They were awarding free periods to over-performing fifteen year olds during the height of the Clash Royale craze.
Were we going to use that time to study?
Productive in a hybrid workforce?
I would do this and I would watch SLVSH.
At that time in my life, it was arguably my favorite thing about school.
SLVSHhas been a constant in my life since then.
Ive definitely watched every game, Ive watched certain games over 10 or 20 times.
Ive made and remade brackets for every tournament.
Joss, Matt, Napes, Woodsy, and crew have concocted a perfect and intoxicating formula.
Sometimes, Ill put it on as white noise.
Rails hissing, muffled claps of historic stomps, Henrik dog impersonations.
Its in our nature.
With each Cup, it seems the level of skiing has been getting higher and higher.
A steep curve with exhilarating results.
That is until now.
The competition has experienced a true blip in an otherwise faultless track record.
A schism among fans and philosophies.
I wanted to organize my own reactions and thoughts to this here.
If you watch the NBA at all, the raw power and talent of first-year players can be electrifying.
Consistency is the true marker of a superstar.
And all the SLVSH fans are screaming at me with equal vitriol, saying what about Henrik?!
Skiings mouthpiece for New York boom-bap???
He won it all!
It’s simple: Henrik is just different.
Had to have been strong.
No jump too, lets bring that back.
What does sportsmanship look like in SLVSH?
Inlast years edition of Grandvalira, what it took to win was simply the deepest bag.
That bag was slung over the shoulder of Ferdinand Dahl, freeskiings beloved fashionista and Norwegian small business owner.
The remaining 75.3% translates to landed sets, his offensive rating.
1 trick in 43 sets, thats about 5%.
A SLVSH gold based on creativity, variety, and dogged professionalism.
You were likely lulled to sleep by the lullaby of safety land holding calls.
However, I think it’s important to employ some stats to ground us in reality.
This post is not to platform these people even if I understand the fuel behind the fire.
I want to give context to what we just saw and what it means for SLVSH moving forward.
So back to the stats.
Noahs defense was noticeably worse at only 41.6%.
Watching that semifinal, I was red hot too.
And then I started to question that impulse.
Is it wrong that Noah keeps winning on safety grab land holding, three games in a row?
Is it wrong to use your strongest trait against your opponent who you know probably cant do it?
Would we rather have something more subjective but somehow more mechanized like FIS?
The answer to all these questions is no.
But despite it being legal, Noahs approach does raise some philosophical questions and unintended consequences.
First of all, it makes forextremely predictable viewing.
Thats not what SLVSH is about.
Other head-to-head extreme sport games have actually had this same problem before.
Thats not really the SLVSH way either.
The first game, fine, pretty sick when done so proper.
The second game, questionable.
Arriving at the final, the outcome was already predetermined based on the rock-paper-scissors.
If Noah lost it, Seb would have front three swapped his ass into a hysteric episode.
That would have been lame too.
So, what does all this mean for SLVSHs future?
