5. 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. (2 TPE)
    I have a lot of mixed feelings about this question. Given the Playoff structures available, there will have to be teams excluded. I get where some people want to have more competition in the SMJHL, and so they’d want only 8 teams in the Playoffs. Especially with some of the strangeness that may be required of conferences and divisions, I really don’t like that idea. In general, since the SMJHL is supposed to help people get invested in the league and learn how to participate, I’m of the opinion that it should continue to be a 12 team playoff since that gets the maximum number of teams participating that we can in the available formats. Given the ability to expand it to a 14 team Playoff in the SMJHL, I’d definitely be in support of it. Playoff berths for all teams in the SMJHL is a good thing since it keeps people involved longer. (154 Words)

7. 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? (3 TPE)
    I didn’t get to play a ton of time in the STHS era, but I did get a little bit of experience with it to compare to FHM. If we stayed in STHS, I think it would very quickly have become a rat race where the team with the most TPE definitely stands the best chance of winning. By the time I came into the league in S51, there was already sort of an established meta about what worked with STHS builds. I think the meta would have changed into min-maxing as close to an exploitative build as the rules would allow, and it’d be every team trying to catch a piece of Hamilton’s magic. I think it’s reasonable to expect that Chicago, Buffalo, and Hamilton would still be heavy hitters, with Texas on the periphery. I’m not sure if Toronto would still be on the periphery since we had so many problems tanking in STHS. I think I’d personally be getting bored or have already left the league. I like the variance in builds and logic that has come with FHM and getting to be a truer Playmaker. (182 Words)

9. Create a magazine cover. (3 TPE)


15. CW TRIVIA (+3 TPE)
    Daisy

16. 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? (+2 TPE)
    I didn’t get to launch my own heist, but I got called in for a few of them. For a date, I gotta start with what I know about Luke: he likes history and stats. I think if cost and location are no issue, a day going through the various Smithsonian museums at the National Mall in Washington, DC would be pretty good. I think, in particular, the Smithsonian Castle and the Museum of American History would be the ones to focus on, since they have the most exhibits about pop culture and American sports. For lunch, there’s a variety of interesting upscale restaurants around that area, since it’s close to the Capitol, or we could have a picnic in the park between the Lincoln and Washington Memorials. I’d have to get some input into what kind of food Luke likes. (141 Words)

17. Milestones, Up to 3 TPE
    Link to Milestones - 8/3 Achieved.