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monochroma · 12-28-2021, 08:00 PM

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: adsewzfg

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?

b. I'd say yeah, probably. You could definitely make a case for Baltimore - I mean, they did finish 2nd in the league and 1st in the conference, but then again that evidently means absolute fuck-all because they got completely demolished by Hamilton. I mean, seriously, they scored under a goal per game in that series. Somehow I don't think that result would be any different if they faced off earlier. Maybe they'd have a better chance against Buffalo, but when you eat shit that hard? I don't think so.
c. I think Milwaukee deserves a team. I know they used to have one back in, like, season 1, the Wisconsin Monarchs (well, I'm assuming they were in Milwaukee, but I don't actually know), but they moved to Vancouver in S3 (and then moved like 3 other times and now they're Tampa). From what I know about the state of Wisconsin (which isn't that much), they love hockey just as much as their Minnesotan neighbours, so they should at _least_ have an SMJHL team, right? I probably wouldn't move Hamilton though, too much history there. That'd be like moving the North Stars. (up to you to decide which team that's referring to)
d. I think it absolutely has to be Kelowna Knights legend, SMJHL All-Star defenseman Leons Briedis. (hey, you didn't specify that it had to be an SHL player!) I mean, he made it to the all star game, clearly that means he's really good, right? And his DGR, the most important of the stats, is absolutely through the roof (of a pretty small house)! Not only that, but he even got nominated for the Onoprienko a couple seasons ago! (let's ignore the fact that he didn't win it).

11a. Written, 2 TPE - The Procrastinator Special! (100 words min.)

Welp, you waited until the last day to grind out your CW and the CC finals are longggggggg over by now. congrats to [TEAM], woo! Was it an exciting final, or predictable? Is one team the clear winner?

The matchup fucking sucked. Yay, another permutation of TEX/CHI vs HAM/BUF. It's even the exact same finals as last season. That said, boring as having these few teams consistently dominating may be, this series was an absolute banger. A 7 game cup final is always a good thing to see - it really shows that these are two great teams pushing each other to the limits. In the end, Texas came out victorious against Hamilton. Some would call it an upset, drawing attention to Hamilton's dominant victory in last season's final and how they'd only dropped a single game up until the finals - I don't really agree though, I mean, Texas was the better team in the regular season, and in Games 6 and 7 Hamilton just crumbled and let the title slip out of their hands.

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.

https://simulationhockey.com/showthread....pid3152601

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?

Look, I might have ragged on the parity issues as well in a couple of my other CW tasks, and I am fucking bored of seeing the same 4 at the top, but I do still think it's a problem that will resolve itself with time. There are teams like Baltimore, who should already be cup contenders based off their regular season performances, as well as teams like Montreal and Winnipeg - teams in the middle of massive rebuilds who have managed to conjure up super stacked prospect pools. And, realistically, how WOULD you solve the parity problem? I honestly don't really see what could be done to combat it that wouldn't just be, like, punishing the top teams for being good at the game - which seems kind of against the whole point of trying to build the best team possible. I'm sorry if this is incoherent, I'm writing this shit at 2 AM with hours to go before submissions close, but really I don't see any way to fix this other than.. waiting a few more seasons. Eventually, the top teams will drop off. And, if they don't, the way I see it that's just amazing work from the GMs, they shouldn't be punished for being good at their jobs.

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?

I mean... You're effectively asking what I'd do if I woke up and it was 3 months ago. If I get the chance to do that, I'm not gonna just use that power on the SHL - though some extra TPE and money would be nice, and maybe I could finally have a season where I actually win TPE in fantasy, albeit realistically I'd still find some way to fucking finish fifth... but there's so much more I could do with that! The big thing for me right now is university applications. I've only just started, which is a bit of a problem since some universities end their admissions periods really fucking early for some reason - so I'm somewhat scrambling to get in the ones that I need to do as soon as possible. Also, like, cheating the SHL casino? Fuck that, how about real life sports betting! I'm betting all my money on Max Verstappen winning the F1 championship. Yes, there's probably something better than that to bet on, but that's just the first thing that came to my mind.

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