1. Tater
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2. 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.
b. I don’t think most people thought Man would make it this far. But those same people probably didn’t think Lev Lebedev would have 22 goals and 21 assists in 15 games. Lev stepped it up hard in the playoffs and I think Man will win or lose based on him. Unless you look at the second game in the finals where Lev got a hat trick but the team still lost.
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3. Written, 3 TPE, Song of the Playoffs (150 words min.)
SHL needs a hype song that really emphasizes the fight in playoffs. The song I choose for this playoffs is Warriors by Imagine Dragon. From a branding standpoint there is so much you can do with this song. SHL can lean into the combat reference. Hockey sticks as swords, pads replaced with armor in promotional materials. Goalies with huge shields protecting their net from another teams charge. The song also references being the warriors that built this town. Home crowds will get super hyped up for their teams just based on that line alone. Also if there is any hypothetical upsets and a team we aren’t expecting to make the finals does make it. We can lean into the rise up and prove yourself elements in the song. Giving even more hype to the underdog teams as they take their shot at the cup. Plus its kinda just a kick ass hype song to play as some cool ass hockey players hit the ice.
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5. Written, 3 TPE, Hotel Rooms (150 words min)
Makrus loves to travel during playoffs. Relaxing bus rides, fancy hotel rooms, nice restaurants. Makrus even gets his own bus and room. Partially because he snores and is a slob, but mostly because Makrus travels with the actual wolves. Makrus started the real wolves in the wolfpack initiative. Having his own wolf Zephyr made it easy for him to recruit more wolves to the mascot pack. Now no one else on the team thought this was a good idea, but Makrus thinks it is the best idea. He gets his own bus for the wolves, they get their own hotel room, and even without a reservation they get the entire restaurant to themselves when he shows up with the wolves. Other teammates have had trouble waking Makrus up in time for games but the wolves don’t have that issue. Makrus even shows up on time to the stadium because he has to get the wolves in before the fans show up.
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7. Milestones, up to 3 TPE
Milestones are folded in with CW. So just link your Milestone claim as task 7 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.
Milestone Claim 3 TPE
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17. Written, 3 TPE, Nu Metals (150 words min.)
So gold, silver, and bronze are old news. So we have to see what hold simulation value to represent out medals. But to keep in the spirt of gold, silver, and bronze the value of our medals should follow that same logic. Starting with bronze, we are moving to the SHL trading cards medal. That’s right this medal is a pack of SHL trading cards. These are valuable items in the SHL world and I for one have spent an SHL fortune on them. For the silver medal I think we can all agree that we need the Meme medal. This medal is a copy pasta of this seasons best drama post. What is the SHL without a solid drama post everyone can use over and over to stress how ridiculous it was. Lastly our gold medal, SHL is the future and the future is bitcoin. That’s right a bitcoin medal. What does bitcoin look like? Well that is the medal makers problem.
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