S70 Championship Week

S70 Championship Week

jbay7
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#190

05-12-2023, 03:46 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.

Salacious
(3 TPE, I hope)

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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?

In my third season in juniors, just after being able to hit the 425 TPE cap, my team had a rather unexpectedly bad start. While it's true that most teams make playoffs anyway in Juniors, and in fact we were in a three team division so we were guaranteed a spot, the GMs decided to trade away the older players for picks, myself included. I ended up going to a contender that had a major need for a defensive forward, a role which my player fit very well. Ultimately that team ended up winning a championship, which was a cool experience. While there certainly isn't a desire to leave my current team, I do think that transactions are a big part of real sports that maybe don't happen quite as often in simulation leagues. Things like massive speculation leading up to the trade deadline or a giant scramble as free agency opens just don't have the same wow factor that they do in real life. Obviously there are a lot of reasons for that but knowing was I was on the trading block and seeing what teams would be interested in me was a neat experience and one I wouldn't mind having again at some point.

(211 words, 3 TPE)

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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.

First Season in Bigs
Lots of TPE to spend
Score more than 10 goals?

(2 TPE)

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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.

+3 TPE

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15. Written, 3 TPE, Teams Can Be Rivers Now? (150 words min.)

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?

The next team named after a geographic feature should be Team Iberia, after the Iberian Peninsula, a WJC team feeding into a Portugal and Spain IIHF team. Obviously this would need to occur with an expansion of the league since neither of those two teams exist yet, but if the logistics worked, this would be a great addition. Spain has a men's and women's team ranked in the IIHF and by real life hockey merits alone, would probably make a shortlist of teams to be added, though perhaps not near the top. Portugal has basically no hockey history at all (it's uhhh mildly possible they lost 21-0 to Liechtenstein last week), but who cares? Most importantly for the league, this would most fluidly facilitate the natural addition of Spanish and Portuguese names which otherwise wouldn't make sense playing for Russia or Japan. So many creative player name possibilities would open up that are immediately obvious to any fan of baseball or soccer. So please, SHL, it's time to welcome in the Riveras and the da Silvas.

(182 words, 3 TPE)

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17. Written, 2 TPE - The Procrastinator Special! (100 words min.)

Congratulations, procrastinator!  Through my most gracious scheduling error, you’ve won a special task! [TEAM] has won it all! Were the playoffs as you expected this year, or were there some surprises? Who were you hoping would take it - Winnipeg's redemption tour or the fresh-faced Wolfpack? What did you like or not like about this season?

The SHL Playoffs this year were exciting and though I had no dog in the race, I felt pretty happy about the results. New England winning and showing that a team a bit further down in the standings can still make a run is always good for the game I think. While we shouldn't expect it to happen every time, it is always a good reminder to see that a lower seeded team can make a run and that making the playoffs alone gives you a chance. On the other hand, while Winnipeg will certainly take little solace, the fact is that in many ways they have shown that you can also build a powerhouse and set yourself up for a potential dynasty. Obviously it hasn't played out that way but Winnipeg has consistently been one of the top regular season teams and you can imagine in another universe where luck favors them just slightly more, where we'd instead be talking about if anyone could stop Winnipeg every CW instead.

(173 words, 2 TPE)

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