Summer Cup - Round 2 for playoffs and other info

Evening NHLGamers,

This post is meant to update you on what has been going on the last couple of days so, dive in.

 

A recap of what has been going on and information about Round 2 - Playoffs
First of all, Round 1 of the playoffs are over - at least to our understanding. I say "at least to our understanding" as we haven't been able to get 100% confirmation of this as the website NHLGamer.com has been down the last couple of days. This downtime was neither planned nor intentional and wasn't caused by the site itself but rather the website service provider. This led the staff, and particularly web wizards @Lurkins and @Kenu, on a quest to get everything up and running again which they have now been able to do. The outtage came at quite an inconvenient time though, seeing as the Summer Cup was knee deep into its playoff phase and Lurkins was in the process of putting together a playoff tree right when it happened.

Some playoff games had even been reported in (namely the games between Mighty 8 Balls/Team PELTIKII and Hupimunat/Royal Warriors) and here's where the bad news kick in... due to the server issues these games will have to be re-reported as we work to rebuild the playoff section of the Summer Cup. We know this isn't ideal and we apologize for the frustration of having to report 2-3 games again but it's the best we can do under the circumstances. The playoff section is being built as we speak and we hope to have it up and running as soon as tonight - meaning you will be able to see a playoff tree and report all your playoff games tonight. Again, apologies for the inconvenience.

We do have information that the other two playoff series have been played during the website downtime which means that 4/4 playoff series are done, meaning we can move on to Round 2 of the Summer Cup Playoffs!

Round 1 results and Round 2 match-ups
Here is how Round 1 shook out, according to our information (feel free to correct us if anything is wrong):

Mighty 8 Balls vs. TEAM PELTIKII (2-1 in games)
Hupimunat vs. Royal Warriors (2-1 in games)
Team Juizki vs. Club Kannunkulma (0-2 in games)
Team pelimies80 vs. Mirage (2-1 in games)
 

Now, this means that for Round 2, we have the following teams:

From Group 1:
Seed #1 (Mighty 8 Balls)
Seed #2 (Hupimunat)
Seed #4 (Team pelimies80)

From Group 2
Seed #2 (Club Kannunkulma)

This means that we have a #1 seed, two #2 seeds and a #4 seed to organize into matchups. To organize these matchups, we took a look at the teams respective regular season point totals which created a ranking of Mighty 8 Balls 26p, Hupimunat 22p, Club Kannunkulma 21p, Team pelimies80 19p. Which in turn created the following matchups:

#1 Mighty 8 Balls vs. #4 Team pelimies80
#2 Hupimunat vs. #3 Club Kannunkulma

Again, the rules are best of 3 games and as today marks the launch of Round 2, we calculate another 5-6 days for this round with another 7 days after that for the finals (best of 7).

Should everything run smoothly from here on out, we look forward to crowning a Summer Cup winner in the first week of September.

Reminders - PLEASE READ
Playoff games aside, there are still some games unreported for the regular season. While we can overlook the playoff games not being reported (obviously that part is on us and the website service provider) the unreported regular season are a different matter entirely. So please, take a look if your team has any unreported games for the regular season and just report the games, including player stats. Not only is it part of the rulebook to report the games within a reasonable amount of time, the finished game reporting would make it a lot easier for me, for example, to make the proper adjustments to the regular season awards. C'mon guys, just report it.

Also a friendly reminder to the captains to send their Summer Cup Trophy nominees to me. I have received a few (about 4 out 14) but there are still many to go. 


Questions
If you have any questions about anything, feel free to fire away in the comment section! As always, being curious is a good thing.


On behalf of the NHLGamer Staff and also, "later skaters",

The_Alpha_Furyan