S62 Championship Week

S62 Championship Week

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12-23-2021, 07:54 PM (This post was last modified: 12-25-2021, 05:20 PM by brickwall35.)

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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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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 wasn't around for the STHS era, but from what I've been told and what I've heard, it was more "random" in who won, and was harder to "game." With that in mind, it would seem more prestigious to win in FHM, where there is more knowledge to be had and more effort is needed, although that's really for the GMs. As a player, I'm just max earning and hoping RNG goes my way.

b. The most likely answer is yes, although it would be a little dependent on match-ups. I think Chicago definitely makes it to the semi-finals if they go up against LAP or SEA. And I also think BUF makes it if they go against TBB. But I do think BUF vs BAP would have been a tight series, so no guarantee that the semis would be the same old same old.

c. As a Missouri native, Kansas City never really gets the credit it deserves. It has passionate and dedicated fans in the Chiefs and Royals, and a large population that unfortunately gets overshadowed by St. Louis, despite KC being the much nice city. I know they had an IRL franchise before in the Scouts, but it's time they got another shot, both in the NHL and SHL.

d. Looking at the leader boards, Ryan Shepard stands out, having back to back seasons in the top 10 in points and leading the league in assists in S62. And it makes sense that a Chicago player would be here, as they are probably the best team to not make the final in the past two seasons.

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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.

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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?

It's easy to look at how the SHL playoffs panned out this year (gee Bill you get two HAM/TEX finals in a row?) and say that there's no parity in the league, but parity isn't something that can just change overnight, unless you just go marbles style and make results random. What we did see change this season is that we had at least a half a dozen teams have a legitimate shot at making the finals. BUF and CHI definitely got the short-end of the stick with their early opponents in HAM and TEX. And even in the finals itself, we saw a much different series this time, a 7 game nail biter, versus last season's clean sweep snorefest. Parity should be a crawl, not a sprint, and it looks like things are moving forward in the right direction. It will be interesting to see the newest regression change come into play and what effects (and side-effects) it has.

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19. Written, 3 TPE, Groundhog Day 150 words min

You log on to the SHL. Oh shit gotta do your Finals Predictions. Yay Hamilton Texas finals, love shl parity. Weird, the title says s61 finals predictions but its s62? But wait, all the PTs are labeled s61, we're on activity check #388, and no one is complaining about regression. You must have woken up back at the start of the S61 Finals! What do you do differently now that you know how the next season will play out. Change some of your casino bets? Predict some drama? Cheat at primetime?

Is there any other answer other than fixing my casino bets and getting that sweet quad-parlay multiplier? I did pretty decent in the primetimes and hattricks as well, but might as well clean up those and squeeze in a few more TPE. But you know what I'd really, really want to fix? My fucking Fantasy Swap. The biggest mistake I made all season, by far. The problem wasn't who I swapped in. Picking up Elijah Jones was a great move, as he ended up finishing the season 41st overall in FP. But it was who I swapped out, and who I should have swapped out that still bugs me. Ethan Price was ice cold to start the season, and Rikard Hammarberg was off to a good start. Oh how wrong I was. The day I swapped out Price, he popped off, and ended up finishing the season 29th overall in FP. Meanwhile, Hammarberg went cold on a somewhat underperforming HAM team and finished 72nd overall in FP. The swap cost me 41 FP, and ended up losing by 47.4 in my group. Factor in the additional points I would have gained from swapping out Hammarberg instead, I would have won comfortably. Oh well, at least I still got 5 TPE for second.