1. Written, 3 TPE (150 words min.)
Reflection on your season - how did your player fare on the ice this season? Did you meet or surpass your individual player goals or did you come up short? Whether you excelled or disappointed - what can you attribute that to? What will you try to do better next season?

• Honestly I was disappointed with how my player performed in almost every category. Last season I was an All-Star, and one of the hit leaders in the SMJHL. This season I dropped from #2 in hits to #5 and went from 242 hits to 148 hits. Honestly that’s a disappointment. I know I was put into a new line and new roles but I didn’t think I would drop off that much. I may have scored more goals but I was less effective as a team member all around the ice. I even gave away double the pucks I did last season. I’m attributing this to a loss of a lot of players and moving up form line 3 to line 1, which was a big change that I don’t think my player adjusted well to. Next season I hope that Panda will come into the season ready to go and hit the ground running with a fresh start and less internal team turnover. (164 Words)
  

3. Written, 2 TPE (100 words min.)
FHM's 12-team playoff bracket setup has received a fair bit of scrutiny. It re-seeds after the play-in round and for some reason puts the #1 seed and #2 seed on the same side of the bracket. I challenge you to come up with a different playoff format - can you come up with a format that's dumber/worse than this? be creative! Come up with the worst possible format for a 12-team playoff.

• This is a piece of cake. You start off with a double sided round robin challenge, the top 6 all go into one round robin, and the bottom 6 go into another round robin. You take the top 3 from this round robin, and then go into a blind double elimination bracket. Throw all 6 remaining teams into a hat and then draw them randomly into a bracket. That way we get maximum craziness. Then make each game a best of 11, so that we can see who really is the best. In the double elimination side of the bracket, once the losers side comes through to the final the team that didn’t get eliminated gets a 1 game advantage in the first part of the final round. Then if they lose the first best of 11 both teams get to start out even. (144)
  

6. Written, 2 TPE (100 words min.)
Which SHL or SMJHL team was the best team to not make the finals this season and why?

• Now I’m going with homerism as per usual. The Colorado Raptors should have been CONTENDERS. We had the squad at the start of the season that in my opinion should have been able to compete with anyone out there. I think the sim messed with Colorado and must have had a deep hatred for us. And then in the playoffs we lost every game where we outshot our opponents. I think please don’t quote me on that, and I do 100% think we should have gone farther. I hit a lot of people and I got into fights why won’t the sim love me. We had a very strong line, and a lot of good players who regressed somehow even after upping their cap, like me. (126 Words)
  

8. Written/Graphic, 3 TPE (150 words min. if written)
The arenas in Buffalo and Hamilton want to make sure they're pulling out all the stops on the big stage. Help the concessions department of one of these two teams develop a new product, with marketing specifically pertaining to this finals series, to be sold at the arena during the finals. Describe the product and the marketing in 150 words or create a promotional poster showing the product, its name, the price, etc.

• I think the most obvious thing to sell is Food that comes with branded Masks and popcorn that’s container can double into a Branded Face Shield once the popcorn is eaten. This is going to be popular because you can enjoy your meal and then enjoy the game knowing you are safe from the corona. (also make sure not to sell corona). The marketing would be a bunch of people with the cool looking popcorn helmets on their head, with the one clear side so they can see out. The biggest problem I can forsee is two-fold. What do you do with all the extra popcorn kernels that are unpopped in the bucket? And  now you have a helmet with a clear side, but that side is covered in butter. That’s why every bucket will have a liner inside it that you turn inside out. This disposes of the extra kernels, and the bag will have a hole you put your head through so that it acts as another barrier as it will lie flush with your neck to ensure you are safe from disease and the clear panel is not covered in butter, it’s a win win. (198 words)
  

13. Written, up to 4 TPE - Pick up to 4 Challenge Cup related topics to write about! Each topic is worth 1 TPE. Each answer must be 50+ words.
a. Both of these teams have an impressive set of skaters - without factoring in any coaching or tactical strategies, which team do you think has the better roster of skaters on paper?

• On Paper I have to go with Buffalo. Have you ever watched One Piece? Monkey D. Luffy has eaten the Gum Gum Fruit and is basically a rubber man, I don’t know if that’s legal but being able to stretch your own body to crazy lengths has to be cheating and is worth a whole teams worth of skaters just on their own. (63)
  

b. Do you foresee the teams making any strategic adjustments during the course of the series? Should the teams be quick to switch tactics or stick with what they've been using?

• If i were the Manager I wouldn’t change anything. Both teams obviously had good strategies to get them here, and I think if the players are comfortable with the strategies then you stick with them. Changing things up can threaten the comfort level of the players and can cause them to overthink and make mistakes while trying to implement the new strategies, not all players are smart enough to do two things at the same time. (76)
  

c. These two teams hail from the Great Lakes Division. Which of the Great Lakes (Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, Superior) do you think is the Greatest and why?

• This is a dumb questions it’s blatantly obvious. It’s lake Superior do I have to spell it out for you. Lake Superior is the Largest Lake of the 5 by Surface Area and Volume. Outside that Lake Superior is ALSO the largest Freshwater lake in the world, meaning you could live on it AND drink the water unlike the Caspain Sea, WHICH ISN’T EVEN NAMED LAKE. Besides that It’s in the name, SUPERIOR meaning it’s better (Though technically named le lac  supérieur meaning the upper lake because it was North of Lake Huron).  (93)
  

d. If, once it is safe to do so, you had to go hang out in person with one of the users on Buffalo/Hamilton, who would you hang out with and what would you do? (if you pick gabe you get -1 tpe)

• Well I would pick Gabe because he sounds nice but now I won’t. I’ll be honest I don’t ever leave my locker room so this is a hard question but I guess I would pick TnlAstatine since they named their player after an Anime character i assume we could bond over that. I’m just starting One Piece but we could chill and just watch/discuss anime all darn day. (69)
  

16. CW TRIVIA, 3 TPE max - 1 TPE for participation, 0.5 TPE for each correct answer. This is now 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.

• Kappa