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All the vote means is 11/11 people agreed with you that Wallob should have won. What you're describing would require rank-choice voting, which is something that I have been a proponent of for literal years now for exactly the reason you're describing. Actually, my entire campaign for that is the reason that typing a british-ism for glasses corrects to rainbow flavoured unicorns on the forum.

Ended up close as shit holyy

Do you even behavioural economics bro?

THE BEHAVIORALIST AS TAX COLLECTOR: USING NATURAL FIELD EXPERIMENTS TO ENHANCE TAX COMPLIANCE

Asia and World get to draft the leftovers because they often do not have enough players to field a full roster.

Sounds familiar

Be grateful for something at least!! Although Kastelic collected a triple crown by the end of his sophomore VHL season, and team success is really everything I guess?

Name: Ryan Artyomov Position: Goaltender Birthplace: Екатеринбург Height: 2.03m Weight: 114kg Catches: Left Ryan Artyomov, the indomitable goaltender hailing from the city of Yekaterinburg, Russia, possesses a skillset that leaves opponents in awe. Standing tall at an impressive 2.03 meters (6' 8") and weighing 114 kilograms (250 pounds), he is a goliath in the crease. Artyomov is an extraordinary talent in the world of ice hockey. After watching him 130 times over the past 3 seasons, here is my report. Strengths: - Positioning: Exceptional ability to read the play and maintain optimal positioning in the crease. Rarely caught out of position, making it difficult for opponents to find open net areas. - Glove Hand: Artyomov's glove hand is practically a magnet for pucks, consistently snatching pucks out of the air with confidence. - Blocker Side: Strong on the blocker side, not a bad right hook either. Lead his junior team in penalty minutes, all fighting majors. - Five-hole: Virtually impenetrable in the five-hole, closing the gap efficiently. - Mental Toughness: Possesses unwavering mental composure and focus, thriving under pressure situations. Does not get rattled by high-pressure situations. - Communication: Knows exactly how to tell his teammates what to do. Could be the greatest coach of our time should he so choose. - Durability: Maintains a high level of performance throughout the season, showing no signs of fatigue or slowing down as the games pile up. Artyomov actually finished his last season in junior with more games played than there are games in a season. Nobody knows how this happened, he must have snuck into other teams' games. - Work Ethic: Despite already being amazing at everything, Artyomov spends 19.5 hours at the rink every single day, honing his craft even further. Weaknesses: N/A: when it comes to weaknesses, there is absolutely nothing to report. Artyomov is the epitome of a well-rounded and exceptionally talented goaltender, leaving opponents and analysts alike scratching their heads in search of any chink in his armor. Conclusion: A no-bullshit generational talent, Artyomov is clearly the bastard lovechild of Martin Brodeur, Patrick Roy, Ken Dryden, Dominik Hasek, Terry Sawchuk, and Jacques Plante and was spliced with Vladislav Tretiak's DNA at an early age. Expect him to break every goaltending record upon reaching the VHL. Honestly, I would be surprised if he even gives up a goal in his career. If he lets one in, it's clearly because he feels bad for the opposition.

The Storm are just coming off 4 straight finals appearances (including 3 cup wins).

I am terrible at writing intros to this kind of thing, so I’m just going to cut to the chase: we are contracting the VHLE back to 6 teams. As I’m sure a lot of you know, there has been a worrying trend of thin rosters in the VHLE, and the numbers reflect that we have a few too many roster spots for players to cover them. We anticipate that a large bounceback in the form of the sizable S90 class of recreates (when compared to S89 at least) should help breathe some life back into the locker rooms. However, we are also helping it along with contraction. After these changes, on average, we are anticipating just shy of two full lines of active players per team. The unfortunate teams that will be heading into the ether are the Geneva Rush and the Istanbul Red Wolves. There was never going to be an easy decision here, but between weak branding, short history, and tangential connections to local terrorist groups, these two franchises will not be in the VHLE for S90 and moving forward. I know that not everyone will be happy, but there was no way to do this without pain somewhere along the line. However, much like the VHL in S58, we had a bit of a mismatch in terms of the rosters that make sense to remove and the franchises that make sense to remove. To that end, we are effectively full swapping roster players, prospects, and draft picks from Istanbul and Geneva to Stockholm and Vasteras, respectively. The current roster players and prospects on Stockholm and Vasteras will be released and available as free agents this off-season. The current draft picks owned by Stockholm and Vasteras will be passed or deleted as required. Note: compensatory picks will be required in S91 to make this work, we will make sure everyone is made whole. The actual position of these compensatory picks is to be determined. We were lucky enough to not actually need to fire anyone as GM to make this work! There has been some juggling behind the scenes, but here’s how everything shakes out: - JB123 steps down following an absurdly strong run in Oslo - Gaming Ringleader shifts over to GM Oslo - Z follows his roster to Vasteras and takes over there - Masu steps down from Istanbul in the hopes of pursuing other opportunities - Twists keeps Stockholm and inherits Istanbul’s roster That’s all for the actual contraction side of things. If you have any particular comments, questions, or concerns, please reach out to thad or I directly. My DMs are always open. Moving on to a couple of rule changes. INACTIVE FREE AGENTS Starting this off-season, teams will only be able to add 2 inactive free agents to their roster.This does not apply to players that go inactive mid-season or during their first three years post-draft, it only applies to the players that would have gone through the (now defunct) waivers system. Since we will only have 12 players to hand out this way each season, we will also be introducing a mini-draft, run on Discord or the forums, to allocate these players in the fairest manner possible. This draft will consist of two rounds, the first of which will be a reverse of the regular season standings while the second snakes that (i.e., equal to the regular season standings). Our current plan for this is to do rolling 12-hour clocks similar to VHFL, but we can adjust that on the fly as required. Teams are obviously allowed to pass on their pick if they do not see value in claiming an inactive free agent. We’re hoping that reducing the crowd of those high TPA inactive free agents to maximum 2 per team will increase engagement for the players who remain active by freeing up more ice time, and by extension, delivering better stat lines. We will be monitoring inactive free agents and their necessity over the next few seasons and will hopefully be able to remove them entirely at some point. PLAYOFF FORMAT In our 8-team VHLE as it stands now, 5 teams make the playoffs, with a 4-5 wildcard round before semi-finals. We don’t feel that a competitive league should have 5 of 6 teams making playoffs, so we are transitioning back to a 4 team playoff, with the matchups simply being 1-4 and 2-3. Both semi-finals and finals will remain best of 7. Tiebreakers remain unchanged. Games will be simmed 1 per day to keep as close as possible to in line with the VHL and VHLM playoff schedule. TL;DR - Geneva and Istanbul branding deleted. Those rosters move to Stockholm and Vasteras. Current Stockholm and Vasteras rosters released. VHLE moves forward with 6 teams. Some rule changes regarding inactive FAs and playoff format to accommodate the contraction. cc: @VHLE Commissioner @VHLE GM

1. The true top prospect in the draft is actually the one who creates a minute after the cutoff and gets to pick their spot for the full season. 2. Checking. It is actively detrimental to team performance. 3. Artyomov takes the metro. Big train guy. _______________________ 1. What are the best and worst logos in the VHL? Defend your positions. 2. The VHL wants to expand to Asia for the first time. Where do you put the team and why there? 3. If you had to bring one video game mechanic to real life, what would it be?

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Right click > copy image address boom

I ask again: please right click, copy image address, and paste. It will auto-embed.

G - Clueless Wallob @Beketov

D - Phil Strasmore

F - John Jameson

D - Skor McFleury @Dom

F - Sergey Preobrazhensky @Beketov

F - Tomas Sogaard @Adrest245

@Steve You should have 98 Experience for tomorrow's sim.

@Beketov any reason why I can't just go in and manually apply it to Torq on the back end?

@Nykonax what do I keep telling you

It's 300 now, but yes. We don't want players to feel powerless in the decision though, we want them to want to go up.

As E commish - obviously I love it! As someone who recognizes that we want to be graduating players to the VHL at the highest rate possible, I am hesitant to incentivize people on the cusp (300-400 TPE) to stay down in the E. We had this issue for years with the M -> VHL pipeline where people would want to stay down for the extra 1 TPE PF, even if it meant giving up a bunch of TPE to stay under the threshold at cutoff. Totally illogical, but it was happening. If your VHL team has room and wants you - I want you in the VHL.