Manually Clicking for Your Enjoyment: Finding the Current VHL Heavyweight Champion

[Gustav 6,616]

It's theme week, which I only remembered today and which I'm not really feeling this season. But, I haven't done anything today and there isn't really a better use of my time at the moment than to make some content for you. Back during the career of my first-gen player, @Beaviss and @Hogan developed a game that I've mentioned a couple times recently. Briefly, the winner of the season's first fight became the VHL Heavyweight Champion and stayed that way until they lost a fight. At that point, the winner of said fight would become Heavyweight Champion, which would run as long as they didn't lose, and so on.

 

I always thought that was fun, and since we're supposed to be talking about gooning or whatever this week, I thought I would see what I could do to find out how the championship is going this season. Our results are as follows:

 

 

Game 5: The Phantom of the VHL (@Hogan) beats up Jacob Smith Jr: It's almost poetic that Hogan kicks off the season with the belt, dropping the gloves in the season's very first sim. I'm not quite sure the league would have had it any other way, honestly--there's no one quite like one of the OGs to appear yet again in the Heavyweight Champion records. After this, I took a quick look at the index to see whether it was worth clicking through any more games, but Phantom did in fact get in other fights...

 

Game 124: Tommy Sleeves (@dasboot) beats up The Phantom of the VHL: Sleeves is the stuff of VHL legend in his last season. With over 2,400 hits, he'll also certainly break 2,000 penalty minutes by the time this season is over. Something that certainly contributes to that penalty total is a fight total. So far this season, Sleeves has a record of 4-1-1 in fights, which is both more wins and more fights in general than anyone else. I'm not sure when that loss was (whether it was before or after this point), so I'll have to comb through the rest of the season to find out whether Sleeves keeps the belt or gave it up at some point. At the very least, we should see some more fights brought up in this article.

 

Game 133: Tommy Sleeves and Ray Stanton fight to a draw: As it turns out, I immediately found Sleeves' draw in the next sim. Clearly, he had meant to throw the body around a little during this part of the season, and he almost gave up the belt here. It wasn't quite enough for Stanton to take it, though, so Sleeves keeps it through this game.

 

Game 379: Tommy Sleeves beats up Tim Robinson: It took a while for another fight to come up, but Sleeves wins it and defends the belt cleanly. I was getting worried that I'd have to cut off the article on a draw, but I don't--it appears that the title isn't left in much doubt.

 

 

Game 379 was just a sim ago, and Sleeves didn't fight in today's games. So, that's our current champion! If Sleeves keeps the title until the end of the season, he will end up retiring as VHL Heavyweight Champion. We'll see whether that holds up, and it's an easy test to find the answer: every time you check your own team's sims, pop open Helsinki's as well and read the notes at the bottom. It will be interesting--if there's anyone who can be trusted to get in more fights, it's Sleeves, but he'll also be a hard one to beat.

[Hogan 1,435]

Sorry to break it to you! but in my vision of the heavyweight championship (THE TRUE VISION) the belt DOES NOT RESET EVERY SEASON. meaning you have to trace it back all the way from the original champion (also me)

[Gustav 6,616]

5 hours ago, Hogan said:

Sorry to break it to you! but in my vision of the heavyweight championship (THE TRUE VISION) the belt DOES NOT RESET EVERY SEASON. meaning you have to trace it back all the way from the original champion (also me)

 

Oh cool! That actually means I'm the champion.

 

Jerry Garcia got in exactly one fight in his entire career and it was to take the championship in S70. I just checked to confirm this, and it's true--go through every index from S70 through S73, and you see exactly one fight won in S70 and no more, ever. He said what needed to be said and then shut up.

 

Perhaps you have rules about the belt going back into circulation if someone retires with it? It's good to know that Beav deciding to take it away from me wasn't valid.

[Hogan 1,435]

12 hours ago, Gustav said:

 

Oh cool! That actually means I'm the champion.

 

Jerry Garcia got in exactly one fight in his entire career and it was to take the championship in S70. I just checked to confirm this, and it's true--go through every index from S70 through S73, and you see exactly one fight won in S70 and no more, ever. He said what needed to be said and then shut up.

 

Perhaps you have rules about the belt going back into circulation if someone retires with it? It's good to know that Beav deciding to take it away from me wasn't valid.

No you definitely lost the belt sorry big dog. I'll make up some rules and come back to you in a few hours.