twists

Hi everyone, 
 
This wasn't a easy decision, but @N0HBDY, @jacobcarson877, and I didn't really have another choice. Due to the lack of players in the draft classes we have made the difficult decision to cancel the S91 JST. We hope that the JST can return in S92, with a hopeful increase in any amount of recruitment. Thank you to everyone who has played a role in the JST over the seasons, we'll see you all in S92.

1. Well the Red Wings have Patrick Kane now...so that's weird as hell
2. I don't know I haven't paid any attention to the M or its players lol
3. Well, I had a great season for how average my player is. 55 points is great for my d man
4. Holiday season baby! Christmas decorations are going up this weekend (I'm late but was on vacation all of Thanksgiving)
5. yes, hes the best loser
6. $ucideboy$ 

I will tell every member of the VHL that has been active in the past week that I love them live on stream. I don't know how anyone could turn this down

I will tell every member of the VHL that has been active in the past week that I love them live on stream. I don't know how anyone could turn this down

like last year I'll offer an (ugly) graphic made with only microsoft paint and I am very much not an artist.

Jason why didn't you give me the job smh

@Moon

week 3 claim tehe >.< uwu

@Moon

Player Information
Username: a_Ferk
Player Name: Chuck E Cheese
Recruited From: Returning
Age: 50
Position: D
Height: 70 in.
Weight: 160 lbs.
Birthplace: United States of America

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1. I did, I ate at Veselka in NYC (an extremely authentic Ukrainian restaurant). Absolute goat place to eat
2. Dude I bought so much shit I don't want to talk about it, but everyone's christmas presents are taken care of
3. I love losing its actually the best thing ever
4. Yeah, that Spart's mom isn't #1
5. I wish I could tell you that, but Spartan refuses to tell me what I should invest my TPE into
6. MAX VERSTAPPEN

I think anyone of the charities that try to help kids has my vote. Yes, the world is a shit hole atm but every nation is sending stuff to those regions. I hope our sick kids get some love in a time of the year when they should have hope and happiness. 

Coming into his office this morning, the Ottawa Lynx GM notices that there’s a message on his answering machine, from a 495 number. He listens to it, and surprisingly, it was from Vladimir Putin. The message was short, basically praising the GM for the job he’s done with the minor league team, putting up great numbers in a relatively short amount of time, complimenting the roster makeup, and so on. Then he segways into his displeasure with the current standings of the Moscow Menace, the VHL team that’s basically in his backyard. Overall, he is very upset at the path @Spartan is taking, and believes, while the team cannot always be the best, that the team should never be the worst in the league.
 
“It is an embarrassment to all of Russia, and needs to be remedied!”

Putin goes on to allude that a shift in management may be occurring for the Menace, albeit not voluntarily. He advises the Ottawa GM to have his bags packed and be ready for any sudden movement in the GM world, and that a spot in the big leagues may be opening up soon.

All this comes after @twists' article about Moscow being the worst team ever, and could mean that Spartan may be out the door very soon. Ottawa has been known to make big moves when going in for a push, and with all the assets Moscow has, that might be what’s needed to get the Menace out of the basement.

I have been trying to figure out why Moscow has been so bad this season and I think I have finally figured out why. @Spartan is our GM. There’s no worse GM in the entire VHL than him. Has he ever won a cup? Of course not. He’s had the best teams that the VHL has ever seen and he can’t even win a continental cup? Who is this guy. Even I, the reigning inactive champion, have a cup. The Victator brought many wins to Moscow, but Spartan threw all of those in the toilet when he took over. There’s only one true GM that should be overseeing Moscow, and that is @Grape. He might actually bring us some wins. My sources tell me that Putin has lost all faith in Spartan, meaning his life expectancy is probably about 4 more days. Why the blues continue to allow this abomination of a GM to continue working in the VHL is beyond me. Something has to give at this point. Even @Steve our AGM has been complaining about our losses. I humbly ask @Beketov to remove Spartan as a GM and to install Grape in his place.
 
Thank you for listening to my Ted talk and I hope you all learned that Spartan is the worst GM ever. K thanks baiiiii

Some bits stand out as particularly true.

I have been trying to figure out why Moscow has been so bad this season and I think I have finally figured out why. @Spartan is our GM. There’s no worse GM in the entire VHL than him. Has he ever won a cup? Of course not. He’s had the best teams that the VHL has ever seen and he can’t even win a continental cup? Who is this guy. Even I, the reigning inactive champion, have a cup. The Victator brought many wins to Moscow, but Spartan threw all of those in the toilet when he took over. There’s only one true GM that should be overseeing Moscow, and that is @Grape. He might actually bring us some wins. My sources tell me that Putin has lost all faith in Spartan, meaning his life expectancy is probably about 4 more days. Why the blues continue to allow this abomination of a GM to continue working in the VHL is beyond me. Something has to give at this point. Even @Steve our AGM has been complaining about our losses. I humbly ask @Beketov to remove Spartan as a GM and to install Grape in his place.
 
Thank you for listening to my Ted talk and I hope you all learned that Spartan is the worst GM ever. K thanks baiiiii

I have been trying to figure out why Moscow has been so bad this season and I think I have finally figured out why. @Spartan is our GM. There’s no worse GM in the entire VHL than him. Has he ever won a cup? Of course not. He’s had the best teams that the VHL has ever seen and he can’t even win a continental cup? Who is this guy. Even I, the reigning inactive champion, have a cup. The Victator brought many wins to Moscow, but Spartan threw all of those in the toilet when he took over. There’s only one true GM that should be overseeing Moscow, and that is @Grape. He might actually bring us some wins. My sources tell me that Putin has lost all faith in Spartan, meaning his life expectancy is probably about 4 more days. Why the blues continue to allow this abomination of a GM to continue working in the VHL is beyond me. Something has to give at this point. Even @Steve our AGM has been complaining about our losses. I humbly ask @Beketov to remove Spartan as a GM and to install Grape in his place.
 
Thank you for listening to my Ted talk and I hope you all learned that Spartan is the worst GM ever. K thanks baiiiii

I have been trying to figure out why Moscow has been so bad this season and I think I have finally figured out why. @Spartan is our GM. There’s no worse GM in the entire VHL than him. Has he ever won a cup? Of course not. He’s had the best teams that the VHL has ever seen and he can’t even win a continental cup? Who is this guy. Even I, the reigning inactive champion, have a cup. The Victator brought many wins to Moscow, but Spartan threw all of those in the toilet when he took over. There’s only one true GM that should be overseeing Moscow, and that is @Grape. He might actually bring us some wins. My sources tell me that Putin has lost all faith in Spartan, meaning his life expectancy is probably about 4 more days. Why the blues continue to allow this abomination of a GM to continue working in the VHL is beyond me. Something has to give at this point. Even @Steve our AGM has been complaining about our losses. I humbly ask @Beketov to remove Spartan as a GM and to install Grape in his place.
 
Thank you for listening to my Ted talk and I hope you all learned that Spartan is the worst GM ever. K thanks baiiiii

I have been trying to figure out why Moscow has been so bad this season and I think I have finally figured out why. @Spartan is our GM. There’s no worse GM in the entire VHL than him. Has he ever won a cup? Of course not. He’s had the best teams that the VHL has ever seen and he can’t even win a continental cup? Who is this guy. Even I, the reigning inactive champion, have a cup. The Victator brought many wins to Moscow, but Spartan threw all of those in the toilet when he took over. There’s only one true GM that should be overseeing Moscow, and that is @Grape. He might actually bring us some wins. My sources tell me that Putin has lost all faith in Spartan, meaning his life expectancy is probably about 4 more days. Why the blues continue to allow this abomination of a GM to continue working in the VHL is beyond me. Something has to give at this point. Even @Steve our AGM has been complaining about our losses. I humbly ask @Beketov to remove Spartan as a GM and to install Grape in his place.
 
Thank you for listening to my Ted talk and I hope you all learned that Spartan is the worst GM ever. K thanks baiiiii

I asked ChatGPT to fix our recruitment issues and this is what I got

Preface: I am not copy pasting an article that ChatGPT wrote here, I am instead going to cover the actual good ideas it suggested to help recruiting.
 
1. Engaging Social Media Presence:
This will not come as a shock, but in this section ChatGPT discussed much of what Z suggested in his original post. The only thing it brought up that I hadn't thought of was sharing "behind-the-scenes" activities on social media. It would actually be super interesting to hear a teams war room audio (even if only 30 second bytes) before a draft, or a funny screenshot from the blues discord, etc.
 
2. Interactive Website and Forums:
This section described what we already have, a forum that allows players to interact, encourage engagement, etc. It did suggest one thing that gave me pause though. It suggested a mentor program for newer members that would help them stay active. I thought this was a great idea, but I'm not sure on the feasibility of enacting it. I don't think it would have to last more than a week or two, but even for a newbie to have someone they can turn to when they don't know what to do would be nice. This is kinda the VHLM GM job, but maybe a more solid one-to-one program would be more effective.
 
3. Promotional Events and Tournaments:
This section basically described our world cup and world junior cup tournaments. This is a hot take, but if we incentivized those further with some TPE for the winners they would be dramatically more effective at keeping people engaged in the offseason. Another idea would be to introduce forum-related rewards such as an exclusive title for winning a championship, maybe you get to pick your username color for a month, etc. There's a bunch of small things that we could add in terms of forum customization for users that could keep people more engaged. Allow spending player store money on forum customizations perhaps?

4. Streamer and Content Creator Collaborations:
So this was definitely an insane idea, but the gist was to make twitch drops for the VHL. We could go live on the official VHL twitch accounts and maybe giveaway TPE or some exclusive item that only the stream watchers would receive. I feel like a cool forum title is almost perfect for this. Or maybe player store money, etc. there's a lot of interesting ideas.

5. Referral Programs and Incentives:
Oh look we already have this. I think there could definitely be revamp of our current system. It's passable, which is fine, but that also means there's room for improvement. I don't have a magic idea to improve our referral program, but there's gotta be something more we can do here. We really are doing the bare minimum lol. I do realize increasing/expanding this program could increase attempts at making multis, but we do actually seem to have a good handle on that.
 
tl;dr: ChatGPT actually gave some decent recruitment ideas for the VHL and I summarized them in the points above.

I asked ChatGPT to fix our recruitment issues and this is what I got

Preface: I am not copy pasting an article that ChatGPT wrote here, I am instead going to cover the actual good ideas it suggested to help recruiting.
 
1. Engaging Social Media Presence:
This will not come as a shock, but in this section ChatGPT discussed much of what Z suggested in his original post. The only thing it brought up that I hadn't thought of was sharing "behind-the-scenes" activities on social media. It would actually be super interesting to hear a teams war room audio (even if only 30 second bytes) before a draft, or a funny screenshot from the blues discord, etc.
 
2. Interactive Website and Forums:
This section described what we already have, a forum that allows players to interact, encourage engagement, etc. It did suggest one thing that gave me pause though. It suggested a mentor program for newer members that would help them stay active. I thought this was a great idea, but I'm not sure on the feasibility of enacting it. I don't think it would have to last more than a week or two, but even for a newbie to have someone they can turn to when they don't know what to do would be nice. This is kinda the VHLM GM job, but maybe a more solid one-to-one program would be more effective.
 
3. Promotional Events and Tournaments:
This section basically described our world cup and world junior cup tournaments. This is a hot take, but if we incentivized those further with some TPE for the winners they would be dramatically more effective at keeping people engaged in the offseason. Another idea would be to introduce forum-related rewards such as an exclusive title for winning a championship, maybe you get to pick your username color for a month, etc. There's a bunch of small things that we could add in terms of forum customization for users that could keep people more engaged. Allow spending player store money on forum customizations perhaps?

4. Streamer and Content Creator Collaborations:
So this was definitely an insane idea, but the gist was to make twitch drops for the VHL. We could go live on the official VHL twitch accounts and maybe giveaway TPE or some exclusive item that only the stream watchers would receive. I feel like a cool forum title is almost perfect for this. Or maybe player store money, etc. there's a lot of interesting ideas.

5. Referral Programs and Incentives:
Oh look we already have this. I think there could definitely be revamp of our current system. It's passable, which is fine, but that also means there's room for improvement. I don't have a magic idea to improve our referral program, but there's gotta be something more we can do here. We really are doing the bare minimum lol. I do realize increasing/expanding this program could increase attempts at making multis, but we do actually seem to have a good handle on that.
 
tl;dr: ChatGPT actually gave some decent recruitment ideas for the VHL and I summarized them in the points above.

I also don't have friends and demand to be given more TPE for my lack of friends!

Honestly, she'd probably join if I asked her. Idk if I want this to be and "us" thing or just a "me" thing though

Okay that's asking too much

So I'm reading that we need to make the TMB LoL tournament a VHL sponsored event
 
@Enorama make it happen