Beketov

We're back in Modern Warfare Remastered carrying teams and answering questions from @DollarAndADream / phone calls from my wife. Posting early so that I have PT's done when I'm on vacation. *For the week of October 23 - 29

Our last game against each other is the next game too haha. I don't know if you guys have any extras but all our 8 games against you fall in our first 11 games total. We'll see you in the playoffs I guess?

Going on vacation and need to get at least 1 more CoDCast filmed this week. Just finished my 2nd one but need to cut out a part where my wife called in the middle. Anyway, some questions for it would be greatly appreciated. @der meister @Phil @tfong @Banackock @gorlab @JardyB10 @evrydayimbyfuglien @Jericho @DollarAndADream @Kendrick @Smarch @punkhippie @Beaviss @Devise

Well that sucks.

We're back in CoD this time around, Modern Warfare Remastered to be specific. @boubabi kept me talking so only questions from him this time around but I'm going on vacation soon so this will not be the only CoDCast to come out this week. If you want to be involved in one, the best way is to go ask me some questions.

Yeah really. 6 out of our first 8 games were against the Wranglers. Also, our last 2 against them are within our next 3 games. So within our first 11 games we’ll be done playing the Wranglers haha

To be fair I normally would have more TPE with Sokolov. However I knew (as did the Lengion) going in that Holik was my main player. There were a lot of weeks in my first like 3 seasons where Sokolov only got Welfare if anything at all.

"Continues" I needed this after 0 points in 3 games against Calgary.

Honestly if you didn't like the PC versions it's probably not for you IMO. The game was designed for PC and doesn't play as well I console. You have to be really okay with grinding for a game like Diablo which is usually what turns people away.

Probably because there has never been anyone STHS loves more than you haha.

We're in Diablo 3 again since I didn't feel like moving the PS4 upstairs. Killing demons and answering questions from @Kendrick and @Beaviss. As I mention in the video I'll be needing to record quite a bit next week so if you have any questions at all please get them in.

You know it, gotta get those points while I can. I'm on pace for 180 points right now; think I can manage haha

In one way or another it’ll end up being Dragon Ex Machina. Either Daenerys takes King’s Landing with her’s or the White Walkers murder them all with theirs. One way or another I think the ending is likely to end up too rushed to be heavily climactic. Mind you all 7 episodes are slated to be near feature length so that works out to somewhere around 10.5 hours which is nearly the Length of the original LOTR trilogy. I guess that does offer time for a lot to happen but still. Like you said the build up will always be better than the payoff unfortunately. Especially in a show like this. One side or the other HAS to win, that’s just what needs to happen. So that means either everyone gets wiped out by the Walkers, Daenerys kicks major ass, or Cercei fucks them all over and stays in power. As far as I’m concerned there are no other options, at least as things stand right now. What I will say, it’s gonna be a damn long wait. I too binged the entire 7 seasons during the run of just season 7 so I’m not used to having to wait for more GoT. This is going to be a torturous wait.

It's what I do. Let's see if I can make it last this time haha

Bring back to Caribbean Pirates IMO.

To be fair isn't that what @Kendrick has done with his last few players regardless of team? Wanting to move around doesn't prove he hates the team. Just proves he was being honest.

Alternatively the stigma did in fact die with Vasteras because people thought the location and team was dumb? You're admitting the stigma surrounding Vasteras is gone so why should we move the team back there? To create it again? I'm not necessarily saying I understand why it disappeared but I'm saying it did, that's what matters. Tons of people have gone to stockholm in free agency and such that wouldn't have gone to Vasteras. Ultimately that's what matters isn't it? Personally I would rather not move a team back just to get everyone shitting on them again and then go through through the whole relocation process for a 4th time. Some people even within the BOG heavily disagree with me. Trust me, the colour of my name isn't swaying anyone's opinion in there.

The blue team doesn't fully make this decision, that's why I brought it up in the BOG as I said I would do. @Kendrick, @Phil, @ADV, or anyone else can confirm that. Discussion is happening regardless of my opinion on the matter. As for your comments, personally I don't think there is any stigma with Stockholm. They were one of my two top destinations with Holik in FA actually. It's why I'm so confused that people feel the team needs to move. I think they have a good name and a good logo in a good city so why change it?

I wouldn't call it a small cabal of people. I would call it the majority of the league. Go back and look at the announcement for Stockholm. I looked this morning. The vast majority of people favoured the move because Vasteras had become a joke. Its great to say Bushito would have such enthusiasm and support for Vasteras but so did all their other GM's. If / when he leaves the team would just be left in a lurch as they always have been which will result in a new GM coming in and thinking that relocation will revitalize things and we'll just have to move them all over again. The precedent for this action is definitely there because it's what always happens with this franchise. If people want to prove how great a franchise Vasteras is why not go help Bushito in Stockholm? It's just a team name. The franchise is still the same, just as NY is ultimately still Hamilton and Davis is still Amstel. The team simply relocated. If you loved Vasteras there's no reason not to try and win with Stockholm. It will still be deemed the Franchise's third cup, not their first. IMO it's petty to think that Stockholm doesn't deserve support but Vasteras does.

Or we don't want it back because it's already been removed from the league twice. What's the old adage? Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me. Vasteras had its chances. I fail to see how giving it a third chance is going to do anything.

I brought your proposal to the BOG. If there is enough support for it in there the blue team will decide. Whether or not we like the idea isn't the final nail. If enough of the BOG supports the move the we can put our opinions aside. You were never just going to be allowed to do it all yourself, that wasn't going to fly and you should have known it. You can't just change the team without approval because you want to. As I said in the BOG earlier I think if we do allow the team to move we should do it with a few restrictions. First, this is THE LAST time Vasteras will ever have a team. If they move again they do so knowing the team doesn't come back. Second, a full rebrand (logo at least, potentially team name as well) is required. I don't know if that will be the case or if it will even go anywhere but that's my opinion on the matter. I feel like Vasteras has had plenty of chances and as a GM you should take pride in a team without feeling the need to change it. Team pride starts at the top. If you believe in your team others will as well. I don't believe you have ever tried to do that with Stockholm though and moving the team won't change its roster any. If you truly believe the team has a problem now that problem will persist in Vasteras as well. It won't simply disappear because you move.

Any time a piece is a manip instead of a full design with a render I find that to be healthful, even when Photoshop is involved.

Thank You. This thread seemed to become a giant shit storm of people arguing for or against the actual city / logo when really my personal vote on the matter has nothing to do with either. If any team in the league had moved away and then back and then away again I would be just as opposed to them returning. Vasteras had their chance and then they had their second chance. In both cases they were moved. If people don't like Stockholm and want to move the team somewhere I see more merit behind that choice. Not necessarily saying I would vote in favour of it but I see more merit to it. Moving backwards to Vasteras yet again doesn't make any sense though. They had 35 seasons in the league and proved to be nothing but a meme. I'm not interested in creating teams just for the sake of memes. This is coming from someone who has been in the league through both iterations of the team and has good memories on the team. It's time to let Vasteras die. I do have a proposition I brought up in the BOG this morning that could be fun involving the team but it doesn't involve bringing them back, that's for sure.

I'm not saying it's real; I'm simply pointing out an example of how ridiculous this can sound. Regardless of if the league takes place on the internet or not there are reasons that the team was moved not once but twice. You want to move it back now and then whomever takes over after you will want to move the team away and it will just go on and on and on. It's a running joke and makes no sense. The team has been moved twice, let it die. If you want to move or rebrand or what-have you then I'll consider it but as it stands I will be hard pressed to find an argument for moving back to Vasteras that makes sense. The team was there for 35 seasons and while I agreed with moving it back after the short tenure in Madrid (because it was dumb to have a team in Spain) I see no reason to move the team from Stockholm back to Vasteras again. The argument for it simply isn't as strong as it was last time and "because I want to" isn't a valid reason.