S60 Championship Week

S60 Championship Week

NorwegianDemon
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#128

08-12-2021, 09:52 PM

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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?

On the ice, Salzberger ended up being quite disappointed by the season he had, he didn’t score as many goals as he wanted and he didn’t get has many points as he hoped for, and the Falcons ended the season in crushing fashion with an early exit in their first playoffs series, which is not what Lillehammersson hoped for during his last few games in the SMJHL. Off the ice, he had a pretty quiet season, since he kept mostly to himself, and he is a bit scare of going too far from his home since he lives in Detroit. However, he did get in a small car crash during the season, and he had to use the city public transportation system for a couple of days while he left his car at the garage to get some repairs. Fortunately, he didn’t witness anything outrageous in the city buses during this time.

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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.

If the SMJHL main goal wasn’t being a development league first and foremost, I would definitely favor playoffs with eight teams to make the regular season more important and more meaningful. However, since the SMJHL goal is to develop players, I think everyone should have a change to play in the playoffs every season, even if their team gets destroy in the first round. I think the SMJHL should go forward with a system where all 14 teams make the playoffs, the only difference between having 12 and 14 is that in the first case, four teams will get a bye during the first round, while only two will get one in the second case which is not an important difference.

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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?

From my experience with my first player, I think my carer junior career would have gone better if will still use STHS. There were fewer attributes to distribute your TPE on, so it would have been much easier to only focus on the attributes in which I wanted my player to excel at. Since I wanted to be a fast-goal scorer, in STHS I would have focused my TPE investment on scoring and speed, while in FHM, you need to invest in a lot of different attributes to be a good goal scorer, but I like the fact that you can have a more personalized player in FHM, while with STHS, every goal scorer would be the same. I also think I would have been a more dominant player in my last season if we kept using STHS, since players with higher TPE would usually dominate, moving the TPE limit for junior players to 425 would have had a bigger impact in STHS from what I remember.

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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.

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a. The salt special: Do these teams deserve to be here? Or were they gifted a trip to the finals through puck luck and bullshittery?

Both teams deserve to be there, Buffalo beat Hamilton, who was the second-best team during the regular season, and they also beat Atlanta, who was having a Cinderella run in four games. While Chicago may not have faced team as well as the one the Stampede play against, they did remarkably well, and they have only lost four games these playoffs.

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b. Buffalo has been here many times in the past 20 seasons, this is only the second (I think I'm too lazy to check) time for Chicago. Which is more impressive? The continued dominance of Buffalo? Or the solid couple of runs Chicago has made despite the team only being 15 seasons old?

I think Buffalo ability to reach the final regularly is more impressive. I personally think that after their first five seasons an expansion team is on the same level as everyone else, since they would have had enough time to build their team, which means Chicago should have made the final more time to match Buffalo accomplishment.

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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

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