think HO needs to seriously look at other options and make the best choice for the league, whether that be standing pat or making adjustments.

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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? 

For you FHM babies: What if we were still in Simon T land? Would your career be where it is now? Or would randomness have stunted the dynasties you may or may not have been part of?

I think this is fascinating. Cassius Darrow already has had a pretty good career. If we stayed in STHS, I think he would have been a good-but-never-elite player in any way (as it’s impossible to build the way I wanted to build in STHS especially post-exploit). I wanted to build a great pass-first, two-way defender who played a clean game. In STHS that meant not taking a bunch of hits/PIMs and being offensively inferior to the Scoring-based builds.

If my whole career was in FHM, oooooh boy, then I think Darrow would have not only broken the blocks record, he would have set it on fire and kept the record for a good bit. Now, I know I’m likely going to be one of the first other players to break 2000 career blocks, but even if I hold on long enough to take 1st place from (likely) Mathias Seger, I won’t hold it very long with all these young guns who had their careers in all/primarily FHM. Being a late 40s player really makes it hard to evaluate for HOF purposes.

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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.

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17. Milestones, up to 3 TPE

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