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Rank #4 VIV vs. #5 EOS
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Strong victory today vs Vindicta (which has a lower salary total) but logical.

Next step, we will face ONE AGAIN Rajdersi, a team against whom we won this season, but against whom we lost many times before... (especially in PO°).
Because of a stupid error in the last game of the season vs Wimaolca (I created 2 games, and I made the rotation for the wrong one) that caused a loss for my team, I could have been ranked one (or 2 ??) step beyond, and I should face KKS, which I prefer NOT to face. That was a bad choice for a good result I hope ;)

Now that I quickly took a look at ORSR on Season 5, it seems that nobody from the imaginary 13-4 group (if you would've won last game) won all matches between all other comparison group teams (at 13-4), so in this hypothetical situation there would've been you, LMS and EOS in RS +/- PD comparison.

Result, as you mentioned, would´ve been in ORSR:
EOS -2 positions compared to current ORSR (because he had 1 point worse PD than you had)
ED +1 position,
LMS +1 position.

So yes, LA-LennuK is probably quite happy that WMO took this battle of French teams, as two positions can sometimes be big thing - however, his team, as we all know, is one of the most expensive teams in HGL anyway, so possibly forced to play on an away court a tad sooner maybe wouldn't have harmed his chances of success too much anyway...
Bigger thing though could've been the effect that he would've had to to meet a tad harder opponents a bit sooner, but as the old saying goes, you have to beat them all to take the trophy home. Having said that, I think we almost all have some opponents we really wouldn't want to face as we know they're a handful, don't we.. :D
To be fair though, the top teams seem very even on this Season, and who knows, it could easily become the least predictable Playoffs in HGL ever!

Last edited by Wagner at 6/29/2026 5:22:15 PM

I should send WiMaOlCa a thank you gift

I should send WiMaOlCa a thank you gift :D

Yes - like I should still send demars this VSOP bottle - we all owe to French to some extent, it seems xD

I tried to send at least a virtual bottle, but it appears that BB text editor is not optimized for "character art/text art" so to speak... ;P


Last edited by Wagner at 6/29/2026 1:53:53 PM

For you, WiMaOl, a good BB beer!

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Last edited by LA-LennuK at 6/30/2026 6:56:08 AM

thank you so much ... but I prefer beer, I suggest we will drink together next time I come to Tallinn

Better now! Although I currently live in Germany, which is excellent for anyone enjoying a good beer

Last edited by LA-LennuK at 6/29/2026 5:01:42 PM

Better now! Although I currently live in Germany, which is excellent for anyone enjoying a good beer (y)

Indeed... If we think countries of HGL managers from the point of drink and food culture (despite not having Swiss manager in HGL yet - but what becomes to Switzerland, my teams' Swiss cheese defense will have to suffice for now!), it's as rich and varied as HGL has (and still is) been geographically spread!

Meaning that where ever our HGL meet(s would hopefully) take place in future, we're never going to be out of delicious drink and food... :D

PS. Starting from now you're the Official ASCII Art Director of HGL, as your bottle looked considerably better than my attempt when I tried to send demars a virtual one. ;)

Last edited by Wagner at 6/29/2026 5:16:38 PM

Good food and drink never hurt, and depending on the nationalities of our managers, there definitely is a good variety. Although I love Estonian cuisine, it's probably one of the less mainstream ones from these.

Fiddling around with that bottle took some time, but after some help from the good old AI, I was also quite happy with the result

thank you so much ... but I prefer beer, I suggest we will drink together next time I come to Tallinn :)

@all:
With the risk of a repeat and being off-topic - as far as our HGL managers' summer plans go, do you guys plan to do lots of traveling around the Europe on the Summer time? :)
Occasionally, when I've brought the idea of HGL meet on the table, I've thought that maybe Summer could be the easiest time for that on average, as people mostly spend majority of their yearly holidays on Summertime...

Last edited by Wagner at 6/29/2026 5:26:04 PM

Good food and drink never hurt, and depending on the nationalities of our managers, there definitely is a good variety. Although I love Estonian cuisine, it's probably one of the less mainstream ones from these.

Fiddling around with that bottle took some time, but after some help from the good old AI, I was also quite happy with the result XD

Hah - I guess it's necessary for me to change most often used AI then, as my attempts to utilize it produced horrible mess instead of anything useful (your "text art" could actually be identified).

I agree, Estonian cuisine could indeed be likely one of the least mainstream of all HGL countries (even though it's always subjective), but having of course been visited Estonia "few" times I've also enjoyed foods&drinks over there. So much so that ended up buying cookbooks by few Estonian authors... :)

And as far as our HGL community goes in this regard, there's a treasure trove of different cultures mixed up together, even though geographically HGL has shrunk to some extent (losing managers for instance from USA, Argentina and now from small but interesting Uruguay)...
And while we still don't know each other almost at all (in reality, as we're not that much in contact, at least to my knowledge, even though I don't use Discord), at least to me food, drinks and other interesting parts of culture works as a bridge between people... So maybe, someday, food and drinks could be some of the things that brings us together during our HGL meet and makes the moment even more memorable.
It's just sometimes that I don't want to flood forums with so many off-topic messages that I might prefer, as I know some people have hard time reading my messages already (and important information could then be buried in messages like this, should I send more posts like these)...

Last edited by Wagner at 6/29/2026 5:59:34 PM