Spartan

I'll accept this too

Live in a real timezone bozo

Hello all, It is with great sadness that I make this announcement. Effective immediately, it has been decided between myself and the @Commissioner team that @Gustav will no longer be serving as a VHLM Commissioner. Various complaints and issues were brought to staff and after a thorough investigation, we have made the difficult decision to remove Gus from his role. In the interest of transparency to the community and with our commitment to upholding a fair and competitive league, we'd like to share some of the details of the issues found: - Investigations revealed that Gustav broke the VHLM Commissioner rules of impartiality to VHLM teams, and was discovered to be assisting a team with roster decisions and general management. This involved abuse of admin powers to perform GM duties on behalf of the team in question. - After the aforementioned situation was discovered, there was a strong correlation between the rule changes Gus proposed and the potential benefits to the team he was aiding. - Additionally, investigations found that Gustav was abusing admin powers to update inactive players (Lazlo Holmes and Gustav Mattias) to make them appear active. This is an extremely egregious offense, and one that we have issued strict punishments for in much more minor instances. - A report was also confirmed that Gustav was having appropriate relationships with a real woman which is unacceptable, resulting in him being too inactive to properly complete his VHLM Commissioner duties. Due to the above points, the commissioner team decided to remove Gustav and begin the search for a replacement. Fortunately, we have two interim candidates who expressed willingness to step into the role in an attempt to potentially shift them into a full time role in the future. We will also be working with the @Moderator team to develop training protocols for VHL Staff members as it has been deemed unacceptable to have this many staff scandals in a relatively short amount of time. For now, please welcome the two interim commissioners:

Kindly do not scare me with titles like these

1. I'm not too worried about small rough patches, I think it's always good to have a reality check once in a while and use that as fuel to keep improving and not remain stagnant. 2. I really doubt it, we've already had some motion with VAN trying to ice a normal roster and RIG trying to get a bit more juice for a push. I can't see anyone else really making a swing. 3. I have job pay, no writing PTs for me. I could, but I don't really care for this theme. 4. I'd love to see a true decision-making attribute. I hate that way it's currently tied into attributes where you tend to do more of whatever you have higher. There's no reason your player should mostly just shoot instead of make a good pass because of what STHS prefers for success. Or not dump the puck in instead of trying to charge across the blue line. A true IQ stat would be gamechanging. 5. Fire a few GMs, give recruitment a bigger budget and direct involvement with me, the league overlord. 6. @jRuutu keeps trying to make us all fight each other saying it's good for development. I'm honestly just scared.

@LDN

brother I have 3

Should have put in a condition on if he actually retires smh

I don't know, the player claimed to be retired is not retired. I approved the initial trade and don't believe there needs to be a voiding at present.

CJ Daniels was in original trade and supposedly claimed to be retiring but he's not retired on the portal so dunno what's going on

the type of email addresses that give me notifications for spam account registration alerts in the new member registration page....

1. I think they're just a good team, there aren't many of them in the league so they're probably our top competition outside the EU as it stands. 2. Dickhead award. He's a real ass in the LR and on the ice. 3. No posting dogs, I just don't like them. 4. Anything involving those stupid seal emotes, they're ugly and look braindead. Get rid of them. 5. Riga's crept their way up in the EU standings, so maybe they're not a dark horse anymore. But they're in a similar spot to us where they're leaning on some retiring players and they'll be hungry for a strong push in their final season. 6. I think they could go deep, certainly a good team that many teams are now trying to model retools after. I don't think it's feasible for the league to imitate them, but kudos to them for baiting teams into trying shorter rebuilds that are likely destined for failure.

@Grape I always knew you were a clown

Didn't know I was 4th that's cool

Also isn't this going to significantly skew in older players' favor? Like we should be able to acknowledge that a max earning second year player should be better than a pension clicker when both careers play out. Obviously we can't properly predict every max earning rookie that far, so there's caution needed, but I'd pretty confidently put Petan over CPG.