Quote:1. Milestones, up to 3 TPE.

Milestones are folded in with All-Star Week.

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.

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Quote:2. Written, up to 4 TPE - Shiny Grab Bag: Pick up to 4 topics related to the All Star Game to write about! Each topic is worth 1 TPE. Each answer must be 50+ words.
a. The goal scoring race this season ended in a tie between Evil Allbran and Lias Ekholm-Gunnarsson, each potting a phenomenal 60 goals. They'll be lining up on opposide sides of the faceoff dot this all star game. Which of our league's best scorers would you rather have and why?
b. Borje Samuelsson lead all the league's defensemen in points this season with an incredible statline of 22-59-81 in 66 games played. However, the best defensive defenseman in this all star game is Adelie de Pingu, who put up 16-40-56 in the same number of games played while still recording the best average defensive performance of anyone who made primetime. Which of these defensemen will have a better showing this weekend and why?
c. The eastern conference will be lining up in front of netminders Casey Fantoben and Brick Wall, while the west will play in front of Justin Time and Jon St. Ark. Which team should be more comfortable with their backstop tandem? Why?
d. Why should YOUR player have made the all star game, and why is this such an egregious snub? (If your player did make the all star game, argue for one of your teammates who didn't instead!)

a. I think would prefer Evil AllBran because he achieved this with less support than Lias. Of course he still had some great teammates and played on an overall great team, but the gap in scoring between him and the rest of this team is really impressive, while Ekholm-Gunnarsson seemed to function more as part of a dominant unit - which is still mightily impressive, but might translate less well to an All Star Game.
b. For this one I have chosen Offense, so I'll go with Borje Samuelsson. It is tricky though because both played on very different kinds of teams, which impacted both sides of their statlines. While Borje Samuelssons Wolfpack were one of the best teams in the league, which allowed him to rack up lots of points supporting other great players, Pengu played on a rather average team, which made it tougher for him to have high point totals but in return might have inflated his defensive stats.
c. I have to be a homer here and take the Western duo of Jon St. Ark and especially my teammate Justin Time. Brick Wall might have been the best goalie in the league over the last few seasons, but Justin Time just had a real breakout year and will only get better from here on out. There isn't a better goalie I could think of to have my back.
d. Yay I made it, kinda funny that this has happened for the very first time in the inaugural season of All-Star Week and after it feels like my teams also hadn't been included in CW for ages. The teammate of mine who didn't make it that I would like to argue for is Luca Hunziker. It can be a bit harder to stand out as a Defenseman especially if another blueliner on your team had higher scoring numbers, but the combination of Offense and rock solid reliable Defense he showed this season was really remarkable and underrated and would have deserved a nod.

Quote:4. Written, 3 TPE, Movable Spotlights (150 words min.)
Which player NOT on your own team are you most excited to see in action? Do you finally get the chance to cheer on a hated rival's star player as they represent your conference? Have you been tormented by a young player on a rebuilder that hasn't yet made their mark on teams out-of-conference?

There are plenty of really exciting players in this leagues All-Star game, especially since it feels like that after years of people jumping up and down the leaderboards and the superstars seemingly changing every year, we have finally started to see some consistency settling in. Players like Evil AllBran, Ivan Lacksamus or the Winnipeg duo of Lias Ekholm-Gunnarsson and Mikko Rashford are regulars among the top these days. They are giving the league some much needed starpower that it has been lacking for the last few years. However, i would like to give a special shoutout to rookie sensation Erik Bergmark, who managed to make the All Star Game in his very first season and came quite close of breaking my own rookie scoring record of 88 points with his 79 points. Whiat I found quite funny was that he achieved is with one of the very same linemates that I did it a few seasons ago: Duncan MacKenzie. That guy seems to be able to get the best out of young players, a true leader to share the ice with!