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At Joe Louis Arena, they treat everyone like a Superstar

Um, Fox's puck tracker was supposed to revolutionize the sport. I sometimes have trouble on TV when the game's not in HD.

Congratulations to schwartz, the winner of SNES Spring Classic 2009 - and kudos to FPB for his runners-up performance.

Congrats. Good luck against sarcdoc. (sarcdoc, good luck vs. IQ25).

Play the games or schedule the games or I won't recognize a champion. I think June 16 is the date you need to let me know this information by.

Congrats FPB and kudos to sarcdoc for his interest in waging the playoffs. New Jersey v Hartford... an all New England series (kinda)... best of luck to both teams.

Looks like a great series and cheers for the sportsmanship surrounding this series on both sides. Apologies to shaft for the quick way this was thrown together. And don't give up man, without you there is no SNES. Good luck to schwartz in the final.

As far as I see it this is a non-issue. Someone please close this thread.

Everyone qualified for the playoffs. Check the threads. That's how the seeding worked out. Also, not a single first round playoff series was played, and I even threatened to just hand the title to shaftman. Then, a couple other people told me they were still interested in playing, so I advanced them to the second round. Seriously, I'm not out to get you. I'm trying to make sure games get played and that people who are still interested in playing are playing in the later rounds. When I seeded the second round, I knew of only three people who were still interested in playing - you simply did not state that you were still interested in playing, and I had no way of knowing otherwise.

What the hell are you talking about?

You missed this rule then: + If you have not finished your series by June 1, and you want to advance to the next round, you must either post on the forums providing proof that 1) the other player was unavailable; 2) due to time restrictions, you have scheduled to play your games on the forums sometime reasonably soon (a week) after June 1. I advanced people who complied with this rule.

He got scratched out of the playoffs because he didn't make any attempt to look for his let me know that he was still interested in the playoffs. I advanced people who showed an interest in the playoffs, including schwartz, who had a very specific request to continue playing today. If you look at what happened, I let people through to the second round in GENS who didn't play their series because their opponent didn't show up. I also noted that games would indeed be double forfeited if players didn't show up, and that games would be reseeded to reflect those who were interested in playing. I didn't just scratch people because people didn't play their games, and I didn't just add schwartz back in because I felt like it. Deadline is June 16th before I scratch again.

I don't have access to AIM at the moment, which is where he usually hangs out, so it's coo' for the moment.

Well, I can't please everybody. I also don't have access to AIM, so point him to this thread. If he wants to play, I have bent the rules for SNES just because of the complete lack of interest from a number of different places. He did not post his availability however so I have every reason to bump him. What I won't do is nullify the scores from the NJ-CGY series. Tell him he has to post here as soon as possible if he wants to play and I'll get this whole mess figured out.

Hopefully.

Just got a PM from schwartz saying he was out of town and wasn't around, so for the interests of competitiveness, Winnipeg will now play Hartford in the "second" round, and the winner of this series will play the winner of the New Jersey-Calgary series for the SNES Spring Classic Trophy. I understand that this deviates from the rules slightly, but given both schwartz's circumstances and the circumstances regarding the poor turnout for the SNES playoffs, I feel as if this is in the best interests of all the parties involved (you get to play four to seven ultra-competitive SNES games). So have at it, guys.

Without wanting to continue this discussion any further, you played the fewest games of anyone who played GENS this spring, and while it's certainly possible Wags put on a show on the forums trying to contact you just to not play you and advance to the next round, it's unlikely. Hence I advanced him and not you.

True but slightly exaggerated, I'm moving into a place in three weeks and am couch-surfing until then. Thankfully I'm not jobless. Just worry about playing your games.

Congratulations to flamingpavelbure, who, as a 5 seed, muscled his way into the Stanley Cup final and defeated Detroit in a hard-fought 7-game series. I think he's a worthy winner of GENS Spring League 2009 - he was the first one to finish his games, and I never had a problem with him. Kudos also to freydey for making it as runners-up. Finally, a thank you to all 11 surviving GENS A/B players this season. It was a rough go of things for awhile but almost 90% of games were played in the league and I think this is the first time in the history of NHL94 Online where a league has started late and finished early. Apart from two minor issues, thank you for a stress-free season. A note to future commissioners: the most painful thing about running a league is the people who will pack their toys up and go home. I'm not calling anyone out specifically here, and I'm not talking about the people who sign up and are scheduled, then leave before a game is played - I'm talking specifically about people who bicker over laggy games or have unsportsmanlike conduct. I think these latter two cases will eventually kill the community, which is sad, but hopefully the waters sail a bit more smoothly from here on out - and again, thank you to everyone who avoided those two issues - there were a large number of you out there. Cheers statto

Sorry for the delay. It's rough being homeless. Here's the 2nd round, due by June 16. GENS A I love you guys GENS B 9) Pittsburgh (IceStorm) v 10) Calgary (Wags13) GENS C 1) Buffalo (Wags13) v 4) Dallas (philiveyismyhero) 2) Detroit (iceguy94) v 3) Toronto (louie4teen) GENS D 9) Calgary (sarcdoc) bye to final 10) St. Louis (James778200) v 12) Winnipeg (IQ25Boogiers) SNES 1) Winnipeg (gihtarman) bye 3) New Jersey (flamingpavelbure) v 11) Calgary (sarcdoc13)

You have til the end of Monday

The following series need to be finished by the time the clock ticks midnight here on the East Coast on June 1st or else I'll advance the playoffs without you. Again, I have the right to advance players who haven't played, but again, just play your games. I'm happy with the way the playoffs have gone so far for GENS. GENS 10) Calgary (Wags13) v 11) Montreal (rynweinmeyer) 1) Buffalo (Wags13) v 8) New York (zothound) 10) St. Louis (James7798200) v 13) Boston (xmrsoullx) SNES 2) Detroit (beat2thabox) v 11) Calgary (sarcdoc23) 3) New Jersey (flamingpavelbure) v 10) Montreal (xmrsoullx) 4) Anaheim (masterof94) v 9) Chicago (drinnagh) 5) Hartford (schwartz124) v 8) Los Angeles (iceguy94) 6) New York (prodigyof94) v 7) Boston (bobkudelski26) One caveat: I WILL NOT SANCTION AN EXTENSION FOR THE SNES PLAYOFFS. If no one plays their first round series, shaft wins the league as the top seed (and the only one who therefore cares). Again, I reserve the right to promote players to the next round who have not played their series.

5) Vancouver (flamingpavelbure) DEFEATS 1) Boston (snoboarder3211) 4-2 2) Chicago (flasox28) v 3) Detroit (freydey32) Winner of Chicago-Detroit series has home ice choice against Vancouver in the finals. GLHF

Cheers. Logged.

Hellz no. You can proceed with your 2nd round matchup if you would like. I'm all about getting this in the books...