8) Write a short biography or story about your player. This could include background about how they came to the ISFL and how they’ve done so far, a story about their role in an exciting game, or anything else related to their experience in the league.
Juno Hu comes from a long line of poverty stricken Chinese. His family was held in re-education camps until Juno was 5 years old. With some help and good fortune, they were able to escape and make their way to America, landing in Long Beach, California. Juno received what some would call a very standard Chinese upbringing, involving heavy pressure by tiger parents to succeed in school and graduate with a college degree.
In grade school, what started as attempts to bully Juno by subjecting him to be the main target of the commonly played schoolyard game "Smear The Queer", Juno was exposed to a very primitive version of football, discovering one of his main, and perhaps only, passion in life. Growing up as quite an angry kid, Juno found the physicality of the game to be a great outlet and stress reliever. Alongside his peers, he learned the game of football, discovering that he had quite a knack for catching and sniffing out his opponents moves.
Unfortunately, due to his malnourished childhood, Juno had trouble keeping up with his peers in terms of physicality. His parents forbid him from playing football, citing brain damage as well as football serving as an undesired distraction from the main goal of education, but the fire was lit. Forging parental signatures, Juno signed the papers required to join his high school football team, where he earned a starting spot.
Though almost all of his opponents were bigger, faster, taller, and stronger, Juno lucked into an extremely cerebral coach and became a student of the game. His ability to anticipate and recognize plays was almost precognitive, allowing Juno to be a spectacular player given his underwhelming physical specifications. Unfortunately, even though he was one of the best players on his team, he was heavily overlooked by scouts due to his team's lack of success.
After producing perfect SAT scores, Juno was able to earn a scholarship to USC. His parents were thrilled to know that their son was college-bound, but the celebrations would be short-lived, as they discover Juno's hidden life of football, and the fact that Juno was dead set on choosing Athletic Training as his major. "Why not doctor??" they yelled, as Juno was then promptly disowned on his 18th birthday.
As Juno progressed through summer football training with his new college team, he found that he was still too underweight to play at the college level. On his own and with nothing to lose, Juno took out a loan, paying for a very controversial "mass gainz" program, gaining 44 lbs in about 3 months time. Due to some injuries to his fellow DBs, Juno found playing time in the last game of the season. His opponents, thinking they had an easy win, targeted Juno all throughout the game, but Juno made them pay. With 3 interceptions, 2 of them going for 6, Juno not only helped win the game, he earned himself a starting spot and some nation-wide clout, with his performance being featured on Sportscenter.
2 years later following a very productive college career, Juno has declared himself for the 2041 DSFL draft! Don't you know who he is by now?
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9) What is it that keeps you interested in the league? Is it your love of dot football, the community, a specific job or role you play, or something else? What do you like most about it? What could be improved?
This is my first sim league so this will be my first season and player, but I was intrigued right from the start. I found this place through the recently posted reddit thread. If Football Manager had an American version, I reckon it'd be my most played game of all time. Sadly it is Futbol Manager. I'd always been drawn to Franchise Mode and Create-a-Player mode in Madden, and have tried my hand at a few sim games such as Football Mogul and a few others that I can't remember. None of them are all that great because making a good football sim is extremely difficult. I'm a huge cerebral football head. Love talking football Xs and Os. I decided to make a CB because that was my favorite position back when I used to play.
The community seems great so far. Have had quite a few people already reach out to me and ask if I needed anything. I've always thought something like this would be super cool, come to find that it already exists and people have been hard at work making it a reality! Honestly as someone who used to run a D&D server of over 500 members, I respect the work it takes to keep something like this going, and I hope it continues to grow.
I've been reading through some of the past history and I love the comedy factor. "Josh Garden showing off his ripped body." I'm looking forward to absorbing it all. Unfortunately, the biggest issue is the lack of time I have. With my current circumstances, I'll only be able to dedicate on average maybe 5-10 hrs at most every week, in small chunks. I was initially drawn by the promise of being able to keep a relatively strong player with this small time investment, so hopefully that rings true. But maybe life will free up in the future and I can look into more things like being a scout, GM, and so on.
As for what can be improved? My first impressions are that this is as good as it gets unless you're able to make a fully custom built website with all the functionality built in. So this current setup is probably the next best thing. You guys have done a hell of a job given the tools you have. Perhaps in a few weeks, months, or years I might be able to make better suggestions since I am still new to it all.
Juno Hu comes from a long line of poverty stricken Chinese. His family was held in re-education camps until Juno was 5 years old. With some help and good fortune, they were able to escape and make their way to America, landing in Long Beach, California. Juno received what some would call a very standard Chinese upbringing, involving heavy pressure by tiger parents to succeed in school and graduate with a college degree.
In grade school, what started as attempts to bully Juno by subjecting him to be the main target of the commonly played schoolyard game "Smear The Queer", Juno was exposed to a very primitive version of football, discovering one of his main, and perhaps only, passion in life. Growing up as quite an angry kid, Juno found the physicality of the game to be a great outlet and stress reliever. Alongside his peers, he learned the game of football, discovering that he had quite a knack for catching and sniffing out his opponents moves.
Unfortunately, due to his malnourished childhood, Juno had trouble keeping up with his peers in terms of physicality. His parents forbid him from playing football, citing brain damage as well as football serving as an undesired distraction from the main goal of education, but the fire was lit. Forging parental signatures, Juno signed the papers required to join his high school football team, where he earned a starting spot.
Though almost all of his opponents were bigger, faster, taller, and stronger, Juno lucked into an extremely cerebral coach and became a student of the game. His ability to anticipate and recognize plays was almost precognitive, allowing Juno to be a spectacular player given his underwhelming physical specifications. Unfortunately, even though he was one of the best players on his team, he was heavily overlooked by scouts due to his team's lack of success.
After producing perfect SAT scores, Juno was able to earn a scholarship to USC. His parents were thrilled to know that their son was college-bound, but the celebrations would be short-lived, as they discover Juno's hidden life of football, and the fact that Juno was dead set on choosing Athletic Training as his major. "Why not doctor??" they yelled, as Juno was then promptly disowned on his 18th birthday.
As Juno progressed through summer football training with his new college team, he found that he was still too underweight to play at the college level. On his own and with nothing to lose, Juno took out a loan, paying for a very controversial "mass gainz" program, gaining 44 lbs in about 3 months time. Due to some injuries to his fellow DBs, Juno found playing time in the last game of the season. His opponents, thinking they had an easy win, targeted Juno all throughout the game, but Juno made them pay. With 3 interceptions, 2 of them going for 6, Juno not only helped win the game, he earned himself a starting spot and some nation-wide clout, with his performance being featured on Sportscenter.
2 years later following a very productive college career, Juno has declared himself for the 2041 DSFL draft! Don't you know who he is by now?
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9) What is it that keeps you interested in the league? Is it your love of dot football, the community, a specific job or role you play, or something else? What do you like most about it? What could be improved?
This is my first sim league so this will be my first season and player, but I was intrigued right from the start. I found this place through the recently posted reddit thread. If Football Manager had an American version, I reckon it'd be my most played game of all time. Sadly it is Futbol Manager. I'd always been drawn to Franchise Mode and Create-a-Player mode in Madden, and have tried my hand at a few sim games such as Football Mogul and a few others that I can't remember. None of them are all that great because making a good football sim is extremely difficult. I'm a huge cerebral football head. Love talking football Xs and Os. I decided to make a CB because that was my favorite position back when I used to play.
The community seems great so far. Have had quite a few people already reach out to me and ask if I needed anything. I've always thought something like this would be super cool, come to find that it already exists and people have been hard at work making it a reality! Honestly as someone who used to run a D&D server of over 500 members, I respect the work it takes to keep something like this going, and I hope it continues to grow.
I've been reading through some of the past history and I love the comedy factor. "Josh Garden showing off his ripped body." I'm looking forward to absorbing it all. Unfortunately, the biggest issue is the lack of time I have. With my current circumstances, I'll only be able to dedicate on average maybe 5-10 hrs at most every week, in small chunks. I was initially drawn by the promise of being able to keep a relatively strong player with this small time investment, so hopefully that rings true. But maybe life will free up in the future and I can look into more things like being a scout, GM, and so on.
As for what can be improved? My first impressions are that this is as good as it gets unless you're able to make a fully custom built website with all the functionality built in. So this current setup is probably the next best thing. You guys have done a hell of a job given the tools you have. Perhaps in a few weeks, months, or years I might be able to make better suggestions since I am still new to it all.