rory

Hello, everyone! The Leafs won so that's some extra motivation to give you all extra TPE!
 
Below are the results of this season's Super Coach!
 
If you have any questions or feedback about this game and how it could be improved, please DM me or post in the thread below. I hope everyone enjoyed playing & if you want more detail on this season's result see this post, https://vhlforum.com/topic/135141-super-coach-team-updates/.
 
How to claim:
Claim Uncapped -> Fantasy -> Super Coach
 
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Forum Username Cost Check Unique? Total Points Percentile TPE @rory 43 Unique Invalid (Over 42$) Invalid (Over 42$) 0 @VattghernCZ 42 Unique 1118 1 6 @dlamb 42 Unique 1087.3 0.988 5 @jacobcarson877 42 Unique 1034.4 0.976 5 @Ahma 42 Unique 1019.8 0.963 5 @leandrofg 42 Unique 978.7 0.951 5 @Garsh 42 Unique 972.2 0.939 5 @Tetricide 42 Unique 968.2 0.927 5 @Doomsday 42 Unique 958.2 0.915 5 @Kisslinger 42 Unique 954.3 0.902 5 @Schnee 42 Unique 925.5 0.89 5 @Frank 42 Unique 923.4 0.878 5 @Pifferfish 42 Unique 918.3 0.866 5 @Patrik Tallinder 42 Unique 913.7 0.854 5 @CowboyinAmerica 42 Unique 909.5 0.841 5 @cLoWn 42 Unique 908.3 0.829 5 @KaleebtheMighty 42 Unique 902.5 0.817 5 @RileyL 42 Unique 901.4 0.805 5 @tcookie 42 Unique 896.4 0.793 4 @scoop 42 Unique 888.5 0.78 4 @Baby Boomer 42 Unique 877.8 0.768 4 @Advantage 42 Unique 876.9 0.756 4 @Fno 42 Unique 869.2 0.744 4 @Lemorse7 42 Unique 867.9 0.732 4 @Steve 42 Unique 867.6 0.72 4 @lilchrist 42 Unique 867.3 0.707 4 @OrbitingDeath 42 Unique 865.2 0.695 4 @UghSike 42 Unique 858 0.683 4 @SlapshotWrangler 42 Unique 856.1 0.671 4 @Noodle Enjoyer 42 Unique 855.6 0.659 4 @FrostBeard 42 Unique 852 0.646 4 @Mystery_boy98 42 Unique 851.8 0.634 4 @Rhynex Entertainment 41 Unique 845.9 0.622 4 @ace_five_ 42 Unique 844.6 0.61 4 @Enorama 42 Unique 840.1 0.598 3 @MubbleFubbles 42 Unique 839.8 0.585 3 @Smarch 42 Unique 837.3 0.573 3 @Phil 42 Unique 835 0.561 3 @Daniel Janser 42 Unique 833.4 0.549 3 @Knight 42 Unique 832.6 0.537 3 @Velevra 42 Unique 829.4 0.524 3 @Anthique 42 Unique 828.2 0.512 3 @Gaikoku-hito 42 Unique 827 0.5 3 @STZ 42 Unique 823.6 0.488 3 @Snussu 42 Unique 822.5 0.476 3 @dstevensonjr 42 Unique 818.7 0.463 3 @JCarson 42 Unique 810 0.451 3 @Masu Chan 42 Unique 809.2 0.439 3 @Victor 41 Unique 806 0.427 3 @Dadam30 42 Unique 805.1 0.415 3 @RJMW 41 Unique 800.9 0.402 3 @LucyXpher 42 Unique 799.8 0.39 2 @Gustav 42 Unique 797.2 0.378 2 @meandyoc 42 Unique 796.9 0.366 2 @sportexperts show 42 Unique 792.7 0.354 2 @v.2 42 Unique 786 0.341 2 @Grape 41 Unique 781.9 0.329 2 @Sjin 42 Unique 781.9 0.317 2 @McWolf 42 Unique 774.2 0.305 2 @badcolethetitan 42 Unique 771.1 0.293 2 @Mongoose87 42 Unique 762.2 0.28 2 @Trazan 42 Unique 760 0.268 2 @Mysterious_Fish 42 Unique 756.3 0.256 2 @Alex 42 Unique 754.7 0.244 2 @qripll 42 Unique 743.4 0.232 2 @McLovin 42 Unique 741.4 0.22 2 @Greg_Di 42 Unique 740 0.207 2 @Zetterberg 42 Unique 739.8 0.195 1 @Will 42 Unique 734.7 0.183 1 @Ricer13 42 Unique 732 0.171 1 @Subject056 42 Unique 725.6 0.159 1 @Mutti 42 Unique 719.1 0.146 1 @Ktoms22 42 Unique 713.1 0.134 1 @Thunder 42 Unique 701.3 0.122 1 @Cookie 41 Unique 700.3 0.11 1 @Kavadar 42 Unique 699.2 0.098 1 @Scurvy 42 Unique 678.9 0.085 1 @HearnNation67 42 Unique 678.2 0.073 1 @Triller 42 Unique 664.4 0.061 1 @aimkin 42 Unique 653.1 0.049 1 @Cartripp14 42 Unique 605.2 0.037 1 @MSouthworth 39 Unique 597.4 0.024 1 @Nathan_8 42 Unique 565.3 0.012 1 @Misty 42 Unique 519.7 0 1

I promise this image made perfect sense in context.
 
 
The game of Mafia was invented in 1987 by a student at Moscow State University who has definitely never heard of the VHL. That student probably never envisioned Among Us the lengths to which the world would go to study the game, from profitable spin-offs to home-brew versions to even real mathematical research devoted to its analysis. Playing a game like Mafia requires intuition, wit, and lots of knowledge of game mechanics.
 
And running one takes even more.
 
My first exposure to Mafia came much earlier than I thought it was, when @Nykonax floated the idea of a game way back in May of 2019--this would have been S66. He ended up getting a decent-sized player list and making a game happen. At the time, I had absolutely no idea what I was doing. Not much that was being said in the game thread made much sense to me, and I walked away from the experience considering it largely forgettable. But, I was now aware that this was a thing that could be done on forums.
 
I must have retained that knowledge pretty soon after that, because I remember playing a game in the SBA right around the time of our affiliation fallout. That changed not much of anything about what I knew about the game, but I had retained the basic idea of talking during the day and doing things at night. I'd also joined the EFL (which I will openly admit was fueled by wanting affiliate checks), and in one of those affiliate leagues, I had my first exposure to Town of Salem--a game that you can find on Steam (although I've never played it) that is essentially just a fancy version of Mafia. It turns out that, as a fancy version of Mafia, Town of Salem (or ToS) is readily adapted to a forum game. I still didn't really know what I was talking about in the EFL, but they had a long rule thread and I was more comfortable hanging around there with it being a league that I knew had nothing against me being VHL-first.
 
By this point, it was clear to me that--even though I was clueless--the Mafia concept had managed to stick around for more than just a one-off in our affiliate leagues, and I'd also watched lots of people in those leagues play the games and like them a lot. It was something the VHL was missing, and I was bored--so I figured I should take matters into my own incompetent hands.
 
For those of you who are unfamiliar by this point, Mafia (in general) is a two-sided game consisting of an "informed minority," or an "evil" group of players who plot with each other behind the scenes to kill the others, and an "uninformed majority," or a "good" group who must use their own skills and find out who the bad ones are by talking out in the open (where the bad ones try to blend in and mess with their plans). There are lots of variations on this, many with more unique roles than others. I wasn't confident, so I eventually found myself digging through rule sets on some mafia game forum and settling on a game called Cult in the Jungle Republic where 12 of the 19 people who would end up playing were just residents of the town with no special abilities. We played the game, but most people didn't really like it for that reason--why would you want to play the game where you really couldn't do much aside from following votes? So, it was clear to me that to keep this thing going, we would need to go full Town of Salem--where every single player has a job to do and there are lots of layers to the game beyond just Town and Mafia.
 
Did I establish by this point that I had no clue what I was doing? Whatever. In any case, I relied on two things in equal measure to learn the game, without either of which the game would not be possible. The first was the Town of Salem Wiki, which has every possible role extensively documented with enough information that a game can be run if you read closely enough. The second was @omgitshim, who has every possible role also extensively documented in his head, as well as enough patience that a game can be run even if you're stupid. I spent lots of hours over lots of days dealing with both of those until I felt that I got the point, and then I finally put up the sign-up thread for the VHL's first-ever game of Town of Salem, just over a year after I joined the league and about four months after Cult in the Jungle Republic flopped. Check out the date on that one--is it really a surprise to anyone that we all had the time in our lives to get the game off the ground?
 
ToS #1 was a success, all in all. It took forever--no other game we've played has even started to approach Day 13--but it was a big learning experience for lots of people (myself included) and I had an absolute blast every time I started the night phase and got to see in real time who was taking shots at who. I stuck with asking OMG everything for the most part, but made it through my first game ever without a major crisis. 
 
I knew I'd run lots of games at the start, but I had no idea just how frequently I was doing it and I could never pull that type of thing off today. Within a week, I was signing people up for Game 2, and we'd run up 10 games between the end of March and the end of August--that's one game (which itself took just over a week on average between sign-up and last kill) about every two weeks over that time. I'm honestly shocked that we were able to maintain our player base that constantly, but I suppose that's all we had going on over the summer of 2020. In a way, I wouldn't doubt it if COVID was what gave us the amount of interested people to begin with, or if it was the reason why ToS caught on.
 
Regardless, lots of those interested people deserve my mentions. My handy-dandy stat tracking sheets give me all the info I need to tag those who have been involved the most--obviously OMG, but he and @eaglesfan036 have been considered our nastiest, most competent players from the very start. @Doomsday, @Ricer13, @jhatty8, and @Berocka can also all claim to have played just about every single game we've run (with Eagles, Berocka, and @Devise both running their own spin-off versions of ToS at one point or another). Some others who have stuck around consistently for a long time and are still active in our threads today are @Spartan , @Advantage, @N0HBDY, @rory, @Alex, and even @Ptyrell, who has never had a VHL player but has posted over 1,000 times on our forum for ToS and related games (including his own creative project, Town of Pallet). All of these and much, much more have made Town of Salem what it is, which is an awesome way for the community to really feel like a community. I've had so much fun watching everyone go at each other over the past four years (!) and I'm looking forward to a lot more.
 
To bring it back to being a point in the series about my own personal history, this wasn't the first time I decided to just do something fun for the community rather than waiting for it, but it was the most work I'd ever put into that. I think the league would be a much better place if it had more "just doing" in it, and Town of Salem is something I'll always be able to point to as an example of that. Even though it has absolutely nothing to do with the sim hockey part of the league (and therefore is just one of the "intangibles" on my record), I consider it one of my biggest VHL accomplishments and really feel that it deserves a solid place in this series.
 
 

Read my other articles for the full Gustav experience:
 
#1: Lightning Glory Gonna Be My Name
#2: Can't We All Just Get Along?
#3: Who Needs Cybersecurity Anyway?
#4: The House That I Built
#5: Can We Fix It?
#6: American Beauty
#7: The Kids Are Alright
#8: Dogs In A Pile
#9: I Just Wanna Grill For God's Sake
#10: This Old House

Loona Buckzo (WildfireMicro) has announced their retirement.

LETS GO OILERS

GG @badcolethetitan.. OT6 👀👀

Is 170 minutes and 4 seconds a good length for a hockey game?

After a long, hard-fought battle with cancer, Mama Sike decided it was time to rest. Thank you VHL for providing an outlet for me in this difficult time.

Player Information
Username: Ch1l31sH3r3
Player Name: Connor McDavide
Recruited From: YouTube
Age: 18
Position: C
Height: 70 in.
Weight: 190 lbs.
Birthplace: Canada

Player Page
@VHLM GM

1. marlins gm doesnt know any of the players you listed
2. marlins agm is not worried about marlins gm and in fact was recently given a pay rise by marlins gm
3. you keep mentioning everyone going to the juan ceson zoo. the zoo is not in every single city in the world. this is very unreasonable.
4. they do not have lifetime membership passes to the zoo
5. neither do you
6. you also dont have a pass to the juan ceson fan club

@rory this appears to be the record corroborated by @JardyB10 https://vhlforum.com/topic/29912-fun-facts/?do=findComment&comment=331139
 
The link to the game itself seems to be dead even going through the index.
 
Ironically, I may have misinformed Kit at one point that he had 7 goals in this game... which led to his fake news player name: https://vhlportal.com/players/playerfocus/5852
 
So Anisimov @McLovin appears to have tied the record unless someone remembers more than 6 goals in a game between S43 and now.
 

Bumppppp

SORRY RORY FORGOT TO MENTION TOMMOROW IS ONLY CHARLOTTETOWN

Player Information
Username: dylanjj37
Player Name: Marlins GM
Recruited From: Member (MexicanCow)
Age: 47
Position: D
Height: 80 in.
Weight: 250 lbs.
Birthplace: Faroe Islands

Player Page
@VHLM GM

Player Information
Username: der meister
Player Name: Konstyantyn Shevchenko
Recruited From: Returning
Age: 17
Position: RW
Height: 79 in.
Weight: 214 lbs.
Birthplace: Ukraine

Player Page
@VHLM GM

Helsinki receives:
Aiden Paige
Cole Stermer
Filip Zinek
S94 SEA 3rd
S94 LDN 3rd
S94 VAN 4th
S95 SEA 1st

Seattle receives:
Daryl Dixon


This trade has been accepted by all parties and is pending league approval.

mods make this guy eligble 

That doesn't surprise me

@Members We're live! Everyone come hang out!
 
Also blame @samx for the idea of the members tag  

Yaroslav Bogatyrev (Bojovnik) has announced their retirement.

Maybe just shorten your name to Jcarson?

“Tfong” has not been a member of our league for years at this point. Yet to me and many others, “Baozi” is not a member of this league. For years, our head moderator was known in the league as Tfong, making the switch over to Baozi seemingly in late 2021. I have been in this league for nearly 5 years and have shared more time with Baozi then I have Tfong, yet I will always know the head moderator to be Tfong. 
 
I believe this is the case for many older members, and a cause of confusion for the younger ones. This week is all about rebranding, and I think rebranding yourself is the hardest thing you can do.
 
TXC is a name that I used in the VHL for a brief period of time. I coined it after less than a year of joining and its original intention was to draw away from Hogan. Hogan was meant to be my player and I didn’t exactly know what I was doing when I created my player. I did actually receive many people calling me TXC, but as you can see, I’m Hogan again. Hogan never left people's minds, many still referred to me as it and I think now if I was still TXC many still would call me Hogan. 
 
In response to me telling Gorlab my name is no longer Hogan.
 
Gorlab- “it is to me…and it always will be”
 
N0h- “Calling you txc is just weird”
 
As I learned from Gustav’s most recent 30 for 30. Instant Rockstar once tried to rebrand as “Goonie”. This was a few months before my time but it seems as if the Goonie name was shed very early, but late enough for him to get a VHLM GM job. 

Diamond Ace- “@beketov just so you know, the new member was actually ir the whole time”
 
I believe the VHL’s most notable rebrand was one done by Kachur. Many know the legend of Horcrux, and those there to experience it know that the legend lives up to the stories. For those who don’t know, Kachur was an old member who was banned and generally not heard from in a long time. On the other hand, Horcrux was a huge piece in the current landscape of the VHL and the moderation team .Horcrux presented themselves as a queer woman, which we now know to not be anywhere close to the truth. Horcrux was only in the league for 2 months, Oct-Dec 2021. 59 Days in the VHL with 323 posts equally out to about 5 and a half per day. This number does not include the discord which would bring our totals up immensely. Around the middle of Horcrux’s time in the league, there was a large change in the COC, while not directly caused by them I believe they had the second largest hand in that whole scenario. But not all things last, shortly after Horcrux was found to be Kachur and was rightfully banned. 
 
I don’t want to bring up the specifics behind everything. Kachur was a horrible member who caused a lot of pain for numerous of our members and I do not wish to bring it all back up. 
 
In the end, rebranding yourself in the VHL is something that is so incredibly hard to do. Once members know you as one name or character, it will stick. But with true dedication I am sure it’s possible. Or in the case of Horcrux, pure delusion.

Apply for seattle

Maybe an idea for a third jersey rather than a complete rebrand. Anyways, hope you like it. 

Helsinki receives:
Celise Pereira
S94 DCD 1st

Moscow receives:
Kronchy Kardashian


This trade has been accepted by all parties and is pending league approval.

Player Information
Username: Jdog
Player Name: Jdog Kennedy
Recruited From: Other (Tik tok)
Age: 18
Position: D
Height: 74 in.
Weight: 165 lbs.
Birthplace: Canada

Player Page
@VHLM GM