S62 Championship Week

S62 Championship Week

raymond3000
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12-24-2021, 06:43 PM (This post was last modified: 12-24-2021, 06:51 PM by raymond3000.)

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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. As a GM I think its certainly harder to win a cup with FHM, as the number of hours needed to build and coach a championship team is far larger than it was with STHS. However, I think as a user I valued my cup wins in STHS more. In STHS you never knew who was going to win, and that made the playoffs far more exciting. In FHM, there's only a handful of teams that can win any season, and if you're fortunate to be on one of those teams for long enough, than you can win a cup.

b. In the western conference, Texas and Chicago are the clear top two teams. LA is getting closer, but they're just not quite at the level of the other two teams yet. The east is a different story, where I think Baltimore could have defeated Buffalo if the two went head to head. Tampa likely had an outside chance as well.

c. Despite there being nothing noteworthy about the city itself, I enjoy having these smaller cities represented in the SHL and I wouldn't want to see the Steelhawks relocated. In addition, the Hawks are one of the league's most influential and pivotal teams, and you can't just ignore how they for better or worse have shaped the league's history.

d. Considering only two teams have made the finals the past two seasons, several star players haven't made it to the final round of the playoffs. Most notable would probably be among the likes of Ryan Shepard, Ryuuji Minamino and Steve Harrington. These players all play for top teams which just haven't been able to get over the hump in the postseason.

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

Welp, you waited until the last day to grind out your CW and you also like doing graphics instead of writing. That's cool, too! 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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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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14. Written, 3 TPE, Blow it up (150 words min.)

In your opinion, which team is on track to completely sell off all assets and begin a long rebuild? A few teams are already in the midst of this, but what teams are watching their window slowly close and need to get younger soon in order to start the climb back to the top?

Toronto is the obvious candidate here. Not too long ago, they had seem poised to break into the SHL's top tier, but for a variety of reasons they were unable to do so and have fallen back down into the midpack of the SHL. Their 'window' is just about shut, and their top players seem to be already wanting to leave the team, so it would be best for them to recoup some assets while they still can. They still have quality young talent, but with no prospects in the pipeline, the new GM will need to play their card rights to avoid a full on rebuild. Another team in a similar situation is the New England Wolfpack, where their 'rebuild' has stalled out, their GM has stepped down, and several key players are leaving the team. The Wolfpack has several high end older players which could fetch some good assets and draft picks in a trade.

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S62 Championship Week - by SlashACM - 12-20-2021, 02:54 PM

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