S60 Championship Week

S60 Championship Week

SpartanGibbles
SMJHL GM
Finally a real SHL GM

#213

08-15-2021, 09:29 AM

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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.

3 Milestone TPE Claim

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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.

Verification Word: Royals

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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?

7. As someone whose career got royally dunked on by the swap to FHM, this is a subject near and dear to my heart. For all the great things that FHM brought to our league, it took away one important possibility. It is almost impossible to have a good player on a bad team regardless of TPE. Back in the STHS days, there was a much higher correlation to a player's TPE and their performance in the sim compared to FHM which is much more tied to team strength. There were cases of single 2K players dragging bad teams into the playoffs or leading the league in a few stats. The data becomes more apparent when you look at the crater in Candice's tool for my players production. I was scoring nearly 50 points at around 1300 TPE and immediately struggled to pass the 30 point mark even at 2k TPE. I think the league will get to a good point with recent changes but we also saw the detrimental effect of players leaving teams for the top contenders because it was a way to guarantee point production.

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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

4. When you look at me, what do you see?
The king of Takeaways, stopping all of your breakaways.
No better at stealing, excuse my pass cuz I'm dealing.
Apples to all of my team, the puck hits the net,the crowd screams.
There's no one better at stripping the puck.
You heard what I said, and I don't give a fuck.
Step on my ice and you better beware.
Gibbles is taking the puck while you stop and stare.

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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.

2. My strategy for conquering the PokeSHL is the tried and true method of gathering a cohesive and complementary team. Anyone going for a single type team is a chump and deserves to get swept by a single pokemon. Obviously my Gym would be located in Minnesota.

My Team would consist of:

SpartanGibbles -Nidoking - Eternally my favorite and I share a lot of traits. Big, strong, and versatile to counter the enemy.
KlusteR - Mr Rime - Strong Mentally and able to analyze the enemy strategy and evolve.
BadWolf - Luxray - Quick and cool, able to strike before the enemy knows what's happening.
Segi - Coalassal - The workhorse and driver that comes out of nowhere to level opponents.
Tig - Greedent - Tig is happy and fills a great support role. Also I had one in the games named after him and traded it to him.
Corey - Corviknight - Looks Mean and scary but underneath it all willing to go the distance for their friends.

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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.

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?

12. While I do love the success that Chicago has been able to build as a team, there is something to be said about Buffalo's ability to stay on top of the league. They have been a dominant force for my entire time and it doesn't show any signs of suddenly stopping. I don't think there will be as many invincible teams, but I don't see a bad Buffalo on the horizon.

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