Editorials / Opinions
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Interviews with Hockey Zone’s New BOD Candidates
As Hockey Zone enters a new chapter following the turbulence of the civil war and the creation of the 5.0 server, the community now votes on a new Board of Directors (BOD) to (hopefully) bring balance and transparency. With five candidates included in this pivotal group—Verez, Bogey, Singer, Jack, and Zayb—I set out to learn…
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Salary, Doable? Or Just A Dream?
Imagine every hockey zone player with a price tag, their value determined by their skill or perhaps a rating system, in a league where captains could buy, sell, and trade players using a virtual budget. If you think about it, this would copy real life actual sports leagues, complete with team budgets and player contracts,…
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The Cease Fire & The Whitmer proposal of 2024
October 31, 2024 Discord may no longer be aflame with open conflict, but the fallout from Hockey Zone’s “civil war” still lingers like smoke in the air. The days-long clash between the factions has left the server fractured, with alias-wielding defectors and a scattered landscape of banned members lying in its wake edit: only one…
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The HZ Discord Civil War: A Report from the Front Lines
October 19th, 2024 As I sit here, sandwiched between two warring factions, each huddled around their respective keyboards like warriors readying their blades, I realize that the battle for Hockey Zone has taken on an air of absurdity that one might expect from a high-stakes chatroom melt-down. What began as discontent over moderator behavior in…
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P1d: BNB @ TD recap & TD @ SHF preview
Sponsored by HZ Discord 5.0 RSHL: @ recapRSHL: @ preview
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HZ Under The Hood: #2 Energy
Welcome to the second edition of Hockey Zone Under The Hood, exploring how ship settings work in detail and how they have changed over time. Your ship’s Energy can be spent on four areas: A ship’s Energy is defined in the settings as InitialEnergy. As with a lot of the settings, the highest it can…
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My First Time As A Ref
The other night while RSHL was taking place, someone mentioned in blue chat that some games were starting late because it took several minutes to find a ref that was online. I asked on Discord why this was the case and this is the response I got: It got me thinking, how difficult could it…
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P1d: SHF @ HR recap
RSHL @ recap plus a bonus Beer League preview of @ Sponsored by Viop’s Bone Broth™
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Making an Arena
High Road approached me earlier in the preseason to make an arena for them, and it seemed like a perfect opportunity to do a small article on the process I go through doing one if anyone is interested in doing one themselves in the future. To make an arena, you’ll need a map editor. Currently,…
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p1d smuggled out from prison…
Fresh from the ipt-blick, a review of the season so far by master viop: Review of vs : Preview of vs :
