1. CW TRIVIA, 3 TPE max - 1.5 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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3. Written, 3 TPE, It Gets the People Going! (150 words min.)
There’s been some great Stanley Cup Playoff marketing campaigns over the years. Lots of us probably know the “Because it’s the Cup” series of commercials, for example. Well for the S66 playoffs we’ve really turned on the money faucet and we want YOU to give us the next great playoff ad campaign. Tell me how you’d go about promoting the S66 SHL playoffs in a way that will have people talking about it for years to come.

You know the nhl does a lot of things right, espicially promoting the game of hockey. so i think it is a brilliant idea to look at the nhl and maybe we can learn a thing a two from them because they do it better than anybody (except the nba and the nfl and the mlb and mls). I would create a cool commercial campaign with the slogan "hey man are you doing enough" and then it would have cool clips of players doing crazy things that no other sport players would do, because hockey as we all know is the toughest greatest sport in the world. So like the commercial would be like your team losing and then someone comes in goes "what would you do?" and then it cuts to a cool clip of that team doing a sick clip like maybe blocking a shot with there teeth because hockey players are crazy.

4. Written, 3 TPE, League vs. League (150 words min.)
Could any SMJHL team in history (if they were NOT capped at their usual 350/425 builds) have beaten any SHL team in history a 7 game series? Why or why not? What historical teams do you think are good candidates for this trial? Who do you think is the best team in SMJHL history and the worst team in SHL history? Would the J team have a chance? Make your case!

Uhhh i dont know. Let me open franchise hockey manage and run some test sims. oh wait i can not do that. What kind of stupid question is this? like i dont know man. I can't test sim. i do not know the ins and outs of the sim. let me go tag aaron wilson and ask. no but for real though i do not know. we'rent goalies like pretty good capped at a 420 build. like goalies do not matter. so maybe one time out of a million one of those little junior goalies stands on there head and the junior team gets a lucky goal. i guess maybe in that scenario in fantasy land yeah a junior team can win a game. but not a 7 game series. lets be real here guys. but honestly i do not know i am not a computer and apparently i am not allowed to test sim.

5. Written, 3 TPE, Secret Weapon (150 words min)
It’s never too early to start thinking about how you’re going to gain a competitive edge next season! How is your team going to go the extra mile to get wins next season? Is it a secret training regimen? Sneaky equipment modifications? Booby trapping the visiting teams’ locker room? Anything goes.


The real question for tommy westbrook (but this time i upd isnt what is he gonna do, it is what is he not going to do? He is willing to anything to win a simulaiton hockey championship (except running test sims because apparently that is illegal now lol). he will put down some crazy little traps in the visistor locker room. stuff like bear traps so when they walk in they hurt their legs and then they can not play hockey. (or maybe they can because hockey players can play through anything because hockey players are the toughest people in the world.)  and then i will poision them in their gatorade so when they sip the gatorade they die (in game). and then hamilton will win the game. no but for real though tommy westbrook (but this time i upd will skate really hard and shoot pucks at the net. and maybe skate with some sand bags.

6. Written, 3 TPE, Curse (150 words min.)
We’ve heard of the “President’s Trophy Curse” in which the top team of the regular season has a very hard time closing the deal in the playoffs and often ends up losing. If you could invent a curse and attach it to any other league event– what would it be and why? No Challenge Cup winner shall ever repeat? Anyone who wins the goal scoring title is doomed to 4% shooting next season? Get creative and give your curse a fun name!

Oh no there is a scary new curse going around and honestly, its kind of scary beacause let me tell you. this is one curse you do not want to catch. the person who scores the first goal of the season gets attacked by this scary curse. they forever have bad wrists and can no longer ever score aagain. the curse wil be called. the curse of the man whos scores the first goal of the season. and it is horrible because then they can no longer shoot big wrist shots and score goales. this leads to league wide changes in the way the games are played because everyone is scared to first goal of the season and it turns into a really crazy game of cat and mouse ( or shall i say, cat and try not score mouse) anyways this is a scary curse so make sure you do not get caught up in it.

13. Graphic, 1 TPE, crAIyon? More like CWaiyon!
In the spirit of the insanely easy ring task that stayed around forever, we can run this one again!. Try using OpenAI’s DALL E Mini (now known as crAIyon) 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!