S68 Championship Week

S68 Championship Week Due: January 8th @ 11:59 PM (PST)

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01-08-2023, 01:15 PM (This post was last modified: 01-09-2023, 12:47 AM by bbjygm. Edited 8 times in total.)

SHL/SMJHL Finals

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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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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.

a. Manhattan comes into this series with a much more balanced attack than their previous playoff run carried by a scorching hot Lev Lebedev. This time around they have nearly seven players chugging along at a PPG clip. Is this a different beast than last season's Rage? Why or why not?

b. Seattle returns to the finals with a roster that's very similar to last season's champions. So why would they lose this time around? This squad has proven they can do it, so what's changed? Do you think this team can do it again?

c. The play of Max Manning for Seattle and Thomas Lind for Manhattan has been a key factor in their respective teams' playoff runs. Do you think they're both able to continue performing at the spectacular pace they have thus far, or do you think someone is able to figure out how to shut them down? Is that the key to this series?

d. With all that being said it's round two of SEA vs. MAN. Who wins this time? Regardless of any other stat in this series-- who do you think wins it and why? Last season Manhattan was the upstart without any experience, but here they are again to face the same behemoth Seattle team. Make your pick.

a. Of course this is different, coming into the finals more well rounded is always a plus compared to specializing. Having several tricks up your sleeve tends to adapt better than being a one trick pony and hoping it works. Counters, when found, can be devastating to a team like that specializes like that.

b. I think this Seattle has potential to do it again, but the battle will be tougher than last time. Facing off against a more rounded team presents a bigger challenge to overcome, though getting the same results so far with the same team certainly add validity to their current approach and the extra experience comes with better team synergy.

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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.

https://simulationhockey.com/showthread....pid3304923

Beyond Prompts

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20. Written, 3 TPE, Championship Creek (150 words min.)

If you were the judge of a creek competition, what would you be looking for? How would you choose the championship creek? Is it based on volume of water moved through the creek? Is pleasantness of sound a factor? The beauty of the creek itself? Biodiversity? How do you weigh each factor in your decision? Tell me how you would define the perfect creek.

There are a few factors to maximize creekiness:

1. Mass flow: when it comes to fluids, mass flow is pretty important. Equal mass flowing through system creates a relationship between speed and width, so wider creeks means slower flow but equal amounts of water. Ideally creeks would fall under a certain amount of mass flow, but I'll leave figuring that threshold out as an exercise to the reader.

2. Name: a great creek should have a great name. You don't find a magnificent creek that takes your breath away and then name it something like, "bear creek." It's gotta be something that inspires.

3. Drinkability: the best creeks offer their refreshing water to travelers with no risk to health. There's gotta be no parasites, bacteria, viruses, or as little of them as possible to get a higher score in this category. You don't want to drink in (literally) the majesty of a stream only to create a fecal stream shortly after.

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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!

I've been on Regina, drafted to Texas, and just now traded to Detroit so I'll make a movie using all 3 mascots.

My movie is about an elk renegade train robber named Detregex who steals for personal gain. Then one day on a risky cliffside robbery of a hazmat train, a falcon swoops down through a vat of radioactive waste and bites him. After a fitful night, he is imbued with superpowers allowing him to fly and giving him retractable talons, enhanced eyesight, enhanced reflexes, and a sonic screech. He finds robbing trains to be unbearably easy now and decides to devote his time to another line of work: hockey refereeing. His flight and eyes allows him to see everything going on, his reflexes allow him to respond to troubles with near-precognition, and his screech replaces his whistle and makes keeping a watchful distance viable. The talons don't help all that much but can make for an intimidating show when trying to break up a fight.

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23. Written, 2 TPE, Acrostic Poem

An acrostic poem is when you create a poem using every letter of a given word. For example:

Big

Ugly

Raving

Lunatic

Of

Kindness

This is my acrostic poem for Burlok. Write me an acrostic poem using your player's name!