1. Trivia, +3 TPE
Verification: Dog

2. Easier road, 133 words +2 TPE
It's easy for me to say that both teams in the finals deserved to be there, looking at their team makeup and TPE, but the team with the tougher road to get there by far was the Tampa Bay Barracuda. They underperformed in the regular season, making them a lower-seeded team going into the playoffs and having a to face the top two teams in their conference in the first two rounds. In the third round, they were against the New England Wolfpack, the fourth place team in their conference who just defeated the third place team. Then in the finals was the toughest matchup of all against the President's Trophy winning San Francisco Pride, coming off back to back cup wins, who beat them for their third Challenge Cup in a row.

12. Jenga, 330 words +4 TPE
Between the upcoming expansion of four teams alongside FHM 10 being introduced as the league's new simulation engine, in the seasons to come many parts of the SHL will become unrecognizable. It should be interesting to see how each team is affected by the changes, and while we wait to see how everything looks once the dust settles, to make predictions about what's to come. Starting with the least affected teams, to me these would be the ones that are rebuilding or lower in the standings, since they'll be able to protect most, if not all of their important pieces for the future. At most these teams will be losing one or two semi-active mid-earning players, which while unfortunate, shouldn't be the end of the world. Next up, contending teams will lose a couple pieces that might bring them closer to the teams below them, but not so much that it causes a collapse. For the highest TPE teams in the league, this will be a ~1500 TPE player in regression, or a ~1200 TPE player who's young and earning well, but was drafted well after the rest of the core who will be more important for a cup run. Last, the most affected teams will be those losing one of their better players or even two to becoming GMs, these teams are the Montreal Patriotes, contenders who are losing Sve7en's player Jamie Fraser, a S76 who will be around 1700 TPE at the time of expansion, the Edmonton Blizzard, rebuilders who are losing HFFO's player Olafur Atlason, a S77 who will be around 1500 TPE, and the Winnipeg Aurora, rebuilders who are losing Ace's player Pohler Beargeron, a S77 who recently retired at 1300 TPE. No team is affected from Rashford's player since he recreated this season. All in all, teams should get closer together in TPE and in the standings, but the top teams should still be the top teams and the rebuilding teams will still be rebuilding.

3+2+4>8 CW TPE