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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.

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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.

https://simulationhockey.com/showthread....pid3358249

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. Winnipeg made the finals last year and came up just short against the Forge. Last year, their offense ran through Mikko Rashford - this year, their top line has been much more of a balanced attack, with Gonzo Gobbledygook and Lias Ekholm-Gunnarsson stepping up hard. Does this make Winnipeg a stronger team, or would it be better to spread this firepower out and run multiple scoring lines?
b. New England finds themselves in a similar situation to Winnipeg's last year: star winger Petr Svoboda has an absurd 30 points in 23 playoff games at the time this is posted. 18 of those are goals, 12 are assists: how do you shut this guy down?
c. Olof Karsikko has made 823 saves in these playoffs, nearly twice the number of saves made by Winnipeg's Rebecca Montagne. What can New England do to help their tendie out? Or should they settle on a strategy of allowing their goalie to face a high volume of low-danger shots to get in the zone and stay hot? Alternatively, how can they rattle Montagne?
d. If it ain't broke don't fix it: Who you got? Who wins? Why?

a. Having a good top line only matters if you can swing 3 lines against the other team and have it be worth it in the end. No ring at the end of the series means your tactics didn't work the way they were intended. So having a top heavy line doesn't really matter, does it?
b. The unfortunate answer is you can't shut this guy down. Coming in with those stats at this point in the playoff push. That dude ain't slowing down for anyone. Especially not for Winnipeg. That guy wants in an out of that city. He does not like it there. Did he pay refs off? Who knows.
c. Olaf Karsikko is too sick for these aurorans. Out here stopping shots left and right. Olaf loves being acrobatic, if there weren't that many shots his energy would die down and he wouldn't stop anything. He needs a steady diet of pucks being shot at his face to compete at the level needed to win the 'ship.
d. Well, normally I would say Winnipeg wins it all this season. Too good of a team, too much TPE, they have the cup experience now. however, New England has done the impossible and won every series in 7 and pushed so hard to get to the cup. So it seems like New took the hard way to the top.

5. Written, 3 TPE, Blood on the Ice (150 words min)
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!
Who would ever think of putting up a glowing bear versus a bunch of hungry wolves. Well, it doesn't matter who thought of the idea, what matters is that it did happen. Just like the AI trend going around now of reimagining NHL teams mascots, we did the same thing and had AI pit a glowing bear god up against a bunch of hungry hungry wolves. Who won? Well, it was no surprise that this match happened deep in the depths of Canada and the Northern Territories, where everything is a little bit more desperate and lot more dramatic. Of course being up there, there is a higher chance of there actually being hte Northern lights (are there Southern Lights in Patagonia?), which will only boost the Auroras secret powers. Glowing rays of light that may or may not actually do any harm when the time comes. In the end though, the Wolves out smarted the glowing bears and took them down.

3. Written, 3 TPE, History Repeating (150 words min.)
Tell me about something good that happened in your SHL career which you hope will happen again! What is it, what will it look like? Did it happen to your current player or one of your former players? What can you do to stack the odds in your favor?
THey always say to know your history, because history will always reshit itself. Igor Victory, of the Philadelphia Forge in the Simulation Hockey League, formerly of the Tampa Bay Barracuda and of course getting their start in the Simulation Majory Junior Hockey League playing for the Anchorage Armada, has done one of the more impressive things that could be done in thier career. They won quadruple gold. That's right. Quad Gold. It started back in the World Junior Classics while he was playing for Team Finland, they won two golds straight, if memory serves correctly. Then, in his last season in the Simulation Major Junior Hockey League, he won the 4 Star Cup. Then during the 60's, the Internationl ice Hockey Federation tournament happened and while playing for the Finnish national team, he won a few Golds, all this culiminated in season 69 where Igor Victory won the Challenge Cup with the Philadelphia Forge. Now, he'd love to swing it back and win one more gold or one more cup. But, he's rapidly approaching the end of his career. Maybe his protege will be able to repeat all his work.