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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4. Written, 3 TPE, Dream Series (170 words)

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.

Quote:The obvious answer is Derek Martin. Of course, we’re in the same conference, so it won’t be for the Cup. We’ve been strong teammates in Carolina but now head up to help two up-and-coming SHL teams. The pick that LAP used for Martin was originally a TEX pick, so in some alternate universe, we might still be teammates. Instead, we now become rivals like Gretzky and Messier getting split up. Or more like Lecavlier and St. Louis. Or a comparison where one of them is awesome and the other one is me. Roberto Luongo and Eddie Lack?!

But there are so many great friends in the S68 class and the Ireland IIHF, all of whom would require suspending a friendship for 4-7 games. Give me Bergmark and BAP; Aleman in the ATL; or Hargreaves with SFP. All these teams and names are going to be lighting up the league a few seasons from now. At least Minaj is the only one I have to deal with in the Central Division.

5. Written, 3 TPE, Blood on the Ice (179 words)

Continuing with the branding wars: this year's final features the return of the glowing bear god against a fresh opponent - a mighty wolfpack! This one seems slanted in the bear god's favor, but don't count the wolves out so easily! Tell me who wins and why! The arena and the rules of the fight can be whatever you desire. Get creative!

Quote:Are we sure the bear is a god? It’s a constellation, but I’m not sure that necessarily implies god status. The big bear constellation Ursa Major was said to be created from the nymph Callisto, so a failure minor deity. Winnipeg’s bear constellation is much more bearlike and perhaps more powerful because of it. But this is all a bit of a moot point, because if there’s one thing gods fear it's…

Fenrir. He a big wolf. Born from a god and a giantess, he a real big, powerful wolf. In fact, he is the father of all wolfs, so clear the one who would be leading a New England Wolfpack. Their logo sure looks like Fenrir to me. And what does Fenrir do? Oh, just kill Odin, possibly the most powerful god of them all, during Ragnarok (the event, not the MCU movie). If Fenrir can take down that dude, he can certainly take down a god-bear, especially with the entire wolfpack at his back.

Does that mean NEW’s victory signals Ragnarok is in motion? It just might.

6. Written, 2 TPE, Hopeful Haiku  (5 words min.)

Write a haiku telling me what you hope to accomplish in Season 71! 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. None of your lines may rhyme with each other.

Quote:Stepping up to Tex
Pass one thousand, getting more
Moving past the first

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. 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.

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15. Written, 3 TPE, Teams Can Be Rivers Now? (179 words)

Since Team Rhine is now a thing in the Juniors wing of the IIHF, name a geographical feature, such as a river, mountain, plateau, or your mother, that should be the next to have a team! Why does this feature deserve a team, like the Rhine? How good would this team be? Would you transfer to it?

Quote:As the originator of The Rhine federation, I feel eminently qualified to answer this (though I would like to point out that the British Isles have long been a team, and that islands are of course a geographical feature). But let’s dig a little bit deeper, pun intended, for our next federation: please welcome to the WJC… The Amurian Plate!

Dig out your geology textbook, turn to the section on plate tectonics, and still probably find zero information on this. A minor tectonic plate at the edge of the Eurasian plate, the Amurian is slowly turning counterclockwise and was named for the Amur river. This river is called the Heilong Jiang in Chinese, which translates to Black Dragon River, so Black Dragons is a great nickname for this new team.

So what countries are included here? China, both Koreas, Japan, Mongolia, and parts of Russia. Can players from these teams get along? No idea! We’ll either be ushering in a new era of cooperation between these countries or creating a giant, unnecessary mess that could lead to nuclear war.