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Fantobens · 03-10-2023, 02:17 PM

jbay7 · 03-10-2023, 03:33 PM

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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.

darkness (+3 TPE, i hope)

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6. Written, 2 TPE, Haiku Highlights  (5 words min.)

Rather than giving you a task where you do something boring like "write about your season" using things like "sentences and punctuation" I figured I could instead ask you to write a haiku about how your season went! A haiku is a three line poem where the first line is five syllables, the second is seven, and the third line is five again.

Tons of time in Box
But then traded to Quebec
Now a J Winner
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7. Milestones, up to 3 TPE

Milestones are folded in with CW. So just link your Milestone claim as task 7 for up to 3 TPE towards your 16 total.

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+3 TPE https://simulationhockey.com/showthread....pid3330589

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15. Written, 3 TPE, IIHF Analysis (150 words min.)

Write your predictions for this year's IIHF tournament or WJC! Tell me about your team! What are your expectations for your player? What teams are you watching out for this time around? Did last season's results surprise you?

While Jarrod Lakemore will technically be representing Great Britain in the IIHF, as a Junior player he'll see far more ice time on his WJC team, the British Isles team. The S68 draft class that Lakemore was a part of featured a healthy chunk of both British and Irish representatives, and this season they are all third year J players who are at the TPE cap for juniors, making this team very formidable. Two seasons ago, a very young British Isles team surprised everyone by finishing in second place following an upset of both UCORCAL and USA. This season they won't be sneaking up on anyone however, as they feature are fairly stacked roster that could very well be the one to finally dethrone DACH, who have dominated the WJC the past few seasons. This season and next season are the best chances for gold the team has had in some time and it would be a disappointment to not come away with gold in at least one of these seasons. (173 words, +3 TPE)

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17. Written, 3 TPE, Water Logged (150 words min.)

The ocean wants a voice! If you had to make an IIHF hockey team out of ocean critters, which ones would be the best for a hockey team and why? Build your team with the intent to win! You aren't just there for fun! I want a tactical analysis of the ice hockey ability of sea creatures!

Most ocean creatures, while obviously quite adept at swimming, generally do not spend much, if any time on ice, so teaching them to skate could present a problem. This means one of the more obvious choices would be an ocean going animal that is also at home on ice, which leads us to the first obvious inclusion: a penguin. Agile and at home gliding on ice, penguins will boast speed on ice that will simply be unmatched by other creatures and they would make excellent wingers, often leaking away on breakaways or gliding easily past defenders. They do lack size however, so they would be centered by a dolphin. Dolphins are extremely intelligent and likely will be quick to learn how to easily move around the ice and would be a great playmaker from the center position as they likely will be able to read the ice better than the other animals. On defense we'll post two polar bears to hold down the fort. Size, aggression, an angry streak, and familiarity with ice mobility makes the polar bear a fearsome sight, one very few would be capable of getting past. Finally, in goal is a blue whale. Probably won't be very mobile but at 100 meters and 30 tons, does it really matter? Nothing is getting past this guy. (228 words, +3 TPE)

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22. Written, 2 TPE, Hope and Hapiness (100 words min.)

I've asked this before, but since it may be my final time writing CW, I wanted to ask it again. It was one of my favourite questions to read responses to. Tell me something that happened recently that you enjoyed, something that brings you happiness, or something you have hope for in the future. It could be a huge thing like buying a house or a small thing like having fun with your lockerroom this season. I just want to give you a chance to write down something positive.

This season my player was traded from his first (and only, at the time) home, the St. Louis Scarecrows. This was the first locker room I had ever been a part of and was a team a felt a connection to as a team that had drafted me after I had fallen rather far in the player draft. Unfortunately after having a decent run and reaching the semi-finals in my first two seasons, this past season was very rough for St. Louis and the decision was made to enter a full rebuild, which meant most of the active players were traded for picks. I was one of the last to be traded so it was a bit sad to see my friends and teammates go, but eventually I found myself as the newest member of the QCC locker room. The people there were quite welcoming and helped me feel at home right away. Even better, we had a great run which ended in a championship, and now despite my bittersweet feelings about leaving St. Louis, I can't wait to try to defend our title in my last Junior season with QCC. (193 words, +2 TPE)

tweedledunn · 03-10-2023, 03:36 PM

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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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6. Written, 2 TPE, Haiku Highlights  (5 words min.)

Rather than giving you a task where you do something boring like "write about your season" using things like "sentences and punctuation" I figured I could instead ask you to write a haiku about how your season went! A haiku is a three line poem where the first line is five syllables, the second is seven, and the third line is five again.

Skates glide on the ice
Stick and puck, a game of skill
Score! The crowd cheers loud

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7. Milestones, up to 3 TPE

Milestones are folded in with CW. So just link your Milestone claim as task 7 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.

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*Otrebor13* · 03-10-2023, 04:16 PM

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a. Both are equally impressive, but I think I would have to say the expansion route is a little more impressive to me. The amount of assets you start with is not great, so you have to make every move count. Whereas when you already have a bunch of players you can recoup assets as much as possible and get a little bit ahead in your rebuilding process.

b. I think you need to keep an eye on Rashford and really pressure him with the puck. I wouldn’t leave the guys scoring too open, but I would make sure that Rashford was covered. If the main guy distributing the puck is being shut down, you have a better chance of giving up less goals. He’s creating a lot of space and getting his teammates in scoring positions. If you shift this you make players uncomfortable and make it difficult for them to score.

c. Goalies are a strange breed, generally goalies like being tested as it keeps them sharp and active. I think seeing that much activity on a goalie shows that he’s on fire and really is striving in that situation. I think rather than peppering more shots on him, you have to take shots that might make him uncomfortable. Get a lot of traffic in front, shoot pucks from different angles, and just try to slowly make him do things he’s not used to.

Task 4

When I wasn’t in the playoffs the go to would be vacation. I’ve gone on vacation to places like Europe, where it’s a bit more active and walking and sight seeing and have also gone on vacations where I’m on a beach relaxing and doing nothing. Both are equally great, but I think that relaxation vacation is the way to go.

Normally I go with some teammates and our girlfriends, and I’ve also gone just with my girlfriend and it’s a great way to destress. You’re disconnected from the hockey world, you focus on nothing but relaxing and you make sure that you forget all about the season. When the time comes for training camp and getting ready for the next season then you get into that mindset, but for the time being, just relax and get away. This may not work for everyone, but it has definitely worked for me and it’s been great for times when the playoffs aren’t made or when they end earlier than expected.

Task 5

I feel like this shouldn’t really be a question, right? In normal circumstances I always choose the massive bear. But if there’s the option of an equally big monster with a hammer, who is also made of magma, I can’t see how a bear beats that, no matter what color he is.

Theoretically the forge magma monster can just swing away, keeping the bear at longer range than necessary. However, even if the bear manages to disarm the magma monster and get close enough, the thing is still made of magma. How can a bear possibly scratch/claw/bite this thing without doing significant damage to itself? I think this is a little more of a lopsided fight than what we saw last year, although I can’t blame it considering the team branding. Maybe the fact that this bear is godly means he could be immune to the heat/magma? That might make the fight fair, but I’m taking the magma monster. Only slight edge to the bear if the fight is in water.

Task 7

S69 Milestones

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Were the playoffs what I expected? Not really, because you always tend to assume the best teams will just win, so I am glad to see Philadelphia win the cup and for the friends I have on that team.

Perhaps the most honest answer to this was, I had no real expectations because I didn’t follow the playoffs. I was still in the SMJHL and was just more interested in that playoff run than the SHL playoff run. That being said, I’ll be making the jump the SHL next season, so perhaps I will be able to care a little more for my team going far than I did for anything this season. Granted I barely followed my own SMJHL season, so we’ll have to see how that turns out.

*Zerg* · 03-10-2023, 05:02 PM

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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.

Verification word: kekw (3 TPE)

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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. Both Winnipeg and Philadelphia have taken the long road of drafting 

and development to find themselves in the Challenge Cup Finals. Winnipeg

in full scale rebuild, and Philadelphia in the expansion draft. Each 

began nearly 10 seasons ago. From your point of view, which build is 

more impressive? Full scale teardown to challenge cup, or expansion 

draft to challenge cup?

b. Winnipeg's Mikko Rashford has been an unstoppable assist machine with

25 in 20 GP. If you're looking to shut down Winnipegs offense, who do 

you target? Rashford, or goal scorers surrounding them? Do you double 

down on guarding the scorers and letting a pass-first player take a 

shot, or do you go heavy on the passer and hope nothing squeeks through?

c. Philadelphia's BASE PACK has made over 500 saves in 17 GP. If you're a

Winnipeg team looking for a weakness to exploit, do you think this is 

one? Does this signify an exhausted goalie that you can pepper with 

shots and eventually break the dam? Or is BASE PACK just an on-fire 

goalie that you need to find another way around?

d. As always I ask... who you got? Usually when I analyze teams for this

segment I see a contrast in results or deployment or something I can 

latch on to, but these look like remarkably similar teams at this point 

in the playoffs. So who wins? Why?

a. I consider expansion draft to cup to be the more impressive route of the two, which is fitting because the Forge actually won. Plenty of teams in this league have won after tearing down and rebuilding a fresh core, but for an expansion team to win with what was largely their originally drafted core is rare. (56 words)

b. Definitely shut down Mikko Rashford. The goal scorers are only as dangerous as they are because Mikko can get the puck to them in extremely dangerous areas. Without him, the snipers are still threats, but threats your goalie should be able to handle as long as he can see the shots coming. Rashford throws that whole calculus off. (58 words)

c. BASE PACK has spent his whole career dreaming of exactly this. He is on fire. This is what goalies love: lots of shots that they save consistently. You cannot just volume shoot to beat this guy; he is not going to get tired; he is not going to run out of gas. You need to take him out of the zone, not just let him style on you. (68 words)

d. Philadelphia, because of BASE PACK. Winnipeg is a fine team, but when it comes time to clutch one win, hockey does have a single most important position. A goalie that's this on fire at this time of year always makes his team the most dangerous in the tournament. Unless Winnipeg can knock him off his horse, BASE PACK is going to ride this thing all the way to the cup. (70 words)

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3. Written, 3 TPE, Chemistry Lesson (150 words min.)

Tell me about who your linemates were this year, and how the season went

playing together. Why do you work well together? Why don't you work 

well together? If there was anyone on your team you don't play with but 

you'd like to, who is it? Why? If you're a goalie, tell me about your 

bond with your goaltending partner!

Colorado had two other goalies this season: Viktor Navolsky and Jason Fourium. Grzegorz carried most of the load by far, going so far as to push the league record in shots faced (but not break it), but he still had time to bond with his fellow goalies. Jason Fourium was obsessed with the number four. He didn't feel comfortable in his net until he'd faced and saved four consecutive shots. His mask design was split into quarters, and he always kept a quarter in his pocket even when on the ice. Grzegorz found his superstitions endearing as well as relatable. Viktor Navolsky was a bit more weird, but the other two still accepted him as one of their own. He had no superstitions whatsoever and insisted that nothing he did, no ritual he performed or charm he kept, could possibly influence his performance. The other two goalies took this to be a good luck charm of their own, a curse-breaker, and while Viktor thought that was silly, he could live with it.

(172 words, 3 TPE)

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6. Written, 2 TPE, Haiku Highlights  (5 words min.)

Rather than giving you a task where you do something boring like "write 

about your season" using things like "sentences and punctuation" I 

figured I could instead ask you to write a haiku about how your season 

went! A haiku is a three line poem where the first line is five 

syllables, the second is seven, and the third line is five again.

Grzegorz stands in net
It rains like shells at Verdun
Many shots against
(3 TPE)

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7. Milestones, up to 3 TPE

Milestones are folded in with CW. So just link your Milestone claim as task 7 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.

Milestones Link (3 TPE)

16 TPE total

Massive Coiler · 03-10-2023, 05:33 PM

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2. 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. Both Winnipeg and Philadelphia have taken the long road of drafting and development to find themselves in the Challenge Cup Finals. Winnipeg in full scale rebuild, and Philadelphia in the expansion draft. Each began nearly 10 seasons ago. From your point of view, which build is more impressive? Full scale teardown to challenge cup, or expansion draft to challenge cup?

b. Winnipeg's Mikko Rashford has been an unstoppable assist machine with 25 in 20 GP. If you're looking to shut down Winnipegs offense, who do you target? Rashford, or goal scorers surrounding them? Do you double down on guarding the scorers and letting a pass-first player take a shot, or do you go heavy on the passer and hope nothing squeeks through?

c. Philadelphia's BASE PACK has made over 500 saves in 17 GP. If you're a Winnipeg team looking for a weakness to exploit, do you think this is one? Does this signify an exhausted goalie that you can pepper with shots and eventually break the dam? Or is BASE PACK just an on-fire goalie that you need to find another way around?

d. As always I ask... who you got? Usually when I analyze teams for this segment I see a contrast in results or deployment or something I can latch on to, but these look like remarkably similar teams at this point in the playoffs. So who wins? Why?

Not to take anything away from a successful rebuild, but that seems like the standard play to me, and is less impressive than an expansion draft turning itself into a legitimate contender. Rebuilds are so common, and are a sure thing when it comes to building a successful team, it just takes time and knowing when to start capitalizing on a window.
Always have to make the passer take the shot. Could result in some goals for them, but it’s the safest bet, to me. Put them in bad positions and low percentage angles and take away the passing option to force a bad shot or a pass that isn’t directly in a premium scoring position.
You can’t go into a series hoping a goalie is tired. You have to assume that they will bring their A game, and one doing this well is another big hurdle. Everything from offence to defence to goaltending needs scouted and planned around in a playoff series. Gambling that one of them just “stops working” is going to result in trouble and you’re probably going to be in for a rude awakening when the series starts.
The Philadelphia Forge, because I am on them. As I am writing this after the fact, I know the result, but going back and looking at it from a pre-series standpoint, I would trust the strong goaltending to hold and the Forge to be able to win some tight games. All you need is to take one game on the road, and it puts you in a very nice position to succeed.

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6. Written, 2 TPE, Haiku Highlights  (5 words min.)

Rather than giving you a task where you do something boring like "write about your season" using things like "sentences and punctuation" I figured I could instead ask you to write a haiku about how your season went! A haiku is a three line poem where the first line is five syllables, the second is seven, and the third line is five again.

Once called up early
My team was a contender
I have won the cup

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18. 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! Were the playoffs as you expected this year, or were there some surprises? Is it exciting to have two completely new teams meet in the finals? What did you like or not like about this season?

The playoffs were extremely exciting to me, as I was on the Philadelphia Forge. I was pleasantly surprised every step of the way, having not picked my team to win in the predictions. Which is funny that I try not to pick the homer selection and it ends up being the right call. It’s always nice to look at the big picture and see new teams playing in the finals, rather than the same 3 or 4 teams that seem to always find themselves there. As for what I liked about this season? Well, I was called up a season early and ended up winning a championship, so that was pretty good.

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20. Written / Graphic, 3 TPE, Seige Engine (150 words min.)

We all know what a seige engine is, and we all have a favourite one! If you had to design a seige engine based on your team's branding, what would it be? What would that seige weapon do? What would it look like? What are its advantages? As a graphic option, you can depict what it would look like in action!

The Philadelphia Forge siege engine is a powerful behemoth. At first glance, it appears to be a reinforced battering ram/siege tower with a roof and walls with metal added to it, but the interior is a shock to those who have never seen it. A fully functional forge is inside, with the hardest working smiths you’ve ever seen, pumping out weapons and armor as the battle rages on. Fast as lightning, they churn out arms as if it were a real time strategy just spawning at will. Soldiers can retrieve weapons and armor as theirs fail. This mobile forge is able to maneuver with the soldiers and act as cover from arrows and other projectile attacks from above. After battles it can replenish the items required by the soldiers. This thing is nuts and totally realistic. No need to wait for supply lines to bring in new gear because they have a seemingly infinite supply of crafting materials. Also soldiers are able to spend gold to upgrade during the battle here. They can buy the battle pass beforehand if they’d prefer.

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22. Written, 2 TPE, Hope and Hapiness (100 words min.)

I've asked this before, but since it may be my final time writing CW, I wanted to ask it again. It was one of my favourite questions to read responses to. Tell me something that happened recently that you enjoyed, something that brings you happiness, or something you have hope for in the future. It could be a huge thing like buying a house or a small thing like having fun with your lockerroom this season. I just want to give you a chance to write down something positive.

Well to keep this SHL related, my team just won the S69 championship, which I personally find hilarious. I’ve won SHL cups before, but that was at the end of my player’s career and after being forced into free agency and losing my general interest in the league. This time I was paying attention and following along with my team. I was called up early, which was fun, and to actually win was a huge surprise to me. It was actually sort of nice to be in the team discord during sims and seeing everyone’s reactions to each goal. I was very happy for everyone on the team, more than myself, as winning and losing isn’t very important to me.

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7. Milestones, up to 3 TPE

+3 TPE - Milestones

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**Lime** · 03-10-2023, 05:39 PM

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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.

lime

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2. 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. Both Winnipeg and Philadelphia have taken the long road of drafting and development to find themselves in the Challenge Cup Finals. Winnipeg in full scale rebuild, and Philadelphia in the expansion draft. Each began nearly 10 seasons ago. From your point of view, which build is more impressive? Full scale teardown to challenge cup, or expansion draft to challenge cup?

b. Winnipeg's Mikko Rashford has been an unstoppable assist machine with 25 in 20 GP. If you're looking to shut down Winnipegs offense, who do you target? Rashford, or goal scorers surrounding them? Do you double down on guarding the scorers and letting a pass-first player take a shot, or do you go heavy on the passer and hope nothing squeeks through?

c. Philadelphia's BASE PACK has made over 500 saves in 17 GP. If you're a Winnipeg team looking for a weakness to exploit, do you think this is one? Does this signify an exhausted goalie that you can pepper with shots and eventually break the dam? Or is BASE PACK just an on-fire goalie that you need to find another way around?

d. As always I ask... who you got? Usually when I analyze teams for this segment I see a contrast in results or deployment or something I can latch on to, but these look like remarkably similar teams at this point in the playoffs. So who wins? Why?

a. Full scale tear down to challenge cup is the most impressive in my opinion because it rarely actually goes the distance. 10 seasons is a long time and gms can leave and the team kind of forgets where its going and just turns into a mediocre team and ends up in another rebuild.
b. I would work on shutting down Rashford. I know from his time in the Newfoundland Berserkers that he is a beast of a player with the mentality to win and you aren't going to kill his team without going for the head so to speak. Once he is taken care of everything else will follow.
c. Base pack is tough to get through and its clear that volume alone is not enough to put a dent in his armor. You have to go for the high quality shots and get open in order to have a chance of getting one past him. I don't expect Base Pack to be bothered by a few more games of getting lit up.
d. I would say that unfortunately the Winnipeg Aurora have shown that they have a pattern of being choke artists. They have had big super teams before and all of the tpe but could not finish out the season by properly utilizing that power when it counts. I give it to the forge.

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4. Written, 3 TPE, Playoffs Shmayoffs (150 words min.)

Write about a time you didn't make the playoffs, and what you did to take your mind off it! Did you expect to miss the playoffs when it happened? Was it a shock? How did you take it? If you've never been on a team that missed the playoffs, tell me about an early exit you made instead.

I don't think I have ever missed the playoffs in my entire career so... I would say this season was a very disappointing exit. Getting swept in the first round when you want to be a contender is a tough pill to swallow. Buffalo is trying very hard to sneak into a cup but it just hasn't been working. It was especially annoying this season because it would not have been a sweep without the resim. Maybe we could have even made it to the conference finals if that resim didn't happen. I've been a part of some big comebacks before so you never know. All you can do is work on the future I guess. I hope next season we can manage a little bit of a cinderella run, I feel like Buffalo is overdue for a cup maybe. If the Aurora can't win a cup then surely its not just about the tpe.

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6. Written, 2 TPE, Haiku Highlights  (5 words min.)

Rather than giving you a task where you do something boring like "write about your season" using things like "sentences and punctuation" I figured I could instead ask you to write a haiku about how your season went! A haiku is a three line poem where the first line is five syllables, the second is seven, and the third line is five again.

not the best season
it looks like i'm declining
hope i don't die soon

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7. Milestones, up to 3 TPE

Milestones are folded in with CW. So just link your Milestone claim as task 7 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.

milestone +3

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13. Graphic, 1 TPE, Memeing Like It's 2008

Make a mid-2000's style advice animal meme that describes your teams' season results. I really can't get any more specific than that. This one's pretty loose. Also don't try to sneak in some new meme format. I'll know.

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