Shindigs

I think Orange needs a friend rn.

It truly does. It's a bit sad that most of their kin predated the invention of Clue Glue™. In fact that's probably why they went extinct.

I'd count the number of F bombs. But my math's a bit to rusty to do that high. Good listen though, hopefully this gets us some more of those scouting interviews. Even if the GMs don't necessarily find them the most useful in all cases, they also serve some purpose as a retention thing. It's nice to feel wanted y'know? So if you get approached by a VHL GM partway through your first season, showing that they have some interest in your player. That's pretty good for motivation. I mostly see this as a roundabout way of asking if you intend to be a lifer for your draft team, without straight up asking. An attempt at a non-leading question where you still hope for a certain answer. Though some teams have both questions, so that's clearly not always the case.

Not to mention the raptor's ability to have mod powers. That's a competitive advantage right there!

In this podcast: Spartan tells us that clickers aren't real people. (I mean to be fair a lot of them are multis, so not entirely untrue) There are "competitive" games where you are allowed to use multiple accounts. It's usually in MMOs, sure. But the fact that exceptions do exist means you can't assume that everyone will just "know" that it's not allowed. Agree that the multi rules need to be more clearly defined. Right now you have quite a lot of undefined cases. Which leads to a lot of confusion. I've had people be legitimately worried because their friend registered their account at their house, and wondering if that will get them in trouble. That can't possibly be against the rules, as doing that is literally in the best interest of the league, right? When a rule causes this much confusion, at some point you need to start shifting at least some blame from the rule breakers to the actual way the rule is written. Not because the rule breakers don't deserve blame, but because it needs to change to avoid history repeating itself. Figuring out who is right is pointless. Figuring out how to get the right result is what matters, and the current iteration of the rule is not getting the right result. There was even more to the messed up pity farming of Kachur/Horcrux too. But since it's the only thing people have felt was too dark to leak, I guess I won't talk about it either.

I mean they are really just jealous at that point.

Yeah for sure, the gap is the thing there. Any and all players from a VHL standpoint were far enough away that there is room to adapt to what happened. I personally see the loss impacting the M the most in the short-term (duh), the E in the mid-term and the VHL basically not being impacted in a measurable way. So maybe no VHL draft compensation, just E? Hard to say, honestly. So it's all about fair returns based on that. The easiest being to literally just award you an extra pick in the round you "lost" a pick from next draft. Sort of like how the "expansion teams" in the E draft got double picks. Clearly there is precedence for adding picks along that line, so it doesn't seem like something that's unthinkable to the league. Would say that a team probably shouldn't be able to be awarded and extra 1st though, even if they did lost a 1st to a multi. I haven't gone into the weeds enough to know if that case even happened. But giving out extra 1st round picks seems like a bad precedence to set, in general. But a 2nd doesn't seem too outlandish. But at the same time if there are no compensatory picks at all, I don't think we will really look back 3+ seasons from now and go "What if". Because in the grand scheme of things, it probably doesn't matter that much. It may make a place like Oslo worse for retention in the short term, but then maybe the players they did get to keep are just LR legends and it won't matter at all?

This is likely in a pretty large part dealing with the Oslo situation, they lost their entire 2nd round to multis. That's rough. So while those players weren't in the E this year. They were very much part of the plan of how to make Oslo and actual team in S82. Currently Oslo is Nurx' player and a bunch of IAs/borderline IAs, with about half the team in/about to be in depreciation. So as much as the M is the main league for retention, the E is the next step. So if a team loses out on a significant portion of the their supposedly active drafted players (beyond what is normally expected). That means a ghost town team for at least one more season, before they can put together another roster. Since there is that inherent lag between being drafted and playing in the E, due to TPE requirements. Whereas in the M there is a semi-constant stream of players coming in even without the draft. Due to waivers. So the E is naturally a lot more reliant on the draft than the M. Which I believe is the point Nurx was making about draft picks mattering more there than in the M.

idk sam, the more velociraptors the merrier!

But how are we supposed to pretend the sims are rigged every time we lose, if your player isn't awesome?

I threw the idea at Spartan to maybe make Beketov try it too and see if it would work for poor Papa Emeritus, as he has no shutouts. The plan was not approved.

A man of culture, I see! If his people would like to reach out to #TeamClue via either Discord DMs or Forums messages, it would likely be possible to reach some kind of an agreement by early next week. Sincerely, Your friendly neighborhood drug dealer Clue Glue™ ambassador, Bo Johansson

We're proud to add the 1st overall pick in the S81 VHLM Draft Cole Pearce @N0HBDYto Team Clue! As part of the deal Mr. Pearce has had a lifetime supply of Clue Glue™ applied to just about all his equipment. Did someone say elite rebound control? I think they did! From now on there will be no question as to who killed the opposing team's offense. The answer will always be: Cole, in the crease, with a highlight-reel save!

Bruh

Sounds like a COC violation honestly. Should get him a 3 week Kale ban, that'll teach him! Give this man a raise, he deserves it! Fingers crossed they actually had that interaction, and aren't all just multis who inherently are on the same page. Crap, they ARE all multis aren't they? As always, fun read. Nice to get an insight into the future plans of Notorious B.U.T.T. I really like your writing style and the completely serious storyline and naming convention. What's the COC stance on cartoon butts though? I feel like that section was woefully inadequate in the rules.

Meanwhile at #TeamClue HQ:

Those are the best ones!

1. Mia being a multi, RIP. She was such a character, we had so many moments! 2. Janet Snakehole probably, it's just so bad. Since XxMouthCreamxX retired. 3. World of Tanks E-sport. Because he knows all about tanking at this point! 4. Honestly about as good as it can be under the circumstances. A lot of things have improved massively for me this year, both in terms of physical and mental health. 5. Very much am, things are continuing in the right direction and I can't wait to see where I'll be in 1 year. 6. It's going to turn out that we were all Beketov's multis all along. M. Night Shyamalan plot twist!

Dude, the NFL wants that back!

Nobody did that as far as I can tell.

Read: Guilt people into listening. It's super effective! Also you forgot the secret sauce! You have to talk about Horse [REDACTED] and [REDACTED] made out of frozen [REDACTED]. Which you may not want to do, but apparently it works. Something interesting would be to look at Episode 8. What caused it to have 50 listens when the others have so many more? That's the biggest question I immediately had, but that you didn't answer.

That has been known to happen. Just rub it all over the legs and it will form an exo-skeleton of sorts, really helps give that extra oomph! to your stride. Not to mention the effect on the hardness of your hip checks!

Good, Good. Nothing to see here.

Imagine being so badass you dual-wield sticks? Just madness, I tell you!

That one's easy. Just flip horizontal and you're done!