S60 Championship Week

S60 Championship Week

Gwdjohnson
SHL GM
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#140

08-13-2021, 10:02 AM (This post was last modified: 08-15-2021, 09:00 PM by Gwdjohnson.)

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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.

Time to assemble my Meta Pokeshl team from the top of my head, which will be comprised of all the best suited pokemon to roles on the ice, balancing types as well as I can while also imagining them in hockey roles.

C: Toxapex: This pokemon is a stud defensive wall type of pokemon that can physically dominate other ones and wall out others to winning. This is suited to being a shutdown center type. I would compare them to Seattle's JURT.

Ws: Tapu Koko and Kartana: These pokemon are very fast and pack a hard punch, so they can be very effective sniper types on the wings who can contend for league lead in goals. They're like idk Theo Morgan and Karl Krashwagen?

Ds: Landorus-T and Blissey: More shutdown types who will bring some offensive flair to the table too let's say they could be kind of like Lyle Odelein III and Nicholas Owens.

G: Ferrothorn: Stops fucking everything this dude is a brick wall like whoever was just the best goalie?

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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?

I think my career would have gone better to this point if we stayed on STHS? it's hard to say, I've done solid on FHM but STHS I was on a Hamilton team trending way upwards and doing very well, but that continued into FHM as well where Hamilton was similarly very dominant, but I'd say generally my numbers were better on FHM. As for my time in Seattle, I think in FHM I probably would have been better in general because STHS had a wider spread of scoring among people from different levels of team qualities. If I was on FHM for my time in Anchorage, I think it would have gone much better and I think we definitely could have won a challenge cup. Assclap was very engaged and built great teams that STHS didn't reward him for so I think on an engine that did reward it things would go a lot more as we all expected.

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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.

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?

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?

c. Everyone's a critic: Nitpick one thing about either team's logo, jersey, rink design, goal horn, or general site demeanor.

d. Who is the best player to play for either team? Is it a current player? Retired? Traded? Make your case.

A. I think they were both extremely lucky and bad teams, Seattle should have made the finals over Chicago from the West because they are more pog and cool but Buffalo was basically carried by a really awesome Pepe band gif that was really funny and I loved. These teams are bad but I would say especially buffalo lmao get fucked kekw (this is over 50 words)

B. Definitely Buffalo. These guys know how to run a team for sure. Great GMs great team only a bad coach in jeffie43. Chicago has done well to reach this level but the path of buffalo to being this good is a way better achievement to be proud of. They have made many good trades and drafted many good players with their picks. They did a really good job of copying the tactics aaronwilson put out for Hamilton, in particular (this is over 50 words)

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