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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11. Written, 50 to 200+ words. Give Me More
When things stay the same for too long there is risk of them becoming stale, so to ensure that doesn’t happen we need to add something or to something and as you were just elected as dictator of SHL you get to make the pick. Are we going to have more games? Maybe add few teams or 4th lines to current ones? Could even add more stats to spend our TPE by not standardazing the mental stats? What or to what would you add and why?

If I were to become SHL supreme leader, I would make TPE a cryptocurrency and add SaltyBet style gambling on matches. There's a lot of upside to this (in the vaguest sense that things will be increasing): more corruption in the league office, for starters. Everybody loves that, so I'll move onto the next point. People would be more involved with the games on average, and perhaps could serve as effigy for real sports people - instead of writing death threats to real life athletes for not scoring they can write them to fake athletes! Yippee! 95 words 1 TPE

13. Written, 50 to 200+ words. Out With The Old, In With The New
Team Russia got replaced by Quebec, which for sure got people talking about the IIHF. What other nations/regions would you like to see get their own team? Would you think they should replace current teams and if so which ones would you seek to replace? And most importantly, why you think that teams you picked would be more interesting or improve the IIHF in general?

Personally I think that if *Quebec* gets its own team to replace *Russia*, to hell with trying to field any semblance of "realistic hockey country or region" nation set in the IIHF from now on. Lemme see some wild shit. I'm contributing to this problem by having Abdi be from same ol', same ol' Canada but give me some Central Asia. Give me some Africa. Give me some China. Some *real* wacky shit. I think having them replace current teams would probably feel pretty bad for existing players so don't do that, but perhaps some kind of mandate for new players to be from new countries. Would be a cool starter for interesting player characters but perhaps the anti woke crowd would bitch. I dunno. Referendum maybe. I think I already made a pretty good case for why it would be interesting but I think it would also add some really fun "worldbuilding" so to speak about the world *surrounding* the SHL and associated hockey leagues. What kind of weird alternate planet has such a thriving and diverse international hockey market? It's just enough to get the mind going. Imagine the possibilities! I could keep going but to make a long story short: keep sim leagues weird. 207 words 4 TPE