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*WithTheMoose* · 03-02-2022, 02:54 PM

1. CW TRIVIA, 3 TPE max - 1 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.

Penguin

4. Written, 3 TPE, Extinction Event (150 words min.)
Rumour has it that millions of years before the SHL began, there was a pre-historic “Dino Hockey League” that dominated the global sports market before a meteor wiped out most life on the planet. Describe that ancient league. Maybe name a couple of teams or players, tell me about how the Dino league’s rules differed from our current ones? This one is pretty loose, just have fun with it!

Back in the prehistoric days, Adelie's ancestors absolutely dominated the ice. You see back then, there were massive penguins known as Kumimanu Biceae. These massive penguins weighed over 220 pounds and stood to be over six foot tall. They were massively built winged figures of flubber and they were dominant. You see, Adelie is a pretty dominant player on the ice here in the SHL and he is significantly smaller than his ancient brothers. You see Adelie is barely more than two foot tall, so these guys were over three times as large if you can imagine it. Their grace and skill on the ice was absolutely unmatched and they could slide circles around the larger prehistoric creatures of the time. I say slide because they preferred to skate around on their bellies, much like their more current great grandbabies. Its a shame that the meteor took them out as it took centuries upon centuries before penguins returned to the ice.

6. 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. Los Angeles has been riding their top players for almost a full minute more of ice time than Hamilton has theirs. If you were a coach, do you buy into this strategy? Do you let your top guys leave it all out there every night or aim for the most balanced attack possible?
b. Guy O'Shea and Evangelos Giannopoulos have been absolute block machines for Hamilton in the playoffs with 109 between them. If you’re looking for offense in this series, how do you get around these two defensemen?
c. Los Angeles’ defense, on the other hand, has not been afraid to join the play and put up points. How do you prepare for a five player offensive attack? How do you counter?
d. The starting goalies for these teams, Olof Karsikko and A Jobin have been nearly unbeatable up to this point with a 0.937 and a 0.927 SV% respectively. If you’re a player on the other team, how would you get inside their heads so that you can put the puck in the net?

a. It's the finals. I think you have to leave it all on the ice. This is absolutely no time to back off or to play it safe. You made it this far by riding your best players, so double down. If anything leave them on the ice even longer. They've played their hearts out, they've carried you. Rely on them.
b. I think to get past Hamilton's two elite defenders, you need to keep up a fast paced assault. High volume shots, stay on the offensive, force them to take breaks and get the second line on the ice more. If they're not on the ice, they can't defend. It turns out that with their defenders often on offense as well, Los Angeles might be well suited for this.
c, The only way you counter the prolific 5 man attack style of Los Angeles is to slow down the game. Use your elite defenders to keep possession of the puck as long as possible. Short passes, efficient shooting. Take control of the ice and reduce the number of chances Los Angeles has to stretch your team thin.
d. Of the two teams I think Los Angeles is best suited for this kind of play. Because their defense gets involved so much offensively, I think they can put up the volume of shots they need to in order to throw the opposing goalie off. The sheer volume of shooting could be enough to slide some by.

17. Graphic, 3 TPE, Clairvoyant
You have been granted the gift of seeing the future, but only a single future cup winner. Relay us with this info in the form of a cup banner for the winning team. Make sure to include the season they won, you can make up some player names if it's far out in the future. Have fun with it! It could be your team if you want, with you as the star! We won't know if you're lying until SXX anyway.

I think heading for S70 or so, you could see the Chicago Syndicate potentially win a title. Led by an awesome GM like SDCore, they've managed to combine together a couple fairly solid drafts including grabbing incredible people like Tesla on top of their players. On top of their drafts, I could see Chicago potentially grabbing a few young, key free agents in the future on the defensive side of things. Their GM is also on the verge of retiring and returning to team as another young player. As the seasons go on, I could see the youth this team has coming in really rounding out and becoming a true threat to the cup. They'll all be rounding out into their primes at about the same time and with some decent role players mixed in on the second and third rounds and this team could be down right scary and I'm excited to see how it plays out. I know they're led well and they have it in them to do great things.

12. Milestones, up to 3 TPE
Milestones are folded in with CW. So just link your Milestone claim as task 12 for up to 3 TPE towards your 16 total.

S63 SMJHL Milestones

Arkz · 03-02-2022, 03:19 PM

1. Trivia (3 TPE)
Verification

12. Milestones (2 TPE)
S63 Milestones

13. Parity (3 TPE)
Parity is not solved in the SHL, not by a long shot. While it’s great that a new team made it to the finals, that is such a small piece of the overall puzzle in terms of the scope of the league. Just by basic law of averages, it’s not surprising that someone made it to the finals that wasn’t Buffalo, Hamilton, Texas, or Chicago. Especially with the sort of strange seeding decisions that the sim engine decides to go with. But, despite a new team making it to the finals, once again we see Hamilton with the final championship, as is tradition. Even if some teams get an upset and make it to the finals, it’s still likely going to one of the usual teams in the end. The league leadership needs to do a better job at establishing rules to help enforce parity and give folks a reason to care about their team’s performance.

14. Rebuild (3 TPE)
I can’t go through an entire Championship Week without mentioning the rebuild that I’ve been a part of with the New Orleans Specters. JKortesi, Python, Nictox, and Overdoo have, at various times, been at the helm of a successful rebuild. When I joined the team, there was basically no one left who was still active or at least actively contributing to the locker room. Well there was Huck, who is worth 10 other users, but otherwise it was a ghost town. However, as time went on we were able to bring a number of tremendous users to the team and that hasn’t slowed down. We made the playoffs for the first time in over five seasons, and while we lost to Chicago in the first round it was at least a step in the right direction. And the great thing is that our team is still actively growing and improving as time goes on, so the sky is the limit.

18. Goalies (3 TPE)
I for one welcome our new robot goalie overlords. Here’s the thing, probably nothing changes. As it currently exists, goalies are really just an overall barometer of a team’s performance. They bring nothing specific to the table outside perhaps a small edge and improvement, but otherwise nothing substantial. If every team had perfect robot goalies, there really wouldn’t be a huge change besides a slightly overall decrease in scoring across the league for a couple seasons while we tinker with the goal sliders in the sim engine to restore the current scoring letters. The other benefit to this is that it would push folks to creating skaters instead of potentially ‘wasting’ their time on creating goalies. This actually might increase overall user retention in the league as folks are no longer drawn to a position that has little overall impact on their team’s chances of success. It would just be a big bummer to lose out on a chance to play goalie, as it’s a lot of folks’ favorite position in real life hockey.

21. PT Difficulty (2 TPE)
Well, PT directors are always just looking at word counts, so that’s what you have to mess with in order to create a harder task for the Point Task Directors. I mean, you can also resort to bullying and insults, but that is no fun and I would never do that to someone who does a job for free in their hobby. So I suppose I would do my PTs in a different language, probably something that doesn’t use typical English letters so that it’s harder to tell how many words are actually being used. Mandarin, Japanese, Korean, something along those lines.

16/16 TPE

academydropout · 03-02-2022, 03:33 PM

Milestones

Trivia verification word: a weh di bumboclaat

18. Written, 3 TPE, zzSnoop Lionzz 150 words min
At first, I think scores would lower a bit, because obviously goalies are better and prevent goals more often. But that wouldn't last. Knowing you don't have to defend as much because the goalie is incredible, teams would likely play a more aggressive offensive game. Defensemen with limited attacking capability, no matter how good their defensive attributes, would be much less valued. Enforcers would be more valuable, providing they have some offensive capability too, since throwing the opposition off their groove on offense might be more noticeable, if the forward line has to be firing on all cylinders to score past these godbots.

Then, after a while, this shift will lead to a new meta, in which someone realises that one really good defenseman can make a big difference by taking one attacker out of the equation and dramatically impacting the opposition's chances of beating the super goalie. Slowly, teams start playing two strong defensive players again, and we sort of go full circle back to the lower scoring games.

19. Written, 3 TPE, Bodysnatchers 150 words min
There are a few ways you could expose this, I think. I have it on good authority that the Panthers are "old men" and a largely shared fondness for good beers and weed. So, I would probably note the lack of enthusiasm for these things, and start asking questions. Things like "hey you ever wonder how we coped before we had broadband internet?" and "man, do you remember giving your computer digital AIDS trying to get your favourite band's latest album?". You can supplement this with passing references to other things old men like, such as Creedence Clearwater Revival, and complaining about zoomers. After a while, this will confuse the renegades enough to start catching them in the lie.

Then it's just a matter of setting a trap where people will see it. As everyone knows, the Renegades can't resist winning. It's like an addiction or something, they need help. But this is how we catch them. Foolproof.

C9Van · 03-02-2022, 04:03 PM

PBE Affiliate + 3

Milestone + 3

Trivia verification word: regret

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Total 9 and that'll do.

TacocaT 2 · 03-02-2022, 06:12 PM

GOALIE
Save % -> .904% or higher (.918 SV%)
Goals Against Average -> 3.41 or less (2.05 GAA)
Shutouts -> 1 or more (4 SO)
Game Rating -> 66 or higher (69 GR nice)

+3 TPE Total

Seymour · 03-02-2022, 07:04 PM

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1. CW TRIVIA, 3 TPE max - 1 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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Username: Seymour
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12. Milestones, up to 3 TPE

Milestones are folded in with CW. So just link your Milestone claim as task 12 for up to 3 TPE towards your 16 total.

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Post your claim in the milestones thread for tpe earned per stat, and then link that post in your CW submission. This is done because the person who grades CW will be a different person than double-checks milestones.

S63 Milestones
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7. Graphic, 2 TPE, The Peoples’ Favorite

Yes, this task can stay. Design a championship ring for either team, you may use the fancy ring site. Here's a link: https://designer.trophysmack.com/productdesigner/index/index/id/97/template/MTUz/cid/MzMwMDA2MzU2Mjk2Mjk=

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11b. Graphic, 3 TPE - The Procrastinator Special!

Congratulations, graphic loving procrastinator! Much like the written word loving procrastinator, you too have a special task just for you! Create a series recap broadcast graphic - the contents can be whatever you want, but your graphic must list both teams and at least 3 stats for each.

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15. Written, 2 TPE, The yearly IIHF task (100 words min.)

Write your predictions for this year's IIHF tournament or WJC if you care about that more. Will there be surprises? Will any players make their country proud? Who's gonna suck? Be bold!

I think I am going to have to give a biased opinion on who I think is going to with the World Junior Championship. I have to go with the hometown Canadians. Tam Canada always has a great pipeline of players that are coming from all over the country. These prospects give Team Canada a chance to compete every season and try to win the gold medal each year. This is obviously a biased take but hockey is Canada and Canada is hockey. Anything less than a gold would bring great disappointment to Canada. Kidding – just a bit. I hope Canada does well and brings the gold home!

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**Rich** · 03-02-2022, 09:26 PM

Fileworker PT pass

CaptainCamel · 03-02-2022, 09:48 PM

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1. CW TRIVIA, 3 TPE max - 1 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.

Camel - 3 TPE

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3. Written, 3 TPE, Those That Came Before (150 words min.)

When did your franchise last win a Challenge Cup? Write about that team, some of the key players, and what intangibles they had going for them to be able to win it all. If your franchise hasn’t yet won a cup, choose any cup winning team and talk about why you’d like your current team to emulate them. Did they have an all time great roster? Were they scrappy under dogs?

This isn't the challenge cup, I'm sorry, sue me, but I'm using this task to write about my first season with the SMJHL and how I won the S57 Four Star Cup with the Anchorage Armada. This was my first time ever participating with simulation hockey league and it was a blast. Every single season I was with ANC we made it to the finals, but it was only that first season that we were able to win it. Gabe did a great job getting a bunch of active players at their 450 cap to lead us through most of the way, plus some really good puck luck helped us on taking out QCC. We weren't the underdogs of the entire playoffs, but everyone in the league was expecting QCC to blow everyone out that playoff run. We've not gotten past round 1 since I've been with ATL, but this past run was the closest we've been until we choked and got reverse swept. WC - 163

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4. Written, 3 TPE, Extinction Event (150 words min.)

Rumour has it that millions of years before the SHL began, there was a pre-historic “Dino Hockey League” that dominated the global sports market before a meteor wiped out most life on the planet. Describe that ancient league. Maybe name a couple of teams or players, tell me about how the Dino league’s rules differed from our current ones? This one is pretty loose, just have fun with it!

A Dino Hockey League sounds absolutely fantastic. It could go one of two ways: either each individual team is made up of nothing but that dinosaur (for example the Pucky Pteranadons are just pteranadons) or there's a mix of dinos among each team. A mix would certainly be more fair, but for naming's sake, we're going to pretend like each team is its own dino. We have the Pucky Pteranadons, the Massive Mammoths, the Vicious Velociraptors, the Center Ice Cavemen, and many more. I don't think this would make very much sense and I'm already having troubles imagining how it would work. Could you imagine a brachiosaur on skates? I don't even know if it could get on the ice without it breaking. It's so large that you could go five-hole on it all day long. Some carnivorous dinos might lose their temper if things get too heated and simply eat the opposition. What are you going to do, send a t-rex to the penalty box? - WC 166

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11a. Written, 2 TPE - The Procrastinator Special! (100 words min.)

Congratulations, procrastinator!  Through your terrible time management skills, you’ve unlocked a special task! [TEAM] has won it all! Was it an exciting final, or predictable? Did anything surprise you about the outcome? What players performed above or below what was expected of them?

Well, HAM won, big surprise. While HAM winning was predictable, I would say the final was anything but. LAP made the finals! I've not been with the SHL long enough to know much of its cup history, but it seems like year after year after year it's HAM, BUF, CHI, or TEX. It's so refreshing to finally see someone else make a run like LAP. Not only that, but they made it an actual series only losing 2-4! I gotta say whoever's idea it was for the new regression, I do think that had a lot to do with it and it was a fantastic idea. - WC 106

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12. Milestones, up to 3 TPE

Milestones are folded in with CW. So just link your Milestone claim as task 12 for up to 3 TPE towards your 16 total.

+3 TPE - CW Milestones

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21. Written, 2 TPE, No take backs 2 100 words min

Leviadan has made the grave mistake of becoming PT director. I'm already sapping his life source and joyful innocence (yum). How could you, as a user, also make his job unnecessarily difficult? Make media about his shit PT prompts? Write your submissions in Spanish?

Congrats Leviadan! Making media about how shit they are certainly would help, as well as other non-English language PTs, but I think the best thing to do is to just make snide remarks that are very passive aggressive in every single one of your PTs, such as how awful it is to have a continuing series of PTs. Aside from this, you can also just tag them directly in Discord and complain about it every single week and even DM them over the site. The options are endless! But for real though coming up with these tasks every single week and somehow keeping them fresh and unique seems difficult enough as it is. - WC 113

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