Blue is the most stressful color

[diamond_ace 3,112]

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.

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[Victor 11,022]

9 hours ago, diamond_ace said:

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).

Yes

[Berocka 2,263]

11 hours ago, diamond_ace said:

now-defunct IHL

[diamond_ace 3,112]

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

Edited July 6, 2023 by diamond_ace

[VattghernCZ 1,056]

8 minutes ago, diamond_ace said:

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

[diamond_ace 3,112]

6 hours ago, VattghernCZ said:

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.

[Beketov 9,103]

14 hours ago, diamond_ace said:

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

That’s not even techie, the filters are just  an option in the AdminCP. Super easy to set.

 

As a bonus being commish for a day you’d be able to use them all, filters don’t apply to us haha.

[Grape 739]

Stole my idea of an inactive league smh

Edited July 8, 2023 by Grape

[Will3 467]

27 minutes ago, Grape said:

Stole my idea of an inactive team smh

 

27 minutes ago, Grape said:

Stole my idea of an inactive team smh

It's a good idea.