Beketov

Merry Christmas (well boxing day) everyone! I hope you all enjoyed your VHL gifts. Your many posts have all been counted up ,with an amazing 169 members participating I might add, and we’re ready to give out some gifts. To keep it fair the giveaway will be live streamed below and I’ll update the post following this with tags for everyone who won after the fact. So, without any further delay, let’s get to giving things away shall we?

Every time it has said $X value, it has never said it’s cash nor have I ever said it was cash. The amounts are all value of actual prizes.

This year actually but I’m not gonna get in to that. You ingrates are getting $550 value plus the TPE, you can wait until my family time is finished up.

I’ve been doing it for free for over a week now. Where’s your holiday spirit

So we were a tad a over-zealous I think with our estimation that this would be done for Christmas. You all definitely responded a lot more than we would have guessed and it’s a manual process to check over everyone’s post and fill out the spreadsheet. We’re doing our best and will have the giveaway done soon but obviously it’s a busy time of year for everyone. Thanks for understanding and Merry Christmas!

10 and above makes you eligible for the grand prize so you’re still good there

This is when I have time to open this so you guys can have an extra 20 minutes for the final day. I hope you have all enjoyed the 12 days of Christmas. We’re compiling all the claims right now and will hopefully be doing our draws for them tomorrow, at least that’s the plan. Obviously it’s a busy season for everyone but we’ll see what happens. As with every day, the updaters would also like me to remind you all to link to your individual post, not the main post, when claiming this. Will make their jobs significantly easier once this hits 4 or 5 pages of claims to check.

Glad you’re happy. I’m quite pleased to be rid of that “record”

You didn’t have to make them 1 by 1 in STHS at least right? Like you could make it in excel to at least have all the attributes as a simple copy.

You can’t really compare many awards in a year by year basis though. In S62 the Stolzy winner had like 140 points or something crazy but we can’t say that should be the standard for winning it. The fact that someone had 70 points and lost it last year doesn’t mean that a forward can’t win this year up against different competition. Every season is different.

Honestly I don’t think people realize how shit simming is now and I have maybe 10% of the workload that you and Jardy and all the former summers had. I press a couple of buttons and everything is updated and all the players are created. I can’t imagine spending hours manually creating players.

Ho Ho Ho motherfuckers! As with every day, the updaters would also like me to remind you all to link to your individual post, not the main post, when claiming this. Will make their jobs significantly easier once this hits 4 or 5 pages of claims to check.

You’d think having over a week to come up with this, and only need to write 150 words on it, I would have been more prepared. Yet here I am on Sunday night without having narrowed down exactly who I think the VHL’s unsung hero is. There are frankly too many options. However I’m determined to pick a single person so god damnit that’s what I’m going to do! In my opinion the VHL’s greatest unsung hero is @Will. Sure, many sing his praise so maybe he’s not “unsung” but certainly under appreciated for how much he has truly done. Obviously recently he has taken to mostly portal duties but I don’t mean to make that sound like nothing. I truly believe the portal to be the league’s absolute best commodity. Discord has made discussion easier for the people who don’t like the forum structure and simming has become a lot more consistent but the portal is the greatest thing we have honestly ever created. Instant (Basically) updates, automatic game posting, career stats kept up to date; I could go on and on. He has basically automated every pain in the ass job the league has had. Obviously @Josh and @DilIsPickle have been helping out lately and it’s greatly appreciated but honestly the portal is Will’s baby. Devise and I kinda came up with the initial concept and look but we never dreamed Will would run with it this much. That got long winded enough that this could have been an MS but I’m still not at my main point, the part fewer people know. When I was hired to the blue team it’s because @Higgins was basically holding down the fort by himself (kudos for that) and needed help. Will had gone basically MIA and things were not looking good. Anyone who was around at the time can attest that my first 6 months to a year as blue were not the cleanest. We were drowning and bailing as fast as we could but frankly we couldn’t keep up. Re-enter Will. Not only with the portal but just the veteran blue presence to bring some level headed ness and stability that we needed to weather the storm and get to where we are now, the biggest period of growth the league has ever seen. Had he not come back I don’t think we would have made it. So, I tip my hat to you Will and I owe you a beer if we ever do meet. You saved the league’s collective ass more than most people remotely give you credit for.

INDEX @VHLM GM As per the announcement yesterday, playoffs are set to start December 27th. I know it’s a bit of a gap but with it being Christmas it just seems best. Everything is set up though so feel free to send lines to both rpower22@gmail.com and vhlsim@outlook.com. Any other questions or concerns don't hesitate to send me a PM or tag me with a response in here. Let's have a fun playoffs everyone and best of luck to all.

Only a few days left guys! As with every day, the updaters would also like me to remind you all to link to your individual post, not the main post, when claiming this. Will make their jobs significantly easier once this hits 4 or 5 pages of claims to check.

@tfong with the huge donation to put us over $1000 but forgetting the name of the league Absolutely crushing it guys, Way more than I ever expected, especially within a single day. You guys are all amazing.

Yup, doesn’t even have to be Make a Wish if you don’t want it to be. Any charity is alright so long as you provide proof. Just happens that we needed to pick one for the league to give to.

Yup, that didn’t take long haha. We’ll make it official when we do the donation mind you.

Yeah, we were trying to work out the details. In future years it’ll be up earlier since we’ll really just need to pick a charity.

Hello @Members! ’Tis the season of giving and while the VHL is doing it’s part for you all with our 12 Days of Christmas Extravaganza we thought that as a league, we could be doing more. That is why we are announcing today the first of what will hopefully be an annual VHL Charity Drive! What does this mean? It means as a league we’re opening up our hearts, and wallets, to those in need this holiday season. Specifically the league has chosen the Make a Wish foundation as it’s charity this season and we are asking you all for donations. All proceeds from this will go directly to the charity with the VHL taking 0% off the top, none of it comes to us. So how does this work? A topic has been opened in our donation section and can be found HERE. When you donate just post your confirmation ID in there so we can add it to our total and not confuse it with regular VHL donations. This of course does not fall under the “one per season” donation rule since it isn’t for the VHL. For a donation of $5 or more (you can donate as much or as little as you'd like) you’ll earn 3 TPE. Donating more does not earn you more but it is obviously welcome. In addition, everyone who donates will be entered into a raffle for some extra prizes at the end that aren't TPE based but should be fun. Don’t think we aren’t doing our part as well though. As a thank you for your generosity, the league will match the sum of total donations of all members up to $200 so the more you all donate, the more we will donate. In addition, if the league matching is maxed out (aka if league donations get to at least $200) all members, regardless of if they donated or not, will receive a free doubles week. Donations can be made to the league using our normal link which we will sum up (with proof of amounts) and donate in full to the charity likely around New Years, again with proof of amounts. However if you’d like to donate on your own directly to the charity in order to get a tax receipt (which the league cannot legally supply) you can provide proof of that as well and we will count it the same as a donation through us. In addition to this, if you'd like to donate to a different charity that’s alright as well. Again, simply provide us with proof and we’ll count it for your rewards and our matching. I would like to thank @Banackock for the original idea behind this, I certainly hope it can become a yearly thing. I would also like to thank @gorlab for the above logo as well as @Motzaburger for one he made but we aren’t using for this announcement specifically. Happy Holidays everyone, @Commissioner @Admin @BOG

Please post in here your confirmation ID’s from charitable givings to the VHL so they can be tallied up and donated, in full, to our charity of choice this season: the Make a Wish foundation. If you chose to donate on your own, for tax purposes or for other charities, please provide a screenshot as well as proof of your donation and amount so we can add it to the final number.

Day 9 everyone! Don’t say we don’t spoil you As with every day, the updaters would also like me to remind you all to link to your individual post, not the main post, when claiming this. Will make their jobs significantly easier once this hits 4 or 5 pages of claims to check.

Fun fact, the other one wasn’t actually in your lines anywhere so I put Kendall on your team but you’ll need to slot him into the lines.

Weird, I was positive I had done this ages ago, I remember doing it. Sorry about that, if you ever see something not change in a day or two just poke me, I probably missed it. I’ll get it updated for today’s sim. Want me to just flip them in your lines?

I did this ages ago?