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See the last 8 games you actually need to think about a lot because if you mess up or miscount you’re fucked. Also the intention of the rule is not to have it be on the simmer’s head so if your lines don’t work for some reason and you’ve waited until the very end you’re gonna miss some. Doing them right off the top is the safest method. Also gives you plenty of time to make the games back if your backup shits the bed.

Exactly. You don’t see the NHL tracking CHL stats; the idea is exactly the same. The VHLM is treated like the CHL, a stepping stone towards the VHL but not combined.

Ah fuck, clicked to see @Berocka’s response and lost mine in the process, oh well. On the whole I agree with @diamond_ace. The VHLM is first and foremost a tool to teach new players how things work and get them engaged and coming back. When we moved to 11 teams we did discuss 6 vs. 8 playoff teams and ultimately settled on 8 because we do want more people to experience the playoffs in the VHLM. Having it the same as the VHL now is a nice bonus. @GustavMattias is correct that this hurts competitiveness in the regular season a bit and that is a bit of a downside I’ll admit but one that, IMO, is worth it. Does the 8th place team stand a chance at beating the first place team? Not likely but it could happen and more importantly it gives new guys a bit of a taste of playoff time even if it’s only a few games. Also I hate byes with a passion so balance is nice but that’s a minor thing haha.

If that’s the case then 100% no one has kept track of that because for record keeping purposed we always have the VHL and VHLM separate.

I’m gonna read the rest of this thread later but just wanted to bring up that I’m 99% sure STHS cannot have playoffs formatted in this way. I think it MIGHT be able to when you set it to WC mode but that changes a pile of other things as well that don’t work for us. Basically once a team loses their playoff round they are out. We can manually set who plays who if we want to do some complexity (that’s how crossover always worked) but we can’t bring back losing teams to play in further rounds.

I don’t know if anyone has kept track of finals appearances, just cups. Though didn’t Glade also only play 7 seasons? He wasn’t S61 was he?

It’s part of the lines. If the GM allows their AGM to perform line changes than they can swap the goalie out if they so choose. I don’t restrict certain changes based on who sets the lines. Seriously though @Beaviss just start QUE G the first 8 games or something and get it out of the way for once.

Activision ID is Aceshigh87. If I get a chance to play or figure out how to add people with this whole ID thing instead of PSN I’ll send you an invite.

Can confirm I don’t recall seeing lines from Beav once all season.

Also I just realized this is my third straight finals after missing it for 20 seasons. Apparently @DilIsPickle missing the finals is my good luck charm.

I’ll fuck off in 4 games, kay?

Welcome to the VHL, Prezzys! 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 VHLM General Managers will be in touch with you about joining their teams. In the meantime, 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!

This should have been locked. You can’t claim welfare outside the week it’s for. We’ve been letting it slide a day so I’ll let this go but be warned for the future that we will be cracking down.

GG Riga, you deserved better than a 5 game series tbh. Pile of OT games that really could have gone either way but the sim gods chose not to smile on you. You guys were a much stronger team than this result at all implied.

Morning all. I've got a million things to do today and very little time to do them so since @hedgehog337 said he didn't care if I did game 5 even last night we're gonna do an early morning sim and you all can deal with it. Going live momentarily.

2nd OT winner of the series, did it in game 1 as well. Just call me Mr. Clutch.

Getting everything set up right now

Welcome to the VHL, Frostbite! 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 VHLM General Managers will be in touch with you about joining their teams. In the meantime, 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, Jesse! 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 VHLM General Managers will be in touch with you about joining their teams. In the meantime, 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!

Somewhat but also not. It’s not that extreme where you’re playing as a terrorist but it’s certainly very intense; especially so early.

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Just played MP for an hour or so and then hopped back into Campaign since I enjoy doing them first. The campaign is definitely not pulling any punches. You’ll know what I mean when you get to the end of the second mission haha

Hard to say, I only played the first level of the campaign yesterday. Sitting down to play some now, might try out MP. The beta was fun though. Definitely feels much more classic than the last few years. I’m cautiously optimistic they won’t destroy it with MTX.

Bit of an early one boys but it's the time I've got so going live in a minute.