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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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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. Neither of the teams have been relying on one or two superstar forwards to do all their goal scoring in playoffs, but if you had to pick a player you expect to carry their team to cup who would it be?
b. Looking at save percentage and goals against average it seems that Beau Kavanagh has the upper hand over Justin Time. Do you think they do or are those numbers misleading?
c. Willow Söderberg-Snooks has 7 goals, 18 points, 18 takeaways and no giveaways, is that enough to make them best defenceman in finals? Who would you pick instead?
d. Which of the teams had easier path to finals?
e. Which one would win a fight, a lion or an eagle? How would it go?
f. If it ain't broke don't fix it: Who you got? Who wins? Why?

C: I think it does. Snooks had all that in just the 16 games San Francisco played to make the Challenge Cup Finals. Over a point per game and NO mistakes make Big Willow a stand out performer. Expect more to come especially in the event that the Pride take the cup.

D: Gonna go back out West again on this one. Both teams won their Conference Finals in 5 games and to get there, both went through grueling Game 7s in round 2. But the Pride made short work of Chicago, where Baltimore had to gut out 6 against the Inferno. That rest, and 2 less games might give San Fran just that much more gas in the tank.

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5. Written, 3 TPE, Haven't I seen this already (150 words min.)
SHL has a playoffs setup that has teams in the same division playing each other for the first two rounds.With only 5 teams in each division it often means that same teams play versus each other season after season. This can lead to good rivalries but also get pretty repetitive. Do you think this is a good structure or would you like to see it changed? Why? You can but don't have to ignore limits of FHM.

Without looking at anyone’s answers above or below or anywhere else in the replies here you’re gonna see basically two camps predominantly. Camp one is going to be in favour of the divisional scheme and leaving it like it is or any sort of combination of the two it was in the IRL NHL in the 80s and beyond where you had these sort of divisional rivalries and then look back on somewhat fondly and I’m sure if things were to change we would too with how this scheme set up, something mildly to being able to say when you get to making the conference finals that you were the best team in your division clearly because you beat the other teams in your division who made it out of the who made it through the playoffs. You can hang on even if you aren’t the superior portion of the conference or the superior division and someone.

Now, the other specially if you want the contrarian, we should change. Things opinion is moving to one versus eight. Sure you can have your division winners have the top two spots automatically. It’s likely they would. It might slightly change things so you’ll have a little bit of frustration here, there , how much more having two really good teams from the same division having had taken different paths to get there you’ve got a really strong division where like how the Northeast division was for example, this season and by strong I don’t mean the top team they were all the top teams. I mean every team was right around each other. They were battling for the for  Every spot together how much more fun would it be then you might see some of the matchup against each other and then you have I don’t know maybe the teams from the other divisions maybe Baltimore ends up playing safe Philadelphia in the conference finals and that goes seven and it feels a little more entertaining as opposed to  Getting through that grilling session Hamilton and going well the matchups get different. It’s sort of seems to trick you into feeling a little more fair even though functionally anytime the argument goes through between one versus eight or divisional. Is that nine times out of 10 you might change one match up a year tops , it’s not like you know a team is missing out on the playoffs over personally I would like to just return to that sort of era.