Some Random VHL Lore

[Corco 1,242]

 

S31 Davos Dynamo - The notoriously infamous [but successful] GM Tyler Barabash @Bushito went inactive early in the season, leaving the players on the team to pick up the pieces. Thankfully for Davos, their roster included five players whose agents are Hall-of-Fame builders: Phil Rafter @Phil, Felix Peters @gregreg, Ying Qin @Baozi, David Smalling @Knight, Emerson Byer @frescoelmo. With the veteran leadership at the helm, the Davos locker-room was able to submit lines and set strategies, culminating in a playoff run that saw the Dynamo dispatch the Riga Reign in 6 games and the New York Americans in 7, with HoF forward Phil Rafter scoring the cup-clinching goal at 12:44 of the 3rd period.

 

 

“Am I eligible to like dicks this?” - VHL Admins & Commissioners used to have a lot of fun; @JardyB10, then a commish, changed the word-filter from “claim” to “I like dicks!”. Before the portal, members had to post whenever they “claimed” a special Point Task with a post in the thread saying such. Then a new member, @Devise, asked in a PT Giveaway thread, “Am i eligible to claim this? If so, claim!”, which ergo posted as “Am i eligible to I like dicks this!? If so, I like dicks!”, which doesn’t seem extremely hilarious in hindsight, but I do remember it being much funnier back then, and I think Jardy even had a screenshot of the post in his forum signature for a while.

 

 

DDOS Attack - The VHL’s first forum was an invisionfree forum (which can still actually be viewed on the Internet Wayback Machine HERE), but before the switch to our current forum hosting site, there was another, the name of which is currently escaping me. Regardless, the forum switched from invisionfree to the site that I am talking about in the early S30’s, but was actually DDoS’d by an unhappy member (I believe their player’s name was either Edward Eldred or Edward Eldritch, something along those lines). I recall attempting to log in, only to be met with a 404 error; thankfully there was a large population of the VHL on the SHL, and it was there that I was able to learn what had happened. Rebuilding the old site was tough, as we basically had to rely on Google Caches and the Wayback Machine to get Player Pages, Trade Threads, Signings, etc. It was a lot of tough work that was indeed pretty stressful at times and we lost a good chunk of members, but somehow we managed to pull it off. I’m pretty sure nowadays the forum is backed up monthly or so to prevent this from happening again; for a minute there it really did feel like the VHL might have gone belly-up.

 

 

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[Corco 1,242]

I was in the midst of claiming a multi-week PT before Theme Week was announced, so the capped TPE for this is for the Week ending November 17.

[frescoelmo 1,276]

That was a good time, my second player I think