S61 Championship Week

S61 Championship Week

JURT
All-Star Committee
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#26

10-08-2021, 10:26 PM (This post was last modified: 10-17-2021, 12:24 PM by JURT.)

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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.

poggers

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2. Written, 3 TPE, What if...? (150 words min.)

Pick a moment in SHL history to change. It could be something large, an expansion draft, sim engine change, or something smaller, like a trade or team punishment. Change something about this moment in the SHL and explain the impact the difference would make in how the league developed since that moment. (think Butterfly Effect)

I often think about a moment in my personnal history within the SHL that would have had a bigger impact on myself than any league-wide change that might have happened: what would have happened if I never went inactive with my first player, Pierre Laroche-Durocher, back in the early/mid S40s. I had just been drafted in the first round by the Steelhawks when I vansihed. I don't know if I would have fit well inside that locker room. I would for sure have played alongside some great players there and for Team Canada. I would probably have ended my career just a few seasons ago when regression would have hit too hard. I would have loved the switch to FHM and that would probably have been a nice rebound in a dwindling career with the absence of meta-builds. But I wouldn't have had all I've had so far with JURT, maybe wouldn't have gotten as close with some people and I would trade that for any amount of success with a previous player.

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4. Written, 3 TPE, Biopic (150 words min.)

You've been contacted by a big film studio who wants to center the next big hockey movie around your career so far! All you need to do is supply a 150+ word explanation about what will be key scenes of moments or games in your career, the cast, and a general timeline of the film as it follows you from team to team, junior to pro. This one is open ended so how you approach it is up to you!

Opening scene: we see a young JURT crying on the bench of his youth hockey team locker room. They have lost in the semi-finals, but that's not why he's crying: he just spent an entire season without scoring a single goal. His coach, played by the real JURT, comes to see him. He rolls up one of young JURT's sleeves and points towards a bruise. Coach says: "We wouldn't have made it to the semi-finals if it was not for this." He rolls up the other sleeve: "We wouldn't even have made the playoffs if it wasn't for that one." Young JURT realizes there's more to hockey than just scoring goals and decides to dedicate his life to playing shutdown roles.

The rest of the movies shows JURT being a late draft pick for Colorado, never winning awards but being ok with it when he wins the Challenge Cup in his first season, and then probably a bit of his relationship with Gunnar or something.

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13. Written, 3 TPE, Parody (150 words min.)

There has been some discussion on the forums but its always good to hear more opinions: Parity. Going back 6 seasons including this one there have been 4 teams in the finals: Buffalo, Chicago, Hamilton, and Texas. If you add New Orleans you can go back 8 seasons. 5 different teams for 8 straight finals. Is this an issue? Does it need to be fixed? Can it even be fixed? I'm interested to hear opinions, approaches, or just doom and gloom on whether you think this will change, or if we will still be talking about the same teams making the finals over and over in 5 seasons.

These four teams are very good and it will be hard to push them out of that dominating position with the length of careers in the SHL. SHL careers lasting so long give a lot of time for the GMs of those teams to adjust and adapt their plans for the future over many seasons while the other teams are always fighting to get a certain competitiveness. Asset management is much more easier for the top teams and it will take meticulous drafting from other teams to reach the same level. Still, we've seen NOLA fall quite a bit compared to these others, anything can happen. and nothing is eternal. I think one team that is looking like it could really break out in the few next seasons is the San Francisco Pride. They have a good core of strong veterans like Sven Svenson and Henrik Lekberg Osterman along with a lot of young players who will be entering their prime soon.

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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.

https://simulationhockey.com/showthread.php?tid=119534

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.

https://simulationhockey.com/showthread....pid3119778

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17. Graphic, 3 TPE, Clairvoyant

You have been granted the gift of seeing the future, but only a single future cup winner. Relay us with this info in the form of a cup banner for the winning team. Make sure to include the season they won, you can make up some player names if it's far out in the future. Have fun with it! It could be your team if you want, with you as the star! We won't know if you're lying until SXX anyway.