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“And the winner of the S91 Daisuke Kanou Trophy, for leading the Toronto Legion to their first Continental Cup in 26 seasons, Joel Castle!”
 
Shaking my head in bewilderment, I slowly get to my feet and make my way to the stage. I get high-fives and a few hugs from my Legion teammates as I cross the floor. I’m in shock, my brain racing through the last five seasons. From my first start for the Legion in S87 to our first playoff game in S90 and the thrilling series win against Vancouver to the crushing defeat at the hands of Los Angeles. Knowing of all the adversity we faced this season, the struggle to get back into the playoffs but just having that confidence in one another and using the lessons learned the last few seasons to march through each series and finally finish our comeback in Game 6 of the Final. The memory of hoisting the Cup and skating around the rink followed by my Legion brothers is bright in my mind as I accept the beautiful Kanou Trophy from the presenter.
 
Emotion welling up inside, I simply say: “Thank you. Thank you. This is a dream come true, an honor and a day I didn’t know if it would ever come but I kept working toward it anyway. Thank you to our GM Moon for assembling us together and believing in us even when the critics didn’t. Thank you to our captain, Mac Atlas, who could be up here instead of me after his incredible run and breaking the Legion single playoffs points record. Thank you to all the rest of my teammates, Jimi – you were awesome and if Mac hadn’t broken the record, you would have. Dens and Tomas, you both fought until the bitter end and now you retire as champions! Bobby and Jimmy were solid all playoffs in the back end and Burnsy came up big when needed. Our Toronto Trio of rookies, Diego, Harry, and Walter – you guys played like vets – don’t ever forget these moments. And finally, but not least, my brother in pads, Evan you helped keep me focused and loose throughout the whole playoffs. You always kept cheering us on, pushing us to be better. And not to forget, a huge thank you to our fans in Toronto and around the world who have stayed with us for the long haul and now we’ve been able to bring a Cup to TO. You guys are the best fans in the VHL and we love you all! To all the goalies I faced this season – you guys made me push myself to be the best I could be. I look forward to facing you next season.”
 
I turn shake a few hands then grab the trophy and lift it to a round of applause. As I make my way backstage, the announcer says, “This is Joel Castle’s first Kanou trophy and the first individual trophy of his career.”
 
The rest of the night is honestly a blur. There are pictures, more hugs and handshakes, poses and parties. But I can’t stop thinking about the trophy shining in the lights and what it means. Now, I have to be ready even more for next season. We are the defending champs and everyone in the VHL will be gunning for us. And it’s a great feeling. I’m ready for it.
 
 

Good evening all, pulling a real NHL here by dropping some news on you guys on a Friday night.
 
After some conversations over the past few days, @Gaming Ringleader has elected to step down as GM of the Oslo Storm, effective immediately. I want to extend our sincerest gratitude to Gaming for his time with both the Storm and the Iron Eagles and for piloting the two franchises through a tumultuous part of VHLE history. I don't believe he's going anywhere in the grand scheme of things, so I look forward to seeing what he does next!
 
With the timing of this being awkward and the team needing a direction going into the season ASAP, we did not post for the role and instead asked around for someone I already knew was interested. He should be a familiar face to you all!

 
 
 
You may notice the second half of the title and a conspicuously missing job posting. I ran through this off-season (mostly) solo with some help from Thad and commissioners in the other leagues. Since the league has dropped to 6 teams, I can comfortably manage that ratio (GMs only outnumber me 6 to 1!) so for at least the next season or two, I will be at the helm alone. Sorry to disappoint those of you out there who I know were aching for a leadership opportunity!

Back when I was tryharding sigs, I learned a lot of techniques about how to improve lighting, such as using the original image to find light sources and adding outlines of light to the render. However, in my opinion, those and a lot of other strats aren't really that necessary. I think it's really cool to get realistic lighting if you're on a massive canvas, i.e. a poster, but for a 400x200 or whatever size graphic, smaller details don't hold the same weight. You still can go crazy if you want to get some good results and DM me if you need help taking that step, but I'll just be focusing on the basic stuff that I pretty much do for every sig.
 
(I'm using Photoshop but go to photopea.com for the same tools)
 

 
I got a sig started and I think it's time to add some lighting. I picked a pretty basic background just for the purpose of this.
 
Tip #1 - Use your background
 
Duplicate the background layer (ctrl + j) and move it above the render. Change the blend mode of the new layer (drop-down box on the right that currently reads "Normal") to something that will accentuate the lighter parts. I typically go Lighten or Screen but you could fuck around and go Color Dodge or something else. On that layer, hit the Japan flag button (bottom right) to layer mask, make sure black is your main color on the palette, and do alt + backspace to completely fill the mask layer. That duplicate layer should be invisible now.
 

 
Switch the main color to white, grab your brush tool and put it at 0% hardness and 200-300 px give or take. I change my brush size frequently during this - a lot bigger for a big light source or smaller for specific details. To quickly alter your brush: ctrl + alt + right click and drag. Drag left to increase size, right to decrease, up to increase hardness, down to decrease. With your brush, you'll want to click (not drag) at certain spots around the render to brighten it. You kinda just play it by vibes, but I tend to lighten areas where one part of the render meets the other. For instance, where the shoulder and helmet meet, or where the torso and bottom of the sig meet.
 

 
You can change the opacity of the brush/layer to give it more or less boldness. I would probably spend more time touching it up and experimenting, but for the sake of the tutorial this looks fine. 
 
Tip #2 - Overhead lighting
 
In most cases, you'll want to add some sort of lighting coming from above the head of the render. It draws attention to where you want the viewer to look and it just looks more natural to me. You'll want to make a new layer (plus button in bottom right) and drag it above the render. Get the brush tool again at 0% hardness and roughly the same size (maybe a bit smaller). For the color, I'm probably half and half on using plain white or using a color from the background, it depends on the situation and how you're feeling. Either way, position the brush so that the majority of the brush circle is in that dark gray outside of the canvas - you don't want too much bright light on the face, and click once or a few times.
 

 
I did a bit of everything - a bit of orange and blue on the respective sides of the helmet then some white coming in from the top. The effect isn't too profound, but it works. I do this exact overhead lighting in like 90% of my sigs.
 
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There you have it, hopefully this helps your future endeavors. I'm gonna be using this graphic as TPE too, so here's a before/after:
 
Start

 
Lighting

 
Finish

 
lmk what else you want to see in a tutorial

Graphic Credit @v.2
 
Geneva, a team that made a brief impact on the Victory Hockey League as a whole, helping to develop players such as The Board Game Clue on Skates, Ronan Lavelle, Kronchy Kardashian, and Leonard Triller! However after only Nine Short Seasons in the VHLE the Geneva Rush pages in the history books ended, after having some interesting pieces of history! With the World Juniors taking place in Geneva, it only makes sense to revisit Geneva’s history!
 
Season 81 (The Mickey Season )
The Chapter of VHLE History Starts here, after the Yukon Rush folded in the VHLM, the rights to the name were given to Mickey Dickson (First GM of the Rush). Fresh from a career with Halifax, Mickey had the choice of where to place the new franchise, and Geneva was the final choice. In an interview with Mickey about being chosen as the first general manager of the new franchise they had this to say “There was a lot of excitement to get to build a team from the ground up. Including picking where the team was actually going to be located. It was an exciting time.” But like most things the excitement didn’t last long, the issue commonly seen in the VHLE struck again. Lack of real locker room activity, and missing communications; lead to a rough time for Mickey.  The Rush would fail to make playoffs, and history would be made in the following weeks, something the league has only ever seen once, and most likely never again.
 
Mickey Dickson would make the move back to Halifax with Nathaniel Minion (at the time GM of Halifax) taking over as the GM of the Rush, the only GM trade in league history. When asked about the trade Mickey explained in fantastic and clear details on why it happened, “The E and M GMing wise are very different in goals and what makes a good general manager. The roles and responsibilities of a minor league general manager were much more aligned and were more exciting to me than those of the European league. It was a learning experience of what place fit my wants as a general manager and where I best fit in a general manager role.”
 
When asked about the new opportunity, Nathaniel made the following statement, “I was excited, and glad to face a new challenge, sadly family life meant it wasn’t to be, I went away for a while, but Geneva was a fantastic experience and one I’m glad I took!
 
Season 82 ( The Minion Season)
With excitement Nathaniel took off in the draft, bringing in the likes of Miervaldis Arpa, Ronan Lavelle, and Milan Dvorak. Geneva would later acquire The Board Game Clue on Skates. With no regard for the future of the franchise Nathaniel built a team to win that season. Just to fail to make the playoffs, after a fantastic season by the rush who just needed better goaltending. Ronan Lavelle would set the standard for a MVP season, winning the trophy that is now named after the legendary member of the rush, The #13 would also be raised to the rafters in Ronan’s Honour, a truly fantastic team legend. 
 
Nathaniel would never own up to anything more as GM of the Rush, he would step down as GM after that season due to a family emergency and never return to Geneva, ending his reign of terror, and destruction of the team’s future.
 
Season 83-85 ( The Pearce Era)
Season 83, Time for another change in Geneva's office, this time it wouldn’t only be for one season. Cole Pearce took control of geneva in the offseason, and would get star player Brain Kowalski, playing alongside Eldon Escobar, the team would again miss the playoffs, but Cole wouldn’t let that be the end of the season story, he would trade and acquire two second round picks for the season 84 draft hoping to bring Geneva to their first playoff trip in team history as soon as possible, with nothing more eventful happening this season, Eldon Escobar would win the Aldwin Craig Trophy bringing some extra success to Geneva 
 
Season 84, The pattern wasn’ broken yet. Geneva is struggling to make any form of history, beside missing the playoff season after season. After drafting Clueless Wallob, Cole Caufield Jr, and Doug Britton with the top three picks, who played fantastically in the VHLE while they were there in their own respective ways. After the season all the players mentioned would be called up to the VHL, ending a brief appearance in the VHLE and Eldon Escobar signed with Stockholm; Sending Geneva back to square one.
 
Season 85, four points. Four points, the closest to the postseason Geneva has been so far.The only two notable players this season were Sebastien Dokis who despite his best effort couldn’t bring the team to the playoffs, and Karl Pedersen who played fantastic in net for the team, leading the effort and giving Geneva a chance. After not making the playoffs, Cole Pearce would be hired by the VHL to be the next general manager of Warsaw, ending the Pearce era in Geneva!
 
Season 86-88 (The Jordan Era)
Season 86, welcome to Geneva Jordan Tonn your next Rush GM! He showed us Geneva’s worst season in team history, only 32 points. Led by Ash Sparks, the team’s regular season reflected the two players on the roster that were not bots. However the season had one positive for the team’s future, with the 8th overall pick on the S86 draft Geneva Drafted Leonard Triller, Jordan would acquire some fantastic picks and give the team a chance for a future in the league.
 
Season 87, this season would be a historic one for the rush, as Geneva would make the playoffs. After having three first round picks in the draft (Yaroslav Trunov(never played for Geneva), Jack Jeckler, and Kronchy Kardashian). Jean Mercier led the way in net for Geneva’s first Playoff run. In the Playoffs Geneva would beat The Vasteras Iron Eagles in the wild card round 2-0, but would fall short in the semi-finals to the eventual champions the Cologne Express in five games. In the offseasons Jack Jeckler was traded to the Oslo Storm. Jordan set history as the first GM to bring Geneva to the playoffs, hardware won by this team included Orion D H Chiester IX Trophy won by Jean Mercier, Jake Thunder Trophy by Kronchy Kardashian, and Aldwin Craig Trophy by Leonard Triller!
 
Season 88, Jordan set more history, drafting Merome Dilson, Jasper Davis, and Nils Andersson Geneva was looking to make a deep run this season, after winning the Kings cup for the most points in a season (99pts). Geneva would make playoffs again but lost to Rome in round one of the playoffs in six games, ending the Jordan Era, and marking Jordan Tonn as the best GM in rush history, two players would also bring home hardware Merome Dilson with the Orion D H Chiester IX Trophy and Jasper Davis with the Ronan Lavelle Trophy.
 
Season 89 (Zetterberg Tour)
Season 89, Geneva had one more shot. They chased the cup for the final time, the future of this team was thrown to the dust, everything was to acquire a cup, under the leadership of new appointed GM Tyler Zetterberg, Drafting Zyn Westwood and trading for Nagy AL,and Fradin McGryer, Tyler has Geneva in a place to make a cup run, making the playoff second seeded, Geneva would lose to Express in five games once again. Ending the team's history as a team in the VHLE. After never really doing much as a team, The Geneva Rush joined their predecessor team the Yukon Rush in the VHL history Books.
Disbanding
Before I go into details about why Geneva was selected to disband, we talk about why they became a team in the first place, Covid bought the world to a halt, making more people than ever feel the need to join the VHL, this massive influx of players made VHLM Teams overflow with players would never intended to play in the league long term, it was too much for the VHLM and VHL to handle, so the land of inactive players was formed, the VHLE was a development league built with a self destruct button so if the players being created in the league reduced the league could fold without too many problems.
 
Geneva was one of two teams selected to meet this fate first, Rooster size was at a low, and teams really needed a boost in player activity. The number of active players per team was barely enough for a whole starting lineup, something had to change. The VHLE made the call to disband two franchises, said by the E commissioner himself Enorama stated “There was never going to be a correct pick as every team had a history and people who were attached. Geneva fell victim because their branding never really fit and out of the two "expansion" teams with limited history, they were by far the worse performing one.” 
 
Geneva’s downfall can be found within the retelling of their history, the team never stood out, a weak playoff team that took seasons to get there, and when numbers were lost, Geneva fell to an uneasy fate. A fate that the VHLE could be facing as a whole depending on the numbers of the league in the next few seasons.
 
 

Great idea everyone

Wayne Shotzky has accepted a Signing Offer from Toronto:

S92: $1,500,000

S93: $1,500,000

S94: $1,500,000

And i thought Wayne's office was behind the net...

Wayne Gretzky was born to a couple of people who were far too happy to be in each other’s company at some point in 1961 and it was clear from the moment that he was born, this child was going to be special. However regarding what he would be special at, it wasn’t clear at all. Three years post birth, a time period which interestingly also saw Wayne Gretzky improve from 0 years old to 3 years old in the same time-frame, Gretzky had already emerged as one of the top Jenga players in the world, participating on the international stage representing Canada in the World Jenga Games. Ultimately, their first tournament appearance was considered a colossal failure, going out in the opening round of the tournament and left Wayne Gretzky utterly shaken to the point where, had he been familiar with the term “Fuck This Shit” at this age, he undoubtedly would have said that.
 
However, this moment of darkness in this young child’s life still led them towards the light. As is common practice amongst many organizations, hockey scouts were on hand at the World Jenga Games to try to lure potential stars away from the much more prominent Jenga scene with the promises of riches in the National Hockey League. Wayne Gretzky, who initially said of hockey in the lead-up to the World Jenga Games “It’s a fake sport for lame people”, had a change of mind after having his soul wrenched from his young heart at the tournament and decided to enter the 1965 NHL Draft at 4 years old and went on to be the first overall pick in that draft due to lack of players in the draft along with the insane potential that Wayne Gretzky possessed.
 
The team Wayne Gretzky went to in the draft was the Edmonton Oilers, who absolutely existed in 1965, and he played hockey with them for all of the next 35 years without the Oilers even having a single consideration for trading Wayne Gretzky as they knew full well that Wayne Gretzky was the best hockey player of all time from the moment he first stepped onto the ice for the team at 5 years old. I could go into every single accolade that Gretzky earned as a member of the Oilers, but that would wind up having this article go on for 3000 words and I only need 800, so to break it down more, he was pretty fucking phenomenal, winning every award possible and every Stanley Cup to the point where, in 1999, the NHL had to do the previously unthinkable and ask Wayne Gretzky to step away from the league. The reason for this was simple, the 1999 NHL season consisted of only two teams because every other team left the league because of how good Wayne Gretzky was with the Oilers and how singularly dominant the Oilers had become. That other team in the league in 1999 was the Los Angeles Kings, who in a last gasp effort to keep Gretzky in the league offered Wayne Gretzky the presidency of Canada and the United States combined to move to the Kings. However, Gretzky refused, bluntly stating “The Kings are a garbage franchise, I’ll never play for them, not a fucking chance”. This denial of a move to the Kings ultimately meant that Wayne Gretzky had to leave the league and, basically, the hockey world.
 
So what did he do in between 1999 and entering the VHL in 2099 (canonically)? Well, first of, we should probably address the fact that Wayne Gretzky should be dead at this point right? I mean he’s well over 100 years old, what is he still doing here, let alone lacing up skates for one more go in the VHL? Well, that is a very simple case of Wayne Gretzky finding the Obsidian Life-Giving Amulet on a hiking excursion in Peru. This amulet gave Wayne Gretzky immortality and the ability to stay at his current age, so long as he held the Life-Giving Amulet, which it is vastly important to point out was Obsidian in both colour and material. This led to several previously impossible feats being made possible by the now-immortal Wayne Gretzky; in 2030, he became the first man to hike directly to the Moon. In 2042, Wayne Gretzky set up residence in the core of the Earth and subsequently introduced the human race to the gnomes who dwelled in the core. In 2060, Gretzky improved upon his original trip and became the first man to swim to the Moon. However despite all of this, his desire to continue to play hockey was still there and, in 2099, Wayne Gretzky made the most heroic return of all time and entered into the Season 92 VHL Draft.
 
 Everyone was incredibly excited, and then Wayne Gretzky broke his everything. And then everyone was sad. But he recovered, albeit after 42 more broken everythings, and is now ready to take over the hockey world once more!

So untrue rory smh I thought you were TAPPED IN.  Forums and MSN messenger were POPPIN’ when this league started.  And it stayed that way for quite some time (well msn popularity transferred to Facebook lol)

When I first joined here, three players ago, the M was an amazing experience. I was an inaugural Marauder and our plucky team of upstarts managed to upset the top seed. It was a great time. 
 
Now, the M is in bad shape. I just spent a season on a team with two active players and one inactive. I know other teams were in the same boat. This is really bad for new recruit retention. The M used to be our best foot forward where people got hooked and learned the ropes or ramped up their recreate. Now, it's littered with short benches and bots, unless you happen to be on one of the few loaded teams. When you can rule out nearly every team from contention by mid-season, that's a bad situation. 
 
What is the root of this problem? This is my theory. 
 
Recruitment was doing well leading into COVID. Then the pandemic hit. Suddenly, everyone was spending a lot more time on the internet. This had the effect of driving two demographics of users to the league. 
 
The first consisted of people who would have been involved in the league if they'd heard of it before, and were now hearing about the league because of their increased internet time. I'm going to call this group “Typical Users.”
 
The second group consisted of people who would not usually have the time or not usually be interested in sim leagues, but suddenly had a glut of internet time, be it due to working from home, being laid off or having fewer social obligations due to the pandemic (or all of the above). The majority of these users were unlikely to remain when their leisure time became more scarce. I'm sure some became Typical Users, but the majority fell off and became at most clickers, more likely inactive. I'm going to call this group “Tourists,” perhaps uncharitably.
 
You're probably not surprised to hear me say that the Tourists present a problem for the BoG. What might surprise you is that they both do. The downstream effects of both these groups have presented a serious challenge for league planning. 
 
The Tourists are challenging because the league didn't know they were Tourists when they joined. Heck, a lot of the Tourists probably don't know that, either. They were impossible to differentiate from Typical Users until the pandemic petered out and its effects on their leisure time and behavior were gone. 
 
So, how did the BoG work around this group? As best as they could. I was obviously not privy to their conversations, but I'd bet they identified this demographic and did their best to accommodate them. The challenging part was making accommodations that could be adjusted to the departure of the Tourists. 
 
The Typical User influx presented another challenge. Like the Tourists, they needed accommodation. Unlike the Tourists, they would be around for longer. 
 
I think it's safe to say that the arrival of both of these groups was at the root of the decision to create the VHLE. The E had two major advantages for accommodating a growth spurt of new users. First, it swiftly opened lineup positions for low TPE players. Second, it was a delaying tactic that meant that new users going inactive would be more likely to do so in a developmental league, where their players were useful, rather than up on the big league, where they would cause great consternation to GMs.
 
For the situation at the time, the move made a lot of sense. I personally disagreed with the decision, but I understood why it was the route that was chosen. Then, two things changed, one expected, one unexpected. The first was that the Tourists went back home from their vacation. Though expected, as I noted before, it was way beyond the means of a sim league to accurately measure just how many of the new users were Tourists, so the drop off may have been larger than expected. 
 
Remember that I referenced an unexpected effect of the influx of Typical Users? Here's where that comes into play. The thing about Typical Users is that accelerating their recruitment left fewer of them in the population that our recruitment tactics were reaching. Let me bore you with some math for a moment. 
 
P(t) is the population getting exposed to recruitment media. t is the time period. 
 
r is the percentage of P(t) that joins the league. 
 
g is the growth rate of P(t)
 
P(t) = P(t-1)-(rP(t-1))+(gP(t-1))
 
Necessarily, unless g>r, P(t-1)>P(t). I think g<r.
 
If t is now and t-1 was during the pandemic, then we are trying to recruit from a diminished population, because we've already recruited those users. 
 
I think this is at the core of the league's growth problem. If I'm right, discussions about new approaches to recruitment could be fruitful. 
 
However, with the current reduced recruit intake, retention has become even more essential. This brings us back to the VHLM - and to the VHLE.
 
While our development league situation adjusted to the pandemic recruitment boom, it has not adjusted to the echo. There was a contraction in the E, but as it stands, we have two leagues for as many players as would make for one slightly overfull league. The result is that both developmental leagues are struggling to ice enough players to have competitive teams. GMs are frustrated and attrition is up, for both them and for players. 
 
I have a few policy prescriptions that I think could help to counteract this problem, which is ultimately a numbers problem. 
 
1.  Disband the VHLE. I know some have been calling for this from the beginning, but this is not simply an opportunistic moment to drive in my dagger. Rather, I am recognizing that the E served its purpose for its time, but now that time and purpose are gone. Again, this is a numbers problem and we only have the players we have. I know there is trepidation in the league about teams having to ice a third line, but I think the player experience in the M would be far superior if players had slightly reduced ice time but greatly increased competition. As the old sports adage goes, “winning fixes everything,” and right now a lot of teams are never winning. 
 
2.  Raise the VHLM TPE cap by 50 per non-waiver season in the league. I know this is another touchy subject, but if players are going to be in the M for longer, and they will, they need something to work for. Banking doesn't have the same appeal as updating (not for most, anyways). I know there will be concerns about the TPA disparity, but we have significantly larger disparities in the VHL, and that seems to be fine. By tying the cap to the seasons accrued, we also offer some reward to players who end up spending more time in the VHLM. 
 
3.  Fix the waiver crisis in the M. Maybe crisis is a strong word. However, since waiver players began choosing their own destination, they've been king makers in the VHLM. I know the intention is to give players the freedom to play where they want, with their buddies and on their favorite teams. That's laudable. The unfortunate result is that the dearth of active players in the M allows a team full of waivers to skate circles around their bot-ridden opponents. Many GMs are essentially helpless, having nothing but a couple draft picks per season to build their team, leaving them with as few as three roster players. There needs to be a waiver player number cap, or a system that prevents any team from adding more waivers while they have more than another. 
 
I know these sorts of grand sweeping changes can sound pretty rich coming from someone who is ultimately a petty casual user. I also recognize that I don't have the hard data to back this up. I don't know if anyone does, but I think the thought process behind it is sound. 
 
 

I'm probably biased and not everyone might gravitate toward this but with S100 coming up, I would like to see (and perhaps spearhead) some more gathering and presentations (graphics, etc) of the league's statistical history whether it be more team-related (Top 10 stats per team, etc.) or what have you. I realize @Victor is God in the history realm but he is but one being and there are many possibilities (I love you, Victor). Also, I think adding more (accurate) history to the portal like the Retired jerseys would be great. VSN is planning some 100-related stories and I continue to work on the All-Decade Teams but (time-permitting), there is so much more we can do to make VHL's rich history more interesting and accessible.

Scotty on MSN kept me in the league so you all have him and MSN to thank (or maybe blame) for that…

So untrue rory smh I thought you were TAPPED IN.  Forums and MSN messenger were POPPIN’ when this league started.  And it stayed that way for quite some time (well msn popularity transferred to Facebook lol)

It looks like you didn’t do round 1 which is where you pick the cup winner

I believe our plan of attack for that, though it hasn’t happened, was to get it onto the player updating page somewhere so that it would automatically check off the stuff you’ve already claimed for the week and grey out the stuff that’s unavailable. For example if you claim welfare it would grey out the PT and vice versa.
 
We do need more portal devs though so there’s another one from me: a larger portal dev team.

Let me be more specific. Make a list that literally says :
 
WEEKLY TASKS TO DO
•Point Task
•Supplemental Tasks
•Practice Facility
•etc…
 
Once a member submits that task it gets checked off and moved to the bottom. This obviously requires somebody to set all this up on the portal/forum. Bek said before it shouldn’t be a hard task to do AND why do I have to click three things to find a TPE calculator when I could instead just look at a weekly checklist on my home page. 
 
Just a suggestion, I find it way easier to know what I’m doing if I have it listed out in front of me and it seems very new user friendly. Also not everyone has discord so you can’t expect people to check discord when our league is a forum league.

I meant put it on the forum home page somewhere so you can actually find it the first day you join 🤣 I love this from Mubbles though

Add in a TPE checklist so noobs can see what tasks they can do each week!!!

The portal still needs to be updated to show the correct depreciation numbers. TPA tool is outdated with old numbers, and the player store descriptions are also outdated and wrong, causing this sort of confusion. % fighters drop you down a full depreciation tier, it's not a 5->4% drop like it was before.
 
That'd probably be my contribution to this thread for now, that we get depreciation numbers fixed on the portal since it's been wrong for a long time.

Possibly the most important award we will discuss this evening, the Fredrik Elmebeck Memorial Trophy is sometimes referred to as the ‘top member award’ as it is awarded to the member that goes above and beyond each season to make the league a better place for everyone involved. This season we had 4 nominees;
 
@Gaikoku-hito - VSN, engagement with league, AGM, helpful and friendly
@Jason kranz - fantasy zone, active around various Discords, AGM, helpful and friendly
@Subject056 - face of recruitment, good work there
@Zetterberg - recruitment/retention efforts with individuals, GM
 
 
The winner of this season’s Fredrik Elmebeck Memorial Trophy is…