S68 Championship Week

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

marco999
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01-08-2023, 10:52 PM (This post was last modified: 01-08-2023, 11:11 PM by marco999. Edited 2 times in total.)

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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.

Verification word: kaapo

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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?

I really feel like it is. It is much harder to face a team where multiple people are playing well than a team carried by a single player. Look at the Edmonton Oilers, they are carried by McDavid (and Draisaitl), but as soon as you neutralize these two, the team falls apart, so I think it's a different beast, yes

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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?

Kaapo Kampainen's resolution is simply to be better, simple as that. No matter what Kaapo has done in his career so far, it hasn't been enough the reach the finals once (the J doesn't count). In fact, Kaapo has never even been an All-Star or nominated for a trophy. His resolution is to improve all around. He didn't score enough goals before, but not that he's scoring more than before, he's assisting way less than he used to, so he needs to find the balance while maintaining his current goal tally. Kaapo also needs to hustle more. Early in his career, Kaapo was a turnover machine and he didn't skate enough to go back to his defensive zone. We saw that this season too, he wants to be better at backchecking so he isn't as much a liability for the Aurora. The last thing Kaapo wants to do better is protecting the puck, enough with the giveaways, dammit!

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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.

Milestones link +3 TPE

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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!

That's probably not what you had in mind when you were thinking about that prompt, but here we go! The Aurora mascot is a bear (I think) and our team name being the Aurora, I'm going the full Disney Pixar emotional journey route. The movie is about a little polar bear who is separated from his father after a poacher kills his mother and he is forced to run away. Then, he befriends various Northern animal, including a couple of quirky gay penguins that help him find a way to his father. However, they find out the key to see his lost father is found in the auroras in the night sky that they start following. They then meet a magical creature that makes them fly close to the aurora and the young polar bear remembers buried memories about his father and they find out where he's hiding. In the end, he's reunited with his father and the movie has an happy ending!

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22. Written / Graphic, 3 TPE, Rigged (150 words min.)

You've been given the opportunity to change the simulated hockey league into something completely different, however your teams / teammates will not change. Choose a new competition that is completely rigged for your team to win, based on the unique skills and personalities on your team. What season long competition are you 100% confident that you and your teammates could win? As a graphic option, show me this new competition, whatever it may be, being dominated by you and a few of your teammates. 

I feel like this prompt was written for the Aurora in mind, specifically one of my teammate and also our GM, Ace! I'd change the SHL into a competition where people would try to have most problems trying to build a deck in their backyard with a Lowe's contractor, or if that's too niche, the longest time it takes to build a deck in your backyard. I joined the Aurora a while ago and Ace's deck still isn't built correctly. Now that it's the winter, I doubt they'll come and work on it, so we're still in the running until the end of the winter, so at least March. Try to find another SHL team that takes this long to build a deck, I dare you! If it comes to it, I wouldn't hesitate to sabotage my own deck so we're still in the running, I have no shame! I feel like that's so niche that we'd be guaranteed victory!

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