Beketov

I do love watching people discover the autocorrect filters after all this time. Did people really think snubbed was the only one?

That's not what we were saying unfortunately. We were saying that at most your carryover probably would have been 20 and even that would depend on your laster player. You have been gone long enough that you would qualify for First-Gen again and honestly the first gen bonuses (which cannot be claimed with carryover) are likely more valuable to you than the carryover would be. I would go that route.

One does get bored of going first overall so much

The “good player” carryover sadly would have already been used on one of the “false starts” so even if we could figure out an amount it wouldn’t be valid. Good to see you back though! Like @Victor said though, you’d probably be looking at like 20 TPE or something at most which isn’t even 2 weeks worth, it’s not a deal breaker by any stretch.

Suddenly @LucyXpher making sure Prague didn’t get screwed in the punishments makes more sense haha. Don’t get me wrong, I appreciate being fair, but it was curious when it didn’t affect her team at all. Also hi Malmo

Convenient that you didn’t because they only get worse, for the most part, as you back track haha

The ability for the same people to win year after year and yet I lose every time astounds me; if people are going to scream rigged I might as well get something out of it! Still, congrats to all the winners, we will be in touch shortly to get your prizes all sorted out Tier 1 - 5 Winners: 5 uncapped TPE @Alex @dstevensonjr @leandrofg @LucyXpher @OblivionWalker Tier 2 - 5 Winners: $15 donation equivalent @BOOM @GoodLeftUndone @OrbitingDeath @Thunder @YetiTaz Tier 3 - 3 Winners: Video Game of your choice (up to a max of $90 CAD, on any system) @der meister @Gustav @Tetricide Tier 4 - 1 Winner: Nintendo Switch (OLED) console OR an NHL Jersey of the winner's choice. @Velevra

Told you we didn't forget about the holiday prize raffle! The draw will be taking place in 10 minutes! As previously mentioned the prize pool consists of 14 prizes spread over 4 tiers. Tier 1 - 5 Winners 5 uncapped TPE Tier 2 - 5 Winners $15 donation equivalent (IE you get the reward choice of a $15 donation without donating, can be claimed even if you have donated this season.) Tier 3 - 3 Winners Video Game of your choice (up to a max of $90 CAD, on any system) Tier 4 - 1 Winner Nintendo Switch (OLED) console OR an NHL Jersey of the winner's choice. The draw will be streamed to my twitch channel which can be found here: https://twitch.tv/beketov_vhl The draw will be at random and the number of entries you have is based on the number of 12 days of Christmas threads you responded to. Everyone who responded to at least 1 day has at least 1 entry and everyone, staff included, are allowed to win. As usual if you win something and would prefer to receive the prize from the tier below you can do that. Additionally we will not exchange any prize for cash value but a difference in prize that costs the same or less can be negotiated under certain circumstances. Good luck to everyone and I’ll see you all for the draw momentarily!

Honestly the question wasn’t even that hard, I was just impatient and didn’t look hard enough.

Man this season needs to end. I don't say that in the way most do, most just want to move on because they are eliminated or whatever. I am also eliminated (congrats on the win BTW Vegas) but that's not the reason for me; that is of course so I can get back to simming and be done with writing these rambly messy posts. Clearly I should have just claimed everything I typed in the punishment topic since that's WELL over the word requirement but oh well. For all the complaining I have with simming it's at least consistent for the pay and I don't need to remember what day is Sunday. So what's going on in the league? Well ignoring all the drama from Friday it appears it's a wildcard battle for the cup. I know @Victor and @Gustav have both looked at it in far more detail than I could but man does it ever feel like there's some kind of crazy thing going on with deep playoff runs. I swear sometimes Simon just codes extra underdog runs in for fun but more than likely the difference between a great VHL team and a borderline playoff team isn't as big as we think. I have no stake in the matter at all so go Riga I guess? In other news I'm finally getting around to holding the holiday raffle tomorrow. I guess that means we have to decide on a grand prize. It's always been either a jersey or a Switch which I feel bad going back to those old staples but they have always worked well and their cost is relatively consistent. All I know is somehow the RNG gods will once agian likely favour a few people multiple times yet somehow miss a pile of others in ways I cannot accurately describe.

Papa Emeritus. Sure it's a cop out picking my own player probably but his lore was fun; just wish I would have done more with it, so I think he would be entertaining to have around. Honestly I don't know if any of them are close enough to making the jump unless you count like Chicago as rebuilding but I don't think they really are; they just missed the playoffs because of a really strong conference. Unless Prague drafts me first, then clearly they are going places. Not much honestly. I made the adorable yet awful mistake of buying my wife lego flowers instead of real flowers this year which she did love but it also meant that she immediately went out and bought more of them (at $40 a piece...) so we spent our evening making those haha ------- 1. As of right now Riga and Seattle are tied 1 game a piece in the finals. How many games do you predict the finals will go? 2. Who do you think is taking home the grand prize in the holiday raffle draw tomorrow? 3. With S100 approaching soon what do you think the league is going to do to celebrate?

Recap because I'm an idiot and messed up a trivia question: Despite taking home by far the league's best record in the regular season the Halifax 21st still could not push past their curse; proving once again that Simon does not care whatsoever about regular season success (for more on this, see the VHL) and will gladly destroy good teams in the playoffs. Halifax had a relatively strong first period, coming out tied and only down in shots by 3 but the 2nd and 3rd periods belonged to Vegas as they held the 21st to only 9 shots in the last 40 minutes of play and only 16 shots total in the game. A disappointing end to a strong season for the 21st unfortunately but congrats to Vegas on picking up another Founder's Cup!

Oh shit it’s Sunday, I was thinking it was Saturday because of the Holiday tomorrow. I have some TPE to get I guess.

It’s supposed to be rough here. Only 5cm of snow but then several hours of ice pellets and freezing rain overnight. Snow isn’t so bad on its own, I can deal with that. Multiple hours of ice buildup when there’s no salt left in the city (because we had this 3 days ago) however is a much worse problem.

@Members I promise I have not forgotten the raffle, life has just been busy. I’m going to try and stream it tomorrow night around 7pm EST assuming the coming ice storm doesn’t knock out my power.

The boat curse remains intact for at least another season