Make the VHLM Awards Great Again [1/2]

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            When it comes down to it, in the VHLM – it isn’t extravagant or amazing in any sense of the word. I mean, Victory Hockey League…MINORS? This is where all the kids go, where the garbage below 200 TPE personas go, and above all – this is where people go to develop their game to extreme heights. I know me, Robert Malenko went back on the idea that I was going to dominate the league, and honestly – I did. Me and Jesper Stromberg were one of the most dynamic defensive duos to ever christen the VHLM in recent history.

 

            But we were robbed as a duo. Thrown to the pits on a team that could not perform for itself. With my boy Tim gone, the updater no longer updating, and me – the only saving grace on a team with one other good player in Revchenko – it looked grim. But, I still managed to pot 81 points for the season on a team that scored 183 goals. I was 44% of my team’s production, an incredible amount in the grand scheme of it all – and that brings me to the point of the first paragraph. This is the minors, right? But we could still have a legitimate award committee for the VHLM. As it stands, the way voting is handled in this minor league, is that GMs vote on who should win the awards. The bias behind that is absolutely ridiculous, as you have GM/players voting for themselves to win, despite not being any better as a player.

 

            Let’s look at the HIGHWAY ROBBERY of Malenko’s Top Defenseman Award that should be retrospectively added to his collection.

 

            Jacob Smith, a player on the Oslo Storm, a team that by the end of the season had 9 100+ TPE players, Jacob scored 89 points. The Oslo Storm had 271 goals by the end of the season, meaning he accounted for 32% of his team’s production. He had less blocked shots than Malenko by 16, as well as a tremendously high amount of PIM in comparison, 106 to Malenko’s 60. The only thing Jacob Smith had going for himself that could have been considered better than Malenko is that he threw 190 hits compared to Malenko’s 149. Jacob Smith is also the GM of the Las Vegas Aces, a team that I had to suffer on for a full season – and as a GM of that team, he was able to vote for his own player to win the award.

 

            Jacob Smith had 3 votes, while Alvaro Jokinen had 2. Jokinen was on a team that had a whopping 12 100+ TPE players (that still lost in the finals (blame higgins)) and he had scored 95 points on a team that finished with 325 goals for, meaning he was involved in only 30% of the team’s production. Just off of the points alone, it’s evident that Malenko should have already been considered higher than both players for the reason that he had 44% of the goals for his team. But not only that, it is also the fact that he was on a team so poor and so treacherous that they only had 3 100+ TPE players the entire season. The GM was never around, and the players never developed, leaving Malenko and Stromberg with the sole duty of scoring all of the goals.

 

            With all this hand in hand, there needs to be a development in the VHLM to legitimize itself a bit better. It’s the entry-level position for these newcomers visiting the website for the first time. These people develop players for certain purposes. To win, to enjoy a hobby, or to have something to do that passes the time. I wanted to win an award this year for Top Defenseman in the VHLM, and because I wasn’t inflated on a ridiculous team for more points, I don’t get that award despite being hands down the best backbone of any team. There is an award committee for the VHL already, and I believe there needs to be one instated for the VHLM immediately.

 

            I am willing to be part of that committee, because believe me. There needs to be a certain degree of spelunking involved in picking the best players in these seasons. Even in the VHL this year there were a lot of discrepancies in the selection of the award winners. Best Two Way and Most Improved should have absolutely went to Beaviss, the classic Quebec Terrorist ring leader team owner. But I just think there needs to be a level of inside thinking to these selections. Having rookie GMs that just started out in the league voting their own player to win is not in any way fair or reasonable. It breaks the balance of what the simulation really is, and sure – sometimes there are different situations, or different circumstances for these players to win or lose in. But this needs to be balanced out a bit better than it currently is.

 

            Legitimize the VHLM, make it an important development tool. I know that there are a lot of players on this site that absolutely dread it, and believe it is a worthless part of the site. But at the same time, new players like me stay in it for the reason to win, or to acquire the achievement tracker to benefit from more TPE. I lose out on TPE because of this poor voting mechanism, and I don’t think that’s fair at all.

 

            So, from the bottom of my heart, please accept my rant as a form of introducing this committee into the VHLM. No longer do the GMs vote and cause collusion in the bottom league. Let’s create a better world. A world where we all can have the BEST player win the award, and a world where Robert Malenko WINS the best defenseman award in the VHLM for the 61^st season of the VHLM.

 

            Also, season 62. Yall better watch out for that ironside/malenko pairing. We gonna turn some heads lemme tell ya right now.

 

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[Exlaxchronicles 415]

Pretty good write up and direct in getting your point across. You stayed on topic throughout  your essay and everything was formatted properly punctuality/spelling wise  so good job. It's not easy to type out a 1k + word MS.

 

And I'd have to agree with you on some of the points you've made here. I felt my guy should have garnered at least a vite for this past seasons playoff MVP, but those are the breaks!

 

Keep up the MS.

 

[jacobaa19 191]

Shoulda tagged me ngl you probably deserved it more then me but I had a great playoffs 

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