1. CW TRIVIA, 3 TPE max

angy

11. Written, 50 to 200+ words. One Season Closer to Retirement, 1 TPE (+1 as it's 100 words if my trivia doesn't land)
One season behind all of us. How did your player perform compared to your expectations? What do you expect from next season? Are you being hit by regression so hard that anything close to this season's performance would be a win in your books? Or maybe you are reaching your peak, in either of the leagues and hope to compete for some awards?

Petr experienced his first major drop this season as regression finally begins affecting his offensive attributes as opposed to the accessory and possession attributes. I was quite disappointed with his regular season stats as a result. I truly hope I can return to better form, as Petr has been going off these playoffs in stark contrast to the rest of the season, but things will truly be difficult with regressions pull only increasing. I'm hoping to eventually hit 1000 points and 500 goals, the former of which now is a given, but the latter seems just a bit out of a reach if my decreasing pace continues.

13. Written, 50 to 200+ words. National Rivalry, 4 TPE

Oh boy, now this is something I can and have talked about at length considering basically my entire existence revolves around the IIHF. My entire existence for creating Petr, was Japan winning gold. As a result, whenever possible I have cheered against Japan... so the fact that they won back-to-back hurts all the more... annnnd Switzerland winning their first gold hurt too. This is all because of the fact that Czechia, formally Czechoslovakia, a team that I was one of the founding Federation Heads for back in S20, is the only team, and is the last original 12 IIHF teams to have not won a gold medal. As a result, I will cheer against expansion team success for as long as the Czechs go without their gold. For a time, the Czech locker room embraced this jealousy, encouraged by the recent results of Japan's golds and our Czech shortcomings. These days, Czechia is represented a new team, one who needn't carry these feelings forward due to being new to the team and not experiencing the prior context. This feeling I have I will carry to the very end, that is until the Czechs win their eventual gold, my only hope is that Petr will be on that winning roster and I plan on hanging on for as long as it takes it to happen.