S60 Championship Week

S60 Championship Week

Leppish
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#237

08-15-2021, 04:18 PM (This post was last modified: 08-15-2021, 05:04 PM by Leppish.)

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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?

I think if we had stayed with STHS, my old player Geoff Moore would have had a very different end to his career, i probably would have stayed active with him for longer and possibly had a chance to compete for the cup after being traded from Minnesota to West Kendall, now Baltimore Platoon. If it wouldn't have happened there then i think certainly would have had a big chance at winning with Manhattan Rage where i was traded after that. Also my career point totals probably would have stayed higher in STHS than in FHM, as they dipped quite a bit. Outside of Shot blocks where Moore managed to be top-5 in FHM era for the first couple of seasons. If no exploits were discovered, i think the last several cup wins we've seen could be very different. Especially cause people wouldn't be lining up to go to the obvious top teams now like they do in FHM, since there would be way more teams that could be contenders.

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10. Graphic, 3 TPE

Design a Challenge Cup/Four Star Cup Championship banner for one of the teams in the finals, like those which appear on the side of the site.

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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 it is what it is, Buffalo has been a good team for a long time and i think a big part is competent management and loyal people, they have a lot of names on their team that stay there all their careers, often times with their recreates as well. Buffalo also magically gets firsts in every deal the make it seems. So hats off to them. Chicago? Idk, i haven't really followed them much.

B. Buffalo Stampede in my opinion, being able to be a dominant, consistently good team is impressive. When you look at a lot of teams on the SHL they have their run, from a few seasons to maybe 10 if done right. Which is already impressive. But being a competing team 20+ seasons in a row and managing to beat out the cheatSteelhawks too, i don't think chicago can beat that.

C. Chicagos logo and colours aren't that good in my opinion, the text in the logo doesn't fit, and the weird background shape only covering the top half just looks ugly. They could've done a way better job than this for Chicago mafia themes. Their uniforms also just look like copies of the NHLs Boston Bruins.

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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.

Blebberoonie

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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)