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At the end of the day we are offering you a solution. You want to talk politics, do it here. I get that it’s not your preferred place of discussion but it is one. I don’t see a reason to risk things getting messy and out of hand and heated very quickly which much more limited options to do anything about it when a perfectly valid option already exists. Like those comments above me pointed out, things can get heated far too easily and far too quickly on discord and it can blow up into a major problem much faster. In addition mods would need to be around to constantly monitor it vs. Being able to easily receive reports from the forums. The benefit does not outweigh the risk here for me. You want to talk politics, you are welcome to do so on the forum.

Points at my above comment. There is literally nothing stopping people from talking politics on the forum if they want to.

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Keep in mind as well, politics is NOT banned on the forum. People seem to like to forget that this handy dandy forum exists. So if you want to have that friendly, respectful debate on the forum you are more than welcome to. You could ask: well if it’s fine on the forum why not on discord? To which I would respond: it’s easier to moderate. Topic gets out of hand? No problem, we can hide the entire thing in one click and retain the evidence we need if punishment is required. On discord we’d have to individually delete the comments while others fly in and then sift trough the logs after for any evidence we need. So basically my response: if you wanna talk politics just use the forum.

There’s a joke here… I know there is…. I think I’ve spent too much time in the toxic early VHL nostalgia train tonight.

Hopefully you get along better with a Bana run Seattle than I ever do. I always enjoyed myself but am forever cursed to not make the finals.

Had to get another one since White’s “lowest Szat point total” one was beat a few times. At least Lahtinen got playoffs every season, not sure I ever did that before.

Hey I finally listened to this! The VHLM draft board does exist by the way, exactly the same as the VHL (I don’t think there’s anything that only one of the two has) it’s just that the board doesn’t exist until the lottery is run so you probably recorded this after the VHL lotto but before the M one. Either that or you just never flipped the league selection switch.

Yes but it’s also output automatically.

Also pretty sure @Zetterberg’s should not have been tripled unless somehow he had money to buy that with this player. You can’t use multipliers from previous players to get prediction points on new players. His 6 is still impressive but it should not be 18.

I’ll take 2 I guess haha, very rough year for predictions.

I’ve literally been telling you all season that you have the Boulet over me and yet you still brag about it Yes, I would have loved 4 straight but my performance was worse, I’m in no way surprised.

That was just a suspension and it’s already done I believe.

Oh damn, Vancouver trading away their star.

I didn’t set any rules, I’m just following the last set that we’ve had which has any country not mentioned as being somewhere else goes to world. I honestly don’t care one way or the other, it just doesn’t make sense to me to re-draw the placements for a single country that has become a meme. By all means though if people want them in Nordic they can be. As a Nordic player I’ll gladly take the extra help. I just find world makes more sense.

It does not matter if they haven’t played for either team (also have you gone back and checked every single World Cup to make this claim? I’d be stunned if this batch is the only Greenlanders ever). Precedent exists, we know what countries are part of what WC teams. If you are not part of that list you go to team world, period. This isn’t about who the country belongs to or where they are geographically. It’s straight up what rules have we set in place and those say Greenland = World. Now, could an argument be made that the WC needs to be expanded: potentially. The rise of the Mercs lately does kinda show that there’s a lot of top end talent getting left behind. If such a discussion existed and we decided to add more WC teams then maybe we could re-draw the map but to me, right now, it makes no sense to go against the precedent that already exists.

Of note as well, Puerto Rico is also listed as Eligible for Team World.

They have not played for World but they were available per the S76 Eligibility List. Just because World didn't pick any of them doesn't mean they didn't belong to team World.

Again, IMO, World. We aren't here to figure out geo-politics, we're here to sim some fake hockey. We've already laid out what countries go to what teams, if you don't fall under one of those countries you go to World. Yes, Greenland belongs to Denmark and the above belong to the US but for the sake of our conversation it's easier to call them their own countries. Hell there's already precedent that Greenland goes to World; they had 8 players eligible for the World roster in S76. I'm not sure where this discussion is coming from.

The way you ordered the poll makes no sense to me, why include Two teams in each option? I would say it’s Nordic or World, I see no reason to bring Europe into the equation at all. For the reasons I said above, Greenland should be World.

There’s EU countries in Nordic. Our teams are moreso just groupings that we created to where countries fit best and if they aren’t in any of those specific groupings they go to World. Which is why honestly I say Team world. Sure, Greenland isn’t technically a country but for our purposes there’s no reason to not treat it like one. Therefore without being present in any of the specific team lists we have created it should go under World.

This topic is not for hiring an AGM, you can discuss that with whomever gets the job after.

@ThatsGreissy I only just realized you’ve been making a new topic each week, I merged them all together. Please use this one for any new press conferences instead of making a new topic each week. It just keeps everything cleaner.

Update: Since I had to move back to work from home anyway I just took the desk along with my computer and such. Everything should fit a bit better with my smaller computer / second monitor / speakers but it definitely feels way less cubicle like which is nice. I’ve also replaced the chair with a better one from the office, I just don’t have a photo with that.

Curse you deductive reasoning!