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How ungrateful some of you guys are here? 

I don't see why it is such a big deal for people to pay a small fee for a one year license. You have been given an opportunity for 5+ years to compete and challenge the best in the NHL for free to this date. SportsGamer was a hobby for the organizers, but due to increasing amount of work a hobby became a job. SportsGamer is a company that has employees, and organizing tournaments of this quality is a full time job, and the people who are organizing these tournaments have families to feed.

Don't buy two 24 packs of beer this weekend, and practice CHEL instead and there is your license. 

 

[ECL '22: Winter Pro Mid-Season Report - Who's Hot & Who's Not?]

Afrodunk broken

 

[Welcome to the new era of ECL]

On 4.12.2021 at 16.22, Hohner kirjoitti:

In the past it was always very difficult for all GM's to plan the season. 

Is it possible that you from the staff could always publish an outline plan at release time? That you can roughly orientate yourself by what?

Here is a possible example for a whole NHLGamer year.

ECL Warmup: November + December 
ECL Winter: January - March
ECL Spring: April - June 
National Leagues: August - October

That way you would have the whole year of NHL without a long idle period.

I am sure, that NHLGamer staff would love to have everything planned ahead like that, but there are a lot of moving parts which need to be taken into account when planning the upcoming seasons. You need to make everything work while negotiating with sponsors, play-by-play casters, different eSports organizations and once the finals come around you need to have a suitable location to host the LAN. The scene is growing constantly, and we as players need to be flexible with schedules, since it takes up a lot of time to host the tournaments and Kenu and co. are working around the clock to give us players the best competitive experience possible while trying to create a successful business out of it. All this while having to deal with EA Sports who has released a buggy game for four different consoles at a random time. Normally they release new NHL around September, but due to COVID the two past games have been post poned a bit and it forced NHLGamer to make huge adjustments to their schedule. 

Be patient, NHLGamer will give us all the information and tools we need to compete once the time is right 👍

 

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How is iQUE not an underdog? 🤔

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Lutu on vahva.

[ECL12 Lite Mid-Season Report]

I'll just leave this one here. 

[The ECL 12 Elite Guide - A new champion on the rise?]

Thank you for an excellent preview. Article is so well written, that it captured my extremely short attention span troughout the article.

...but I am extremely concerned, that your cover gamer for this season was not a star forward from Lutunilkat, #29 Henri "Steve_Linnonmaa" Mikkola. When players like Eki, NikkeDangles and KungenKurwa do what they can, Henri does what he wants. #luomu

 

Not that anyone asked for this,  but here are lutuniemi's pick'ems, you can thank me later:

Most points: Kriketsi17 

Most goals: Affelj & Joukki tied at 34, since molarit ei saa silmiänsäkään kiinni this season. 

Most assists: Kriketsi17

Most points by dman: Teemuyy

Most penalty minutes: eabunkaa (will destroy the current ECL Elite record in regular season PIM's) 

Best GAA: Sibelius

Best SVS%: Sibelius

Regular season winner: HAVU

ECL12 Champion: hREDS win Goons in 6

Playoff MVP: NikkeDangles

[ECL 12 Pro: Season Preview]

Well done with the analyzing and thank you for the very well written article. I hope you will continue to produce content like this for NHLGamer!
But I am a bit concerned on the lack of discussion on Lutunilkat. After all, we are talking about the most organic and sexiest team in the ECL. 
I am sure you can edit the article and add a new chapter:
 "Team that will skip Pro and promote straight to the Elite: Lutunilkat!"

Thank you! 😘

[ECL 12 Rulebook - now available]

[ECL 12 Season Information]

Lutunilkat would be interested in warm up tournament.