Beketov

There lived a humble family, religious through and through (I have the OP so I don’t actually NEED to post in this one but I had to make sure this got continued haha)

Welcome to the VHL, Miguelphali! We're happy to have you. You should have received a PM with some more detailed information, but to get started quickly you will want to head over to the "How to Create a Player" topic. That topic will offer you detailed information about how to use the VHL Portal to create your player and get you started. We also highly recommend joining the VHL Discord where there is a channel dedicated to helping new members with any questions that they may have about the league or improving their player. Once your player is made, you will be placed in a pool of players eligible for the next draft. You may also choose a VHLM team to play for this season if the season is ongoing. While you wait to get your first games in please feel free to ask any questions you have here or in your create-a-player thread. We're happy to have you in the community and we hope you stick around!

12 Days of Christmas: Day Six Post in this thread to receive one (1) entry into the Tier 2 Holiday Raffle.

Welcome to the VHL, RaymondSpano! We're happy to have you. You should have received a PM with some more detailed information, but to get started quickly you will want to head over to the "How to Create a Player" topic. That topic will offer you detailed information about how to use the VHL Portal to create your player and get you started. We also highly recommend joining the VHL Discord where there is a channel dedicated to helping new members with any questions that they may have about the league or improving their player. Once your player is made, you will be placed in a pool of players eligible for the next draft. You may also choose a VHLM team to play for this season if the season is ongoing. While you wait to get your first games in please feel free to ask any questions you have here or in your create-a-player thread. We're happy to have you in the community and we hope you stick around!

Welcome to the VHL, Angelhausa! We're happy to have you. You should have received a PM with some more detailed information, but to get started quickly you will want to head over to the "How to Create a Player" topic. That topic will offer you detailed information about how to use the VHL Portal to create your player and get you started. We also highly recommend joining the VHL Discord where there is a channel dedicated to helping new members with any questions that they may have about the league or improving their player. Once your player is made, you will be placed in a pool of players eligible for the next draft. You may also choose a VHLM team to play for this season if the season is ongoing. While you wait to get your first games in please feel free to ask any questions you have here or in your create-a-player thread. We're happy to have you in the community and we hope you stick around!

12 Days of Christmas: Day Five Post in this thread to receive one (1) entry into the Tier 2 Holiday Raffle.

Welcome to the VHL, Giasvien! We're happy to have you. You should have received a PM with some more detailed information, but to get started quickly you will want to head over to the "How to Create a Player" topic. That topic will offer you detailed information about how to use the VHL Portal to create your player and get you started. We also highly recommend joining the VHL Discord where there is a channel dedicated to helping new members with any questions that they may have about the league or improving their player. Once your player is made, you will be placed in a pool of players eligible for the next draft. You may also choose a VHLM team to play for this season if the season is ongoing. While you wait to get your first games in please feel free to ask any questions you have here or in your create-a-player thread. We're happy to have you in the community and we hope you stick around!

I have a hunch my string of 1st overalls ends at 4 (well technically a Lahtinen went 2nd but the same team owned both so whatever, it counts)

12 Days of Christmas: Day Four Post in this thread to receive one (1) entry into the Tier 2 Holiday Raffle.

Welcome to the VHL, CACTUSJENCE! We're happy to have you. You should have received a PM with some more detailed information, but to get started quickly you will want to head over to the "How to Create a Player" topic. That topic will offer you detailed information about how to use the VHL Portal to create your player and get you started. We also highly recommend joining the VHL Discord where there is a channel dedicated to helping new members with any questions that they may have about the league or improving their player. Once your player is made, you will be placed in a pool of players eligible for the next draft. You may also choose a VHLM team to play for this season if the season is ongoing. While you wait to get your first games in please feel free to ask any questions you have here or in your create-a-player thread. We're happy to have you in the community and we hope you stick around!

12 Days of Christmas: Day Three Post in this thread to receive one (1) entry into the Tier 1 Holiday Raffle.

Sure did haha, I knew I was missing something. All the auto-locks are set up properly now. If anyone got in late on this one they get a freebie from me I guess haha

12 Days of Christmas: Day Two Post in this thread to receive one (1) entry into the Tier 1 Holiday Raffle.

Fun fact, there is a setting in the portal that tells it what forum number to send game posts to, this number must be updated every season or the games go to the wrong place. Wanna bet what number wasn't updated? Should be good now.

12 Days of Christmas: Day One Post in this thread to receive one (1) entry into the Tier 1 Holiday Raffle.

Welcome to the VHL, Karenles! We're happy to have you. You should have received a PM with some more detailed information, but to get started quickly you will want to head over to the "How to Create a Player" topic. That topic will offer you detailed information about how to use the VHL Portal to create your player and get you started. We also highly recommend joining the VHL Discord where there is a channel dedicated to helping new members with any questions that they may have about the league or improving their player. Once your player is made, you will be placed in a pool of players eligible for the next draft. You may also choose a VHLM team to play for this season if the season is ongoing. While you wait to get your first games in please feel free to ask any questions you have here or in your create-a-player thread. We're happy to have you in the community and we hope you stick around!

Season 96 Experience Points Congratulations to all @Members for the completion of another successful VHL season, as well as to Vancouver for taking home the Continental Cup. As always, with the season finished, all VHL players have earned some more experience based on the length of their campaign. In addition, anyone who participated in the VHLM in S96 is eligible to claim 3 Experience points. How to Claim Claim experience in the Player Management area by clicking the 'CLAIM UNCAPPED' button, select Off-Season, then select Experience from the dropdown. Enter the amount of Experience you are eligible for as described below and link to this thread.  Once approved, the Experience will be added directly to your player's experience attribute. You do not need to apply it yourself.  NOTE: YOU CAN NOT CARRY OVER EXPERIENCE POINTS EARNED BY A RETIRED PLAYER ONTO A RECREATE  POINTS Full VHL Season - 5 Points Partial VHL Season - 2 points (Less than 72 GP in VHL, unless due to a trade) Playoffs - 2 Points Finals - 1 Point VHLM (Any Amount) - 3 Points Example: Olober Syko played for Vancouver and won in the finals. They get 5 for a full season, 2 for playoffs, and 1 for finals. For the most part, members of these teams will receive: CALGARY - 7 CHICAGO - 7 DAVOS - 8 DC - 5 HELSINKI - 5 LONDON - 5 LOS ANGELES - 5 MALMO - 7 MOSCOW - 7 NEW YORK - 7 PRAGUE - 5 RIGA - 7 SEATTLE - 7 TORONTO - 5 VANCOUVER - 8 WARSAW - 7

Welcome to the VHL, Farhadnhl! We're happy to have you. You should have received a PM with some more detailed information, but to get started quickly you will want to head over to the "How to Create a Player" topic. That topic will offer you detailed information about how to use the VHL Portal to create your player and get you started. We also highly recommend joining the VHL Discord where there is a channel dedicated to helping new members with any questions that they may have about the league or improving their player. Once your player is made, you will be placed in a pool of players eligible for the next draft. You may also choose a VHLM team to play for this season if the season is ongoing. While you wait to get your first games in please feel free to ask any questions you have here or in your create-a-player thread. We're happy to have you in the community and we hope you stick around!

Yeah that was Devise. There's a meme about it in the portal if ever someone has 0 picks.

Nah that’s the M level. Lucy is clearly the new @Devise

Welcome to the VHL, Elianfup! We're happy to have you. You should have received a PM with some more detailed information, but to get started quickly you will want to head over to the "How to Create a Player" topic. That topic will offer you detailed information about how to use the VHL Portal to create your player and get you started. We also highly recommend joining the VHL Discord where there is a channel dedicated to helping new members with any questions that they may have about the league or improving their player. Once your player is made, you will be placed in a pool of players eligible for the next draft. You may also choose a VHLM team to play for this season if the season is ongoing. While you wait to get your first games in please feel free to ask any questions you have here or in your create-a-player thread. We're happy to have you in the community and we hope you stick around!

I'm going to say no, mostly because I really don't want to see those proof photos.

If you are one of the sane people who haven't been around forever in the VHL you might not know that ever since the beginning there has always been a holiday celebration. Usually just some TPE, maybe a scavenger hunt, but that was about it. I mean everyone loves TPE but still. That changed though a few years ago when @Banackock suggested we do some good for the whole and hold a charity drive; it has been a staple of the VHL experience ever since and the celebration around it has only grown as well. As you can see above, this year our league charity of choice will be a split between the Canadian and American Cancer Societies who will receive our charity donations. This is, of course, just our league-supported option. As always, you are free to donate your funds to any registered charity anywhere in the world and count it towards the auction and our total numbers; all we ask is a screenshot proving the donation (though please remember to redact any personal information). 100% of the money raised by the league will be donated to the two charities with a full even 50/50 split, and the VHL will not take any cut. On top of that the league has decided to once again match up to $1000 when the final donation is put in. That means if you all donate $2500 total we'll put the donation up to $3500!n) In addition to the Donation Drive, we will also kick off our Charity Auction and 12 Days of Christmas. How will it all work? Essentially the same as past years, but here are the exact details for each portion of our holiday season for 2024: Charity Drive: December 12th - 24th Starting tomorrow members can begin donating. Whether you do so through the league, by donating HERE, privately to the ACS / CCS, or any charitable foundation of your choosing (receipt proof required for donations made outside the league), it will all count towards the overall contribution from the league. From that overall contribution, the league will match donations up to $1000 CAD, and add that to the donation made through the league. Please post all confirmations of donation, including Paypals through the league, auction wins, and private donations to THIS THREAD. Any donation of $5 CAD, or more, will result in an automatic personal reward of 2 Uncapped TPE + a Full Free Week (12 Capped TPE), as well as an entry to each of the first 3 tiers of the 12 Days of Christmas Raffle. Like past years as well we will be accepting blood donations in the charity drive. Blood is in high demand all year round, but especially at this time. Give the gift of life to someone. If you schedule and follow through with an appointment to donate blood that will count the same as a $5 donation and have the same rewards outlined above and below. For proof just post a photo from during your donation, it doesn’t need to include your face if you don’t want it to, a shot of the machine or your arm or whatever is fine, we’ll take your word for it. As this is the season of giving, members may also donate on behalf of one other user. Holiday Charity Auction: December 13th-20th @Acydburn will be posting the auction items soon but for now the full rules from last year are available here, they are unlikely to change but we will update everything if they do. Go buy something fun offered up by our community members. Auction wins will count as personal donations for the purpose of individual rewards. As always there are some amazing auction items that we're looking forward to this year so it should be fun. 12 Days of Christmas: December 13th - 24th This years 12 Days of Christmas will be similar to the last two years, where there will be a daily thread to claim “tickets” into our final raffle, which will be drawn on a live stream likely in the new year. As always the raffle will contain 4 tiers of prizes, with each day contributing to your entry into each tier, as follows: Dec. 13 - 15: Post in the corresponding thread each day for an entry into the Tier 1 raffle (1 ticket gained per day) Dec. 16 - 18: Post in the corresponding thread each day for an entry into the Tier 2 raffle (1 ticket gained per day) Dec. 19 - 21: Post in the corresponding thread each day for an entry into the Tier 3 raffle (1 ticket gained per day) Dec. 22 - 24: Post in the corresponding thread each day for an entry into the Tier 4 raffle (1 ticket gained per day) Number of Winners per tier: Tier 1: 10 Winners Tier 2: 5 Winners Tier 3: 3 Winners Tier 4: 1 Winner As with all our previous raffles if someone is drawn twice they will be considered as having won the higher tier item and the lower tier will be re-drawn. Users may also claim any tier underneath what they have won if they would rather have that item. No rewards can be exchanged for cash but we will ship worldwide, even if sometimes those shipping costs hurt. Obviously we do try to make this a bit easier on ourselves when we can but we'll make it work. Rewards and Donation Milestones As previously mentioned, there will be personal rewards to those who participate in the charity drive / holiday auction, as well as stretch goals to hit which will result in rewards for the community as a whole! $500 Community Donations: 2 Uncapped TPE for Everyone $1000 Community Donations: 4 Uncapped TPE for Everyone $2000 Community Donations: PT Doubles Week for Everyone $2500 Community Donations: 6 Uncapped TPE for Everyone yet. $3500 Community Donations: 8 Uncapped TPE for Everyone + @Beketov will once again stream Zoo Tycoon 2 Ultimate and name animals after VHL members. **It is likely that other community bonuses will be added but I need to check through the things offered to confirm them before I mention it, so for now just me** **Disclaimer: Rewards may only be applied to players created on, or before, December 25th, 2024** Let's do this @Members!

This year the VHL has selected a joint of the American Cancer Society and Canadian Cancer Society as its charitable cause for the holiday season! Any donation of $5 or more will be eligible to claim 2 Uncapped TPE + a Full Free Week (12 Capped TPE), as well as an entry to each of the first 3 tiers of the 12 Days of Christmas Raffle. You may donate through the league via our paypal - the same as if you were to make a regular donation to the league. Once your donation has been made, please post your proof in this thread in order to claim your donation perks. You may also choose to donate directly to the above charities or any charitable organization of your choosing. Should you donate privately, please post a receipt for proof in this thread, in order to claim your donation perks. All donations through the league will go 100% to the charities (in a 50/50 split). The league will also match up to $1000, total, of all money donated, be it through the league or privately. Additionally if you do not wish to donate monetarily you may donate blood or plasma and post proof of that donation (a photo during the donation will suffice) and you may claim the rewards listed above for that as well. Should the community raise the following amounts, everyone will be eligible to claim the corresponding perks: $500 Community Donations: 2 Uncapped TPE for Everyone $1000 Community Donations: 4 Uncapped TPE for Everyone $2000 Community Donations: PT Doubles Week for Everyone $2500 Community Donations: 6 Uncapped TPE for Everyone yet. $3500 Community Donations: 8 Uncapped TPE for Everyone + @Beketov will once again stream Zoo Tycoon 2 Ultimate and name animals after VHL members. **It is likely that other community bonuses will be added but I need to check through the things offered to confirm them before I mention it, so for now just me** Members wishing to donate for others may do so but for one other user. Happy fundraising!

Welcome to the VHL, WilliamNix! We're happy to have you. You should have received a PM with some more detailed information, but to get started quickly you will want to head over to the "How to Create a Player" topic. That topic will offer you detailed information about how to use the VHL Portal to create your player and get you started. We also highly recommend joining the VHL Discord where there is a channel dedicated to helping new members with any questions that they may have about the league or improving their player. Once your player is made, you will be placed in a pool of players eligible for the next draft. You may also choose a VHLM team to play for this season if the season is ongoing. While you wait to get your first games in please feel free to ask any questions you have here or in your create-a-player thread. We're happy to have you in the community and we hope you stick around!