S63 Championship Week

S63 Championship Week

Gordon Bombay
Graphic Graders
Senior Member

#227

03-06-2022, 09:57 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.

Allo

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4. Written, 3 TPE, Extinction Event (150 words min.)

Rumour has it that millions of years before the SHL began, there was a pre-historic “Dino Hockey League” that dominated the global sports market before a meteor wiped out most life on the planet. Describe that ancient league. Maybe name a couple of teams or players, tell me about how the Dino league’s rules differed from our current ones? This one is pretty loose, just have fun with it!

In the Dino hockey league, there was only one team. The name of this ancestral hockey team was the Coolorado Raptors. None of the dinosaurs that played in the league knew what colorado was. But it sounded pretty cool. There was only one team and other dinosaurs gathered some other dinosaurs to challenge the Raptors. The Coolorado Raptors were composed of only tyranosaurus Rex and they had long hockey sticks because they had pretty short arms. They were ferocious and often ate the others teams. That’s one of the rules that differ from the present-day SHL. Right now it’s illegal to eat the other team. But in the dinosaur era, it was legal. They never lost a game of all their dinosaur's life. One day they were playing a bunch of long neck dinosaurs that eat plants and the Raptors(T-Rex) were trailing 123 to 0 in the third period. A meteor fall on earth, every dino died and that’s how the Raptors kept their perfect record.

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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.

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?

If I was a player of the Hamilton Steelhawks I would employ a super-secret strategy to distract Olof Karsikko the Los Angeles Panthers goalie. I would give a citizen 10k shl buck and give him two seats each game. The seats would be located behind the goalies and he would switch seats during the intermission. The citizen would then play trumpet all game. With this super-secret strategy, I am confident that Olof save percentage would drop to minimum 0.935.

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9. Written, 3 TPE, Bodysnatchers 150 words min

You've uncovered a devious plot employed by the Texas Renegades of the SHL. In order to create the [i]illusion[/i] of parity, sometime after game 1 they swapped bodies with all of the Los Angeles team! The Panthers ARE the Renegades! I fucking knew it! How do you expose this to the SHL masses, and get them to believe you? Or do you let their evil plan work, and have the SHL believe we are leaving the era of the big 4 forever?

There are times in life when it’s better to not know the truth. Lying can be good sometimes. So I would keep this devious plot a secret. The league is happy right now with Los Angeles in the final (even if the fakangeles did not win and the Hamilton Steelhawk did). Nature is healing and the number of parity-related tasks is decreasing. The new commissioner (WBF) has announced a new rule that will help parity. The gms would not be able to use the players sliders. So we are going toward parity. It’s even more apparent when we consider the new regression rule that would start to pile up. If I exposed the plot, there would drama, Thunderdome thread, and gm resigning. We need too many general managers right now so I must stay silent.

All my thoughts are going towards the los angeles players. I hope they are okay and they will be able to play hockey in the simulation hockey league next season.

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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.