Randoms bio [1/2]

[hedgehog337 3,483]

Long, long time ago...no I'm very wrong here. Not long time ago, on a nice sunny a retired player named Benjamin Zeptenbergs was absolutely bored. Bored by his GM'ed Riga Reign team team being stuck on the bottom half in VHL standings. But it was making sense since his team was rebuilding. So...after long and boring hours he was about to stand up from his chair and go to do his usual things...

 

...until a crazy idea popped into his head. From that time, Benjamin couldn't find a peace. He literally was going off with his idea. And nobody really was understanding why he was acting weird lately. Nobody knew - this was only the start of his reall crazy project. And it was even more crazy because his Riga started to put their heads up again. Podrick Cast, Edwin Preencarnacion and other promising players that were drafted by him to the Reign to make a fresh start. But even then he was more invested in his weird project. He found some Latvian engineers (at least they called themselves like that; even that fact that they don't have a appropriate certificate didn't scare Benjamin) that agreed to join this. After a shit ton of sleepless hours, lost nerves and broken tools this is what Benjamin Zeptenbergs got:

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is what Zep was thinking for all this time! The idea actually was to make a better copy of AIM - 11 who is believed to be the first robot player in the VHL league ever; and Aackckqz Ky - a player who was doing random things in everything. Another thing that engineers added was a special random.org app that was embedded into this machine. It made sure that everything this player will do is completely random things and only random.

 

 

Randoms' childhood, highschool and career in one chapter

(cause the robots shouldn't have childhood and other human things, you know)

 

 

The first impression was very positive from Zep and his engineers. It was looking nice and seemed like it could do great things in the VHL league. The Riga Reign GM immediately decided to name this robot RANDOMS as one of influences, Ky was a completely random dude too. But the more they were testing this creature, the more they started to realize that something is not right.

 

 

1. First of all, Randoms wasn't supposed to have any particular skill as the strength. But it started to immediately try to put bodies into the boards. That was looking familiar to other, real human player. Anyways, Benjamin was still believing that all is going right;

2. But then they realized that his weight and height is really very similar to that player. Guntis Petenis. This is a player from hedgehog337 agency. The same agency that was worshiping the current Riga Reign GM. Guntis Petenis - a player who had a good success in mid-S50's. Which was more frustrating for Benji is Randoms' playing style was pretty much the same as Guntis. Basically, Randoms = forward version of Guntis Petenis. That fact really was devastating to the two-time VHL champ who was hoping for completely other result.

 

 

Start of it's career (ok, here's a mini chapter)

 

 

But there was nothing Benjamin and engineers could do about it. Since it was working very well, they still decided to present Randoms to the hockey world. And it was only obvious that the first experience that this creature is going to get from is VHLM league. Of course that Zep is very familiar with the VHL system because well...Riga GM, you know. So he registered this player into the VHL database and this is where Randoms' journey begun. It wasn't an easy road, though. This player was picked by Ottawa...no, I'm lying. It was the random site that decided that the Ottawa Lynx team will be its first professional team. But it appeared that this machine is far from being a best player even in minors. Jason Glasser, the GM of that team immediately saw that this Latvian ''guy'' was too raw for big plays. So Jason sent Randoms to the fourth line. It's obvious that the Benjamin Zeptenbergs project wasn't doing much on the ice and the end of the season it only collected three points in 47 games. But wasn't the only bad thing that we saw about Randoms.

 

1. Even before Randoms stepped it's foot into the VHLM rink for the first time, a very well known agent made a heavy criticism towards this iron thing. And it could've been nothing to worry about...if only that agent was none other than Ron Dwayne III. The same man that came from YEAH/Tagger player agency. The same agency that had Aackckqz Ky. Ron called Randoms a fake creature a.k.a. a pathetic carbon copy of Ky. But the most ironic thing is that the Tagger agency also worships Edwin Preencarnacion - the player who was drafted and still is playing for none other than RIGA REIGN team!

2. Then it appeared that Latvia wasn't supposed to be the birthplace for Randoms. The random site actually chose UK as the home. Nothing to worry about? Maybe, if the Tagger player agency wasn't residing in UK! Was it the revenge from Zep to change the birthplace to Latvia (that was the third option fron random.org)? Nobody knows and the Riga Reign GM is keeping quiet about this.

3. Another problem was some people accused Benji of rigging the destination for Randoms. The thing is Ottawa was also the place for Kallis Kriketers, another player from hedgehog337 agency. All these talks stopped when this thing wasn't performing that well, but looks like they were right. But once again, Benjamin is keeping it quiet.

 

But let's go back to our main...guy or something like that. So Randoms finished the season as the VHLM champion. It didn't show what it was cappable for though and the questionable reputation from all these accusations and controversies really hit it's draft stock. A lot of teams were skipping this robot in the VHL draft (and it wasn't much better in minors either). But at the end of the day two teams decided to take a chance on this robot looking iron body.

 

 

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First, Quebec took Randoms by 24th OV, which is the end of the third round. And then some days later, Las Vegas took this player by 16th OV in the VHLM draft, which was a third round pick. So we can figure it out that start of carbon copy of Guntis Petenis was shaky. But the majority of criticism died after last season when it put up the respectable numbers. 64 points among with 300 hits was a really solid performance. Unfortunately, Las Vegas couldn't get past Randoms' ex-team Ottawa in the wildcard round and the season ended very quickly. But this season proved that people should start to belive in this creature. Only time will tell what's in the store for the result of Zep's crazy brains and scrub engineers, but at this point it looks very decent. And it doesn't matter if Randoms will start it's VHL career in Quebec or in other team. This machine proved that it can be a good player and perhaps we may see even a better version of David Kiaskov.

 

...But there's is still one question that is still popping into my head...WHY?

 

And will Ron Dwayne III continue to bash Benjamin for this?

 

Stay tuned...

[StamkosFan 72]

Review: This took a much less serious tone than the traditional biography, but it was enjoyable to read and checked all the boxes. I admire your creativity; deciding to have your player be a robot is definitely the definition of unique. Pretty early in the career to have so much drama, but it'll be interesting to see how it pans out and if you end up being a steal. Nice job on the bio!