S62 Championship Week

S62 Championship Week

Redderder15
Player Updaters
Player Updaters

#51

12-20-2021, 10:44 PM (This post was last modified: 12-23-2021, 01:03 PM by Redderder15.)

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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.

Verification word: notnotnotVictorHelstrom (3 TPE)

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2. Written, 3 TPE, GM stands for Great Man (150 words min.)

There have been some good and some bad GMs in SHL history. (Mostly bad) Pick a GM you think was outstanding and explain why you think they were one of the better GMs in SHL history. Point to trades/signings/trophy wins/locker rooms to support your claim.

The best GM I have seen in my little time on the site has to be Nhamlet and his work in NL. He has managed to get to the finals 3 times (winning twice) all while cycling lines through the season and still giving fair icetime to rookies in the playoffs. The dedication to the team has shown to be monumental when dealing with rookies as you can see with all of the active players in the NL locker room. He is definitely more of a people first kind of GM (as far as I've seen) not really trading actives and keeping our wonderful LR together, and changing it by adding people he scouted and knows will be good additions to the room. His activity is incredible and he is always helping people like myself figure out the site and his knowledge will surely help all of us in NL as we aspire for more positions in the site.
(158 words, 3 TPE)

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3. Written, 3 TPE, Draft Busts (150 words min.)

There are a lot of "could-have-been" draft picks in the SHL, but let's have some fun thinking about someone that busted hard. Write about their potential and where they were picked, and how that franchise could look *if* they had in fact panned out.

A more recent bust pick would be S56's 2nd overall pick Evangelos Giannopoulos. As Toronto was rebuilding and looking forward to a better future, a big piece of their core group going forward was going to have to be their 2nd overall pick, but now standing 450 TPE away and currently IA, Toronto is left with a fraction of the player they should've got from their precious pick in a decent sized draft with more than a 1st round of actives. Toronto has been looking for a permanent GM for multiple seasons now and, if they had a shiny 1700 TPE core piece going forward, maybe more people would be interested in the job. Maybe Toronto could be closer to contending than they are now as they most likely need to do a bit of a retool at the moment. At the end of the day, Toronto isn't in great shape right now and a 2nd OA bust pick certainly doesn't help. (162 words, 3 TPE)

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4. Written, 3 TPE, Rules (150 words min.)

There have been a lot of rule changes in the SHL. Where do you think these changes have gone right, where do you think they have gone wrong? Would you ever want to go back to a previous way of doing things? Do you think the SHL is fine as is?

A rule that I think was properly and well done was this new regression change. As the league needed more turnover the clear answer was to take team's cores down faster leading to more retooling/rebuilding for the teams at the top. I saw lots of people thinking of innovative solutions but regression seems like a clear cut choice that isn't very confusing (well, it can get a bit confusing, but the concept itself isn't) and everyone is accustomed to. Some sort of draft class had to be reduced and it ended up being S53, so I don't get why the argument I see is "why did it have to affect me instead of just screwing over others". I get the "it's just frustrating to work so hard and maybe not reach 2k" or something like that as I understand it being frustrated but the change had to be made and it had to stop the line of incredibly high earners and inflation somewhere and it happened to be S53 that got screwed.

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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. What is worth more to you, a cup win in the FHM era or the STHS era?

b. Be honest, would we have seen the same final 4 as last year (Chicago, Texas, Hamilton, Buffalo) had BUF/HAM and TEX/CHI not run into each other in the second round?

c. Hamilton has a population of roughly 5 people. Where would you relocate the franchise?

d. Who is the best player to NOT make the final in the past 2 years?

a) I'd say they are both very valuable as a cup in the FHM era is more based on tactics and FHM knowledge versus STHS being more roster construction etc. I'm not sure which one is more valuable, but as more GM's get to know FHM I feel we are getting the best of both worlds. So I'll say a win in FHM in the future when more teams know tactics is the most valuable. (74 words)

c) I feel like a city that would have mutual benefit from a winning team would be Las Vegas. The team would have an absolutely electric atmosphere, and get craploads of money from sky-high ticket sales when the team is winning in the regular season and craploads of craploads of money from playoff sales. The city would get a winning team to cheer for and gamble on. Win-win! (67 words)

2 TPE from grab bag.

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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.