Kirby Rambles: Holiday Shenanigans

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To start off this Kirby Rambles, the fall semester of my senior year of college just ended and I managed to get all straight As! Looks like all the pain and suffering was worth it. Despite the fact that I’m on break, it doesn’t exclude me from being busy unfortunately, as I had quite a few personal matters to take care of this holiday season, with my birthday coming up at the end of the week as well. This year wasn’t exactly sunshine and rainbows, especially these past couple of months, so I hope 2025 will be better, mentally and physically.

 

Onto the VHL side of things (and more interesting side) now, River has officially graduated to the VHL with over 600 TPE! I’m hoping this will be able to muster up a decent rookie season, though I won’t go into it expecting a ROTY trophy or anything of the sort, considering the high quality competition he’ll be up against. Also since it’s the first time I’m building a skater, I don’t want to be too hard on myself, especially with the shortcomings I experienced in the VHLM last time around. I just want to see how he does and how I can build on it in the future, as well as contribute to Moscow’s success as a player. With a shaky EU conference this time around, both teams I’m associated with, Davos and Moscow, are expected to duke it out for the number one seed so I’m extremely excited to see how that battle pans out. 

 

My group also just finished drafting for VHFL and I ended up with a really solid team (in my opinion), in: Maverick Goncalves, Raimo Tuominen, Antonia Bucatini, Lucy Leitner, Felicia Hardy, and Spider Panda. I usually don’t do any research before jumping into the draft and wing it as I go. Since I had the 4th pick of my group, it was a slightly awkward place to be position-wise, but I think I did well with what I had. I usually go with a gut feeling and don’t overanalyze once I settle on who to draft because I don’t want any second guessing. Hopefully these players will bring me to glory, as I believe I’ve come in first out of all participants in VHFL for the past two seasons after a few second and third places finishes the seasons before, which is incredible. So that definitely gives me the confidence that I can once again do well this season, because on the other hand, I am AWFUL at Super Coach, so VHFL needs to make up for it. 

 

It felt like time had flown by with this new player. I definitely believe it didn’t feel like I was graduating to the VHL this quickly with Lachlan, and I think it’s because as a first gen, I was experiencing it all for the first time and soaking it all in. I definitely had a lot more work to do to earn TPE and learning the ropes than I do now and I’m grateful that this player has been a lot smoother to manage, especially now that I have connections I can talk to and reach out to whenever I need advice. While I know not every single player of mine will end up in the Hall of Fame, that won’t stop me from trying. I have also been extra cautious about burnout and hope to pace myself to prevent that, because you could definitely tell in the last months of Lachlan’s career my earning fizzled out.

 

That’ll do it for this edition of Kirby Rambles. Thank you again to those who read to the end and I’ll see you in the next one!

 

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Edited December 29, 2024 by kirbithan