ADDIT'S PROFILE

author=Marrend
Geeze, I feel like such a minority person by not entirely hating really liking Dragon Quarter.

Don’t let Liberty hear you say that, Marrend, or she’ll cut you.

You better run for the hills, now.

Man, I’m so disappointed; I really thought that this was going to be the Capitals year this year, but I guess not... I’m guessing the owner of the Capitals must be hitting the booze real hard right now, lol.

But congratulations, GreatRedSpirit, you did it again...despite the Flames and Blue Jackets being long gone before the end of the first round.

And, hey, I managed to get the same number points that I did last year with 14, but at least I came in third place this time around compared to fourth place last year. Progress!

author=Hexatona
As long as I beat Kenton, I'm good.

Hey, you did. Congrats!

Kentona had the worst drop off in points this year out of everybody: he had 22 in 2016, which was good enough for 2nd place overall, and went all the way down to 6 points total this year for last place. If Edmonton had managed to win tonight, there then would have been a small chance that he could have gotten more than 10 points to finish off the pool and maybe even passed Hexatona and Shinan for 5th place overall - but alas...that was not meant to be.

author=GreatRedSpirit
Although maybe next year we should change up how we do it to do each round as it comes instead of the whole thing all at once. That way it isn't over before it's halfway done.

The only problem that I see with doing that, with picking teams before and after each round and not just picking them all at once like we’ve been doing this whole time, is that the player or players in the lead coming into the conference finals or finals might just pick the same teams and number of games as the player or players below them in the standings that are still mathematically in it to reassure them the win. At least with picking them all at once, there’s a greater chance that type of stuff won’t happen, so I like how things are currently going right now. Besides, this year came down to the wire in the second round between half the players in the pool, compared to last year were it just came down to just two, so I think this type of format is still working pretty good.

I have been thinking of a possible addition we could do for next year where before the start of a game 3 you get two last minute changes that each player can use to switch out the outcome of your picks or use one of them to change the number of games a series will go to. The only downsides are that each last minute change you use will cost you a full point off your total, and you only get two of them for the entire pool to use, so there’s a bit of strategy of when or where to use them. Do you save them for the second round or beyond when they’re hardly any teams left, or maybe try to earn a ton of points off your Stanley Cup pick in a particular round by changing the correct number of games to something else? Either way, it's still a work in progress idea that I have, but it’s something that I was thinking about maybe implementing for next year. But I'm open to any ideas or possible suggestions.

I’m a bit late on this, but whatevers:

Player Pool Update:

The Ottawa Senators have just punched their ticket to the Eastern Conference Finals by defeating the New York Rangers in 6 Games.

GreatRedSpirit is the only one who predicted a Senators win, and receives 2 Points for his prediction. GreatRedSpirit also picks up 2 Additional Points for 4 Points Total for correctly predicting that not only would the Senators win that series in 6 but that they would also move on, too.

GreatRedSpirit is now currently in the driver seat with a grand total of 20 points coming into what may be the final group of games to determine a possible winner of the pool.

- The full bracket and standings have now been updated!

All right…so here’s how it goes for tomorrow:

• If the Penguins somehow avoid the collapse and beat the Capitals tomorrow in Game 7, Addit, Ankylo and Cap_H would all then be officially eliminated from contention, and GreatRedSpirit would win the pool flat out right there, regardless of what happens in the Oilers and Ducks game.

• However, a Capitals win combined with an Oilers win would then officially eliminate both Ankylo and GreatRedSpirit from contention, setting up a final showdown between Cap_H and Addit for the title in the next round.

• And, finally, a Capitals win combined with a Ducks win would then officially eliminate Cap_H from contention, and it would then setup a three man race between Addit, Ankylo and GreatRedSpirit, with the next round determining the winner (or winners) of the pool.

Gentlemen…I wish you the best of luck tomorrow. :)

@ Tuomo_L - Oh yeah, I remember a bit of Dooms 5 and played the original demo back then and actually thought it wasn’t all that bad from what I remember. I mean, the game was still very early in development from the build I played back then - but I thought it had some promise to it.

And, yeah, good idea about possibly just combining the first three games of the original series and just remaking it into one sweet little package, because the first three games, at least to me, were not very particularly that great or have aged very well, IMO. It was the 4th entry in the series that just really smashed the door open and made this series into what it is and what could have been if it had continued.

Well, whenever you do decide to bring the series back and plan on diving into it again after you finish up your current projects, I hope you plan on making announcements and showcasing your work for it on RMN as well, ‘cause that would be great.

Well…guess it’s time to finally start commercialising Hero’s Realm now and making a decent living off that, lol.

But in all seriousness, I’m sad to hear about you losing your job, man. It always sucks when these types of things happen, especially out of the blue and seemingly out of nowhere. Hopefully you’ll find yourself some decent employment soon.