S69 Championship Week

S69 Championship Week Due: March 12th @ 11:59 PM (PST)

Count Chocula
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03-11-2023, 04:38 PM (This post was last modified: 03-11-2023, 05:22 PM by Count Chocula. Edited 10 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.

Evil

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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.

+3 TPE Milestones

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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. Both Winnipeg and Philadelphia have taken the long road of drafting and development to find themselves in the Challenge Cup Finals. Winnipeg in full scale rebuild, and Philadelphia in the expansion draft. Each began nearly 10 seasons ago. From your point of view, which build is more impressive? Full scale teardown to challenge cup, or expansion draft to challenge cup?

b. Winnipeg's Mikko Rashford has been an unstoppable assist machine with 25 in 20 GP. If you're looking to shut down Winnipegs offense, who do you target? Rashford, or goal scorers surrounding them? Do you double down on guarding the scorers and letting a pass-first player take a shot, or do you go heavy on the passer and hope nothing squeeks through?

c. Philadelphia's BASE PACK has made over 500 saves in 17 GP. If you're a Winnipeg team looking for a weakness to exploit, do you think this is one? Does this signify an exhausted goalie that you can pepper with shots and eventually break the dam? Or is BASE PACK just an on-fire goalie that you need to find another way around?

d. As always I ask... who you got? Usually when I analyze teams for this segment I see a contrast in results or deployment or something I can latch on to, but these look like remarkably similar teams at this point in the playoffs. So who wins? Why?

a. To me the development from an expansion team will always be the most impressive. Coming from an expansion draft, you don’t always get the players that are the most desirable. Sometimes, you just have to take what you can get. Then from there, you have to be able to turn those players into other assets or help them develop into stars. Expansion teams have to make assets out of nothing as opposed to a team who may have aging stars they can deal for draft picks. W:86

b. The only way to really shut down Mikko Rashford is to try and win every single faceoff and never lose the puck. If you double up on him, he's just gonna make two defenders look silly at the same time. If you take away passing lanes and force him to shoot, he's just gonna have 20 goals instead. So the only real option is to make sure he never has a chance to be near the puck. W:77

c. BASE PACK is an unstoppable force in the net. You cannot tire out a goalie who literally is just made of a deck of cards. He does not sleep or eat, his stamina is infinite. Your odds of hoping to break the damn are about as low as plucking a Hall of Fame card from his packaging. Your only hope is to try and be nice and if he is feeling merciful to allow you to have some satisfaction of drawing a ruby. W:83

d. If I had to make a prediction as to how this series would go, I would say Philly wins it in 5. They have league mega star and heart throb Evil AllBrand leading the way. AllBran is a natural born leader and genuinely terrific person. Then if that wasn’t enough, they have BASE PACK between the pipes. BASE is the most chill goalie in the league and when he’s on a roll he’s unbeatable. W: 74

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15. Written, 3 TPE, IIHF Analysis (150 words min.)

Write your predictions for this year's IIHF tournament or WJC! Tell me about your team! What are your expectations for your player? What teams are you watching out for this time around? Did last season's results surprise you?

This IIHF tournament is going to be something a little more special than usual for me. With recent events, I am now somehow the CoFederation Head of France. It has been nearly 30 seasons since I managed a team, that being Norway. I had some success in the past being with a smaller nation, however that was during the STHS era. However, thanks to Fuzz and his management we have been able to get a fantastic team put together in just our first tournament. In the tournament warm up games, we went 5-2 which was good enough to finish best in our bracket. Our team will be lead by some key veterans such as Miguel Hefeweizen, Duncan Mackenzie, and Theo Kondos. All of these players have had fantastic careers already and will help usher in the era of French hockey. Not only do we have a competitive team now, but there are also dozens of top tier prospective talents waiting in the wings to join the team in the future. I think France has a real shot at getting a medal in our first season, if not going all the way and taking the Gold home. W: 196

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4. Written, 3 TPE, Playoffs Shmayoffs (150 words min.)

Write about a time you didn't make the playoffs, and what you did to take your mind off it! Did you expect to miss the playoffs when it happened? Was it a shock? How did you take it? If you've never been on a team that missed the playoffs, tell me about an early exit you made instead.

I feel like everytime my team has missed the playoffs it was mostly expected. Generally going into the season you have a confident view on if you can compete or not. I feel like it's more so of will you win the division or how high of a draft pick will you get. The current sim engine isn’t much for randomness which makes predictions easy. In terms of taking my mind off of it though, copious amounts of alcohol help for sure. If I know that my team is destined from the beginning I just start binge drinking when preseason is over. It helps to make the season more of a blur and I won't remember much from it. Thankfully I've been in Newfoundland a lot so my liver is still in good condition. However, moving up in a couple of seasons to the Blizzard has me worried, since our General Manager is HHFO. I have a feeling my liver will get destroyed very soon. W:165