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Part I - Pick em' (Pick the correct winners of all three games for 1 TPE) Game 4 - Stockholm Vikings Game 5 - New York Americans Game 6 - Stockholm Vikings Part II - Predict the Score (Predict the correct score and winner of this game for 3 TPE) Game 4 - 3-2 STO Part III - Player Predictions (Predict the correct player for each category, 1 TPE for each correct answer) Series leader in points: Kohler Series leader in goals: Unassisted Series leader in assists: Kohler

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Velevra's Boring Mock Draft - Lottery Picks Well there is extra TPE for a mock draft so here is my take on how I see the lottery picks going. Below I give my obvious mock draft as well as my bizzaro mock draft with reasons why! TL:DR Realistic Draft 1. Torstein Ironside 2. Fook Yu 3. Aleksei Federov 4. Shawn Gretzky Bizzaro Draft 1. Markus King 2. Aleksei Federov 3. Takashi Fujimoto 4. Torstein Ironside 1. TORONTO LEGION : The Obvious Pick: Torstein Ironside; Dollar and a Dream takes his own player and starts off the Toronto Rebuild with his own two players leading the charge! He is able to control the Legion’s future and it thrives or fails thanks to him. The Surprise Pick: Markus King; The other top goalie on the board. Just like Ironside, King is a surefire star. Dollar and a Dream doesn’t now need to GM, and Train two players to the max TPE possible which can be tough. Instead he leaves the goaltending to King and focuses more on creating a star skater. 2. HC DAVOS DYNAMO : The Obvious Pick: Fook Yu; The Dynamo take the top ranked forward off the board. They get a solid center to build around to add to their elite goalie. They Dynamo have a long way to go, but a reliable player is a great start The Surprise Pick: Aleksei Federov; Instead of a forward the Dynamo go for a defenseman! If they have concerns that Yu might slow down in TPE gain and that they may be able to grab solid forwards in future drafts, an active member who is also a GM would be a fine pick! 3. HELSINKI TITANS : The Obvious Pick: Aleksei Federov; The Titans are lacking a good young defenseman. They have some great young forwards and an upcoming young goalie so Federov fills a need for now and in the future. The Surprise Pick: Takashi Fujimoto; Crazy right? Well maybe not, Fujimoto is the top non-recreate player available and he is earning TPE at a great rate. While other second players and recreates may slow down after the draft, Fujimoto is a bright new face to the league and is eager to make his mark. 4. RIGA REIGN : The Obvious Pick: Shawn Gretzky; Gretzky’s last player had quite the history in Riga and it would definitely make sense for him to return to Riga to help kickstart their rebuild! Gretzky is a center who will provide a great foundation to build around going forward. The Surprise Pick: Markus King or Torstein Ironside?; As mentioned earlier, King is probably the top prospect in the draft. However, the teams ahead of Riga don’t need a goalie or might opt for Ironside due to GM reasons. King has also stated he would like to not play in Riga. King no doubt has value though, could Riga take the best player available and look to trade him down the road for a King’s ransom? If King is taken first according to my bizzaro draft, then perhaps Ironside goes here instead. @Higgins

NORTH AMERICA GM 5 - New York Americans Will there be a game 6? No EUROPE GM 5 - Stockholm Vikings Will there be a game 6? Yes

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Here is my kick at the can for a suggestion. A little while ago, there was an article suggesting incremental payments for media spots (e.g. 450 words = 6 TPE, 350 word = 5 TPE etc.). If this does happen, I assume it would make the current VHL.com articles redundant. Thus my suggestion would be to turn VHL.com articles into weekly league related discussion topics where you are prompted on the topic(s). For example during draft week, you need to make a post in the topic about the draft (perhaps provide a simple mock, or talk about who could be a sleeper pick). During the middle of the season the topic could prompt for members to do a midseason ranking or talk about who/what has been the biggest surprise thus far this season (i.e. Apollo Skye actually being decent this season). As long as members make one post adding to the discussion and is content worthy (100 words?) they receive 1 TPE for the week. Thoughts? Like it? Hate it? Either way I'll take my 1 TPE and hit the road!

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Good series NY. Best of luck!

NORTH AMERICA GM 3 - New York Americans GM 4 - Quebec City Meute EUROPE GM 3 - Helsinki Titans GM 4 - Helsinki Titans

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Tbh Quebec actually lost that trade. Skye = negative value. I also didn't have any problems staying in Davos though it definitely is nice to be winning games quickly.

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Correctly predict the winners of all the games to win 1TPE uncapped! 313 Titans 314 Meute 315 Americans 316 Vikings

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Haha just STHS things!

#BastardSkye

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259 Meute 260 Vikings 261 Reign 262 Bears

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205 Americans 206 Bears 207 Vikings 208 Titans

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I think Devise makes a lot of good points. I personally usually only check the site on mobile for short periods of time and I enjoy the fact with welfare and a job, I am able to have a good player. If my only options to earn tpe were doing media spots and graphics, I wouldn't be here. I completely understand the other side of the equation though as well. It just isn't something that appeals to me. I think having more options is never a bad thing and sometimes guiding new members with prompts can be helpful in getting them acclimated to the site. Having shorter word counts for less Tpe might help some members like trifecta do more. Replacing 1 TPE xm radios with prompted tasks like do a mock draft or choose your all-stars may also help some members do more.