Beketov

That should be plenty for 1 CoDCast this week which is great! I'll try to get it recorded tomorrow or Wednesday. If people want to leave anymore though I'll gladly move them forward and maybe have time to do 2 CoDCast's this week! Also, I will do my very best to offer questions for those that have offered them to me.

G - Ariel Weinstein @Tylar

The effects are a little out there but actually work very well. Render's face needs a little more light to stand out against all the colour but it isn't too bad. The main glaring problem here is the text. It feels so ridiculously slapped on that I would much rather it not be there at all. The colour doesn't match, the font is weird, it's half opaque. The text IMO is ruining what could be a fantastic piece.

Not your best work IMO. The text doesn't fit the style at all, the BG and render effects look unfinished, the lighting is mediocre. You can definitely do much much better than this IMO. It just feels like a sig that yu got halfway through and then gave up on. Some stronger effects, better lighting, and a few adjustment layers would go a long way here.

Simple and clean but also beautifully effective. Love the lighting on the shoulders and the clean text. I also really like that the blue permeates through the entire piece, makes it feel much more real. I would like to see a bit stronger lighting on the render's face to really make it pop but that's a pretty minor complaint.

Render's face is far too dark, especially against the almost pure white of the canvas. I also feel like the green is a tad over-powering. It's probably how the jersey was but with the jersey and the pas and the mask it just looks like there's too much of the same colour. Maybe even making one of them a shade slightly different would have helped. Text is very sexy though and great use of depth overall.

Something about this feels very LQ to me, I think it's that the whole thing feels a tad under-lit and under-exposed. That much stock work just feels like it should really be making the render and lighting pop a lot more than it is. Get some strong lighting on this piece and it's absolute fire (no pun intended); especially with how sexy that text work is.

I have to disagree with Muffins unfortunately. I don't find the exposure is right here. The jersey, face, and especially text all seem over-contrasted. I think an extra exposure layer or twi could have toned everything down better. With that said I like the style for the text and the overall lighting and effects are on point as usual.

Bring on the questions fellas! Let's see how early in the week I can get this recorded. @eaglesfan036 @Shaka @ADwyer87 @boom @der meister @Victor @YEAH!stlemania @Phil @tfong @ChrisF @George Costanza @Molholt @Mr. Power @Draper @Banackock @gorlab @JardyB10 @evrydayimbyfuglien @Jericho @DollarAndADream @Kendrick

If this claim is true I demand Sharpe be allowed back in the league and a spot in the HoF as back-payment for my illegal suffering.

It definitely would not be fair to have any rewards for overall. Those of us in Group G would have a pretty major advantage because guys are available who simply shouldn’t still be. Plus we’re in the group literally because we signed up late. Wouldn’t make sense that we end up with that kind of advantage over anyone else. Might be interesting to see an overall standing amongst all the groups at the end but I don’t believe there should be any overall rewards.

F - John Sleeman @Advantage you're up with back to back

Normally it’s worth it but I think this season it might not be. With so many teams potentially competing it’s going to be very hard to predict things this season. Might be better to save your money for a season when it’s a little clearer.

Claim 4 *For Sokolov

Man, posting this late really killed the drama of the last paragraph.

#SharpeBeforePeters and no I don't mean @JardyB10 although that would be fine too

I know that. We knew going into the season that you would be at least testing the market. I just mentioned you specifically because you were a part of the team last season and have unfortunately gone another direction this year.

Cool, thanks for pushing us out then haha. Playoffs aside I'm predicting the Conference to be: 1. Calgary 2. Toronto 3. Seattle 4. NY 5. Quebec

Yeah because the odds of you, Jardy or Smarch being traded are just so high haha

Why you always gotta disrespect me

Even if their forwards were terrible, which they definitely aren't, I don't see Toronto missing the playoffs with Clegane and both Hamilton's. The defensive power is too strong.

Things weren't supposed to be this way. When the Seattle Bears came into the Season 51 off-season things were looking up. Top Free Agents had expressed interest, they had the exclusive rights to two top players early; with a third likely coming along in tow. A big trade early saw a top tier forward [Odinsson] join the team followed closely by the signing of one of the afore-mentioned top players [Kyanon]. And then everything fell apart. Free Agents such as Phil Hamilton and Unassisted, that had previously expressed great interest in joining the Bears, signed elsewhere; leaving Seattle as the unfortunate "2nd choice" that ultimately gets nothing. Other free agents soon followed suit with none joining the Washington based club. In addition, some of these signings almost definitely signal the falling through of deals that had seemed so promising early on in the off-season. The team that looked poised and ready to strike in the North American conference has once again come up short in Free Agency and looks to likely be sitting in 3rd once again. While that outcome would still put them in the playoffs, some of the Bears players can't help but be disappointed in how things have gone. "On one hand, it's great to have Odinsson and Kyanon in the locker room, they are amazing guys. On the other hand though, things were looking far better for us going into free agency than they do now." Said goaltender Jakab Holik who's entering his 5th season in the VHL. "I'm not sure exactly why we always end up as 2nd or 3rd choice instead of 1st but I am starting to get very tired of being one or two pieces away from a cup. Not only did we not get some of the big names we were hoping for but we lost some as well such as Gow. I'm trying to keep my hopes up that things will turn around or the season will be better than I expect but it feels exactly like it did last season." In season 51, of course, the Legion and Wranglers dominated the North American conference and left little room for the Bears to breath. With the Americans not getting all the pieces they hoped either this season could be much of the same. "We are still a relatively young team but we are starting to get older. For some of us there isn't a lot of time left for maybes. I want to see the cup come back to Seattle but it's tough to stay positive when no one wants to give you a chance." With the Clegane brothers and Ariel Weinstein all retiring at the end of Season 52 the face of the league could change dramatically after this season. While Holik deems Seattle's prospects as bleak currently a sun could be rising for the Bears soon. Only time will tell. If the season 43 Bears could pull it off; the season 52 Bears, and beyond, could definitely do it as well. For now another off-season is coming to a close with still fewer changes to the Bears lineup than expected. *For Holik

Better to be on the ballot at least, right? Beketov got in first ballot but none of my other players have ever been close.

If you have something to talk about though 10 minutes really isn't very long. Like I know I'm an outlier because I have random CoD discussion throughout but mine are often 45 mins to an hour easily. I don't think I've ever done shorter than 30 minutes. I think making the mandatory length 20 minutes wouldn't really be that extreme.