Beketov

If you ever figure out how to make people interested in doing things for the betterment of the league instead of personal gain let me know; I've been chasing that dream for at least the last 8-10 years.

I love when the site delete large responses I had typed up. Sigh. Maybe I am reading between the lines incorrectly. I'm just saying when you come in with comments like "Spartan, Gus, and Acyd are great but...." and then call out Josh and I it doesn't exactly install the confidence that you have much faith in our abilities. Could be me, just seemed like subtext. I would love to be wrong. And the amount that I've seen you speak to anyone is minimal, maybe I'm not looking in the right places. Doing tasks and stuff is great but community is important. If someone is just quietly in the corner doing their work that's obviously fine but it doesn't tell me anything about them, it doesn't instil confidence that they will be around for their team. That's the kind of activity that I mean. I didn't mean you for that part to be honest. Also on the topic of 3.5 years ago (which trying to quote your other mention of it is what made me lost my post), I don't remotely care or hold that against you. I poke fun at it because it's a funny past. I'm not gonna start holding people's past against them in this league, my own certainly isn't perfect. Glass houses and throwing stones or whatever. And the people capable of doing the job well are few and far between. Trust me, we have rarely run two people because we thought two was best. I learned a long time ago that a 3 man blue is best but that doesn't mean that we always have 3 strong people who can handle the job at once. Or more recently we have strong candidates, (Gus, Spartan, Acyd, etc) but they are needed in the VHLM and VHLE as well. There's a lot more positions than just blue and we can't steal other positions to make our lives easier. Trust me when I say that many more people WANT this job than people who can HANDLE this job.

If we feel we need information from them we'll ask but if someone is, in all likelihood, 4th or 5th down the list then it's wasting their time and it's wasting our time. It's not playing favourites to understand who will do well in a role purely from observing over time and honestly the interviews while we did them rarely caused anything to change from where our brains were initially at anyway. If, for example, your activity seems borderline aside from throwing occasional jabs at people why would you be considered for a GM job? At the end of the day though it comes down to time more than anything. For the past while we've been filling 1-2 GM positions, if nothing else, every single off season on top of the ever growing pressure to move things along quicker and quicker. We can't realistically interview every single person for every single role and have things happen in a reasonable timeframe. I promise that every application was looked at even if I didn't personally respond to each one. I'm not saying I don't regret some hires, I do, but sometimes you gotta do what seems best at the time.

When you start off by basically saying I'm shit at my job my response isn't exactly going to be kind and would just prove your point so not sure what exactly you expected me to say. Apparently every hire I've made since before you joined was a bad one and I've been progressively ruining the league for the past 5 years, that sound about right based on your assessment? Look, if you wanna have an actual conversation that's fine. I've been watching your conversation with @Spartan . My not responding doesn't mean I'm ignoring you, it means that I feel like you have some kind of vendetta against the majority of the staff and are going to react accordingly no matter what is said. So yeah, I'm not ignoring you I'm just choosing not to engage in the inevitable public argument. You wanna talk let's talk.

There haven't. We kinda chilled out on them because it was just interviewing the same people basically every time and getting the same answers in response. There's no point wasting everyone's time season after season with the same questions when we already know the answers we're going to receive. We aren't picking people out of a hat here but we generally know what each candidate is going to offer.

Welcome to the VHL, JHT PROD! 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!

Ironically it wouldn’t have even mattered much because you would have been here for all that sweet sweet Christmas TPE.

Good man. Been saying for years that more people need to see Arthur Christmas.

Hello @Members! If you’ve been keeping your eyes on the events page you’ll know that it’s time for theme week! Of course, that also means that the Trade Deadline is Monday, December 12th at 3pm EST. This also means that anyone wishing to re-create for the S88 draft can do so starting at midnight that same day. --- Most of you aren’t here for that though are you? You just want that sweet sweet theme week TPE. So, for this season, we've decided on a theme of: That means of course anything related to a first gen. Maybe you want to profile one, maybe you want to offer suggestions for how to make things easier on them, maybe you are one and want to talk about your experience so far. It’s all up to you, just make sure that you’re not doing anything for someone too experienced and you’re good to go! To earn your Theme Week TPE, write an article, create a graphic, or record a podcast with some connection to “First Gens”. --- In order to claim the theme week bonus of 6 Uncapped TPE, simply submit your Themed PT (Graphic, Media Spot, or 6-TPE Podcast), and claim it as normal. After claiming the PT portion, you can use the same link, and claim the uncapped portion as follows: Claim Uncapped > Other > Doubles Week. (Note: you do not need to post your link in this thread to claim either portion of TPE). Make sure to tag your articles with “theme week” so we can collect all the great work in one easy-to-find spot. If you have already submitted a Point Task for this week, or are in the midst of claiming a multi-week Media Spot/Podcast, you may still submit a Theme Week PT this week, and claim the capped portion on the next available week, following your multi-week claim. Also, if you have a single job that pays 6+, you may claim the theme week bonus as long as you complete your duties for the week. If you are in the EFL or SBA and have completed their most recent Media Week, you may use that to claim the Uncapped theme week bonus, but a PT must be completed this week in order to claim the Capped portion, whether that is completed here or through Affiliate Welfare. Note: Only players who are S87 or older may claim the theme week bonus. @VHL GM @VHLE GM @VHLM GM

Welcome to the VHL, StoneWallGoalie077! 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, playmaker! 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!

My wife found an old family recipe a few years back for homemade eggnog so full of booze that we were having to cut it with the regular stuff. I wear it was just rubbing alcohol with a bit of egg in it. If I recall the punch bowl sized serving contained over 4 quarts of different alcohol varieties. All I can assume is the person writing down the recipe wrote quart but meant pint because there’s no way it should have been that strong.

Just think of it like you already got them.

Love the line. Would work better syllable wise as just “Bek’s been earning”. The original is two syllables so it’s kinda awkward no matter what but three syllables there just doesn’t quite work. In general better than I would expect. People really do have a tendency to underestimate how tough it is to come up with something like we didn’t start the fire.

Was just missed in the off season I guess. This is why we request GM’s check their rosters before season start when the indexes go up. This should have been resolved at that point instead of just playing him out of position. Anyway it’s fixed now.

Welcome to the VHL, Cyprus! 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, MacDre! 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!

I will be putting forth a couple of stretch goals again that aren’t strictly auction items but will be potentially hit depending on our fundraising. I’ll announce specifics when we open everything up.

Welcome to the VHL, Mercenary! 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!

As I said, I’ll update them soon. Didn’t have time to at the time and wanted to get this out. The word counts and stuff haven’t changed, just the descriptions, so just follow the OP.

Always nice to pick up two wins, including a shutout. Even better to do it against the reigning champs.

Welcome to the VHL, Tristan Neudorf! 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!

Anyone after S80 has a 9 season career. If you spend a season in the VHLE then you have 8 in the VHL, etc. So if you skipped the VHLE you'll have a 9 season career. This has been the case since the VHLE was implemented. Since the expectation is most people will spend a season in it we added an extra career season.

Was wondering how long it would take you haha. One of the trade offs ultimately of getting a 9 season career, you lose out on that one career task.

Didn’t want to presume you’d be on to update that but this works haha