S60 Championship Week

S60 Championship Week

hotdog
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#181

08-14-2021, 10:37 AM (This post was last modified: 08-15-2021, 05:59 PM by hotdog.)

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3. Written, 3 TPE (150 words min.)

Freaky Friday.. or Monday. Tuesday? Anyhow, I think the finals will be over by Friday barring some kind of Re-sim :grimace: Anyways, I forgot the plot of the movie but there's something about a fortune cookie and now you're in your mom's body! But actually, it's the body of an SHL player, one from Chicago or Buffalo! (If you are on Buffalo or Chicago, you can't be yourself, pick a teammate or opponent). Now that you are them and they are you, what do you do during the big game? Play amazing and turn a scrub into a superstar? Play like a bum and try to help the other team win? Oggle yourself in the mirror? The world is so exciting in a new body...

I would take over the body of my good friend Augustus Wang and reap all the benefits that come from being Augustus Wang. One of these would having the ultimate hookup at SHLKUSH.COM - it's well known that promo code WANG20 can get any first-time user 20 percent off of the products there at shlkush.com, but you'd have to imagine the company's leading spokesperson Augustus Wang would have an even better pipeline to get whatever he wants from there for free, so i would load up on fun products from there. since i don't care about my on-ice performance since I'm not actually him, I'm still me, i wouldn't really mind playing poorly on the ice so i'd probably go out to a bar right before the game and pose for pictures with the fans and they'd all be liek "whoaaaaa dude aren't you supposed to be playing a game of hockey for the buffalo stampede in the challenge cup finals in an hour" and i'd be like "yeah hahaha i'm so chill i can drink a couple of molsons before this game and still be good to go haha i'm the man!"

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What's your prediction for this season's IIHF tournament? Which teams do you expect to do well (or not well)? Which players?

Norway has been very slowly and steadily improving the roster for several seasons in a row now, and it's time for us to put it all together. last season was a big step up, doing much better than we previously had and i think maybe we won bronze? but with very little of the team in regression and even more people unbanking and earning, we're fully ready to blast off. so far the round robin has gone quite well, and i hope we're ready to fly with the traditional big boys and win the gold this time around. Beyond us, I feel that Sweden is probably a team on the rise, as I feel like i've seen several high profile transfers head in that direction. The typical powers of USA and Canada (and a recent power in UK) have shown signs of weakness in the last few seasons, so perhaps it's time for the Scandinavian takeover!!!!! celly otter norway all day long baby

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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. They definitely deserve to be here - there were 4 realistic candidates for the cup this season imo and these were absolutely 2 of them. it wasn't a cakewalk, as texas and hamilton were legitimate threats to each, but no one can really make a convincing case that either of these shouldn't be here now.
b. Definitely buffalo - 15 seasons is absolutely enough to build up a team from the bottom, even if you're not starting out with much. not to diminish what chicago has built, it's still a nice job by them, but it's much harder to be dominant for a really long stretch of time like buffalo has done so their work here is much more impressive to me.
c. chicago's logo is bad cuz it's the face of a guy, you can't be out here having a guy's face as your logo come on! syndicate is a less imageable noun so it's not their fault but you gotta have something cooler than some dude in a fedora, known to be a lame kind of hat (if it's a different kind of hat don't yell at me idk hats)> also i think the chicago logo is fine i just needed the 1 more tpe so i wrote this one lol
d. the best player to ever play for either of these teams is OBVIOUSLY eko van otter - neither of these teams has ever not won the championship in a season where they had eko van otter, and a 100% win rate is the best you could possibly get! therefore eko van otter, buffalo legend, still revered in the LR and in buffalo, is the answer to this prompt.

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