S67 Championship Week

S67 Championship Week Due: November 6th @ 11:59 PM (PST)

CaptainCamel
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11-02-2022, 09:12 PM (This post was last modified: 11-02-2022, 09:13 PM by CaptainCamel. Edited 1 time in total.)

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1. CW TRIVIA, 3 TPE max - 1.5 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.

Camel

+3 TPE

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7. Milestones, up to 3 TPE

Milestones are folded in with CW. So just link your Milestone claim as task 7 for up to 3 TPE towards your 16 total.

Milestones Link

+3 TPE

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16. Written, 3 TPE, Hockey History (150 words min.)

Tell me about an important moment or person in the history of your home country’s hockey program! This can be a real-life story or SHL related! Your choice! I want to learn some interesting hockey history from around the world!

Full disclosure, I am not Austrian and don't know a single thing about Austria or Austrian hockey. I picked Austria when creating because I saw they needed the most help in IIHF. However, after a quick Google search, it looks like Thomas Vanek is by far the most notable Austrian hockey player in history. While he played for multiple different teams, he made his mark in the league mostly for the Buffalo Sabres, regularly hitting 50+ points per season and even going point per game in one of those seasons. In 1,029 NHL games played, he earned 789 points. Unfortunately, as good as he was for the Sabres, he eventually moved on hopping from team to team, never staying with a single team for longer than 2 seasons until his career ended in Detroit in 2019, only earning 36 points in 64 games played. Still, a long and solid career that I think any hockey player would have loved to experience. He even made the All Star team in 2009.
WC: 170

+3 TPE

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17. Written, 3 TPE, Nu Metals (150 words min.)

Gold, silver, and bronze are old news! Also we’re running out of them in the simulated world so we can’t be wasting it all on simulated medals! Choose new metals to be used for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place at this year's tournament, and tell me why you chose them.

I'm going to go full nerdge emote here and talk about the three metals in the world that we should be using: Mithril, Adamant, and Rune. See back in my day (insert old pepe emote), these three were THE metals you needed in Runescape. You could find some fancy dragon stuff, but that wasn't for crafting, that was just for try hards. When googling to make sure I had this right, I'm seeing now there's tons of metals beyond these three but what do the young whippersnappers know? Mithril, Adamant, and Rune are THE metals to go for. Mithril is hard as dragon scales, but is more abundant, coming in that beautiful dark blue color. Adamant even harder, with the cool hunter green sheen to it. And the most beautiful of all, the reflective rune metal that some even claim to have magical abilities. Show me one player who'd rather win gold than rune. That's right you can't.
WC: 158

+3 TPE

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

Congratulations, procrastinator!  Through your terrible time management skills, you’ve unlocked a special task! [TEAM] has won it all! Were the playoffs as you expected this year, or were there some surprises? Did anything stand out to you about this season’s results? How do you feel about season two of FHM 8?

While I don't think there was any surprise of Seattle winning the cup, I think everyone in this league was surprised at MAN making the finals. Last season they were the one thorn in Atlanta's side that they just couldn't solve, we all breathed a sigh of relief when we didn't have to face them in the playoffs. This season we weren't so lucky and MAN definitely showed why they were deserving to be in the finals. As tough as a loss is, I do love to see new teams make the finals. While FHM 8 isn't perfect, I think it's growing on everyone and does a good job of being the sim engine for the league.
WC: 117

+2 TPE

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23. Written, 2 TPE, Say Something Nice (100 words min.)

I’m not sure when we did this last, so that probably means it’s a good time to bring back the positivity prompt! Tag some other folks on the site and let them know why you appreciate them! Could be a GM, a friend, a department head, anyone! The goal is to make someone happy.

Honestly just about everyone I've interacted with in regards to the SHL I have nothing but nice things to say. I've met people through here I would legitimately call my friends and love shooting the shit with them, whether we talk about movies we have no agreements on, seeing how far we can devolve the phrase "sim when" into, or having heartbreak over yet another THE SPURS loss or disappointing draw. Shoutout to Micool for sharing an absolutely unreal video of him eating an ENTIRE bagel in one sitting in the ATL Discord. The people involved with this league rule.
WC: 100

+2 TPE