VHLE Expansion

[Doomsday 4,130]

The Storm are finally going back home!!

[thadthrasher 1,692]

Good, more teams to fall underneath the Vikings!

[Underclass_Hero 82]

Excited to see this!

[samx 1,173]

So excited to be taking the unknown rush lmao. One day they will have a city name just not today. I cant wait to see what I can do in the E. Bring it on!!! 

[JardyB10 4,865]

Was there actually a gold rush in the Alps or are y’all just makin’ shit up?

 

At any rate, this is a satisfying change, congrats to all! The VHLM will miss you both.

[Daniel Janser 2,169]

4 hours ago, JardyB10 said:

Was there actually a gold rush in the Alps or are y’all just makin’ shit up?

 

At any rate, this is a satisfying change, congrats to all! The VHLM will miss you both.

No Gold rush as far as I know... but the mountaineous tourism started in the Alps notably Switzerland where a lot of boarding schools for English kids were located. And apparently, they had nothing better to do then to climb mountains in their spare time (and go down on wooden boards).... 

[Victor 10,940]

7 hours ago, JardyB10 said:

Was there actually a gold rush in the Alps or are y’all just makin’ shit up?

 

At any rate, this is a satisfying change, congrats to all! The VHLM will miss you both.

I see it more as the general rush like alpine skiing. It works with mountains imo.

[Horcrux 322]

So when I made my article about the VHLM and said we needed Balance. Killing Yukon was not what I meant but ill take it lol.

 

Congrats to both of you. Well deserved.

[boubabi 4,725]

Normandy Rush

[Daniel Janser 2,169]

26 minutes ago, boubabi said:

Normandy Rush

Go the full nine yards... Berlin Rush

[Daniel Janser 2,169]

22 hours ago, a_Ferk said:

The VHLM had enough players, the problem was how they were dispersed. The top teams had full rosters and the bottom teams were nearly empty. If they were evenly distributed every team probably would've been around 6-4-1.

As a newbie I think one of the key problems is that not all GM's have the same agenda in the VHLM (this is no criticism, just an observation). Some embraced the 'build up' function  of the VHLM (i.e. getting players acquainted with the mechanics, how to earn TPE, encourage them, giving tips for builds etc.) and accepted that the VHLM is only a thouroughfare for the player's ultimate goal the VHL. Others prioritised success (i.e. winning the Founder's Cup) and traded draft picks for seasoned veterans in order to get the final push over the hump. 

For example, the Hounds were in the final for the Founder's Cup in S79 and did not succeed. The GM changed and the new kid on the block was left with a wiped roster (literally) and the earliest pick being an early round three (7 picks in total), three of which turned out to be duds (stopped updating shortly after being drafted) and had to be released... midway into the season and after many, many defeats, @N0HBDY traded my brother and me (who were two of the more active members in the LR) for some picks to Philly in order to try and rebuild (at least that is my assumption). So in my opinion reducing the league by two teams does at least partly address this, as there are as many players to go around for less teams... I for example maxed almost every week on the TPE and reached the 200 threshold within one season, and I am surely not the only one (take all the 2nd+ generation players for example). Therefore the turnover is relatively high and rosters may not be sustainable with only average 7 players per team available in the draft. 

Edited November 10, 2021 by Daniel Janser

[ROOKIE745 604]

18 hours ago, Juice said:

I'm not to happy with the Minnesota move as much as it makes sense for the team to do so.

[fromtheinside 1,290]

RIP Yukon

[rory 1,916]

Good idea 

[BOOM 8,745]

[Banackock 8,048]

league feels alive to me. I'm playung single line minutes in Vasteras.