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**bbjygm** · 02-25-2022, 01:38 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.

excellent

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2. Written, 3 TPE, Back In My Day (150 words min.)

The SHL has been around for the sim-time equivalent of 63 years now! That’s a lot of time for things to change. What was the league like 62 years ago in season one? Did nobody wear helmets? Were players allowed to smoke on the ice? Plenty would have changed in over six decades!

Back in my day we could buy 10 TPE for a quarter! And we worked for our equipment updates, not like the lazy generation of [CURRENT YEAR]! The ice was made from frozen white rhino tears and infused with cocaine. Back then, hockey stopping on the ice and spraying other players was seen as a compliment, and the targeted player would snort the ice out of the air or risk offending the stopper. Back then, people weren't so sensitive; we could use slurs like "booger picker" and "PT-not-so-great-writer-er" and no one would get offended. But also back in my day people respected each other and were wholesome, unlike the current generation! But also back in my day people didn't take shit from no one, but we were all so wholesome and sunny toward each other, except when they were insulting each other but not having feelings hurt. Basically back in my day hypocrisy hadn't been invented yet.

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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. Los Angeles has been riding their top players for almost a full minute more of ice time than Hamilton has theirs. If you were a coach, do you buy into this strategy? Do you let your top guys leave it all out there every night or aim for the most balanced attack possible?

b. Guy O'Shea and Evangelos Giannopoulos have been absolute block machines for Hamilton in the playoffs with 109 between them. If you’re looking for offense in this series, how do you get around these two defensemen?

c. Los Angeles’ defense, on the other hand, has not been afraid to join the play and put up points. How do you prepare for a five player offensive attack? How do you counter?

d. The starting goalies for these teams, Olof Karsikko and A Jobin have been nearly unbeatable up to this point with a 0.937 and a 0.927 SV% respectively. If you’re a player on the other team, how would you get inside their heads so that you can put the puck in the net?

a. As an IRL coach I don't think I'd put so much on the team leaders, but as an SHL coach I'd force my best to play all the time. They can't get injured and if their stamina is high enough it shouldn't make much of a difference and the line synergy would get a great boost with their frequent play.

b. It seems to be difficult to get around those two defensemen, so I wouldn't go around: I'd go through. As a team we'd train our slap shot accuracy so much that any individual would be able to either punch it between their legs, deflect off their body just slightly and still get the goal, or literally make a hole through their bodies just to get it to the other side of them.

c. I think one way to prepare for a full offensive is to outfit your team with surprise-based gadgets. Each players' stick would be able to suddenly split in half for double the puckhandling potential, while each players' skates would have stomp-activated jet boosters to take advantage of even the slightest hiccup in their formation for an easy breakaway.

d. I'd think of super mean insults to whisper in their ears, like, "hey Olof, I hear you get car sick-o," and, "more like C- Job." I'd also whisper sexual innuendos like, "I bet your name isn't the only thing that's long," and, "meet me after and I'll give you a blow Jobin." That'll get them distracted.

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11a. Written, 2 TPE - The Procrastinator Special! (100 words min.)

Congratulations, procrastinator!  Through your terrible time management skills, you’ve unlocked a special task! [TEAM] has won it all! Was it an exciting final, or predictable? Did anything surprise you about the outcome? What players performed above or below what was expected of them?

11a. Yay, the (looks it up) *ugh* Steelhawks have won it all. Again. The buildup to the final round was cool, as it was nice to see the Panthers start ramping up their potential. However seeing the Steelhawks in the finals again, and also winning the cup, is just getting old. Hamilton has been in the finals 8 of the last 11 playoffs, so it's really becoming a matter of who will contend with the Steelhawks this year than which two teams will make it to the end. It was cool seeing the Panthers get as far as they did, tying it up 2-2 in the final series. They were just two games away from a cup and I wish them luck in the future and hope they can maintain the contention.

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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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Post your claim in the milestones thread for tpe earned per stat, and then link that post in your CW submission. This is done because the person who grades CW will be a different person than double-checks milestones.

+2 TPE

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21. Written, 2 TPE, No take backs 2 100 words min

Leviadan has made the grave mistake of becoming PT director. I'm already sapping his life source and joyful innocence (yum). How could you, as a user, also make his job unnecessarily difficult? Make media about his shit PT prompts? Write your submissions in Spanish?

DISCLAIMER: IF YOU DO ANYTHING TO MAKE HIS JOB HARDER YOU WILL BE BANNED 

As a user, I could make a thunderdome post for every PT Leviadan ever makes. That'd be a great use of my time. As a PT contractor, I could toss in subtle inconsistencies in the grading to sabotage his credibility. Some missing TPE here, extra TPE there, and if no one notices by the end of a season I'll submit an anonymous complaint to HO that "accidently" leaks out (probably via a thunderdome post) to rile up the masses with some SHL drama. But I'd never do that. I swear. Or I could join Slash and sap some of his life force and joy. That'd be nice in these COVID-influenced times.

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