S68 Championship Week

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

Shmurph
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S39 Challenge Cup Champion

#247

01-09-2023, 12:59 AM

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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.

Chiefs

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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 a team with a more balanced attack will be a different beast than one with a great first line and more ordinary 3 other lines. Yeah, if you get the best of the best on your first line, they will be able to win games and games for you but no one is great 100% of the time and the day they are off, you won't be winning it. With 3 great lines, whenever 1 line is down for whatever reason, you got 2 other lines to get the goals from.
B. Of course they can do it again since they already done it, but it's not only one team you should observe in a series, it's both teams. If they were facing the same team as last season, they we would know that they would probably be the winner, but since it's not the case, we can't know for sure if the team that one it all last season will be enough to best this season't new challenge.
C. I don't really believe any of the teams will have the answer for the other team star. I think this should be a high scoring series and the winner won't be the one who will shut down the other star, but the star who will outshine his opponent
D. It's hard to say, but between the behemoth that won last season and didn't really changed their formula or the younger team who got more experience and a way more balanced team than last time, I think I will put my money on the revamped Manhatan for the cup this season.

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4. Written, 3 TPE, Dream Series (150 words min.)

Many teams have rivals they'd love to trounce in a playoff series. Maybe you as a player have another specific player you'd love to beat to win the cup and lord it over them for the rest of their lives. Tell me who you'd love to play in a playoff series and why! Why would you love to beat this team or player? What would it mean to you or your team? Keep it friendly. 

With a new team for Brendan Laroux after a monster trade during the offseason who sent two great defensemens to the 4star cup winner Detroit, It's time to be serious and think about winning the cup before going up in the big league. I don't really know any rivalries the Flacons have with any team in the SMJHL so I'll go with a rivalry that's not from a team perspective, nor from a player perspective but from a user one. Being on this site since S35, I've seen a lot and played with so many players, but there is one in particular that I've didn'T played with since my first seasons here and the stars have alligned for us two to be drafted together in the same teamin the major. I know we will have enough chances of winning the cup together with the Monarchs in the future, but this season, our last before getting called up, will be the last time we will be able to play against eachother for the big cup. So that's why, for me, the best series I could think of would be if we play Evok's QCC in the final. Whoever win gets the right to brag about it for the rest of our players career

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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

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13. Graphic, 1 TPE, crAIyon? More like CWaiyon!

In the spirit of the insanely easy ring task that stayed around forever, we can keep running this one! 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!  https://www.craiyon.com/

Tried to get my french player joining the Falcons but somehow ended up with a one-legged batman playing hockey instead xD
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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!