S62 Championship Week

S62 Championship Week

Chevy
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#18

12-20-2021, 04:08 PM (This post was last modified: 12-20-2021, 06:08 PM by Chevy.)

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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.

Stromboli

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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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2. Written, 3 TPE, GM stands for Great Man (150 words min.)

There have been some good and some bad GMs in SHL history. (Mostly bad) Pick a GM you think was outstanding and explain why you think they were one of the better GMs in SHL history. Point to trades/signings/trophy wins/locker rooms to support your claim.

I will obviously have a little bit of bias when it comes to my experience with GM's. In my limited tenure here on the website I have had the privilege to learn from and work alongside some absolutely amazing GM's of the SHL. For this task though, I'm going to focus on a specific combo who were my guides when I first dipped my toes into GM'ing (offline, not in the SHL because people need a sandbox first right? Right!?). I'm talking about the Outlungus era Anaheim duo of @SpartanGibbles and @BDonini who were both crucial in getting Strom on the ice, but through whom I learned quite a bit in the days of STHS for tactics and testing...and then into the FHM transition being extremely encouraging in theories, answering questions about becoming a GM and above all, showing me what a good discord locker-room looks like. Not only for engagement, but for resources and information. What I learned from those two has been a basis on everything that I've done since from WJC, to Winnipeg Co-GM to now GM of the Grizzlies.

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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. What is worth more to you, a cup win in the FHM era or the STHS era?

b. Be honest, would we have seen the same final 4 as last year (Chicago, Texas, Hamilton, Buffalo) had BUF/HAM and TEX/CHI not run into each other in the second round?

c. Hamilton has a population of roughly 5 people. Where would you relocate the franchise?

d. Who is the best player to NOT make the final in the past 2 years?

A) A cup win in the FHM era, to me is going to be worth more. Despite all of the current arguments on parity and such with repeat teams in the championships I do feel that because of the depth of programming in FHM, you really do have to work much, much harder to get to the top.
B) As cookie cutter as these four teams are trying to be to each other (following Hamilton's lead of course) I believe it would have been the same final four. There have been massive improvements in competing teams like Baltimore, Tampa Bay and Toronto but despite this the "Hamilton Build" for a team is still the dominant one in the league.
C) I'm not sure why I did, but I misread this as 5 million, not just...five. If I could re-locate the franchise I would move them to St. Louis. Yeah, it a homer pick for me. Yes, there's already a J team there but gosh darn it they can sure have an SHL franchise there as well. St. Louis is just a great sports town and if, in the SHL universe they could have a major league team there...why not move the steelhawks.
D) The best player to not make the final is going to be a goaltender. It will either be Harry Carpet or Luca Del Vecchio. These goalies are elite and top notch. How efficiently they've been able to steal games for their teams has led to the terms of "Being Carpy'd" or "Being Bap'd" respectively. They deserve to get into the finals and a chance at a cup in order to polish off a storied career.

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19. Written, 3 TPE, Groundhog Day 150 words min

You log on to the SHL. Oh shit gotta do your Finals Predictions. Yay Hamilton Texas finals, love shl parity. Weird, the title says s61 finals predictions but its s62? But wait, all the PTs are labeled s61, we're on activity check #388, and no one is complaining about regression. You must have woken up back at the start of the S61 Finals! What do you do differently now that you know how the next season will play out. Change some of your casino bets? Predict some drama? Cheat at primetime?

Like many, I would enjoy having enough money in the back from contracts and doing work that at some point I would be able to max earn a player without really having to do, well....anything. If it was on repeat and S61 finals were happening I would bust out the SHL's version of Gray's Sports Almanac and start setting myself up to get that sweet sweet 4x parlay to pad my bank account. If Biff Tannen can cheat his way into millions then why couldn't I leverage the gift of foresight to do the same here? Then again, its groundhog's day. If I fell asleep at the end of the season, would it just restart again and I'd be in the terrible loop and never being able to exit? At this point, we will never know. All I know is I'm still writing, still earning...and the easy money hasn't showed up yet. Oh well.

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