Mikka

I'll also add this. Elite broadcast viewership seems to hover around 90-150 viewers or so every time I happen to open Twitch. That's basically nothing, and I'd wager most of the people watching are either current or aspiring Elite players. We can listen to the top players and make the game play how they want it to, so that it's the most enjoyable for them to play and watch. But if someone thinks the viewers will automatically follow... Just take a moment to reflect on the overall state and health of this great game made by our beloved friend EA Sports. Growing the viewership has to come from outside the Elite bubble, so don't y'all think listening to those people as well would be appropriate? Also, from what I've gathered, seems like a huge chunk of players below the Elite level see those players as arrogant and full of themselves. Take a moment to reflect on that as well. What do you think you are doing about that appearance in this thread for example? Try to look at it from the outside, if you read these messages and didn't know yourselves and your peers at all, what would your perception of them be like? Would it make you want to watch them play this state of the art video game product? If you actually explain your viewpoints in a calm manner, maybe the authority of being a top player with tons of hours put in the game will do you something. Not explaining anything, just saying "we're the best so we know the best + we don't actually care what bans you peasants down there play with, just don't come here affecting our experience". Does that help with one of the main points that shows up here, growing the scene and making Elite viewership skyrocket? Does that make these lower level players, prime target customers for watching you play, want to share their opinions on things? How do you reach these people if you aren't willing to listen to them, just straight up attacking their persona and skill level?

There's been some polls historically, but looks like some of the results are hidden atm.

I have little to no interest in actually engaging in this shouting match involving some copy&paste answers and some really well put together arguments, but I’ll just drop this extremely constructive piece here: Seems to me like some people are talking about how more goals = more entertainment = don’t ban scoring abilities but ban trucu. But oh wait, don’t actually ban stick em up because then we can’t poke check = defend = there will be a lot less goals than without it. Hm, how about that? Food for thought 🤔 Also on another note, I thought we as a society were kinda done with this uncritical american idolization some decades ago. If you want change, justify your point of view in a proper way. The language never has to be perfect, but if your message lacks substance & consistency…. To reiterate and put it simply in other words: ”NA does it, why don’t we” is not a standalone argument for anything. Substitute NA with whoever and my point remains. To quote an old idiom, if your friend jumped off a cliff, would you too? Have fun fighting, boys.

Looks like this time the results are in the wrong order even when looking through the schedule, so it is what it is, but anyways I’m sorry to say SSK went from 1-2 down to a 3-2 lead & then 4-3 in the Otukset series So no 1-3–>4-3 this time

twitch.tv/otuksetnhl

Minor correction, Otukset's loss was actually game 2 . Games get reported nonchronologically way too often, so I recommend using the schedule page to see the results in the right order (still not foolproof, but more so than the team page). Enjoyed the article though, keep up the good work

Somewhat agree with this. First of all I gotta say I know first hand how much effort these articles need to be this well together put, and I appreciate all the work you writers put in as volunteers, solely for the love of the game ❤️ But as Migu said, the articles & Wraparound episodes could maybe be honed to complement each other a bit better, with these in-(regular)season articles perhaps focusing even more on the big picture, or megatrends within the league if I may use a semi disgusting term Meanwhile still maintaining an easily digestible & interesting format. So in short I guess what I’m trying to suggest is that these reg. szn articles could be relatively short & sweet big picture type overviews/reports, that would bring a distinctly different angle than the Wraparound episodes which are already decent weekly recaps. I do think these are worth keeping, but I’d try to tune the format. The size of Pro brings a lot of challenges & time constraints in itself, so I do get that it’s a tall order – just trying to give some broad food for thought. It’s great that there’s a good amount of content now, but turning overlapping parts into complementary ones would improve the quality even more! E: Gotta say I love the addition of ”important games coming up”! Exactly the type of thing I think could be more in focus in these articles.

I don't think the regular vibration gives anything at all, tho admittedly I haven't really noticed it anymore (which probably means that I've gotten used to getting no vibration). Except for sometimes during a stoppage, there's been that extremely strong vibration which has basically just matched the song being played at the arena. So I assume it's the enhanced vibration "leaking through", it kind of extends the arena audio/atmosphere Edit: Well, this is kinda embarassing... I went to double check & my vibration setting was "Off". I'm not admitting it, but I must've missclicked on day1 . Turned it back on & now the regular vibration seems to do something at least (feels a bit off still, but that may be inside my own head). But, that still means I've been getting those occasional glimpses of enhanced vibration with the setting fully turned off. I also tried playing with the enhanced vibration turned on now, and that odd vibration I described is indeed the one you (sometimes) get with that. As a general feedback, I'll add that having every single stride on the ice vibrate makes the enhanced setting unusable, even if there could be some other cool effects. Right now it's constant vibration when the game is on, but when for example a goal is scored it just ends. Just my opinion, but the enhanced effects should pretty much only happen when big things happen (=match the arena atmosphere), meanwhile right now it seems to be the inverse. Obviously not a thing that is or should be anywhere near their top priorities, but I'm just yapping.

I would've guessed that this would work - still haven't tested it outright but... we loaded into a private game vs an opponent we hadn't played a single time this year (grudge off, didn't result in a grudge match) --> game either froze or crashed for everyone before puck drop --> (so everyone booted the game) --> new search, grudge still off --> Grudge MatchTM --> 👍 After the game we went straight into a new one against the same opponents (no dr boot or game boot or anything), and what do you know, another grudge match. Oh, and after which, we started searching with ECLPro (=changed password), grudge still off, got the same opponents again, aaaaand GRUDGE MATCHTM

Some other issues: - Regular vibration setting doesn't work (results in no vibration at all, except for 2-3 times since launch I've had the enhanced vibration effects happen during a stoppage in play) (<-- with vibration turned off****) - Even with the new scoreclock, how much of a penalty is left is still not always displayed (usually from the beginning of a period until it appears after the first stoppage (like last year), but occasionally in other situations too I think)

I don’t have a recording at this point, but it has happened multiple times now. First game goes as it should, no grudge, but the 2nd game in a row against the same opponent is a grudge match without anyone having touched the settings in between.

We actually had a Grudge Match happen tonight even with both teams having the setting turned off

Dunno about ability bans yet, but Grudge MatchTM should probably be turned off for ECL

What a life 😮‍💨 Free for all future tournaments. I’ve played LD for the past while, but C or LW pretty much always before that. I speak Finnish/English(/Swedish, rusty but should be ok I guess 😴). At least Pro lvl would be nice. Playing would low key be kinda nice as well, but I do realize the reality of time, so I’ll listen to backup offers too Hmu here / PSN (Mikkaah) / DC/Twitter (xMikka31) / wherever E: Can also consider RW/RD, just want the right stylistical fit.

The slots can be left empty, yeah.