(S24) - PT 1 - Trivia Night

[Tylus]

Going into last season I felt like I had high expectations of myself, I wanted to contribute and make a difference for my team. After being drafted 6th overall in the season twenty three draft I felt as if I didn't make some plays, I wouldn't feel worthy of being picked at such a high number. Being called up after only one season, and with a very young quarterback,I should have tempered my expectations slightly, but I didn't care about any of that. I wanted to make my general managers feel like they made the right decision by taking me that early. I would quickly learn how difficult and relentless this league can be in my first game, cashing in on a grand total of zero catches for zero yards. The rest of the season would see my mediocre play continue, being rated one of the worst wide receivers in the league by the season's end. I would catch no touchdowns either which was a major blow to my confidence. After being the butt of a relentless barrage of jokes, I have doubled my resolve going into this season, and plan on improving to the best of my ability. I hope to end this season with much better stats, and with a single catch for 53 yards, I hope that is a sign of improvement. We’ll just have to find out as the season progresses.

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[Ry_]

How insane was Darrel Williams' debut in S19? That's the trivia question I'm ready to answer. Darrel began his career as a lowly player on the Myrtle Beach Buccaneers, but after being drafted #1 overall to the Minnesota Grey Ducks he was immediately ready to show the league what exactly he could do and he did not disappoint in the team's first game. Sure, it was against a bot team, but a huge performance is a huge performance and Darrel Williams dominated from start to finish. His statline was an incredible 192 yard, two touchdown performance, and he did all of this on just twenty carries, therefore averaging a whopping 9.6 YPC. Did I mention this was Darrel Williams' first game after being drafted? One of the most impressive parts of this performance was Darrel Williams' incredible 78 yard run that occurred during the second quarter of the game, the longest run of the season for Darrel and almost certainly the longest run of his entire career. This run immediately told the rest of the DSFL that Darrel was on the map. This game has become a bit more forgotten in recent years as Darrel continues to sit in the category of "solid players", but it was regarded as one of the top three individual performances of the nineteenth season of the DSFL.

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[Gravtx]

I’m writing this article from the point of GraVTx. This is something close to my heart and fairly important to me, so before you come at me for being political, please consider the amount of time and care I have put into this article.

I was a 3 sport athlete my entire life. Baseball and football were my two sports I played from a young age. I started at 6 years old. Basketball would become my third in middle school. Around that same time I realized I wasn’t like my friends. They would all talk about girls, and I would too, but girls weren’t the only ones I had these weird feelings for. This secret would stay closely guarded to me for a long time. I continued my sports career, eventually dropping basketball and baseball in favor of football. Ironically, football, while being my favorite sport, was also the least tolerant. There were plenty of homophobic taunts and such that were tossed around in the locker room. I would be a liar if I said I was never a part of the taunts, but I wish that I wasn’t. I very distinctly remember Jason Collins coming out as gay right before he retired from the NBA. I remember thinking about how brave he is and how strong he must be to have the courage to be open about something like that.

This is not the same. I am not Jason Collins and I am not a pro athlete. I remained in the closet about my bisexuality until long after my playing days were over and I could look from the outside in. I am glad that our league doesn’t condone calling each other “faggots” or saying that something is “gay” just because we don’t like it. Football and its fans have come a long way. We have come so far that I am comfortable being open about this. I guess the point of this is that now there is something that was previously unknown about me that is now known so that I get that sweet trivia TPE, but the other point is for me to say thank you to this community. It has been great being a part of the ISFL so far and I look forward to being a part of it in the future.

[AdamS]

In a recent ISFL Werewolf game the bad guy squad was absolutely crushing it. A near all star caliber team was just making great decisions left, right, and center and wiped the town out in four days with only one loss. Said loss was entirely accidentally of our own making too. We got distracted about who to use our other roles on and the last person we'd mentioned for poisoning ended up being the choice by default. He then went on to poison our poisoner ironically enough. overall though, we were able to quickly identify and remove some of the strongest pieces that the town had from the boar. We also took away many of its loudest voices, allowing us to dominate conversation as well. No matter what theories the town believed, they were following a wolf. 

The town was hindered early when a strong player and one of the strongest players got into an argument that kind of distracted focus as well. No one noticed the wolves taking advantage of this by seeing to the voting out of one of the players. The town also didn't notice when several great reads were made by its players. reads that could have made things a lot more difficult for us. In the end, we simply steamrolled a town that clearly wasn't ready to deal with losing its strongest voices that early. Just as we'd planned. Our reward for this was for the Mod, who shall remain nameless, to complain about his game setup and deny any of us an MVP. Blaming himself for how hard we dominated instead of crediting our excellent performance. I think the MVP should go to Jonny2x, the turncoat who drove so much conversation into areas the benefited our team, even while being unable to communicate with us. 

As it stands, there will be no MVP because someone got lost in his own ego.

[209tacos]

So I do graphics for Pro Baseball Experience mainly for the stream. And generally, I  like it. And people are usually positive about the stuff I produce.  My homerun graphic is my high point, and I will never achieve beyond the greatness that it is.

Anyways, so I was tasked with doing the slide show for the end of season awards. And I thought I would do a big fancy slide show. The thing ended up being like 78 slides in total. It was huge. And I did everything in photoshop-- and that was my first, of mistake.

I had a week to complete it, and I had people (juosu) tell me that getting the info out cleanly was more critical than a fancy-looking slide show. Well, to hell with that I thought, I am two hundred and nine tacos, I will do whatever the F I want.

Well, I should have done that.

This thing ended up taking me almost a full week. I did a separate slide for every player who won. AND If a player won an award and didn't have a sig on the site, I made them one, which added several unnecessary extra hours of work.

Anyways, I finish it and get it to the streamers. And everyone looks at it and tells me how amazing it looks. And m like "hell yeah it is"

Well, the slide show was a shit show—tons of misspellings and worse of all MISSING SLIDES!!

OMG. I was so embarrassed.  I was at work listening to the stream and... it was so bad. I am probably overthinking how terrible it was. But I was very disappointed in myself mainly because I spent so much time making everything only to have it kind of blow up in my face.

I am going to do things differently next time. I will start earlier and have someone give it a once over before I hand it over. But the main thing is not to try to do the WHOLE thing in photoshop.

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[Blasoon]

When thinking back over my young career, I think that the best story comes from when I won MVP. I had just led the team to their first ever championship, and in the process, ended a nineteen year Ultimini appearance drought. It was awards night, and I dressed to the nines, wearing a three piece, with a blue handkerchief to support my Seawolves. The moment my name was announced, I remember freezing on the spot, the only thing keeping me in reality, and keeping me walking towards the stage was the buzzing in my pocket. If I am quite honest, the memories of accepting the award were a blur; I could not tell you the specifics if I tried, but I can picture greatly the buzzing in my pocket, and subsequent invite to my friend's discord call. See, this award coincided with my pivotal decision to leave Philadelphia for Orange County. Getting that night to revel in the success of my accomplishments, whilst also spending a last night celebrating with friends really meant a lot to me. I am sure that this neither the most exciting story, nor the most notable one, but it still remains to me as one of my most memorable throughout my career.

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[Bruins10]

SHL Affiliate

[Starboy]

The Baltimore locker room, as to those that know, is a very relaxing spot compared to most other locker rooms in the entire league. However, Chika is definitely a large personality that does not take very kindly to losing or falling short. I mean how can one hold back on high expectations when becoming one of the best players in the history of the DSFL? That drive only pushed through the future Kansas City locker room as more players got involved during some of the Kansas City Pokémon catching games that Chika participated in whenever she had free time from her training in Baltimore. Her MVP award on the field was only beaten out by her MVP abilities with catching Pokémon in the locker room. There was a time when one of her GMs was trying to obtain a certain level while Fujiwara only pushed to collect as many as possible. During the GM’s search to find a high-powered Pokémon, Chika managed to catch over 1000 monsters and continued only getting more and more. To this day, she holds the record for most Pokémon caught inside of the Kansas City discord even despite a move to another method of catching.

[nunccoepi]

So, a little known trivia fact about Immanuel Blackstone is that Blackstone is half Palestinian and half English. His father, Solomon Al-Farabi, immigrated to the United States the year before he was born along with Blackstone's three older half siblings. Solomon Al-Farabi's wife unfortunately died in a traffic accident under circumstances which are suspect to say the least. When Solomon Al-Farabi was in the process of immigrating, he enlisted the help of an immigration lawyer named Anastasia Blackstone. Anastasia Blackstone is of English descent but he family has lived in the United States for many many generations. Anastasia helped Solomon through the immigration process and the rest, as they say, is history. The new family settled near Dearborn, Michigan where they would be able to practice their Muslim faith fully. Anastasia and Solomon eventually had three children together, the first of which was Immanuel Blackstone. Blackstone grew up proud of his mixed cultural heritage and enjoyed learning about his parents' pasts. Eventually, when Blackstone demonstrated an impressive inclination for the gridiron and was drafted to the DSFL and then the NSFL (now the ISFL), he became only the second Muslim player in the league. He hopes to be able to blaze a new trail for those who come after him.

[lespoils]

SHL affiliate : https://simulationhockey.com/showthread....pid2887583

Same username (lespoils) on the SHL forum too.

Hope I'm doing this correctly.