S60 Championship Week

S60 Championship Week

JURT
All-Star Committee
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#130

08-12-2021, 11:20 PM (This post was last modified: 08-13-2021, 08:48 PM by JURT.)

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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

@LarryTheMVP
This is a song about RART
This guy smells like a fart
He buys all his gear at Wal-Mart
He kinda looks like Paul Blart

He's my brother it's a shame
He's always the one to blame
He'll never get any fame
Because his style is so lame

Seattle ought to trade him
Or send him to the outer rim
Or slit his throat just like Kim
Just kidding he's the best in the sim

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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'm not sure what's available for us to use in FHM as far as playoff formats go, but I think the most teams the better for the SMJHL playoffs. First of all, you want them to be as long as the SHL playoffs and that needs as many rounds so given that there's fewer teams in the SMJHL you have to put them all-in. The main point, however, is player retention. Everything that happens in the SMJHL has to have a single goal in mind: player retention. Draft choices, trades, awards, expansions, it doesn't matter how it impacts older users, you need to keep the new ones invested. Having as many of them as possible playing in the Playoffs is obviously the right way to do that.

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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?

While my current player hasn't played during the STHS years, I did have a player back in the days of the old sim engine: Pierre Laroche-Durocher. I think STHS is one of the two main reasons why I didn't stick around after being drafted in the SHL: it seemed very obvious to me that there was one specific way to build a player that was best for every position, you'd want to max certain attributes and not care much about the other ones and yet it would be very random with the results. When I came back to take a look at where the league was back in March 2020, I saw that the move to FHM was happening which gives player a lot more flexibility with their builds and consequentially these choices have much more impact (not mentioning how there's much more customization for lines and tactics too). In STHS, JURT would never have happened. If PLD had played all his time in FHM, he might still be going or would've just retired after a Punishing Defenseman career.

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13. Written, 2 TPE - The Procrastinator Special! (100 words min.)

Welp, you waited until the last day to grind out your CW and the CC finals are longggggggg over by now. congrats to [TEAM], woo! Reflecting back on the series, who gets your vote for series MVP? Make the case why this player deserves it over any other.

There are obviously a lot of good candidates for overall playoffs MVP and/or series MVP in the SHL. Both goalies had incredible stats throughout the playoffs, with Buffalo's Doyle having the upper hand in the end with a final GAA of 2.02 and SV% of 0.926. Mat Smith can't be forgotten on Chicaco's side either: he kept his outshot team in the game at all times during the finals. Many players wrote their names on the scoresheet more often than it was their turn, notably Martijn Westbroek and Aron Hernadivic who both finished the playoffs with well over one PPG. Overall, I think Doyle's game is really what made the difference and she'd be my choice for MVP.

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14. Graphic, 3 TPE - The Procrastinator Special!

Welp, you waited until the last day to grind out your CW and you also like doing graphics instead of writing. That's cool, too! Create a Series Recap broadcast graphic - the contents can be whatever you want, but your graphic must list both teams and at least 3 stats for each.

[Image: SMJHL_Finals_Who_saved_the_day.png?width=483&height=643]

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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.

Championship

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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.

MILESTONES TBD (check back later)