S60 Championship Week

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08-16-2021, 12:51 AM (This post was last modified: 08-16-2021, 12:56 AM by Your Mothers Favorite Goalie.)

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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.

Hello, I do like the Pokemans, it is my favorite thing in the whole wide world. If I was going to be in the SHL Pokeverse, I think I would be one of those trainers you meet on the side of the road while you are traveling that has all their pokemon tailored to be of a certain type. Obviously being a two time Turd Ferguson award winner, and a full time professional shit disturber, I would be a fighting type pokemon trainer. I think I would prolly have 3 pokemon, since the side of the road trainers never have a full deck to work with? idk, its a big plot hole, fix ur shit game freak! Anyways, my three pokemon would be Juni Panda, Pojo Biscuit, and and Joseph Fantobens. They are all proficient in the game of physical play, plus Fantobens totally sounds like a pokemon name already, so its just a perfect fit on the team

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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?

So I think its pretty simple this prompt. FHM both made and ended my career really. Thanks to FHM, I have no longer become the hits, blocks,and penalties machine I always wanted to be. It forces me not to fight, forces me not to hit a lot, and overall it really is pretty disappointing. I want to become a meme, how am I supposed to do that when the sim engine is always holding me back???

That being said though, on STHS as an enforcer I was unwanted. I went in the second round of a weak draft despite being a known user, stayed down for max years in the minors despite max earning for a bit besides extra purchases, and wasnt really even liked in my own SMJHL team. So while FHM ended my career hopes of being a hits, fights, and penalties machine, it also helped me become a player that teams actually wanted and would pay max money for. So take that for what you will

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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) these teams are big stupid. Like its always the same teams every year? who even frickin CARESSSSS! this is like the NBA when it was always just oh boy its just whoever LeBrons team is vs Golden State. could you guys make the playoffs freaking exciting for once in your life? geez dudes get with the program. parity levels nonexistant
b) I would say that Buffalo's run is more impressive, though mostly because I dont know much and am making assumptions based on very old info. All I remember about Buffalo in the not so distant past was that they were an absolute joke of a team. now here they are, transformed into a perennial dynasty. I think that takes a lot of skill to raise a team from ashes like that.

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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.

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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.

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