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Welcome to the VHL, Bully22! 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 thread is always dumb but it’s also kinda fun, what did everyone get this year? Oddly for me my gift from work (which doesn’t be usually consist of much) was probably my biggest since they gave everyone a Series 4 Apple Watch. Great for me since I’ve been eyeing it. From family I got a bunch of house stuff mostly (freezer, electric griddle, drill, coffee maker, Home Depot gift cards). Picked up the Spyro collection as my game for the year and then the usual stuff: pyjamas, jeans, shirts, socks, etc. There’s probably more but that’s all I can think of right now. Anyway, what’d you guys all get?

We could make you CPO: Chief of Portal Operations.

This isn't gonna be as much of a discussion as my articles have been in the past; and hell it's been a bit since I've one one on account of simming giving me the full cap easier. I mean I likely even have the full cap this week already but I bought the uncapped TPE which means I need to write these things. Anyway, I want to talk about something that has gained a bit of traction in recent weeks: brands. More specifically, why I think they didn't go over quite as well as we kinda hoped / planned they would. When the brands and the Sponsor's Tournament were announced there was a lot of hype around them which was great. People wanted to get signed to a good brand quickly and there was hype and everyone was happy. So what happened between that and the tournament which was, to put it bluntly, a little lacklustre? In my opinion, simply time. I was concerned about this happening when we initially announced them but was hoping we found a balance that I don't think we struck. Ultimately all the hype died because of the time between brands being announced and the tournament which happened over a season later. The idea was to give us time to have everything in place which is a noble enough goal but ultimately things were basically in place by the time the next off-season rolled around which means that by the time the tournament actually showed up the hype was dead. Also, Haterade played like ass (contrary to what our lineup would imply) so maybe that doesn't help either but you get my point. So yeah, I guess that's just my little rant. I don't think Brands themselves are a horrible idea but the hype around them completely died off because people honestly forgot about the tournament until it was basically done. What are your thoughts? Was it doomed to fail from the beginning or was it just a case of poor timing and we should have announced it during the season a tournament would be held? Let me know what you think.

Player Name: Matt Thompson VHL/VHLM Team: Seattle Cash you have: $17,500,000 Purchase Name: Uncapped TPE Pkg (20) Cost of Purchase: $10,000,000 Cash Left: $7,500,000

No, doubles weeks apply only to PT’s, not any form of welfare.

Well everyone last year was complaining that some were better than others so we wanted things to more or less even out. It’s entirely up to you. Personally I’d do the free one now so that you don’t forget about it but you can do it either way.

Trivia answers are meant to be capped. The only uncapped is the final count and giving questions.

Merry Christmas / Something less denominational! Beke Clause is here to bring you some Holiday presents. @Quik and I previously agreed on the gifts so here is the list: 1. $5M Player Store Cash* 2. +6 Uncapped 3. Doubles Week** 4. Free Doubles Week*** * If you’re within your players final season this may be passed onto your next player instead. It cannot be split between two players. ** Doubles week PT must be a PT completed in the VHL, affiliate PT’s do not count. *** Free Doubles Week doubles your PT which you get without needing to complete a PT. It only doubles the main 6 TPE PT, nothing else in the weekly cap. All of them should equal out to more or less the same amount of TPE (about 6 uncapped) but have different ways of being earned. To save you going back through and remembering what number you had, I decided to do the work for you. So., here’s the payout list from the 2018 Holiday Bonus! 1. $5M Player Store Cash @omgitshim @Beaviss @Exlaxchronicles @Nykonax @Elhandon @CowboyinAmerica @TacticalHammer @Laflamme @ShawnGlade @Fire Hakstol @Luke Allman @Sonnet @Enorama @Bonzaijoe @der meister @tfong 2. +6 Uncapped @Esso2264 @Jubo07 @xsjack @Eudaldkp @Pandar @leafsman @oilmandan @Quik @Smarch @Stoffiday @Cornflakers @Brolaski @Velevra @TMI @Slappy1039 @jRuutu @Trifecta @Kuch9 @Philliefan @Antone10 @NathanN @BladeMaiden @Kisshan @Matt_O @JayF @Donno100 @monkeywrench15 @Sohva @FBR @nicolas01 @Dvich86 @Green @Bear @Will @RyanZabby @SwagSloth 3. Doubles Week @Hybrid1486 @McWolf @Arthur @Bushito @Beketov @Joubo @SlapshotDragon @Victor @Gooningitup @StamkosFan @eaglesfan036 @Sova @hedgehog337 @DilIsPickle @Poptart @pennypenny @TheLastOlympian07 @Bucky___lastard @wcats @Dangles13 @.sniffuM @Ahma @kayfabe @Tagger @JG10 @Reives @Banackock @joeyboucher1 @Spade18 @Rocketman04 @FacePuncher @Thranduil @Eparker24 @Ty343 @Infernal @Snussu @handfullofbubba 4. Free Doubles Week @diamond_ace @BOOM™ @Devise @CurtisG93 @Peace @JohnnyT_77 @Romaris @majesiu @Tyler @Tim @AndrewWarren13 @Advantage @BarzalGoat @speck1447 @SidTheKid87 @ChaceT @Chase Klein @BluObieZ @Symmetrik @Anthony Matthews

F - Edwin Preencarnacion @Ty343

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I think this is the first season I don’t get myself... F - Sebastian Ironside @Esso2264

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Welcome to the VHL, Consider_Me_OP! 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, Anthony Matthews! 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, Legend! 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!

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I think you were the only one that didn’t haha

Without a terrible rookie season in Davos Holik would likely have the SO record and potentially have been considered earlier. Aside from underperforming in his first 2 seasons and playing against O’Malley the award hog Miller could have had HoF numbers, etc. Its definitely a thing. For a HoF career you need good numbers every season or you need to make them up. Thompson has shit numbers my rookie year but sophomore was so big that I might still be okay. 4 seasons of mediocre numbers unfortunately kills most HoF bids. Hell, just a terrible rookie season nearly kept @Trifecta off the ballot.

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I don’t know much about the discord. @tfong any idea?

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I don’t think I feel like dealing with the stress of drafting for this again but sure, I’m a glutton for punishment so why not try again.

Oof, bad year for me.