1) The league has a rich and fascinating history, and our perspectives on it differ from person to person. In 800 words or more, describe any significant non-playoffs moment in ISFL or DSFL history, whether you were around for it or not. Describe the context, the significant members, and the events. What exactly made this event so famous (or infamous) and why does it deserve to be remembered?
'twas a cold, dark October night. The children were put to bed and their very old grandfather was kissing them goodnight. He had seen it all. The birth of the league, the er multis, the Las Vegas Legion debacle... and yet, his stories never seemed enough.
"Gwandpa! Gwandpa! Tell us a scawy stowy befowe bed!"
"Well my angels, I don't think you are quite old enough for what I have in mind... so how about I tell you about that time we discovered that the entirety of Arizona, well more or less, were c l o n e s? The guy even made up personalities for all of them, so me, I didn't see it. And I won a championship with that team. He was so good... Never saw it coming. But they had proof, straight from the computer. Could scarcely believe it. He was such a good guy..."
As Grandpa seemed to slip away in his thoughts, young Timmy made sure he'd get what he wanted.
"No, we heawd about this one alweady. Something scawier!"
"Right... Well, I was also part of the Legion Retires Many story but I don't quite remember what happened... My general manager posted a thread where he said I retired with many of my friends but I never said accepted or whatever loophole they used so I just kept playing... and I won another championship with the spooky Yellowknife Wraiths so I guess it all worked out in the end. Damn, I was on the team every time something shitty happened, maybe it was me all along???"
"Gwampa, you told us this one too. You and youw fwiends wewe tiwed of how the league was. It was wigged and it was no fun. You twied to make it change!"
"Oh, yeah right... Well, I guess it's time for you to go to sleep, Timmy. I have nothing else to say that might scare you!"
"What about the Bachelorette Event, Grandfather?", Bobby said, from the darkest corner of the room. He had stayed silent so far, so Grandpa jumped.
"Jesus, Bobby. My heart. Um, yes, the Bachelorette Event... You guys are too young to hear about such horrors."
"No, you tell us the stowy! Now!"
"Okay but your mother CANNOT know about this. So, it was a normal September 17th morning. I was at work pretending to work and one of my teammates, a particularly angry panda, hit us with lol you guys see the Bachelorette announcement? We obviously had no idea what he was talking about so McKenzie just said I've never seen that show. That's also what I thought. Even if he didn't seem like the kind of person to watch a show like the Bachelorette, I thought, well, for it to be that popular I guess it needs all kinds of people watching it so good for him if he likes it."
"The story, old man." Bobby was getting impatient and he really was one of the weirdest three year olds you'd ever encounter.
"I'm getting to it! I opened the link he posted and it was an official league announcement. I started reading and I couldn't believe my eyes. They actually came up with a special Bachelorette Event to cyber date the league's commissioner."
"Commissioner Bex. Now that's a scary villain," Bobby said.
"Damn, that's harsh. But yeah... Anyway, the replies in that thread were some of the best sim league comedy/drama I read in a very long time. People were mostly ashamed and wanted to leave or retire, said they made a mistake joining the league and some people even came back from the dead."
"The dead?!" Timmy exclaimed, visibly scared.
"Yeah, people we hadn't seen in months, sometimes years, came back to say how cringey this was and how glad they were they weren't on the league anymore... or how the ISFL was destroying everything the founder, Ballerstorm, ever did."
"Oh, shit", Bobby said.
"It wasn't the busiest thread I ever saw, I mean, I saw thunderdome stuff going to 30 pages before I had the time to read anything. This one got to a healthy 13, 14 pages, before it was finally moved from Announcements to Media, which is where it should have been posted in the first place, although you could argue that it shouldn't have been posted at all... I thought nobody would apply for this but people actually did, including some of my teammates who probably did it for the lolz, or at least I choose to believe that, so we got a peak at the questions that were asked to be able to sign up and it was even more cringey than the forum post itself. And they all had to be 400 words long so they got quite memey as well."
"What happened next gwampa?"
"Well, someone from head office locked the thread before deleting it in its entirety. So it exists now only in my memory. Then, HO announced that this was never a league sanctionned event and the like 2 people who wasted their time applying were pretty sad. I had learned from a trusted HO source that it was true, the league never agreed to any of this so it was just a few people who thought this was a good idea and went with it. How wrong they were... Some people to this day are still convinced HO is responsible for the horrors of the Bachelorette Event but I think it was just a rogue element within its core that made it all happen."
"Do... do you think they'll be back?" Timmy asked, covering his face with his Megaman blanket.
"Probably Timmy... but it's difficult to imagine they will inflict such horrors on the league ever again. I think it's important everyone remembers this event and the damage it could have caused to the ISFL."
"What the hell's going on here? Why aren't you guys in bed? Da, did you take your pills?" Mom arrived in the room like a ghost and scared the shit out of Grandpa, Timmy and Bobby. "Boys, you gotta stop asking your grandpa for those stories, you know he has PTSD."
"Yes, and the Prospects Bowl twitter said it could help me... no one can help me." Grandpa started sobbing and left the room.
The end.
'twas a cold, dark October night. The children were put to bed and their very old grandfather was kissing them goodnight. He had seen it all. The birth of the league, the er multis, the Las Vegas Legion debacle... and yet, his stories never seemed enough.
"Gwandpa! Gwandpa! Tell us a scawy stowy befowe bed!"
"Well my angels, I don't think you are quite old enough for what I have in mind... so how about I tell you about that time we discovered that the entirety of Arizona, well more or less, were c l o n e s? The guy even made up personalities for all of them, so me, I didn't see it. And I won a championship with that team. He was so good... Never saw it coming. But they had proof, straight from the computer. Could scarcely believe it. He was such a good guy..."
As Grandpa seemed to slip away in his thoughts, young Timmy made sure he'd get what he wanted.
"No, we heawd about this one alweady. Something scawier!"
"Right... Well, I was also part of the Legion Retires Many story but I don't quite remember what happened... My general manager posted a thread where he said I retired with many of my friends but I never said accepted or whatever loophole they used so I just kept playing... and I won another championship with the spooky Yellowknife Wraiths so I guess it all worked out in the end. Damn, I was on the team every time something shitty happened, maybe it was me all along???"
"Gwampa, you told us this one too. You and youw fwiends wewe tiwed of how the league was. It was wigged and it was no fun. You twied to make it change!"
"Oh, yeah right... Well, I guess it's time for you to go to sleep, Timmy. I have nothing else to say that might scare you!"
"What about the Bachelorette Event, Grandfather?", Bobby said, from the darkest corner of the room. He had stayed silent so far, so Grandpa jumped.
"Jesus, Bobby. My heart. Um, yes, the Bachelorette Event... You guys are too young to hear about such horrors."
"No, you tell us the stowy! Now!"
"Okay but your mother CANNOT know about this. So, it was a normal September 17th morning. I was at work pretending to work and one of my teammates, a particularly angry panda, hit us with lol you guys see the Bachelorette announcement? We obviously had no idea what he was talking about so McKenzie just said I've never seen that show. That's also what I thought. Even if he didn't seem like the kind of person to watch a show like the Bachelorette, I thought, well, for it to be that popular I guess it needs all kinds of people watching it so good for him if he likes it."
"The story, old man." Bobby was getting impatient and he really was one of the weirdest three year olds you'd ever encounter.
"I'm getting to it! I opened the link he posted and it was an official league announcement. I started reading and I couldn't believe my eyes. They actually came up with a special Bachelorette Event to cyber date the league's commissioner."
"Commissioner Bex. Now that's a scary villain," Bobby said.
"Damn, that's harsh. But yeah... Anyway, the replies in that thread were some of the best sim league comedy/drama I read in a very long time. People were mostly ashamed and wanted to leave or retire, said they made a mistake joining the league and some people even came back from the dead."
"The dead?!" Timmy exclaimed, visibly scared.
"Yeah, people we hadn't seen in months, sometimes years, came back to say how cringey this was and how glad they were they weren't on the league anymore... or how the ISFL was destroying everything the founder, Ballerstorm, ever did."
"Oh, shit", Bobby said.
"It wasn't the busiest thread I ever saw, I mean, I saw thunderdome stuff going to 30 pages before I had the time to read anything. This one got to a healthy 13, 14 pages, before it was finally moved from Announcements to Media, which is where it should have been posted in the first place, although you could argue that it shouldn't have been posted at all... I thought nobody would apply for this but people actually did, including some of my teammates who probably did it for the lolz, or at least I choose to believe that, so we got a peak at the questions that were asked to be able to sign up and it was even more cringey than the forum post itself. And they all had to be 400 words long so they got quite memey as well."
"What happened next gwampa?"
"Well, someone from head office locked the thread before deleting it in its entirety. So it exists now only in my memory. Then, HO announced that this was never a league sanctionned event and the like 2 people who wasted their time applying were pretty sad. I had learned from a trusted HO source that it was true, the league never agreed to any of this so it was just a few people who thought this was a good idea and went with it. How wrong they were... Some people to this day are still convinced HO is responsible for the horrors of the Bachelorette Event but I think it was just a rogue element within its core that made it all happen."
"Do... do you think they'll be back?" Timmy asked, covering his face with his Megaman blanket.
"Probably Timmy... but it's difficult to imagine they will inflict such horrors on the league ever again. I think it's important everyone remembers this event and the damage it could have caused to the ISFL."
"What the hell's going on here? Why aren't you guys in bed? Da, did you take your pills?" Mom arrived in the room like a ghost and scared the shit out of Grandpa, Timmy and Bobby. "Boys, you gotta stop asking your grandpa for those stories, you know he has PTSD."
"Yes, and the Prospects Bowl twitter said it could help me... no one can help me." Grandpa started sobbing and left the room.
The end.
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