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nour · 06-22-2022, 08:10 AM

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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.

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2. Written, 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. An LAP team that was disappointed in a S63 finals loss is back again to face a TBB team that has been hungry for their chance in the entire FHM era. Who are you taking as a winner and why?

b. Tampa Bay’s top forwards have been absolute power houses on this run, totalling 102 points across their top 6. If you’re LA, how do you line-match against two lines that are on an absolute tear?

c. L.A.’s D pair of Kierkegaard and Kahnwald are maintaining a shocking 2 more GF/60 than GA/60, despite playing more than 21 minutes a game including PK time. If you’re Tampa Bay how do you get around these two? Hope to outlast them in endurance, or look to more depth scoring? 

d. TBB’s roster has racked up many more shot blocks (294) than LAP has (188). Do you see this as a good thing? Is this an iron willed team that’s willing to lay down their bodies to get the job done, or do you think it paints a picture of a team that can’t maintain possession and has to find another way to keep the puck out. Maybe a bit of both?

a. Personally between these two teams in the Challenge Cup finals I'm going to have to go with the Tampa Bay Barracuda in this match up simply because you can just see how hungry these guys are to win this thing, whereas Los Angeles is on a very long cupless streak and I think the monkey on their back is too big.

b. I think the best thing for the Los Angeles Panthers to do is to play hard shutdown defense with their strong 3rd line against Tampa's top unit, allowing their top lines to thrive offensively without needing to be solely responsible for keeping the Barracuda's top line in check. You can't totally shut down a top 6 as hot as Tampa's, but all you really need to do it try and mitigate it.

c. The answer here for the Tampa Bay Barracuda is honestly multifaceted. It's not as simple as just winning an endurance battle, or flexing some depth scoring, or even playing a more defensive system like the trap or the 1-3-1. At the end of the day, if Tampa wants to out perform Kierkegaard and Kahnwald, they just need take away their opportunities, and capitalize on their own.

d. I think its definitely a mix of both. On the positive side of things, you can just tell how much Tampa is willing to win by sacrificing the body over and over again to be where they are right now, but their underlying possession numbers and shots against are definitely concerning, and is likely at least part of the reason why their shots blocked are so high.

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5. Written, 3 TPE, Mysterious Person 150 words min

Make up an important character from SHL history. Tell me their name, what their job was, and why they’re important. Maybe they were an eccentric team owner? An agent that represented half the league? Heck, make it a real person from SHL history if you want! I’m always down to hear cool old SHL stories!

When it comes to old figures in the annals of the Simulation Hockey League's history, there are few who are as memorable or as important as the first ever Hamilton Steelhawks owner, Drunt Scrink, who may have been the craziest guy who ever owned a team in this league! How so? I'll tell you! He was notoriously superstitious so he made his players walk into the arena in rows of twos and have the same breakfast every single morning for consistency. He also lived in the Steelhawks stadium, turning one of the business suites into his own personal room where he took naps and such. His craziest antic by far though is every single draft day, for good luck he would do a silly little dance at centre ice, and send it to whoever the General Manager is at the time and say "Hey my friend, today is your day, all the good luck's coming to you, I will dance for you". He also did a lot of cocaine but hey, which multi-billionaire owner doesn't am I right?

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7. Milestones, 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.

3 TPE from this shit baby

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13. Graphic, 1 TPE, DALL-E? More like WINN-ING!

Since the ring task was unbelievably easy, I thought I’d try out another insanely easy graphics task. Try using OpenAI’s DALL E Mini to generate a Challenge Cup related image. It could be a championship ring, your player lifting the cup, a locker room celebration. Go nuts as long as you’re attempting to make it SHL related! The results will be weird, but it’s fun!  

LINK: https://huggingface.co/spaces/dalle-mini/dalle-mini

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23. Written, 2 TPE, How Are You? (100 words min.)

Instead of asking you about other people this season, I figured I’d ask about you! How are you feeling? Take a couple of minutes to write about what’s going on in your life and how you’re feeling lately. I think taking the time to write things down helps me appreciate or understand them better, so maybe this could help you! Or you can just rant about your cat annoying you for 100 words and collect 2 TPE. I guess that works too.

I've been doing pretty okay lately, some up and some down as per usual. I graduated just a few months ago from Graphic Design so I'm currently just doing some design work for fun/for the SHL to boost my portfolio as I hunt for a job, and in the meantime I'm still working my shitty retail job which sucks but it pays the bills. I've been playing Minecraft again with all the homies in the Hamilton server and that's always a good time, so that's been really fun, and in a week I'm going to Vancouver for JumpierPegasus' wedding with some of the guys in Hammy as well, so that's gonna be a really fun time I can't wait for that.

**First GM in SMJHL history to win 3 Four Star Cups back-to-back-to-back**

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