Recapping my time as GM

[Berocka 2,263]

A recap of my time as a General Manager

 

S70 for a whole 7 days I was the GM of Halifax during that time I did one trade which I got completely roasted for and did the draft. After 7 days Gustav got promoted from Mississauga to Davos. I was asked if I would like to take over Mississauga as I was the AGM for the 3 seasons prior. I remember at the time Dil took over as GM of Halifax and it was not a happy handover. I will from here not really touch on my time at Halifax and focus more on Mississauga.

 

Taking over from Gustav who went for an extremely deep run in S69 I unfortunately had nothing to work with. The draft was already done so I started with a bare bones team but a lot of positivity. 

 

The one thing I had moving in to the team was a big bustling locker room. Gustav knows how to make a good locker room so with the positivity I was hoping to bring some good waivers in sell them off at trade deadline and have some assets for next season. Well I got some players but none of them really flourished into anything and I went into the next season in the same position. Next to no draft picks and no players on the roster. However as about ten weeks had now passed a lot of the people in the locker room had moved on to other locker rooms. The draft though got me one gem. A newer create at the time and someone who Gustav rated as the best of their draft class. Andrew Su. The unfortunate thing is that by the end of the season approached way too close to the vhlm cap. I was hoping that Su would be the leader of my s71 team but after discussions it was decided they would play in the VHL the next season (At the time there was no VHLE) so I made a trade to try and get some assets. Like every other trade I participated in I was told I was robbed and that I am not good at trading. 

 

This was the beginning of the end for myself, not only that but I had one of the worst members of the time on my team. People from that time might remember St4rface and that they would always just try and sell their music to everyone. I spent a lot of time and effort with them trying to make them a good player (this was before the spam or at least before I was knowledgeable about it).

 

So I decided to close up shop as a GM. I spent so much time on each and every player and I feel like I just got unlucky with the players that signed with me. Not everyone is going to be the next big deal of the league. The one player I feel like I had a positive impact I could not give them any success with Mississauga. So I decided to step down and let someone more young and hungry took over. 

 

I think overall Gustav made GMing seem a lot easier than it seemed and being an AGM under him was so much fun I thought I would have similar experience as the head honcho. I was definitely wrong.

 

[BOOM 8,749]

Give Berocka a GM role. I want to play for him and restore his faith in humanity! 

[Gustav 6,421]

Honestly a big part of the reason why I was a good VHLM GM is that I spent way too much of my life on Discord. Doing that on that level today would involve throwing away a lot more important stuff. I honestly don't think you were as bad as you think you were because you're comparing yourself to what's probably an unrealistic standard (given that you actually have a life). Back when I thought Davos was going inactive and I should leave, it had declined for sure but there were (and are) still far less active locker rooms.

 

But it was fun! Part of me misses coming home from work at 9 and shitposting until 2.