Quote:1. 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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Quote:2. Written, 3 TPE, What if...? (150 words min.)
Pick a moment in SHL history to change. It could be something large, an expansion draft, sim engine change, or something smaller, like a trade or team punishment. Change something about this moment in the SHL and explain the impact the difference would make in how the league developed since that moment. (think Butterfly Effect)

If I could go back and change all the time that has passed since we made the switch to fantasy hockey manager 6 in season 51 till now, I would have leaked the wide spread use of performance enhancing drugs across the simulation hockey league. We would have adopted the Singaporean laws surrounding the possession and use of illegal substances and punish anyone infringing with the death penalty. As a result, members of teams such as the Hamilton Steelhawks, would be eliminated and forced to field teams filled with all star players such as vigo mortensen and legends such as knut knurtssen. Most notably on the chopping block, Gabriel Johnson and Augustus Wang would be some of the prominent names being beheaded and have their heads staked along the boards to remind others to not do drugs like they were taught in the D.A.R.E. program. We would have teams like the Minnesota monarchs and the Winnipeg arurorura winning the challenge cup instead! Too bad nobody would pay attention to the league anymore.

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Quote:6. Written, up to 4 TPE - Grab Bag: Pick up to 4 Challenge Cup related topics to write about! Each topic is worth 1 TPE. Each answer must be 50+ words.

a. Hamilton was not taken to 7 games, Texas enjoyed two series sweeps, which team had the harder path to the final in your opinion?
b. Almost ten seasons ago, in S53, Hamilton enjoyed a 40 win season while Texas mustered a measly 9 wins. Now these two teams sit atop the season standings, and the playoff standings. Which is more impressive, to stay good for a decade, or to complete the rebuild and finally achieve greatness?
c. What is a renegade? What is a steelhawk? Who is Victor Helstrom from the CW trivia?
d. Who is the best player to play for either team? Is it a current player? Retired? Traded? Make your case.

a.) the Hamilton steelhawks definitely had the most difficult path to the challenge cup finals! They faced so much adversity along the way like playing the league like a fiddle with how they once again cheated to the top of the league! They did a great job of making the rest of the league lose interest and using that against all of their opponents. (63 words)
b.) the Texas renegades are definitely the more impressive team in comparison because they have fought harder only to come up short just like every other team in the simulation hockey league that is not named the buffalo stampede or Hamilton steelhawks! You need to admire the fact that the Texas renegades, along with all of the other simulation hockey league teams, that they are content with always coming in second unless something extreme happens! (74 words)
c.) a renegade is a person who is content with getting absolutely stomped by a steelhawk that is juiced to the teeth with steroids and only fights dirty. Fortunately or unfortunately, steelhawks are fictional characters who actively cheat the league to their own benefit which is similar to a stampede of buffalo. (51 words)
d.) the best player to play for either team is Gabriel johnson who is known as the initial mastermind behind the cheats of the Hamilton steelhawks organization by introducing them to performance enhancing drugs such as “shooting the puck as much as you can”. Gabriel johnson may as well be retired because his corpse is slowly rotting away on the Edmonton blizzard. (61 words)

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Quote:12. Milestones, up to 3 TPE
Milestones are folded in with CW. So just link your Milestone claim as task 12 for up to 3 TPE towards your 16 total.

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Quote: 13. Written, 3 TPE, Parody (150 words min.)
There has been some discussion on the forums but its always good to hear more opinions: Parity. Going back 6 seasons including this one there have been 4 teams in the finals: Buffalo, Chicago, Hamilton, and Texas. If you add New Orleans you can go back 8 seasons. 5 different teams for 8 straight finals. Is this an issue? Does it need to be fixed? Can it even be fixed? I'm interested to hear opinions, approaches, or just doom and gloom on whether you think this will change, or if we will still be talking about the same teams making the finals over and over in 5 seasons.

The simulation hockey league is never going to see parity at any point and it has been this way for years and years because the people in charge of the bad teams in the league are unable to properly manage their teams. Nobody wants to sit forever on a trash bottom feeder team whose players are going to eventually ask out or leave in free agency because there is no optimism when you are a member of the bad teams in the league. You aren’t engaged in the sim and it feels like you are wasting your time by taking part in the league. If these trash teams want to be anywhere near the top at any point in the future they need to go hard at keeping their players active on discord and keeping them happy with an optimistic future. If it wasn’t for me being part of buffalo, I would have wanted to be on Hamilton and there was no other team that would have come close. (169 words)

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