S61 Championship Week

S61 Championship Week

crutch
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i was wrong about sea of thieves 2018

#234

10-17-2021, 05:07 PM

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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.

+3 TPE

Verification Word: ligma

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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)

+3 TPE

If I could pick one moment to change in all of SHL’s history, I think that the moment that is the most interesting to me was the Portland rookie paying scandal roughly 15 seasons ago. Following that incident, a lot of the players from Portland mass retired / went inactive and even though that was really tough for the Portland Admirals, they eventually managed to crawl back out and rebranding themselves as the San Francisco Pride. If that incident didn’t happen, I think Portland was on it’s way to becoming a top tier team in the SHL. There were a lot of great members on that team that went inactive because of the drama and how it was handled. Wally was a good GM and maybe tried to skirt the rules a little bit but to have his entire team mass retire on him didn’t do him any favors in terms of GM’ing imo. I would have really liked to see how his Portland team would have been visioned without that black eye on his GM stint in Portland.

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12. Milestones, up to 3 TPE

+3 TPE

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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.

+3 TPE

I think that the parity within the SHL right now is at a pretty good point. There was a really abd time in the SHL in my opinion which kind of killed my love for the website / community when Hamilton took advantage of the Simon T. Simulator to boost their team. That was a bad point in parity because it ruined unique player builds and everyone changed their rosters essentially to become like Hamilton, which good on them for finding it out but it certainly didn’t do me any favors in loving the website. But looking at the way things are shaking out right now, I like the fact that the same teams aren’t making the finals every season like the Dragon’s reign of terror in the mid 30s, which to me means that the SHL is in a more competitive place than ever which is fantastic. Hopefully it continues trending in this direction.

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18. Written, 2 TPE, Baby come back 100 words min

If you had the power to bring back one user to the SHL, who would it be? We're talking full activity, balls to the wall. They could be a banned user, user gone inactive, or someone who's around but doesn't really fuck with SHL anymore. Pick your user and why you want them back that badly? Did you love them, or do you just want to watch the league burn?

+2 TPE

Okay, so I know this probably has been done to death because I haven’t really been reading anyone else’s prompts but I would have brought back Gorlab to the SHL. Gorlab is a great person to have in the graphics community and was a pioneer for a lot of the graphical techniques used in the SHL today. Not to mention he was a good member. I personally enjoyed some of the antics in the way of inciting some ire from other teams as I think that’s a good way to start rivalries and inject some actual care into the league and not just being like “oh jee we lost again”. “But I can see why some people don’t enjoy that as well. That’s just my take.

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21. Written, 2 TPE, Feed my back (its hungry) 100 words min

It's been 2 seasons now and I can always use constructive criticism. What have I done right regarding PTs? What have I done wrong? Was I doing something the wrong way and fixed it? Was I doing something the right way and fuck it up? Do I even deserve 8 mil a season? Any and all thoughts are welcome EXCEPT malicious posts. Do not attack me, or my work. If you have a problem with it, explain why. Don't just say it sucks and its stupid.

+2 TPE

I have to say, I really do enjoy your work as PT director slash. Having multiple prompts in a PT, and being able to be a little more open ended on it and not having to dig into stats is a nice change of pace and many members (including myself) appreciate that. I honestly don’t have any criticisms of your work thus far, even in championship week having like 20 prompts is really nice and makes it so that I don’t have to look and do deep dives into stats just because I don’t have that kind of time anymore, so from a casual member I appreciate that.

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