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Is it fair that Scotty rigged?

Maybe I will

Is it fair that Scotty rigged?

Hello all! This season my goal is to recruit 20 new members from now until the end of August. As such, this season I will be upping the ante in ther form of increased prizes.
 
First and foremost, during this drive, any and all recruitment related rewards will be doubled. So if you recruit someone during this month, you will be entitled to double points for any achievements they make.
 
Linking us on another forum you post on (http://www.vhlforum.com/index.php?/topic/6334-do-you-post-on-other-forums/) will earn you two TPE for this month.
 
Any member who recruits someone during the drive will be entered to win:
 
1) A copy of NHL '15 for any system of your choice or cash value of the game.
2) Free Double's week
3) Double's week
4) 5 TPE
5) 3 TPE
6) 3,000,000 player store cash
7) 1 TPE + 1,000,000 player store cash
 
I will also be giving 1 TPE to anyone who can give me a good recruiting idea.
 
During this month, I've also decided that any new member will receive $3,000,000 in player store cash to use on their player immediately after they create.
 
I'll also pay for people who go out of their way to recruit on other forums.
 
Now hopefully we can reach that goal of 20 new members.
 

1 TPE

You like to bicker don't you?

I think Kyle would be a good fit.

Hello all! This season my goal is to recruit 20 new members from now until the end of August. As such, this season I will be upping the ante in ther form of increased prizes.
 
First and foremost, during this drive, any and all recruitment related rewards will be doubled. So if you recruit someone during this month, you will be entitled to double points for any achievements they make.
 
Linking us on another forum you post on (http://www.vhlforum.com/index.php?/topic/6334-do-you-post-on-other-forums/) will earn you two TPE for this month.
 
Any member who recruits someone during the drive will be entered to win:
 
1) A copy of NHL '15 for any system of your choice or cash value of the game.
2) Free Double's week
3) Double's week
4) 5 TPE
5) 3 TPE
6) 3,000,000 player store cash
7) 1 TPE + 1,000,000 player store cash
 
I will also be giving 1 TPE to anyone who can give me a good recruiting idea.
 
During this month, I've also decided that any new member will receive $3,000,000 in player store cash to use on their player immediately after they create.
 
I'll also pay for people who go out of their way to recruit on other forums.
 
Now hopefully we can reach that goal of 20 new members.
 

Popcorn gif needed

Don't think you should be congratsing yourself Chris

No

Reflecting on Seven Years
 

 
We're here for a good time, not a long time. That's what I thought when this league first started. I was away camping in July 2007 when the league first started and thus didn't sign up for it until after the first ever entry draft was over. Thankfully for me (in the days that pre-date the VHLM) I was put into the dispersal draft and officially categorized as a Season 2 draftee who would also get to play in season one. I was fortunate enough to be drafted to the Calgary Wranglers who posted the best record in league history that year (69-3) only to go on to lose in the finals to Vasteras. A lot has changed in the seven years with only a handful of guys left from the early years (Slobo, Kendrick, Smarch, Beketov).
 
Where was I? I had just completed high school then and was unsure of what to do next. I had really enjoyed some previous sim leagues I'd been involved in and after the death of a league Smarch and I started to destroy the DHL, I was still interested in this strange concept. Back in the day we of course used NHL 04 of something to sim the games. It was really slow and shitty. The advent of the STHS system, even with all of its apparent flaws, was the savior of sim hockey leagues everywhere. Suddenly we could quickly sim entire 72 game seasons with fairly realistic results. The indexes were easy to navigate and looked clean. The games and the results were fun to open up. After 39 seasons and 7 years we've still retained that, but made many improvements along the way.
 
Where are we now? I'm long since done university, working. Back in graduate school now and still in the VHL. I contemplated leaving a few times, especially after my last player, but at the end of the day I've always said it was pretty easy to remain active here. Now with the welfare program, it's even easier to stick around. The honest thing is that I really love this place. I bleed VHL. I only stick around to keep it going because so many other people are passionate about it. At times I thought it wasn't worth it to keep this thing going, but every time the community comes through. If there is one thing that sets us apart from other leagues I've been in, it's that extreme sense of community. Although I'm a sarcastic prick, I've always tried to be accommodating and welcoming to new people. I've never asked for anything in return other than to see other people's fun and commitment to the league. That's why I can't leave.
 
With that said, I'd like to look back on some of the more memorable moments in my VHL existence:
 
1) The battle of Anderson Hill:
 
Almost everyone asks nowadays who is Anderson? Anderson was some asian kid from B.C. who was a constant troll of the website who would never fuck off. He had multiple players and was banned multiple times. He was a general annoyance and pain in the ass to most people. I didn't mind Anderson though, but in the gang mentality that this place has at times, it got to the level where every new member was being accused of being an Anderson player. Eventually I just let Anderson stick around after talking to him I found out he wasn't that bad. He eventually faded back into obscurity.
 
2) The Shortbus Redemption
 
When I recreated the first time my player was unfortunate enough to land in New York, colloquially known around the league as the shortbus due to a series of terrible decisions by former General Manager Robbie Zimmers. No one wanted to play for the Americans (the only franchise to never win a Cup, only two miserable playoff appearances at the time). I decided to stick it out with my friend Brandon Best and were were able to turn the franchise around completely to its present day form. We left Victor in charge who later left Streetlight in charge. The real mavericks are all too often forgotten in the lore of the American loudmouths (Jericho, Device and Advantage), but we formed the base of their success long before.
 
3) Moving in Stereo - You
 
We've had to move a few good times now. Once from the original site due to exceeding the maximum number of threads on a free board and due to Nick Barr's insistence. We moved over to our own hosted site which worked well at the beginning, but as the site continued to grow and we added more features, we sucked up more bandwidth. Unfortunately I'm not a computer whiz (although I think I kept the thing floating for a long time with what we had) and eventually we lost control of the site due to the DDOS attack. Most people thought the site was officially dead. It certainly seemed like the end of the line with our site gone and all of our old information compromised. We had to start from scratch again. Thankfully Higgins was around to start fixing shit. With my ability to tell people what to do we got this thing back up and running.
 
That's when I knew the VHL was more important to lots of people than I expected. Loads of people come here on a daily basis to socialize, to learn and to have fun. We've eclipsed the idea of a single person holding this place up, which is a refreshing consideration for me. There are so many people who contribute their time, money and experience to keeping this thing going. Why? I don't really know to be honest. We're nothing special, just a collection of 100 or so crazy bastards that all like hockey. I've seen this place grow a lot over the years. Good friends come and go, but it still keeps ticking on, which is what I find most magical.
 
4) Banning Kyle for Being a Whiny Bitch
 
I banned Kyle today for being a whiny bitch. It felt so good.
 
So here's to you. Some of you new, some of you old like I am. We've got something really neat here and I personally would be surprised if the VHL doesn't make it to 10 years. Will I still be here? Yes, in some capacity, but there are lots of new people coming in whom I think will make a big impact. The strength of this community is people's willingness to work together to pick up the slack. Sure has changed a lot over the years.
 

I think we should have a summit series tbh

Reflecting on Seven Years
 

 
We're here for a good time, not a long time. That's what I thought when this league first started. I was away camping in July 2007 when the league first started and thus didn't sign up for it until after the first ever entry draft was over. Thankfully for me (in the days that pre-date the VHLM) I was put into the dispersal draft and officially categorized as a Season 2 draftee who would also get to play in season one. I was fortunate enough to be drafted to the Calgary Wranglers who posted the best record in league history that year (69-3) only to go on to lose in the finals to Vasteras. A lot has changed in the seven years with only a handful of guys left from the early years (Slobo, Kendrick, Smarch, Beketov).
 
Where was I? I had just completed high school then and was unsure of what to do next. I had really enjoyed some previous sim leagues I'd been involved in and after the death of a league Smarch and I started to destroy the DHL, I was still interested in this strange concept. Back in the day we of course used NHL 04 of something to sim the games. It was really slow and shitty. The advent of the STHS system, even with all of its apparent flaws, was the savior of sim hockey leagues everywhere. Suddenly we could quickly sim entire 72 game seasons with fairly realistic results. The indexes were easy to navigate and looked clean. The games and the results were fun to open up. After 39 seasons and 7 years we've still retained that, but made many improvements along the way.
 
Where are we now? I'm long since done university, working. Back in graduate school now and still in the VHL. I contemplated leaving a few times, especially after my last player, but at the end of the day I've always said it was pretty easy to remain active here. Now with the welfare program, it's even easier to stick around. The honest thing is that I really love this place. I bleed VHL. I only stick around to keep it going because so many other people are passionate about it. At times I thought it wasn't worth it to keep this thing going, but every time the community comes through. If there is one thing that sets us apart from other leagues I've been in, it's that extreme sense of community. Although I'm a sarcastic prick, I've always tried to be accommodating and welcoming to new people. I've never asked for anything in return other than to see other people's fun and commitment to the league. That's why I can't leave.
 
With that said, I'd like to look back on some of the more memorable moments in my VHL existence:
 
1) The battle of Anderson Hill:
 
Almost everyone asks nowadays who is Anderson? Anderson was some asian kid from B.C. who was a constant troll of the website who would never fuck off. He had multiple players and was banned multiple times. He was a general annoyance and pain in the ass to most people. I didn't mind Anderson though, but in the gang mentality that this place has at times, it got to the level where every new member was being accused of being an Anderson player. Eventually I just let Anderson stick around after talking to him I found out he wasn't that bad. He eventually faded back into obscurity.
 
2) The Shortbus Redemption
 
When I recreated the first time my player was unfortunate enough to land in New York, colloquially known around the league as the shortbus due to a series of terrible decisions by former General Manager Robbie Zimmers. No one wanted to play for the Americans (the only franchise to never win a Cup, only two miserable playoff appearances at the time). I decided to stick it out with my friend Brandon Best and were were able to turn the franchise around completely to its present day form. We left Victor in charge who later left Streetlight in charge. The real mavericks are all too often forgotten in the lore of the American loudmouths (Jericho, Device and Advantage), but we formed the base of their success long before.
 
3) Moving in Stereo - You
 
We've had to move a few good times now. Once from the original site due to exceeding the maximum number of threads on a free board and due to Nick Barr's insistence. We moved over to our own hosted site which worked well at the beginning, but as the site continued to grow and we added more features, we sucked up more bandwidth. Unfortunately I'm not a computer whiz (although I think I kept the thing floating for a long time with what we had) and eventually we lost control of the site due to the DDOS attack. Most people thought the site was officially dead. It certainly seemed like the end of the line with our site gone and all of our old information compromised. We had to start from scratch again. Thankfully Higgins was around to start fixing shit. With my ability to tell people what to do we got this thing back up and running.
 
That's when I knew the VHL was more important to lots of people than I expected. Loads of people come here on a daily basis to socialize, to learn and to have fun. We've eclipsed the idea of a single person holding this place up, which is a refreshing consideration for me. There are so many people who contribute their time, money and experience to keeping this thing going. Why? I don't really know to be honest. We're nothing special, just a collection of 100 or so crazy bastards that all like hockey. I've seen this place grow a lot over the years. Good friends come and go, but it still keeps ticking on, which is what I find most magical.
 
4) Banning Kyle for Being a Whiny Bitch
 
I banned Kyle today for being a whiny bitch. It felt so good.
 
So here's to you. Some of you new, some of you old like I am. We've got something really neat here and I personally would be surprised if the VHL doesn't make it to 10 years. Will I still be here? Yes, in some capacity, but there are lots of new people coming in whom I think will make a big impact. The strength of this community is people's willingness to work together to pick up the slack. Sure has changed a lot over the years.
 

No

Reflecting on Seven Years
 

 
We're here for a good time, not a long time. That's what I thought when this league first started. I was away camping in July 2007 when the league first started and thus didn't sign up for it until after the first ever entry draft was over. Thankfully for me (in the days that pre-date the VHLM) I was put into the dispersal draft and officially categorized as a Season 2 draftee who would also get to play in season one. I was fortunate enough to be drafted to the Calgary Wranglers who posted the best record in league history that year (69-3) only to go on to lose in the finals to Vasteras. A lot has changed in the seven years with only a handful of guys left from the early years (Slobo, Kendrick, Smarch, Beketov).
 
Where was I? I had just completed high school then and was unsure of what to do next. I had really enjoyed some previous sim leagues I'd been involved in and after the death of a league Smarch and I started to destroy the DHL, I was still interested in this strange concept. Back in the day we of course used NHL 04 of something to sim the games. It was really slow and shitty. The advent of the STHS system, even with all of its apparent flaws, was the savior of sim hockey leagues everywhere. Suddenly we could quickly sim entire 72 game seasons with fairly realistic results. The indexes were easy to navigate and looked clean. The games and the results were fun to open up. After 39 seasons and 7 years we've still retained that, but made many improvements along the way.
 
Where are we now? I'm long since done university, working. Back in graduate school now and still in the VHL. I contemplated leaving a few times, especially after my last player, but at the end of the day I've always said it was pretty easy to remain active here. Now with the welfare program, it's even easier to stick around. The honest thing is that I really love this place. I bleed VHL. I only stick around to keep it going because so many other people are passionate about it. At times I thought it wasn't worth it to keep this thing going, but every time the community comes through. If there is one thing that sets us apart from other leagues I've been in, it's that extreme sense of community. Although I'm a sarcastic prick, I've always tried to be accommodating and welcoming to new people. I've never asked for anything in return other than to see other people's fun and commitment to the league. That's why I can't leave.
 
With that said, I'd like to look back on some of the more memorable moments in my VHL existence:
 
1) The battle of Anderson Hill:
 
Almost everyone asks nowadays who is Anderson? Anderson was some asian kid from B.C. who was a constant troll of the website who would never fuck off. He had multiple players and was banned multiple times. He was a general annoyance and pain in the ass to most people. I didn't mind Anderson though, but in the gang mentality that this place has at times, it got to the level where every new member was being accused of being an Anderson player. Eventually I just let Anderson stick around after talking to him I found out he wasn't that bad. He eventually faded back into obscurity.
 
2) The Shortbus Redemption
 
When I recreated the first time my player was unfortunate enough to land in New York, colloquially known around the league as the shortbus due to a series of terrible decisions by former General Manager Robbie Zimmers. No one wanted to play for the Americans (the only franchise to never win a Cup, only two miserable playoff appearances at the time). I decided to stick it out with my friend Brandon Best and were were able to turn the franchise around completely to its present day form. We left Victor in charge who later left Streetlight in charge. The real mavericks are all too often forgotten in the lore of the American loudmouths (Jericho, Device and Advantage), but we formed the base of their success long before.
 
3) Moving in Stereo - You
 
We've had to move a few good times now. Once from the original site due to exceeding the maximum number of threads on a free board and due to Nick Barr's insistence. We moved over to our own hosted site which worked well at the beginning, but as the site continued to grow and we added more features, we sucked up more bandwidth. Unfortunately I'm not a computer whiz (although I think I kept the thing floating for a long time with what we had) and eventually we lost control of the site due to the DDOS attack. Most people thought the site was officially dead. It certainly seemed like the end of the line with our site gone and all of our old information compromised. We had to start from scratch again. Thankfully Higgins was around to start fixing shit. With my ability to tell people what to do we got this thing back up and running.
 
That's when I knew the VHL was more important to lots of people than I expected. Loads of people come here on a daily basis to socialize, to learn and to have fun. We've eclipsed the idea of a single person holding this place up, which is a refreshing consideration for me. There are so many people who contribute their time, money and experience to keeping this thing going. Why? I don't really know to be honest. We're nothing special, just a collection of 100 or so crazy bastards that all like hockey. I've seen this place grow a lot over the years. Good friends come and go, but it still keeps ticking on, which is what I find most magical.
 
4) Banning Kyle for Being a Whiny Bitch
 
I banned Kyle today for being a whiny bitch. It felt so good.
 
So here's to you. Some of you new, some of you old like I am. We've got something really neat here and I personally would be surprised if the VHL doesn't make it to 10 years. Will I still be here? Yes, in some capacity, but there are lots of new people coming in whom I think will make a big impact. The strength of this community is people's willingness to work together to pick up the slack. Sure has changed a lot over the years.
 

Reflecting on Seven Years
 

 
We're here for a good time, not a long time. That's what I thought when this league first started. I was away camping in July 2007 when the league first started and thus didn't sign up for it until after the first ever entry draft was over. Thankfully for me (in the days that pre-date the VHLM) I was put into the dispersal draft and officially categorized as a Season 2 draftee who would also get to play in season one. I was fortunate enough to be drafted to the Calgary Wranglers who posted the best record in league history that year (69-3) only to go on to lose in the finals to Vasteras. A lot has changed in the seven years with only a handful of guys left from the early years (Slobo, Kendrick, Smarch, Beketov).
 
Where was I? I had just completed high school then and was unsure of what to do next. I had really enjoyed some previous sim leagues I'd been involved in and after the death of a league Smarch and I started to destroy the DHL, I was still interested in this strange concept. Back in the day we of course used NHL 04 of something to sim the games. It was really slow and shitty. The advent of the STHS system, even with all of its apparent flaws, was the savior of sim hockey leagues everywhere. Suddenly we could quickly sim entire 72 game seasons with fairly realistic results. The indexes were easy to navigate and looked clean. The games and the results were fun to open up. After 39 seasons and 7 years we've still retained that, but made many improvements along the way.
 
Where are we now? I'm long since done university, working. Back in graduate school now and still in the VHL. I contemplated leaving a few times, especially after my last player, but at the end of the day I've always said it was pretty easy to remain active here. Now with the welfare program, it's even easier to stick around. The honest thing is that I really love this place. I bleed VHL. I only stick around to keep it going because so many other people are passionate about it. At times I thought it wasn't worth it to keep this thing going, but every time the community comes through. If there is one thing that sets us apart from other leagues I've been in, it's that extreme sense of community. Although I'm a sarcastic prick, I've always tried to be accommodating and welcoming to new people. I've never asked for anything in return other than to see other people's fun and commitment to the league. That's why I can't leave.
 
With that said, I'd like to look back on some of the more memorable moments in my VHL existence:
 
1) The battle of Anderson Hill:
 
Almost everyone asks nowadays who is Anderson? Anderson was some asian kid from B.C. who was a constant troll of the website who would never fuck off. He had multiple players and was banned multiple times. He was a general annoyance and pain in the ass to most people. I didn't mind Anderson though, but in the gang mentality that this place has at times, it got to the level where every new member was being accused of being an Anderson player. Eventually I just let Anderson stick around after talking to him I found out he wasn't that bad. He eventually faded back into obscurity.
 
2) The Shortbus Redemption
 
When I recreated the first time my player was unfortunate enough to land in New York, colloquially known around the league as the shortbus due to a series of terrible decisions by former General Manager Robbie Zimmers. No one wanted to play for the Americans (the only franchise to never win a Cup, only two miserable playoff appearances at the time). I decided to stick it out with my friend Brandon Best and were were able to turn the franchise around completely to its present day form. We left Victor in charge who later left Streetlight in charge. The real mavericks are all too often forgotten in the lore of the American loudmouths (Jericho, Device and Advantage), but we formed the base of their success long before.
 
3) Moving in Stereo - You
 
We've had to move a few good times now. Once from the original site due to exceeding the maximum number of threads on a free board and due to Nick Barr's insistence. We moved over to our own hosted site which worked well at the beginning, but as the site continued to grow and we added more features, we sucked up more bandwidth. Unfortunately I'm not a computer whiz (although I think I kept the thing floating for a long time with what we had) and eventually we lost control of the site due to the DDOS attack. Most people thought the site was officially dead. It certainly seemed like the end of the line with our site gone and all of our old information compromised. We had to start from scratch again. Thankfully Higgins was around to start fixing shit. With my ability to tell people what to do we got this thing back up and running.
 
That's when I knew the VHL was more important to lots of people than I expected. Loads of people come here on a daily basis to socialize, to learn and to have fun. We've eclipsed the idea of a single person holding this place up, which is a refreshing consideration for me. There are so many people who contribute their time, money and experience to keeping this thing going. Why? I don't really know to be honest. We're nothing special, just a collection of 100 or so crazy bastards that all like hockey. I've seen this place grow a lot over the years. Good friends come and go, but it still keeps ticking on, which is what I find most magical.
 
4) Banning Kyle for Being a Whiny Bitch
 
I banned Kyle today for being a whiny bitch. It felt so good.
 
So here's to you. Some of you new, some of you old like I am. We've got something really neat here and I personally would be surprised if the VHL doesn't make it to 10 years. Will I still be here? Yes, in some capacity, but there are lots of new people coming in whom I think will make a big impact. The strength of this community is people's willingness to work together to pick up the slack. Sure has changed a lot over the years.
 

Edited

You guys have like 5 goals on the season, you'll regress.

LET'S GO.
 
Episode 1:
 

Gays the lot of you

I will have it tallied up tomorrow morning. Device got none

I will have it tallied up tomorrow morning. Device got none

This pleases me