Quote: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’ve been on several teams that missed the playoffs, including the team I’m on this season. How do I take my mind off of it? That’s fairly easy, I usually take a break from the site. The fact is I’m having trouble staying motivated these days and it would probably be the same had I made the playoffs. I honestly don’t even know who won the playoffs in either league this season which is pretty bad. In the past I would work on media or update my player but this season I’m just doing more of the same which is the bare minimum. I’m not sure how this career is going to pan out. I’m going to try make it to the SHL eventually but I’m not sure how much I have left in the tank. I love the community and the locker rooms but it’s just hard to get up and go anymore. So I guess the answer to the question is that I do nothing.

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Quote:5. Written, 3 TPE, Fire and Light (150 words min)
Last season I loved the anthropormorphic boats vs. bulls question because people came up with some really fun answers to read, so I'm going to ask it again with the Forge and the Aurora, even though these teams' have less concrete branding. Tell me who wins in a fight: an enormous god bear made of colourful rays of light, or a massive magma monster with a giant hammer. The arena and the rules of the fight can be whatever you desire. Get creative!

A god bear made of light or a big magma dude with the hammer? That’s a tough matchup and hard to predict. The arena would have to be on the moon because it’s too much destruction for our precious planet to handle. In that regard I’d probably have to give the bear god the advantage with light because I’m not sure how much head could be generated on the moon, I guess it depends where the sun is in the equation. Either way the moon is gone and that will probably ruin the world anyway. I’d just give the edge to the bear god of light because how do you hammer light? How do you burn light? These are scientific questions that have no answer I guess. I just think this is a tricky matchup to predict. I just think that every time the magma dude tried to hurt light bear god he’s just make him stronger.

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Quote:6. Written, 2 TPE, Haiku Highlights  (5 words min.)
Rather than giving you a task where you do something boring like "write about your season" using things like "sentences and punctuation" I figured I could instead ask you to write a haiku about how your season went! A haiku is a three line poem where the first line is five syllables, the second is seven, and the third line is five again.

I play for Whalers
We did not do very good
Maybe next season?

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.

+3 TPE - Milestones

Quote:20. Written / Graphic, 3 TPE, Seige Engine (150 words min.)
We all know what a seige engine is, and we all have a favourite one! If you had to design a seige engine based on your team's branding, what would it be? What would that seige weapon do? What would it look like? What are its advantages? As a graphic option, you can depict what it would look like in action!

I had to look up what a siege engine was. I mean, I know what a siege thing is but I didn’t know if it was a game or what. But if I was to design one after my team it would probably be shaped like a giant whale but I’d make a flame-thrower out of the blow hole. That might actually be difficult because the fire would just shoot up and it wouldn’t really help with sieging until the thing they were sieging was right underneath them. Otherwise it would just shoot fire in the air which is kind of pointless. I’d also make it backwards because the tail could be used to smash things. Then the head could just kind of help break the walls bigger allowing for more room. Soldiers would come out of the whale’s mouth with spears and bananas for energy. It probably wouldn’t be very good at all to be honest.

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Quote:22. Written, 2 TPE, Hope and Hapiness (100 words min.)
I've asked this before, but since it may be my final time writing CW, I wanted to ask it again. It was one of my favourite questions to read responses to. Tell me something that happened recently that you enjoyed, something that brings you happiness, or something you have hope for in the future. It could be a huge thing like buying a house or a small thing like having fun with your lockerroom this season. I just want to give you a chance to write down something positive.

Life is really good right now honestly. I’ll have four years sober next week and I’m enjoying life. I just watched one of my kids play in a soccer tournament final last weekend, they were the runner-up in a nailbiter of a game. Today I got to see her win her basketball league final after a great game. It’s wild to see a team think they are going to steamroll through a bunch of smaller girls just because they’re bigger than them and then see the smaller kids just run circles around them. Life is just really good right now most of the time.

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