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A few of these I personally think there are better options for, even if we largely work under your existing framework: Would go Buffalo for NY's farm, rather than doubling up on the NYC metro area. Would go Portland for Seattle's farm, if Tacoma happened it would likely be the least relevant place ever used for the league other than when Minot, North Dakota had a team - yes, that was a thing. Like the option you went with in Milwaukee, proves you weren't just 100% going within state lines. Winnipeg seems a bit far from Toronto to make it work as a farm, although I'm not super up on internal Canadian stuff and that might be more reasonable than I think. If I'm right and it's weird, maybe that's where the missing Mississauga could fit. Seconding Ahma's mention of Turku, especially as we had a Turku before. Would go Glasgow for London's farm, just to cover a second "constituent country" of UK rather than double up on England. Would go Vilnius for Riga's farm, since "the Baltics" are a thing and not really Belarus. If we are working *outside* of your framework: I disagree with the idea of removing DC, and not just because I play for them (you know historically my heart is with Prague, and prior to that Calgary, so this isn't bias talking, although all credit to Frosty as I've very much enjoyed DC and couldn't have asked for a better landing spot if I was going to branch out a bit). (Coincidentally, although completely unrelated other than sharing cities/states that get a mention: the Milwaukee Lakefront is one of my expansion teams in my 40-team NHL23 save, as are the Portland Owls, and since you mentioned Alaska briefly in the M section, the Anchorage Narwhal)

Nah the disappointment already happened with another team winning and eliminating us between games 81 and 82...

7 1/2! not bad not bad

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Is that Marie Curie? Can't quite tell - looks similar enough, but not so close that it's definitely a match. If so, you definitely read up on where at least part of the name came from. In any case, the render is fantastic and the card looks great, regardless of who it's supposed to be

Lets get this cup

I care, but I am notably not a single person, so this doesn't actually prove Cow wrong. It does, however, speak to a strange target demographic - not sure why the Commie Cup would appeal more strongly to those in relationships, but I can't reasonably prove otherwise.

young whippersnappers making me actually do work. i miss the days when an old man could walk into a sim league and all the kind younger folk would help him walk out to the car with all the bags - er, do the pt and earn the points for it...

I'm super in favor of having a bunch of people represent a country that's a bit more obscure - Tynan was listed as being from Belize, for example. It just has to be a country.

Oh, and one additional rule - international teams must be countries, or groups of countries. You can't make an international team out of a non-country that is an overseas territory of a country. AKA Team "Greenland" is actually Team Denmark (or some larger place that contains Denmark, such as Europe). Having a team "Greenland" is essentially the same thing as having a team "New Caledonia" or a team "Guam" or a team "Nagorno-Karabakh" - these are not countries. EDIT: I'd actually just have the techie people add a word filter that changes the word Greenland to Denmark, similarly to the word filter for snubbed

So we as the members of the VHL have been given a challenge for Theme Week, which is to suppose we were to be given full commie powers for 1 day and state what our grand designs might be for such a thing. As someone who has been a mini commie (VHLM) for two separate runs, I have a glimpse behind the curtain, so to speak. No one, not even the bluest of blues, can unilaterally change a rule. There's so much discussion that goes on behind the scenes for nearly everything that gets rolled out as a feature (and even the things that would later turn out to be bugs) and on the rare occasion something is decided relatively unilaterally, those are often the things that end up later reversed or modified *cough no help on trivia cough* so it's just not really done that way. This, unfortunately, makes this whole exercise rather pointless. A single day of blue would enable none of us to do any of the things we'll be proposing. However, for the sake of the exercise, I have a few things I'd do (in an incredibly non-serious way). 1. We stop caring about pesky little things like "real life teams" and revert back to the Ottawa Ice Dogs. Furthermore, as an addendum, all Lynx championships, records, and accomplishments are said to have been Ice Dogs accomplishments. We use either the old logo with the cute little dog, or a new logo with an even cuter little dog. 2. We create a 4th league, full of only inactives, just in case they happen to come back. This league is called the VHLF, and is comprised of only teams in Finland. Kolari comes back. Turku comes back. Oulu, Joensuu, Espoo, Kuopio, Vantaa, Tampere, Jyvaskyla, and Rovaniemi each get teams, divided into the Vowels Conference (for the teams with more vowels than consonants: Oulu, Joensuu, Espoo, Kuopio, and Rovaniemi) and the Consonants Conference (for the teams who have at least as many consonants as vowels: Kolari, Turku, Vantaa, Tampere, and Jyvaskyla). 3. The Helsinki Titans remain in the VHL, despite now having an entire league in their country, but just for confusion's sake, the Titans would now play in Mariehamn and would be closer geographically to Sweden than Finland despite being technically still in Finland. Despite playing in Mariehamn, they would still be called the Helsinki Titans. Anyone who questions this will be asked to point out the existence of the East Rutherford Jets and/or Giants. 4. The VHL will add an entire additional conference, but this conference will be entirely in Africa. The inaugural winner of this conference will be the Abidjan Elephants, who will have a history of regular season success and underwhelming playoff experiences. This is similar to their now-defunct IHL counterparts. Their minor league franchise, the Nairobi Rhinos, will also have a team in this conference, and the Ouagadougou Kudu will be a team name simply to twist people's tongues. The other 5 African teams are free to go where they please. 519 words

i like that "online articles" were part of the first option - might balance out the two numbers a bit

Ottawa Ice Dogs. That is all.

Yes, but is Sax Justice CFO of Hank Med?

Are these still available? Sorry I know this is much later

Not entirely sure, but if I'm going to compare it to people who've already posted in this thread who joined near the time I did, I'm going like late 2010 early 2011? Later than Adv, later than Mubble's initial joining date, but earlier than his first commitment

Makes me wish I'd dropped Prague a season earlier, @Advantage deserves to be ahead of me

the irony of it being you