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.
Maximov

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.

My pick for great man is bojo. SHL was my first sim league and the then West Kendall Platoon was one of my first teams (after Kelowna in the SMJHL). Bojo wasted his fourth overall pick on me and I will forever be grateful to him for that. Although we lived a lot of heartaches with WKP, I’ve loved every minute I was on that team. He saw something in people and was able to draft amazing guys to create such a great locker room atmosphere. Yes, I would have liked to win a championship with these guys but the locker room was so fun that in the end it didn’t even matter (insert Linkin Park gif here). I don’t think I would be that much into sim leagues if I hadn’t landed on that team in the first place. It really showed me what sim leagues could do and be to me. I wish things had been different for us this time in Winnipeg but I do hope we get to share another locker room in the future.


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?
What a strange question. A cup is a cup, isn’t it? In my case, I didn’t win in the STHS era and the way things are going, I probably won’t win in the FHM era. My only chance is winning in the FHM era, though, so I guess I’ll go with that one being more meaningful.

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?
Probably. The other teams that are supposed to challenge these guys are getting swept by them so I’m starting to guess only these four are a threat in the offseason. We should just move all of them in the same division, geography be damned. Give the people what they want.

c. Hamilton has a population of roughly 5 people. Where would you relocate the franchise?
To an even smaller place, like Santa Fe or Albuquerque. I just really want to have an alien themed team because if I see one more animal themed one, I might shoot myself. And hey, we would get rid of one animal team, so I see this as an absolute win.

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

I pay zero attention to what happens in the league outside of my team, that’s why my CWs are usually homer paradise. I guess I will go with Ryuuji Minamino because he tore the league a new one and he isn’t on Texas or Hamilto. You go, Ryuuji. Although you could go a little harder to beat Texas and Hamilton.

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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13. Written, 3 TPE, Parody (150 words min.)
hahahahahaha remember this task from last season? The one where everyone was like "nah we're good, tampa and BAP will be in the finals soon and you'll see that the old guard will make way for the new young teams". Now that we have the exact same fucking teams in the final again, let me ask, is parity an issue in the SHL? How do we combat this?

Bro don’t make me cry like that. I don’t think the real issue in the SHL is parity at all. It’s all about sim knowledge. Hamilton just figures out how to hack the timeline sim every fucking time. And I guess Texas caught up on that, too. It’s just a matter of everybody discovering what the right build is and what attribute to spam the shit out of and then it will all be as random as simon t ever was. A lot of teams should be great on paper but they have garbage builds so even if they had like 20 2000 tpe players, it still wouldn’t matter because Hamilton and Texas know how to build the best players with the least amount of TPE. So I guess we all should copy whatever they are doing and pray to Jesus H. Sim to let us win for once. It’s getting boring as hell but it is what it is.