(S35) PT 4 - Celebrating 5 Years

[khkreator]

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[Alikh]

I joined the league very recently- during the waning weeks of s34. Never been in a sim league before, but I had a vague idea of how it all worked. Rolled the player, got picked up off waivers, stumbled my way through the first time on the update page, and watched a few sims. Pretty cool, huh?

And then I realized how much more there was. The team locker rooms, league jobs, noobs figuring things out, vets of the ISFL still hanging out in around the DSFL water coolers. It’s been awesome. I’ve always had a few online friends and gaming partners, but even in just the few months I’ve been here I already feel like I’ve made a lot of friends. Great not only for keeping me involved in the league and having fun, but on a personal level its great to have more people to chat with throughout the day, spam memes to, etc.

While its not the goal of the league, its already apparent to me that it’s a great community to simply hang out and make friends in, especially after the years of social isolation most of us have faced in some way or another. Its been great and I cant wait for the next anniversary!

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[Twenty6]

On April 5, 2022, browsing r/nfl was one of the most fortunate things I did.  Nestled in the sea of posts spouting stats and highlights was a nondescript post titled "Join the International Simulation Football League."  After reading the content of the post, I was lured to join by seeing that no major time investment was required and that all weekly tasks were optional.  Little did I know that I would willingly spend more than the minimum amount of time here and that I would complete these optional tasks the moment they came out.

Since joining the league, I've found myself on the weekends longing for the work week to begin so I can do more activities to improve my player.  Mondays have become "+7 TEEPS DAY," and every weeknight I get to enjoy watching a bunch of colored circles run into a bunch of other colored circles.  Also, through this league, I've been able to meet some very cool people, even getting to collaborate with some of them on tasks.  It's like doing a group project in high school, but without having to worry about getting stuck with a slacker who doesn't do any work.  This league got me to play fantasy football for the first time ever, too!  I know it's not the same as regular fantasy, but it has still been a fun experience so far.

Kudos to this league for being able to stay up and running for five years.  With how much of a blast I've been having in about seven weeks, I hope the ISFL can continue strong for another five years!

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[Pizza-faith]

[WildfireMicro]

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[Rusfan]

May 26th 2020. That was the day I first joined the league. It was also the day of the S22 Ultimus between the Colorado Yeti and the Orange County Otters. Before the S33 Ultimus between the Orange County Otters and the Baltimore Hawks the S22 Ultimus was the biggest comeback in Ultimus history. If we are talking about big historical moments, that one was about as big as it got, and it was my first ever game I watched in this league. Seeing these two teams I didn’t know anything about, in a league I didn’t know anything about, could normally be I really confusing process, even though they are playing a sport of which I am intimately familiar with. But seeing such an exciting game take place instantly hooked me and I made sure to continue earning for the player that would eventually play for those Colorado Yeti. Such a comeback happens seemingly once an ISFL decade and I was extremely lucky to witness it as my first league exposure

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[PurpleReign]

I am new and so haven’t been a part of any truly historic events, but I have already been dramatically impacted by the league. The biggest impact the league has had on me has been through the locker room interactions I have had so far. The Norfolk locker room has shown itself to be a really great community for me. I have had some tough social situations the past month being overly isolated because after my semester almost all of my friends left while I stayed. That makes the community that has grown in Norfolk over this season even more impactful to me. This has been especially good for me because I have a bunch of pent-up energy and time, and the people in the Norfolk LR have given me a lot of direction. This direction has led me to spend some time testing and helping connect with other users, thus while I am socially isolated I can both be distracted, which helps me keep my mood up, and work on developing friendships, which will eventually lessen the isolation.
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[MrGoat1246]

5 years of the ISFL. Wow. I've been here for 1 and it's flown by, so I can't imagine how wild it is for it to be 5 years already for the OGs. Unfortunately, I've been on the wrong side of history when it comes to this league, but I have had some pretty cool moments. For example, when I ran the opening kickoff back so quick that both my GMs missed it. Or the time I came up with a huge game-sealing sack. This league has had a great impact on me, and the moments like that really do brighten my day. This league has also allowed me to connect. I've gotta shout out @Kotasa for carrying me though the DSFL and into the ISFL. Speaking of history, Rich Triplet is someone you gotta talk about as one of the goats when you're looking through some of our leagues best players. Hopefully I'll join him one day among those ranks...

[domffl]

I haven't had the pleasure of being in the ISFL since its inception 10 years ago, but I've been honored to be a newer part of the league. Now in my second season, I feel like I've finally got a good grasp of how the league runs and how to navigate the forum, but I still discover something new about the ISFL almost every day. One of my favorite things to do in ISFL recently is to look through the history books and compare stats and records of the past few seasons. I enjoy finding trends and trying to find correlative stats. So it's been really cool to see the stat lines of some of the hall of famers and try to predict which of the current players will end up with a gold jacket, as well. 
Even though there have been lots of ways that the league has made its mark in history, one of the ways that the ISFL has impacted me the most has honestly been the friends I've made in the Locker Rooms I've been a part of. From game nights and puzzles to sharing personal feelings, the friendships have been, without a doubt, the most incredible part of this league. 

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[Alcott]

One moment I experienced in league history was the incredible turnaround of the hawks during the Season 33. After joining the ISFL during Season 27, I only knew of the Balimore Hawks as the perpetual losers of the league, finishing in last place each and every season from my introduction until they finally had a slight improvement in Season 32, simply tying for second to last place with two other teams instead of living at the bottom of the barrel all by themselves. And then Season 33 happened, where out of nowhere the Baltimore Hawks and the Orange County Otters (the actual last place team the season before and another perpetual loser, although not as blatant in my mind) met in the Ultimus. It was a really fascinating ascent for both teams to make it that far after being more or less laughing stocks for the entire time I knew about the sim, so to see them be able to turn it around on a dime and succeed was a really different experience