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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

Although I love Estonian cuisine, it's probably one of the less mainstream ones from these.

maybe you right, I remember the first time i saw bear on the menu, it's not common indeed

LA-LennuK wrote:
Although I love Estonian cuisine, it's probably one of the less mainstream ones from these.

WiMaOl wrote:
maybe you right, I remember the first time i saw bear on the menu, it's not common indeed

I think also in French cuisine there are plenty of very exotic and interesting sounding dishes from Finnish point of view (which might be even very typical to French themselves)...
And not to forget our "westernmost" HGL country, Australia. Recently I saw supposedly one Australian food company at the market selling kangaroo, crocodile and camel burgers. That's what I'd also call exotic, even though MrJ probably wouldn't agree on this one... :D

*** This post has already been published on HGL "main thread", so no need to read this again if you already read it there. ***


@all HGL managers, read through:

If you are still playing in current Season's Playoffs, remember to organize your matches on time!

Last week we had a forfeit loss due to that.

Now we are past "Friday, at HGL game time", which is supposed to be the deadline for organizing HGL matches.

Links for two games are nowhere to be seen. This is current situation, which has not gotten any better in 5 days (since last Monday), when I last updated Playoff-post:
(EDIT: VPO-WMO was provided shortly after request on forum, but RAJ-ED is still missing even though it is supposedly already organized.
Second edit: 3 hours to PO Round 2 matches, all links provided by someone, but still links missing from box score posts of some participating teams, as you can see from below. End of an EDIT).

PO Round 2 (quarter-finals; 8 teams play): Sunday, July 5th, 2026
Rank #1 VPO vs. #8 WMO (139707062)
Rank #2 RAJ vs. #7 ED (139706844) *@ED: Add match link to your box score post*
Rank #3 KKS vs. #6 LMS (139706240) *@LMS: Add match link to your box score post*
Rank #4 VIV vs. #5 EOS (139706879) *@VIV: Add match link to your box score post*


This, my friends, is not something we want to establish as a norm in HGL.

Today I once again came to see if all links have been provided, and had to send reminders to all managers with completely missing match links.
This absolutely should not be necessary (and even doesn't guarantee things will be taken care of/bbmails are seen in time).

Also LMS and VIV have not added match links to their own teams' box score posts, which is mandatory before matches start, as we all know.


Let's keep organizing games ASAP, after each Playoff Round schedule is announced.
Again, if you're 100% sure you know how to interpret who your opponent will be after winning your PO game (or losing in Semifinals, in which case next opponent is of course is very easy to interpret), you can already organize PO match before schedule for next PO Round is organized - but only in such occasions, and never before games on that Round have finished.

Last edited by Wagner at 7/5/2026 5:23:15 AM