Tier 1 - Task 3 - 800+ Words - 10 TPE
The team that I am going to select for this is the Norfolk Seawolves as it is a team that I know a great deal about thanks to being the one who made the wiki page for it. That said my choices may very well be colored by my own personal biases and so apologies to those who feel snubbed during this process. Not that I expect anyone will really care about this, but just in case someone reads this who thinks they should be on the mountain for Norfolk please do not feel slighted. Thank you.
First and foremost is Scorp who was my general manager when I played for the Norfolk Seawolves, and who is also the longest serving general manager of the Norfolk Seawolves. He got his start under Iam Essellemm when Norfolk was brought out of contraction the first time. Although it took Scorp some time to get adapted to the league as a general manager he served a season as co before serving as head for a season back then.
What really earns Scorp the position as first overall for the mountain of Norfolk though is the most recent expansion that brought Norfolk back into the league with humans for S20. Scorp inherited a team that did not win a single game the previous season and so you can safely believe the bots behind the team were terrible. Turned it around in one season by getting 6 wins and making it into the playoffs for the first time in about half a dozen seasons.
Scorp stepped up though once he had an established team and set the team record for regular season wins in S21. What really makes that impressive to me is how massive the draft class was going into that, and the fact that Norfolk was able to capitalize shows how important the general managers were at the time. Remember this in a few paragraphs as I go over the co from this time who also deserves recognition. He also followed it up with another record tying season for regular season wins and tying the record for most consecutive playoff appearances for the team.
Scorp's partner for those last two seasons is one of my other favorite people in the league Juniped or Juni as I call them. Juni became co just in time to have to help scout the over two hundred players that were recruited as members of the S22 regression class. He knocked it out of the park with how well he helped out as someone who has both seen the war room since then, and as someone who quite literally was recruited to the team by him. Genuinely speaking Juni was a big reason why I put Norfolk as my number one landing spot going into that draft and he did a wonderful job making the team locker room a welcoming place.
Those two are the absolute locks in my opinion for this mountain as they contributed to the best three season stretch in Norfolk Seawolves history, although Juni only as a player for the first season. That said they were part of essentially an expansion team and brought it back to relevance in the league immediately. Honestly an absolutely outstanding job and I love the work that the two have done for the team. Even after having stepped down as general managers they have still been active in helping Norfolk and I just so appreciate what they have done for the team.
Now this next one might be a less popular choice for the veterans of the team, but this is my point task and I do what I want. Third on the mountain is going to be the most friendly member of the Seawolves in my experience and the current general manager J0EB. The team had a ton of players get called up before he took over and he still helped lead the team to the longest opening win streak in team history. Also broke the record that Scorp and Juni had set for most regular season wins in his first season as general manager. Combined with the fact that he plans to stay on for at least one more season and I feel comfortable giving him the nod as he will be the second longest tenured head general manager of the team.
That just details what he has done since he started as a general manager, but even before then he contributed as a key player for S21. Throughout S22 he was an absolutely integral member of the war room and locker room. His positive attitude is a key part of the success of the reborn Norfolk as he has always kept the locker room going in a good direction. I dare say he might just be the ideal general manager at the DSFL level.
Fourth choice was honestly a hard one as you have the founder Oles to consider; Iam Essellemm who brought it out of contraction the first time, but overall I have to go with a newer choice for reasons that I will explain in greater detail a bit later. Blasoon the user behind Suleiman Ramza and the current co is my choice for the fourth member of the mountain. Three seasons as a quarterback for the Seawolves makes him one of the longest tenured players on the team and that is what puts him over the single season general managers in my opinion. He has been a consistent presence in the war room since his first season and now as co has done a good job working with J0EB to get Norfolk HFA for the first time in their history to my knowledge.
Blasoon has been a bright spot in the locker room for as long as I have been attached to the team and especially in recent seasons. He has steadily become more active in the league and with the team as things have progressed. This season his player Suleiman Ramza is arguably the best quarterback in the DSFL this season plus as co he has helped the team to ten wins and HFA throughout the playoffs. Only one season in charge and as a co could be a knock, but he has done a truly outstanding job in that time.
Now two users from S22 and all four coming after S14 might be odd for a team, but I have a good reasoning behind this. Leading into S20 the Norfolk Seawolves had never stayed staffed for three seasons in a row, and now they are going into their fifth active season with four consecutive playoff appearances. My logic for it is that the team could be considered to have been an expansion team as of S20 and that as such the users that truly brought it into the league deserve to be honored for that. Thus the four most important users to that five season stretch of success deserve to be recognized as members of the mountain.
All that said I do want to shout out Oles for creating the team and taking them to their first Ultimini. Iamslm22 for recruiting Scorp and being a positive presence in the locker room. Bex for being a beautiful soul and one of the backbones of the locker room since it returned. Isa for being a great mentor to the team throughout my entire tenure there. Also Lightnoir for bringing us the joy that is Doug Norfolk. They were all users that I considered for this and I think they deserve recognition for their contributions to the team even if not as members of the mountain.
The team that I am going to select for this is the Norfolk Seawolves as it is a team that I know a great deal about thanks to being the one who made the wiki page for it. That said my choices may very well be colored by my own personal biases and so apologies to those who feel snubbed during this process. Not that I expect anyone will really care about this, but just in case someone reads this who thinks they should be on the mountain for Norfolk please do not feel slighted. Thank you.
First and foremost is Scorp who was my general manager when I played for the Norfolk Seawolves, and who is also the longest serving general manager of the Norfolk Seawolves. He got his start under Iam Essellemm when Norfolk was brought out of contraction the first time. Although it took Scorp some time to get adapted to the league as a general manager he served a season as co before serving as head for a season back then.
What really earns Scorp the position as first overall for the mountain of Norfolk though is the most recent expansion that brought Norfolk back into the league with humans for S20. Scorp inherited a team that did not win a single game the previous season and so you can safely believe the bots behind the team were terrible. Turned it around in one season by getting 6 wins and making it into the playoffs for the first time in about half a dozen seasons.
Scorp stepped up though once he had an established team and set the team record for regular season wins in S21. What really makes that impressive to me is how massive the draft class was going into that, and the fact that Norfolk was able to capitalize shows how important the general managers were at the time. Remember this in a few paragraphs as I go over the co from this time who also deserves recognition. He also followed it up with another record tying season for regular season wins and tying the record for most consecutive playoff appearances for the team.
Scorp's partner for those last two seasons is one of my other favorite people in the league Juniped or Juni as I call them. Juni became co just in time to have to help scout the over two hundred players that were recruited as members of the S22 regression class. He knocked it out of the park with how well he helped out as someone who has both seen the war room since then, and as someone who quite literally was recruited to the team by him. Genuinely speaking Juni was a big reason why I put Norfolk as my number one landing spot going into that draft and he did a wonderful job making the team locker room a welcoming place.
Those two are the absolute locks in my opinion for this mountain as they contributed to the best three season stretch in Norfolk Seawolves history, although Juni only as a player for the first season. That said they were part of essentially an expansion team and brought it back to relevance in the league immediately. Honestly an absolutely outstanding job and I love the work that the two have done for the team. Even after having stepped down as general managers they have still been active in helping Norfolk and I just so appreciate what they have done for the team.
Now this next one might be a less popular choice for the veterans of the team, but this is my point task and I do what I want. Third on the mountain is going to be the most friendly member of the Seawolves in my experience and the current general manager J0EB. The team had a ton of players get called up before he took over and he still helped lead the team to the longest opening win streak in team history. Also broke the record that Scorp and Juni had set for most regular season wins in his first season as general manager. Combined with the fact that he plans to stay on for at least one more season and I feel comfortable giving him the nod as he will be the second longest tenured head general manager of the team.
That just details what he has done since he started as a general manager, but even before then he contributed as a key player for S21. Throughout S22 he was an absolutely integral member of the war room and locker room. His positive attitude is a key part of the success of the reborn Norfolk as he has always kept the locker room going in a good direction. I dare say he might just be the ideal general manager at the DSFL level.
Fourth choice was honestly a hard one as you have the founder Oles to consider; Iam Essellemm who brought it out of contraction the first time, but overall I have to go with a newer choice for reasons that I will explain in greater detail a bit later. Blasoon the user behind Suleiman Ramza and the current co is my choice for the fourth member of the mountain. Three seasons as a quarterback for the Seawolves makes him one of the longest tenured players on the team and that is what puts him over the single season general managers in my opinion. He has been a consistent presence in the war room since his first season and now as co has done a good job working with J0EB to get Norfolk HFA for the first time in their history to my knowledge.
Blasoon has been a bright spot in the locker room for as long as I have been attached to the team and especially in recent seasons. He has steadily become more active in the league and with the team as things have progressed. This season his player Suleiman Ramza is arguably the best quarterback in the DSFL this season plus as co he has helped the team to ten wins and HFA throughout the playoffs. Only one season in charge and as a co could be a knock, but he has done a truly outstanding job in that time.
Now two users from S22 and all four coming after S14 might be odd for a team, but I have a good reasoning behind this. Leading into S20 the Norfolk Seawolves had never stayed staffed for three seasons in a row, and now they are going into their fifth active season with four consecutive playoff appearances. My logic for it is that the team could be considered to have been an expansion team as of S20 and that as such the users that truly brought it into the league deserve to be honored for that. Thus the four most important users to that five season stretch of success deserve to be recognized as members of the mountain.
All that said I do want to shout out Oles for creating the team and taking them to their first Ultimini. Iamslm22 for recruiting Scorp and being a positive presence in the locker room. Bex for being a beautiful soul and one of the backbones of the locker room since it returned. Isa for being a great mentor to the team throughout my entire tenure there. Also Lightnoir for bringing us the joy that is Doug Norfolk. They were all users that I considered for this and I think they deserve recognition for their contributions to the team even if not as members of the mountain.
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