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Moher.

We were doing better without your lines Fong! Unless they're still not used. In which case, fuck you Jardy!

One of the last announcements made on the old site was about the Super Cup which will be coming to the VHL in the coming S35 off-season. Over the past week or so, the Board of Governors has worked on ironing out the details for this tournaments, so below I will refresh your memory on what it is and run down all the key points. The Super Cup will be a triennial fantasy draft tournament with 6 teams competing for the trophy in the off-season. The off-season schedule will run as follows: S35: Super Cup S36: nothing S37: World Cup S38: Super Cup S39: nothing S40: World Cup and so on and so forth. The 6 teams in the tournaments will be named after various historic figures in the VHL and these names will change based on different themes for every edition. The 6 names will be announced closer to the tournament when GM applications begin (around the end of the regular season). Each team will be appointed a GM who will select, in a fantasy draft involving the whole league, a minimum roster of 6 forwards, 4 defencemen, and 1 goaltender, with additional players dependent on the pool of available remaining players. The aim is to involve all active members of the VHL. After the teams are set, the tournament will begin a day or two after the conclusion of the VHL/VHLM playoffs. Each team will play 20 games (meeting every other team 4 times) before a mini-playoff tournament based on standings will establish a Super Cup champion. Last, but not least, there will be TPE rewards to be reaped from this tournament! Before the Super Cup begins, there will be an opportunity to predict the final standings of the Super Cup with every correctly predicted team gaining the member 1 TPE. Every General Manager will receive 2 TPE for their efforts and there will be a payout for team success: Champions - 5 TPE Runners-up - 3 TPE Everyone else - 1 TPE Winter The Super Cup is coming.

Haha I could watch that all day.

I like this.

IRONMAN 2: RISE OF THE MOHER

Yay Rybak hatty, my prediction still has hope.

IRONMAN

Reports from the very heart of VHL Blue Team Central claim that the commissioners have booked two days this week in the very busy Announcements forum. The same sources report that the two aforementioned days are Wednesday and Sunday. We at Third Person News have been able to get a short statement from commissioner Victor Alfredsson about the rumours. “Yes, this week will have a couple of announcements of different size and stature,” tells us me, “tomorrow's announcement will be for something which has been growing since the past off-season and will be relevant to the coming off-season. Sunday's announcement will be about an event which will take place next week.” In completely separate news, commissioner Victor was considering lowering the minimum word count for VHL.com (Fan 590?) articles to 113 words which had absolutely nothing to do with that being the amount of words in the first two paragraphs. However, it seems he has had a change of heart after this third paragraph came it at the last minute.

Ball hired as VHLM NA updater.

VHLM, not VHL.

Replacing Jardy is the VHL-wide pipe dream.

No, didn't want to wait until next week for a reply.

In the latest instalment of me having absolutely no clue, I forgot to do a 590 last week. Given my positive track record, I have granted myself the right to do one this week but this is still rather concerning. Must be something to do with being on the blue team. Speaking of the blue team, we are still here. For an update on league matters, we seem to have got updates under control, Gow has cracked down on grading, and no General Managers are missing as of now. The Season 36 draft is still looking fairly positive and their should be a good turn-out for Season 37 at the trade deadline. That said, recruitment is a top priority for the Board of Governors. So too are final details for the Super Cup, announced just before the collapse of the old site. It will still be held after Season 35 and organisation will likely begin during the first two rounds of the playoffs. For things related to the sim, it seems Jardy will soon return from a drinking binge which has seen some drama involving non-submitted lines due to Sterling filling in as backup simmer for Higgins who apparently stepped down from the position at some point. The results in the sim itself are quite impressive though: Seattle, New York, and Riga are as good as eliminated, but Vasteras still have hopes of catching up to Davos and/or Cologne. The top four of Helsinki, Quebec, Calgary, and Toronto are a head above the rest of the league which means the North American Conference shall be exciting in the playoffs (as too should be round 1 in Europe).

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You should be able to. Topic moderation at the top of the thread.

Riga vs New York: A Brewing Rivalry From Season 31 to 34, you could put in a strong argument that the Riga Reign and the New York Americans were consistently the strongest teams in the VHL. Making the playoffs all four seasons (as did Calgary and Helsinki), the two teams met in the finals in consecutive seasons, the Americans shocking Riga in Season 32 before the Reign returned the favour the following season with an upset of their own. Previously, in Season 31, both teams were felled by the champions from Davos, Riga in the conference finals and New York in the cup finals, while Season 34 too ended in disappointments, as the two teams played just seven games each, falling to their conferences' respective champions; unsurprisingly, Calgary and Helsinki. Apart from prolonged success (New York's had of course lasted for much longer than Riga's though these might have been their best years), the two teams were also linked by a blockbuster trades between Season 32 and 33. Alexander Labatte and Austin Gow were swapped for Troy Athera and Malcom Spud in a gamble by the Reign who hopes to win with a worse goalie (Jehovah) and more cap space for another forward (Thomas Corcoran). It paid off and Athera and Spud became back-to-back champions while Gow retired without a cup, being on the wrong end of two finals. Retirements hit the two teams hard after Season 34 which is why now they find themselves in the bottom two positions in league standings, in stark contrast to the previous four seasons. Americans GM Chris Miller, coming in after Season 32, spend his two seasons in charge of a competing team preparing for a rebuild, while Riga's Mike Szatkowski is now leading his team into a second, as he started the turnaround back in Season 28, ending years of futility in the Latvian capital. Both GMs timed their firesales so perfectly and executed them so precisely that they are now set up for long-term success from Season 37 or 38 and perhaps will soon establish a rivalry which will blow their recent match-ups out of the water. Wahl and Szatkowski Jr. have already done battle in the VHLM The comparisons between the two teams border on frightening. The teams had back-to-back picks in the Season 35 entry draft to start their rebuilds, New York having their own after toning down on draft pick trading under Miller, while Riga acquired Cologne's in one of several selling trades during the off-season. Both teams selected defencemen to start building up their new core, the Reign going with Edwin Encarnacion, who is a dark horse candidate for the Christian Stolzschweiger Trophy, while the Americans chose Conner Low, who plies his trade again in the VHLM. The two young blue-liners were soon joined in the system with two goaltenders, as both GMs decided it was better not to risk and wait for a franchise goalie in a shallow netminder market and brought in Brick Wahl as Miller's new agent, while Szatkowski introduced his son, Mike Szatkowski Jr., to the VHL. After an off-season of competing to ice the worst possible roster above the cap floor, Riga and New York are now on strong pace to finish bottom two in the league, which would be guaranteed if it wasn't for Seattle's shocking start to the season. After their terrible seasons come to a close, both teams will be hoping for draft lottery luck to secure first overall and at least not fall to third overall pick. After that, the scouts will go out to create the future for these two franchises and based on their current accumulation of draft picks, there will be a lot to add to both organisations. On top of trading Malcom Spud for (essentially) Edwin Encarnacion, the Reign received solid returns from Davos for a package of Shane Baker, Keiji Toriyama, and Jarkko Olsen, from Calgary for Michal Wozniak, and from Quebec for Miles Larsson. On their end, the Americans did well by sending Thomas Landry to Davos, Alexander Labatte to Calgary, and Ryan Sullivan to Helsinki. All in all, on top of their own selections, New York owns three first-round draft picks in Season 36 and 37, while Riga trumps them with four. Both teams have also stacked their shelves with second-round picks and the future looks bright, for the teams individually, for their growing rivalry, and for the league as a whole as this should be fun.

Absolutely amazing race.

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Yeah. It's becoming as close as the El Clasico, as in any dropped points can make a massive impact in the title race. Do believe there's a match coming on near the end of November, can't wait. And outside from a blip with the Napoli game, absolutely dominant for both in the Champions League. I was in absolute awe watching the Man City game, City are a good team and just wow. It's difficult to predict anything apart from a final rematch but it almost certainly won't happen for whatever reason. No massive contributions from the big money acquisitions but still fourth place and time to improve. Today's draw was boring but the perfect result for Chelsea.

Intelligent people quit Head Grader jobs, amirite?

Yeah, that would explain why he left Ottawa. Fucking prick.

BREAKING: Brovy against VHL expansion.