Quote:3. Written, 3 TPE, New Year New Me (150 words min.)
What is your player's New Years resolution? What aspect of their game do they want to work on in S69 to help them reach the finals next season? If they did make the finals this season, is it because of something they resolved to work on last season? If so, then what's next?

Spack Jarrow has never been one to celebrate New Years by making any grand changes in his life. He has always viewed New Years as a celebration and a reason to drink and party. However, as he has gotten older and realized the importance of change and trying to improve, Jarrow is going to make is first New Years resolution.

Spack has vowed that he will undo a shameful secret that has been a shadow on an otherwise successful hockey career. He vows to learn how to skate backwards. This is something he has been ashamed to admit to others, that he has never learned to skate backwards and certainly doesn't know how to do cross-overs in any direction while facing the wrong way.

It is his wish that by the start of the next season, that he will have learned the ability although he knows it will likely take him a long time to get really good at it. Regardless, he is just looking forward to no longer having to hide this dirty little secret.

[ 176 words ] - 3 TPE

Quote:5. Written, 3 TPE, Boat Versus Bull (150 words min)
We aren't talking about some fake hockey league-- I'm asking for real. Who would win in a fight? A small navy of three living war boats with eyes, or a herd of 45 raging bulls (15 per boat). Battlefield is your choice. Create whatever scenario you like to back up your choice of winner. Tell me how it goes and why it goes that way.

I don't know why so many people dislike insane scenarios like the one that is made up here because I love them personally. On that note, the situation created here is a bit too lopsided towards the boats. With the option of "Battlefield is your choice" it creates a situation where you can choose any land or sea but regardless of where it takes place, the boats win.

Obviously the 3 sentient ships would dominate in the water against 45 raging bulls. That isn't even an argument. But on land, you'd think the 45 raging bulls would have an advantage but not really. The ships I assume have artillery and can still blast the bulls to smithereens using canons and gunfire. Even if the boats didn't have weapons, what are a bunch of angry bulls going to do to the thick iron hulls of the ships? Eventually the bulls will run out of food and die and the spooky sentient ships will just exist.

So short answer. Ships. Easy. No matter what.

[ 172 words ] - 3 TPE

Quote: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.

Milestones - 3 TPE

Quote:17. Written, 3 TPE, Neutral Turf (150 words min.)
We simply cannot play in a host country any more, it's too big of an advantage for the home team. You're going to have to find the ideal location to host these international tournaments, and it cannot be in any existing country! Where do you take this season's IIHF tournaments to ensure neutral territory? Bonus points for any fun and exciting extra effects this location might have on the game of hockey. 

Spack Jarrow has dreamt of the day that he could bring the game of hockey to his native country. Sure, ice-hockey is played there in rec leagues and in non-professional capacities but to have the best of the best playing hockey right in the middle of the Caribbean? What a dream.

Since season 66, Jarrow has been putting pressure on the various hockey committees that decide the location of the IIHF tournaments trying to get them to, at the very least, have an exhibition game hosted on one of the Caribbean Island nations but nothing has come to fruition so far.

The news that a host country can no longer host games, is exactly what Spack was hoping to hear and has immediately put in a pitch for a shared tournament between the top 5 Caribbean nations much like the next World Cup of FIFA is doing with Canada/USA/Mexico. With any luck, the next time you see the IIHF tournament it will be played in the beautiful Caribbean.

[ 170 words ] - 3 TPE

Quote:21. Written / Graphic, 3 TPE, Animated Movie (150 words min.)
Your team's marketing department just got an enormous budget to make an animated feature film about your team's mascot. Write me a short overview of movie. What does it look like? What happens? Who voices the characters? As a graphic option, show me a still frame from that movie!

Oh boy, I hope this doesn't lead to any lawsuits from the David Bowie people.

Winnipeg Aurora's mascot is of course Stardust the lovable but slightly punk polar bear. Now I'm sure everyone has seen the Care Bears cartoon. This will sort of be like that but Stardust uses glam rock to defeat evil rather than "caring". I'm picturing Stardust wielding a electric blue, green, and black guitar with splashes of purple and pink. Like the lead guitarist of a hair band, Stardust's special power move is the double knee slide power chord that obliterates any evil in-front of it.

The show will be a way to teach children about the negative effects of climate change and how to use music and creativity to overcome the Syndicate of evil who are the antagonists along with the stable of evil creatures like Dragons, Panthers, and Spectres.

The theme song will be an absolute banger. A cross between the X-men theme song and The Gummy Bears theme song from the 80's cartoon.

[ 170 words ] - 3 TPE


ISFL Affiliate - 3 TPE


18 TPE of the needed 16