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Hey guys I've been away for work for the past 2 weeks and will be able to get some games in Sunday and I'll be on most nights next week.

Website updated. Sorry, I was waiting for SNES-A to finish their finals, but doesn't look like it's happening for a while. As far as the team selections, this is the first time (at least since I have been here) where we had this many teams in one single league. With this many teams, the method of team selections should probably be adjusted, although there will still be coaches with sub-par teams. Let's see how the season goes, and if we decide to do the one league option in the future, it might be a good idea to think about changing the way team selection is done. As far as schedule, I'm shooting for Thursday to have it up.

What flaws? So, if you are a new guy, we are supposed to give you one of the best teams? how is that fair? You pick a list of 10 teams. There are at least 10 decent teams in the game. Pick teams you are good with and then fill the rest with teams that are good in the game. I believe this system works better than first come, first serve or give the new guys the best teams. The past 2 seasons played have had champions that were new coaches, using this same system. I thank you for taking the team you were selected with and planning on playing through the season, but don't blame the system if you were the one who picked the sub-par team, even with the assumption that it was your 9th pick and "it would never get to the point where I would get this team". BTW, a newbie to GENS (rc69fab) has Chicago. How does that support your argument?

You choose 10 teams. No one made you choose Tampa Bay as one of your 10 teams. There are 28 teams in the game and you had 17 other choices but chose Tampa Bay. Seeding is randomized and the teams are selected as best available. This is how it always has been and always will be. It is very fair and the reason why you choose 10 teams you want to play as, not just pick randomly. You don't get a "random" team unless you choose your teams that way. BTW Tampa was your 9th choice, and all your other choices except EDM, ANA, and SJ were popular. Normally, we have at least 2 Genesis leagues, so you would have a chance to get one of your top teams, but this season we are trying something different.

Hey, you had San Jose in your top 10. Maybe you can pull a 26 game losing streak like Hokkee did with them last season.

Really? Have you ever watched baseball before? In the National League the pitchers bat. If you have men on base the pitcher is normally a good batter to bunt with to move the runners up a base.

I'm in. B League AIM: Rage93

Let's say we were to start a week after registration begins - Sept. 20th. 8 weeks later would be Nov. 15th. Then the playoffs would start and theoretically we can get everything done before Christmas/New Year time. Making the regular season longer would cause the season to run into that time and alot of people go on vacation, are off from school and away, etc. This causes issues completing the season. 5 games is not too hard to do a week when you play teams multiple times. Normally guys want to get all of those games against a single opponent in at one time. AJ beat me to it.

Right now the weekly checkpoints are going to be 5 games.

No it's random. It doesn't matter when you sign up. Also, so everyone knows, there will be no changing of your Team Preferences this time around. You are stuck with what you choose, so choose wisely!

Nope, everyone has posted. I'll confirm you don't worry about it.

Registration for the Fall Classic Season has begun! Registration begins today and will end September 13th. This season, we are trying to "spice" things up a bit. Instead of having separate league level playoffs like in the past, we will have one big tournament! Who will take the crown as King of Classic? The regular season will still be divided up into 2 league levels, and the best teams in both leagues will duke it out for the crown. We are waiting to see how registration goes before deciding on how many teams will make the playoffs, but we hope to have a decent size playoff tournament to give as many people as possible a chance at victory. The regular season will be 40 games, with weekly checkpoints. Register here: Registration Page, or you can select Classic '94 - Fall 2010 from the League Selection drop-down at NHL94 Online and click Registration on the Menu Bar. Coaches who have played in a previous season of Classic (since Spring 08), or WHA, will choose "Yes" for the question, "Have you registered for a league before?" Newcomers: - When asked "Have you registered for a league before?", you will answer "No". Then proceed to select a User Name and password. It is common to use the same User Name as your Forum Name, or your AIM Name. - Please proceed to fill in the rest of the information, such as AIM screen name, Email, Location, Time Zone, and System Preference. This information is used to register you on the website for this league and future leagues. --------------------------------------------------------------- - The next step is to choose which league you will be joining. This time around, you will only select "Genesis" or "SNES". We will take care of how the leagues are split up after registration is over. - You will then select your team preferences. Select 10 different teams. Hit Submit, and if everything is OK, you are set up. - Newcomers will need to get a test game against a veteran in order to test out their emulator setup / internet connection. Veteran coaches, it would be nice if you could help out the newcomers and test out their connections! GENS Test Game Requests: Genesis Test Games SNES Test Game Requests: SNES Test Games Confirm Coaches Page (used by the veteran coach to confirm connection): Confirm Coach Those of you, who last season had registered for the Waiting List, and were never confirmed and never played a game in the league, will need to re-register for the site. I have removed all the people from the site who were on the Waiting List from last season, but were not confirmed. NOTE: Once you register, you cannot change your Team Preferences. You are stuck with what you pick, so choose wisely! Also, once registration is over, and the leagues are divided up, all confirmed coaches will be selected randomly and given their highest available team based on their Team Preferences. Any questions, please feel free to ask here or you may PM me.

TOR @ L.A. TOR 6 (1st) L.A. 13 (1st)

What emulator did you guys use?

Why don't you use the "Spotlight" function in the top right corner of Mac OS X? Type in Terminal, and it will find the program for you. If you don't have XCode installed, you can install it from your Mac OS X CDs. When in the terminal, just type in those commands and it will do all the work for you.

I'll take L.A.

How do you figure? http://forum.nhl94.com/index.php?showtopic=10773 Last Fall we started registration Aug. 31. One day too early for you?

I'm in. Boston San Francisco Oakland We should play as the all-female teams

If you read in your email, it should say that registration begins Monday, Aug. 30th

The Fall season runs a lot smoother, since everyone has hockey fever with the NHL season starting up. Once the end of Spring comes, everyone loses interest due to nice weather and vacations, and its hard to find some guys. I was hoping that the playoffs wouldn't drag on like this by shortening the season with quicker checkpoints, but it didn't work out that way.

Master is around. He answered the PM yesterday. Waiting on dangler. When you guys are looking for another coach to play you really should use the PMs. It sends an email to that person. SuperDave was looking for Sureshot for a few weeks, I PM him, and he answers within an hour.

Yeah I sent out PMs to them yesterday.

Gens C is good for new players so that they aren't thrown into a league where they stand no chance against veterans. Also, it's nice having 3 leagues because this allows all coaches to get good teams. Since Classic is not a draft league, it is better this way because everyone has a chance to win. No one wants to be stuck with Ottawa or any other sucky team in a league where you are brand new and playing against some good veterans who have a team like Chicago. Alot of new guys, if you notice, don't start off out of the box with good records. What happens? They go 0-10 and decide playing NHL94 online is not for them. They leave, and then that team needs a new coach, and who wants to start off with an 0-10 team in a 40 game season? If the leagues were combined into 2, this situation would happen more often. There are only a few new guys who come out of the box and play well, or finish out a dismal season and congrats to them. Really, in the end, it depends on how many guys sign up. This is the real factor determining how the leagues are made, and how the divisions, conferences, etc. are set up. It gives everyone a chance. And, as a matter of fact, GENS-A was the league that was slacking the most when it came down to playing games this season. Fall season always runs smoother, because everyone has hockey fever and no one is going on vacation. I know Sureshot has been around most of the season and playoffs. I'll PM him and let him know. Fall season registration will start soon, and we need this done.

That's not a bad idea. The other team would still have to confirm though. Since we don't have save states set up on the classic website as of now.

Haha yeah I know. That was put in as a placeholder until dcicon-beaver series was played as it wasn't played yet when I updated the brackets. I'll fix it later today.