1. Written, 3 TPE (150 words min)
VIP Status babyyyyyyyy - your player has been invited to attend one of the first homestands of the CC finals as a VIP guest - all expenses paid, front row seats, any hotel you want - and it's all on the Commissioner's dime! Are you going to Games 1 and 2 in Tampa or Games 3 and 4 in Calgary? Why are you picking there? And what are you going to do in that city to run up Eggy's tab?? (This is the same prompt as last year but we've got different cities! be creative! Don't re-use what was written last season)

im going to games 1 and 2 in tampa. I don't live far so i can probably just drive there and chill. plus calgary is really lame what can you even do there. where even is it like canada right damn thats wacky yo. like how tf is it in a whole different country dang. but yeah for sure in tampa im pretty sure it would be cool to be there and maybe if i cut my legs off or pretended to be short enough they would mistake me for a child and i'd get a stick after the game that'd be chillen damn. wonder if i could get a signed one dang. oh shoot wait eggy is paying dang im bringin the homies too get in here yall we are gonna vibe so hard on the glass damnskers. wonder if we could go to disneyland too thats close right wtf is florida geography tbh like it looks like a fork yeah but where are all the thingies. someone let me know please i desperately need to know please.

2. Written, 2 TPE (100 words min)
After a slow start to the regular season, the Dragons have surged of late and have rallied around the #CalgaWe notion of togetherness. On the other side, the Barracuda battled through a difficult East and are led by a very strong young core. Which team are you personally rooting for to take home the Challenge Cup and why?

Despite them technically being my in state rivals, I have to root for the Barracuda over the Dragons. honestly i have a soft spot for the fish men, and calgary is a pretty gross uggo team and i dont like them and they are stinky and they suck. i like most of the players on the sea peeps and they seem like a pretty chillin org. would deffo vibe with them if i had the chance but sadly we are forbidden love like the capulets and montagues or however the f*ck you spell those italian ass names. seriously fuck shakespear wtf even is a monatuge.

7. Written, 3 TPE (150 words min)
As competition ramps up for the playoffs, players (both those still in and those eliminated) work extra hard to improve areas of their game that are lacking. What one area of your game do you really needs to focus on improving and how will this benefit the team?

i have decided as a player that i wish to win one of those swanky jeffery dar awards. so basically im just gonna hit everyone now yeah. deffo gonna win the dar and that fricken uhh most improved player award too yeah. like basically im gonna hit folks so hard that im gonna score more goals and stuff yep. and basically when i when mvp mip and dar and the fan vote best player next season its gonna be chillin yeaaaaah. like seriously cameron carter the second is going to be quite upset at my unparalleled success bc im gonna straight knock that fool into the stratosephere yeppers. not even gonna feel guity that man has no arms bro. he needs to go to the gym like 1 or twice yeah. anyways im gonna be way better at checking now yeah. like not even a little better im going straight to the top elevator style no stairs.

13. Written, up to 5 TPE Pick up to 5 Challenge Cup related topics to write about! Each topic is worth 1 TPE. Each answer must be 50+ words to qualify.
A. Each team enters these finals with a red hot superstar - longtime league legend Mike Izzy for Calgary and surprise breakout star Gunnar Soderberg for Tampa Bay. Which of these players will have a more dominant finals?

Mike Izzy is as far as i am aware made out of pure hockey. second of all i dont even know who gunyar sonerberg is so like its def michael izzy. izzy can like slam folks and fricken uhh sit on folks like dang he could smother someone with that boody damn wooooski. anyways yeah maybe if this was between Mike izzy and uhh fricken uh benji blue then maybe not izzy but damn dude that izzy guy is just straight hockey. maybe hookers and cocaine too but mostly hockey. yeah.

B. Kata Vilde and Benjamin Blue are two of the best goaltenders in the league - which team has the advantage in net?

Kata Vilde is like tuuukka rask and blue is like marty fricken brodeur. the kid can f*cken save shots and shoot shots and win best goalie and shit damn. vilde has that weak european liver that prevents the full goaltending expertise. like how are you supposed to do a side edge slide save if you cant produce enough liver juice. just not possible. honestly not even sure how vilde even makes save like maybe some sort of force field what the heck. is that even legal please tell me.

C. Do you expect this to be a high-scoring series or a low-scoring series? A mix? Do you think it'll be competitive or will one team run away with it?

Low scoring series, Benjamin Blue and Kata Vilde are two of the best goaltenders in the league right now and its hard to think that either won't continue to be outstanding. also im pretty sure i heard that they aren't playing with a puck at all and they are just gonna skate around the entire time pretending there is one but there isnt one so yeah no goals get scored at all basically yeah. or maybe they play with the puck but the refs call off every goal with golay inderference. yeah that sounds better lets go witht hat then they will never catch in to us. yeah that works nice idea.

D. What's your favorite player NAME on either team? why? (note: not who's your favorite player. which player name)

bernik vrzala. like wtf does a vrz make lmao that guy isnt even real dude. like im pretty sure the dude just doesn't exist. like wtf is a bernik eiter i think we have a conspiracy here yall. like maybe he is some sort of robot alien that was sent here to make sure that the refs play favourites with calgary so that they win bc there is no way that dude was real. like whos parents are just like yeah his name is bernik vrzala and he is deffo not a robot alien guys haha. he is our son not an alien for sire guys haha. definitely.

E. If you could choose any one of the following four options, which would you pick? 1. A chicken parm sandwich from Esa 2. A tray of cookies from c00kies 3. A custom feet pic from JSS 4. An hour long stick and puck session with Jepox

#3. for sure, jsss is the feetiest dude on the whole site man. hit feeet hit different you know. plus that custom shit aint cheap damn. i wonder if he can print it out as scratch and sniff damn. and honestly wtf even are the other options bruh. like wtf is a chicken parm sandwich bruh. and cookies are bad dont @me. also wtf is stick and puck. really only answer here boys and its the feet. yumskis


14. Written, 2 TPE - The Procrastinator Special! (100 words min)
Welp, you waited until the last day to grind out your CW and the CC finals are longggggggg over by now. congrats to [CALGARY DRAGONS], woo! Reflecting back on the series, who gets your vote for series MVP? Make the case why this player deserves it over any other.

Kata Vilde and it's not even close. Vilde prevent the Dragons from being eliminated 3 games in a row with stellar performances. in games 4, 5, and 6 Vilde put up a .968 sv% to keep the Dragons in the finals. there is just no way the Dragons don't get swept if not for Vilde. but maybe not vilde because im pretty sure the dude just cheated and put like a pane of glass behind him so the pucks just bounced off if they got past him. except to give up like one goal but thats to throw the spuspicion off bc if he had 3 shutouts itd be way not chillin and everyone would be sus but 3 game where only 1 goal is pretty vibin yeah.

15. Casual Member Special, 3 TPE max - 1 TPE for participation, 0.5 TPE for each correct answer - SEND ANSWER IN PM TO "PT DIRECTOR" (tagged below)
A. As defined by draft class, who is the oldest player in this series?
B. What is the name of the Calgary Dragons' Arena?
C. Name 3 previous names of the Tampa Bay Barracuda franchise
D. From these two teams, which player had the most PIMs in the S50 regular season? (Look, I'll even give you a link to the index right below this code box. When I posted the link directly, it auto-corrected the colon + slash into a partial frown face; it looks funny and the link still works so i'm leaving it)

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