S64 Championship Week

S64 Championship Week

notoriousTRON
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05-03-2022, 10:08 AM (This post was last modified: 05-06-2022, 08:41 AM by notoriousTRON. Edited 6 times in total.)

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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.

Apples

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5. Written, 3 TPE, Cup Check (150 words min.)

Which league has the more prestigious cup in your opinion, the SHL or the SMJHL? Which cup is harder to win? A lot is said about the different skill sets required to GM in each league, so which do you personally think is tougher to manage? Is a trophy case with three Four Star Cups as cool as a trophy case with three Challenge Cups? Maybe you think it’s even cooler. Why?

I know a lot of people would say that it's much harder to be a successful GM in the minor leagues because of a lot of factors. These include the higher probability of users going inactive after drafting them, players going pro rather than sticking around for a cup run, managing a locker room that keep people engaged and earning, and the hand holding that goes along with teaching users that are brand new to sim leagues how to do some of the tasks on the forums. I'd love to say that it's tougher in SMJHL because I won a cup there with the Outlaws in S52.

However, it's much harder to win in the SHL. For one thing, it's harder to keep a locker room engaged for the amount of time necessary to build a cup contending team. Then if you're able to get a team whose core is peaking at the right time and whose salaries fit under the cap, you have to compete with the FHM nerds who know the engine inside and out and try to beat them at their own game. A Challenge Cup might be the most difficult sim league trophy to win.

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7. Milestones, up to 3 TPE

Milestones are folded in with CW. Just link your Milestone claim below this task 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.

+2 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 final series?

Chicago beat Atlanta for the cup. I'm not surprised that Chicago won. They've consistently been one of the best teams for the majority of my career and this season is no different. I suppose there were some surprises. I expected Hamilton to be one of the finals teams. You know, because they kind of always are. Seeing Atlanta make a run was exciting, especially when they beat some high quality teams like Baltimore and Hamilton along the way. That's quite an impressive run for a team that many, myself included, didn't see as a serious contender going into this season. Hats off to the Inferno for a great run and I wish you could have beat Chicago.

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21. Written / Graphic, 3 TPE, Epic Loot (150 words min.)

A hockey gear manufacturer has developed a substance called “Materia” that allows them to imbue hockey gear with incredibly powerful abilities. They’ve come to you to ask for your endorsement, and to help you design your own piece of magical hockey gear. What piece of gear do you design? What do you make it look like? Is it an unassuming piece of equipment that can fly under the radar, or do you go for some wild steampunk thing? What insane magical bonuses and benefits does it give you? ALTERNATIVELY for a graphic task, show me your player wearing the piece of gear you designed! Show how its power is benefiting them.

The hockey gear manufacturer reached out to me to help them design a piece of hockey equipment made out of their new proprietary material. The SHL hasn't had a chance to review this material and it's unclear if this will be governed under their "performance enhancing substances" policy. However, they're offering me a shit load of money for this and since I'm late in my career I figured "what's the worst that can happen?"

I decided that I'm going to go with a jock strap since that's the most discreet piece of equipment and thus has the lowest chance of being noticed by the league while we're in development and testing. However, the downside of a minor piece of equipment is that it has limited areas that it can effect. Currently, the super power that I can boast when I wear the jock strap is that I don't feel the urge to urinate while I wear it. Which on one hand is nice. I have to take less trips to the locker room between shifts. However, I think it still needs some work because I've peed my pants a couple of times while wearing it. I think it only controls the urge, not the actual need to pee.

The company won't call me back and their 1-800 number goes to some call center in India and I can't get any info from them. Also they haven't paid me so I'm starting to have my doubts about this whole thing.