3. Written, 3 TPE (150 words min.)
I'd takeover the body of Jules Watt. With Parker Smebs insane degree of skill and hockey sense I might actually be able to help Jules produce like an actual SHL defensemen should and finally have a season he can be proud of. The main thing I'd be able to improve is Jules Watts laziness which held him back his entire career. I'd also help him out big time by having a productive SHL season so he could finally have a chance at actually getting the Jules Watt Dedication Award turned into a reality. I'd also help gives Jules a chance at being inducted into the Syndicate HOF. Depending on how i'm feeling I might decide to play another 10 seasons and due to my innate ability to build star players help him make the actual SHL HOF while never passing 1000 TPE before regression. With Parker Smeb controlling Jules Watt the tagline of "exceptional" may finally fit his player.

7. Written, 3 TPE (150 words min.)
I think Chicago would still be a dominant team on STHS. We were gearing our roster to be competitive long-term on STHS and were able to adapt to FHM when it came fairly easily. I think we'd be a top 3 team most seasons but it's hard to say if we'd have more cups or not. Unlike FHM, the most dominant teams on STHS didn't always win. The "randomness" of STHS gets overplayed by people who didn't spend a long time playing on it. STHS as a sim engine was actually a lot more like real hockey than FHM is. GM's just got salty when they'd build a better roster on paper and lose and complain that it's too random, which is funny since now the main GM complaint is that they can't win with a shittier roster on paper. FHM is actually more like the NBA than it is like the NHL where you can generally pick 3-4 teams at the beginning of the year and 99% of the time one of them will win the cup. STHS made the middle teams more competitive which made for a more fun and interesting league although FHM does have it's major pros like live sims, beyond that pre exploits STHS was still easily the better engine. I think Chicago would probably still have won a cup, but I think we'd probably have won earlier on than we did and probably have randomly missed the play-offs a couple times with a great roster on paper, as would other top FHM teams since it was the nature of the beast on STHS.


12. 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.
a. Teams who make the finals always deserve to be there, otherwise they wouldn't be there. Especially on FHM where the most important thing is building a top roster on paper which isn't easy. Chicago and Buffalo have both been top teams for seasons for a reason and if they didn't deserve to continuously be top teams in the league then someone else would take their spot from them.
b. I mean this is a weird comparison. Buffalo has been in the league longer and is more successful relative to Chicago, But Chicago is impressive due to their entire draft/game plan their first season being hard flamed by pretty much the entire league including other GM's when those GM's had no idea about the circumstances behind the draft or their moves but still flamed Chicago for being a bad expansion pick. Chicago having long-term success just goes to show it doesn't matter what the rest of the league thinks about your moves/decisions since most of their opinions really don't matter, as long as you actually know what you're doing.
c. I love everything about the Syndicate theme/logo and colors. The only nitpick I have is less of a nitpick and more of a fun fact in that the original team name was going to be the Mafia but was changed due to the fear of SHL rejecting it for being too violent. I think Syndicate ended up being the right call and the team is more interesting as a theme than flat out being the Mafia.
d. I'd pick CC2 for Chicago who was an integral part of the early Syndicate teams and should probably be the first induction into the Syndicate HOF once the new GM's set it up. Beyond that, the Smebs are the most distinctly Chicago players and will always be integral to Chicago history. Kind of hilarious how SHL history could be different if we all got drafted to different teams instead of just Chico getting drafted to Calgary. I don't think any GM's even reached out to Kyl, and only one GM besides Chicago reached out to me.

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