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I agree the Lite playoff system could use some tweaking though, good original post!

This is incorrect. There is a game report (WO) missing in the system, resulting in RAKETTIPUTKET only having 17 GP in the standings. In reality, they got an additional 2 points and ended up as the #3 in the group and was then seeded #12 to the playoffs, facing sead #21. Nordic Eagles, finishing #4 in the group, was seeded as team #16 in the playoffs - that is correct.

ECL 5 Pro Playoffs - FCM report I'd like to start off by thanking all the viewers who tuned in to CoalMinersTV on Twitch for Games 1-3 on Sunday, helping us set a new record for number of simultaneous viewers (47) and pushing us past the 50-limit when it comes to subscribers (51). A big 'ol thank you to everyone out there As you may have seen, things didn't quite turn out the way we had hoped in those three games. We lost all three games by scores of 2-3 (OT), 0-4 and 2-4 while not looking like the team that managed to fight their way through the first round. Nordic Stars were crushing us, and we knew it. So, for games 4-7, me and assistant captain @LastMandalorian decided to get back to basics and eliminate all distractions. No witty gameday posts, no promotion of the games, no stream. Just two teams going head-to-head for a chance to make it to the final four in ECL 5 Pro. To our complete shock and utter joy, it worked. For four games yesterday, this squad of Miners came as close as it ever had to playing perfect hockey. Now, I wont bore you with every little detail, but if you are curious - here is a short recap how it went down. Game 4: Things looked grim as captain @The_Alpha_Furyan took a penalty only 14 in-game seconds in (yeah, I know), but we battled back and managed to get up 2-0 in the first period. NS got a goal in the second but we held on for a 2-1 W. 1-3 series. Game 5: Never did things look more hopeless than in Game 5. NS got up to a 2-0 lead and carried it into the second period. The comeback began in the 2nd period with a behind-the-back deflection goal from series MVP, center LastMandalorian. With 5 minutes left in the 3rd, LW @PatzyDrake timed a long pass perfectly in front of the net and 2-2 was a fact. In the Overtime, NS had a shot ring off the post before "Mando" carried the puck down the left wing and straight-up sniped it bar down. 3-2 OTW and 2-3 series. Game 6: Another 2-0 lead after the first period led us to victory in this one. RD @minokin was the first star here with 1+1. Another 2-1 W and series tied at 3. Game 7: Our best game of the playoffs. RW @pentsaa led the way with 1+2 and G @Onecorner95 pitched a shutout for a 4-0 W. 4-3 series win. Thanks to every player on Nordic Stars for a tremendous series. I don't think I will ever forget this experience, lame as that sounds. On to the next round where we will face Unlucky Boys HC

ECL 5 Pro Playoffs, Round 2 After shockingly defeating Shameful Knights by a 4-1 series total in the first round, FCM returns to playoff action tonight versus Nordic Stars - still the underdog! Nordic Stars - Falun Coal Miners, Games 1-3 TONIGHT (Dec 3rd), 21 CET: @PatzyDrake - @LastMandalorian - @iscojr94 @The_Alpha_Furyan - @Meeertz @Onecorner95 Nordic Stars - Falun Coal Miners, Rest of series (4-7) Tomorrow (Dec 4th), 21 CET: @PatzyDrake - @LastMandalorian - @pentsaa @The_Alpha_Furyan - @minokin @Onecorner95 Stream: https://www.twitch.tv/CoalMinersTV . If you do end up visiting our stream and happen to like our mad shoutenings as we struggle to advance in these competitive playoffs, do make sure to give us a follow! We are currently sitting pretty at 46 followers so we just need 4 more to reach 50, at which point we will reach Twitch Affiliate! Now, I have no idea what that means but it sounds pretty cool so lets go, eh?

NOR -> Unknown -> NOR -> ....

You are of course allowed to have an opinion, we encourage it! Just as others are allowed to think that the manner in which you voice those opinions comes across as somewhat arrogant and condescending. Maybe you didn't mean to be disrespectful, maybe you are trying to save face here - to me it doesn't matter, what is done is done and it is what it is. I understand that you want your friend Doumi to be featured, I do too. He is a tremendous EASHL player, just like you are Ape. If I remember correctly, I believe the term "next superstar" that keeps getting thrown around about xDoumi actually came from one of the texts I wrote a few months ago. I could be wrong though, I just have a vague memory that I wrote something like that. I will leave you with this thought: When you came into this article and started talking down the people who are featured ("...players that the author feels haven't quite gotten their time to shine at NHLGamer or players that aren't getting full credit for the skill they bring to the table" - from the article) because you thought it would be fun, how did you think that was going to make you look? Or did you not care at all?

When we start up our next series: "Arrogant children in the community who have no respect for others" - I guarantee you will be our first call! Peace and love

10/10 - can confirm

Smart money is on installment two going live tomorrow

Swedish national team right there

Welcome to the Swedish connection @xDoumi!

Då ska vi se hur många taggar man minns och kan få in här NOR och Lav verkar redan vara på bollen och FFR, NL, DEK samt Lite har jag för dålig koll på tyvärr, men: FCM: @iscojr94 @PatzyDrake @LastMandalorian @Onecorner95 @Meeertz @minokin SYN: @Norpee @Egyptologen @Pelle3000 @Supremski @berbaboon17 @DUNZA @Gustafsson7 112: @pnordetun @JaikenK @Bjono NOS: @cHIIMEERa @Rullstolskalas @Floor17 @ma0niii @MajLeN-Gaming

A cruise? Jesus, people would die

Haha, good catch. Best of 7 as previous seasons. I will add it to the article, thanks

@izzo1706

@MartindalexC , I dont disagree enough with any particular point in your post to write a lengthy reply. Well written post, you present your argument well.

Okay @MartindalexC, I've been sitting on the sidelines for most of the posts where you put down NHLGamer but there are a few things I felt the need to adress here. To make it easier for myself, I am going to stay mostly within the parameters of "content" as I cant really comment on the parts that relates to coding. "Write what you know", as the saying goes. First of all, the continous comparison to Valve throughout your post is not only grossly unfair (a company valued at 2-4 billion dollars with hundreds, if not thousands, of staffers vs. 10 guys who are - at best - available at different times of the day, outside of working regular jobs and spending time with families/partners/kids), it is also flawed in the sense that with Valve you are paying quite a substantial amount of money for specific products which absolutely puts you in a position where you can demand better if the specific products you payed for arent living up to the billing. Note that I am not saying that you don't have the right to demand excellence from us as well, having a critical voice is often good to keep you on your toes, it is just that your tone is perceived by most us as quite demeaning as you are seemingly suggesting that we are not doing our absolutely darndest to make this an enjoyable place to be. That isn't exactly inspiring. What you are looking at right now with NHLGamer is a free-to-use "product" that is currently being run by a limited staff, on their free time, fueled by nothing other than the passion for hockey gaming and the urge to create something cool for both regular users and complete newcomers to the NHLGamer community. Maybe that balance has been shifted towards newcomers a bit lately, it is actually possible. We have seen quite the increase in our membership totals so perhaps the correlation is that the more time and focus spent on welcoming newcomers, the more members are enticed to join. Does that mean the focus will not shift back to putting our core, regular members in focus? Absolutely NOT. Never, in my opinion. The core community is just that, core, and should never be forgotten. I do think you are coming at this very much from your point of view as a member of the core community who's been around for years. That makes sense, what other view would you have? I was the same when I came here. If you look at some of the error report threads from back in 15/16 I was one of the more vocal guys in pointing out errors and stuff. While that is valuable information and will continue to be helpful, you know what is tremendously more helpful? Actually joining up to work on the website. I saw plenty of flaws in the website (one of them being the lack of "journalistic" content) so I decided to join up to help create some. You seem to be a man with a very specific vision for how the website should be run, you are most welcome to join on a Skype call with the rest of the Staff to tell us how you can help out in making the website better than it currently is. Moving on, you are mostly right that there hasn't been any major features added to the website since the website re-modeling and API addition in March (even though I would argue giving hundreds of Russians the ability to participate in 6v6 gaming on NHLGamer is a pretty major one) but that is mostly because the Staff have been focusing on various other ways of improving the NHLGamer experience. We have been talking to sponsors (which we managed to get for the Summer Cup), expanding our presence in social media and news outlets and finally partnering up with major players in the gaming landscape to create tournaments with cash prizes involved. Now, I get that this maybe isn't the priority that you personally would have wanted, but with a limited staff we can only do so much and be in so many places at once before we crumble. Furthermore, the links you posted are ABSOLUTELY content. Again, maybe not the content you personally would have gone for, but it is content and to call it anything other than what it is, is quite insulting to the people who have spent days or hours or in the case with the video, WEEKS, on creating it. Having the site look nice and having articles that "look good to outsiders" isn't in any way, shape or form an attempt to steer the project away from improving the experience for the regular ECL player to instead having just "surface shit" as you make it sound, it is simply a case of the coding making the site look nice and the articles perhaps being more journalistically styled than player-to-player due to the writer behind them prefering to write it that way. Again, I respect if this isn't your cup of tea or if you feel that our focus should be shifted to other areas, but there needs to be an aspect of fun involved in creating stuff for the website because if you just expect people to "grunt" through the work like you might at a regular everyday job, you'd soon find the Staffs numbers dwindling even further down. As for the "writers room thing", you know why I created that article (if you'll allow me to get a bit personal)? It was because I wanted and needed help. I created the article in combination with Max because we both felt like we needed help with writing articles that could be fun for the community to read (again, the initiative stemmed from a want to create enjoyment within the community) because we both found it increasingly difficult to juggle the 4-8+ hours it sometimes takes creating a proper article with our everyday lives. Again, it was not an attempt to take focus away from anything else, it was a simple call for help because many of us had previously worked ourselves to exhaustion trying to create things for the community. You know how many people expressed an interest in helping out with the Writers Room? 4. You know how many have written more than a single article? 1. Actually I am just in the process of editing that writers work and you will most likely see the first parts of his 6-part series released next week. You say we have lost content from previous ECLs. Maybe we have. Speaking for myself, I simply havent had the time I used to, to produce proper content (or not-content, as you called it) this ECL. When I created and wrote all of the "Whos hot and Whos not", they each took 8-10 hours (if not more) to research, write and release. Having a writers room would have cut down on that, but sadly it was not to be. Maybe I am drifting off topic, apologies if so. I do think your post has merit even if I disagree with how you voice your concerns. I just very much take offense to the picture you are trying to paint where you make it seem that the Staff isnt doing enough... when I know that more than one of us have invested considerable sums of money in the project, not to mention enough time to work ourselves into the wall a few times over just trying to create the best possible NHLGamer website we can. Now, about that Skype call...?

Hello, While you are correct in that there hasn't been any smaller scale 1v1 tournaments on the scale we perhaps anticipated, NHLGamer.com did just a few months ago announce two major Versus-tournaments with prize money involved: the eSM (Finnish Championships = Finns only) and IS Cup (All Europeans eligible to enter!). eSM was held in October and while the IS Cup qualifiers are over, the finals have yet to be played. The IS Cup will be held in a few weeks on location in Finland. That said, we are of course also looking into developing our own "always-running" 1v1 league. We just need to make sure we are able to allocate the proper resources to it.