ATD2025 Draft Thread Part II (Regular Season Voting Results in post #619)

[nabby12]

I think this year's ATD is dead in the water.

 

[Theokritos]

Please don't tell me there are only a couple of us who care about finishing this out. I hope I'm not going beyond my bounds in doing this, but @Theokritos would you be willing to collect votes again?

Sure thing.

 

[Professor What]

Sure thing.

Thanks for doing this. When do you want us to have the votes in?

 

[Theokritos]

Thanks for doing this. When do you want us to have the votes in?

It's entirely up to you, but if the ATD has fallen hopelessly asleep I can also set up a deadline if you think that helps.

 

[Professor What]

It's entirely up to you, but if the ATD has fallen hopelessly asleep I can also set up a deadline if you think that helps.

I'm thinking a deadline might be good to add some urgency. This thing is kind of limping right now.

 

[Theokritos]

I'm thinking a deadline might be good to add some urgency. This thing is kind of limping right now.

Well, in this case: The voting deadline for the ATD2025 Regular Season voting is Friday, May 2nd, 11:59 PM (EST).

PMs/DMs have been sent out to all the GMs.

 

[VanIslander]

Just voted.

 

[nabby12]

Voted.

 

[Habsfan18]

I haven't been around much, but glad to see that this is at least going to limp over the finish line. It really is unfortunate that all the momentum we had was effectively killed by the site outage.

I plan on voting tomorrow night or Thursday. Good luck all.

 

[rmartin65]

Voted. I found it particularly challenging this year- lots of good rosters, plus I feel a little removed from the ATD mindset due to the pause.

 

[jigglysquishy]

I voted this morning. Definitely feel removed from the whole process, but lots of good teams.

As an FYI, there's still some empty roster spots in the ATD roster thread.

 

[Dr John Carlson]

Voted - agreed that there are a lot of good rosters, and very few rosters that stick out as weaker than the rest.

 

[Professor What]

I hope we're getting a good number of votes.

 

[Theokritos]

10 out of 20 teams have voted so far. The deadline is in almost 9 hours, but in reality there's going to be a few extra hours because I'm in the Central European Timezone.

Participants who have not submitted a ballot yet:
@BenchBrawl
@Claude The Fraud
@Hawkey Town 18
@Habsfan18
@ImporterExporter
@Leaf Lander
@spitsfan24
@tabness
@tinyzombies
@Voight

 

[Habsfan18]

I will get my votes in tonight.

 

[Claude The Fraud]

10 out of 20 teams have voted so far. The deadline is in almost 9 hours, but in reality there's going to be a few extra hours because I'm in the Central European Timezone.

Votes sent in!

 

[spitsfan24]

Didn't leave much room for error, but I got my votes in.

It's funny, during the entire draft, I thought about this multiple times throughout the day. I even made a goofy spreadsheet that I called my "war room". Then the board crash happens, and I realize I don't even have my special teams or captains posted on the boards when votes are due in however many weeks later. I haven't even opened my spreadsheet in about a month.

Either way, I do hope there's a good amount of activity during the playoffs. I essentially got my first taste of that last year, and well, I want more.

Speaking of playoffs, I'm probably just forgetting, but what is the playoff format this year? I assume each division winner gets a first round bye? Or is every fifth-placed finisher just not making playoffs?

 

[Habsfan18]

Just got my votes in. It was a bit difficult. Like others have said, it's easy to feel a bit removed from the whole process right now. I hope I got it right for the most part.

Good luck all, I look forward to seeing the results. Thanks to everyone who took the time to vote. And to Theo of course for tallying.

 

[Theokritos]

With 13 ballots received, this is the result of the regular season voting:

Jim Robson Division
1. Hogsmeade Lunas
2. Windsor Spitfires
3. Torpedo Ust-Kamenogorsk
4. NDG Monarchs
5. HC Lugano

Foster Hewitt Division
1. Baltimore Clippers
2. Les Canadiens de Montréal
3. Gallifrey Tardis
4. Ottawa 67's
5. Toronto Maple Leafs

Bob Cole Division
1. Savannah Ghost Pirates
2. Detroit Vipers
3. Trois Rivieres Athletic Club
4. Chicago Shamrocks
5. Philadelphia Firebirds

René Lecavalier Division
1. Regina Capitals
2. Quebec HC (ahead of #3 on tie-breakers)
3. Dawson City Nuggets (behind #2 on tie-breakers)
4. Seattle Supersoakers
5. Odessa Jackalopes

Voters:
@Boreal01
@Claude The Fraud
@Dr John Carlson
@Dr Pepper
@GKJ
@Habsfan18
@Hockey Stathead
@jigglysquishy
@nabby12
@Professor What
@rmartin65
@spitsfan24
@VanIslander

 

[jigglysquishy]

Has anyone heard from @BenchBrawl ?

 

[Professor What]

Has anyone heard from @BenchBrawl ?

I don't think anyone has since before the site crash. I hope he's alright.

 

[Habsfan18]

I don't think anyone has since before the site crash. I hope he's alright.

From what I recall, he was locked out of his account completely for a few days during and right after the site outage. And then I believe many members had issues as the site reverted back an entire year when it came to passwords, account edits etc. So it's entirely possible he's just locked out of his account completely. Maybe he's unable to change his password and recover the account, or maybe he just doesn't think it's worth the bother lol. He has stated before that when he's all in he's ALL IN, but that he tends to lose interest from time to time as well.

 

[Professor What]

From what I recall, he was locked out of his account completely for a few days during and right after the site outage. And then I believe many members had issues as the site reverted back an entire year when it came to passwords, account edits etc. So it's entirely possible he's just locked out of his account completely.

I'd hate to see his time on the board end like that. If he's locked out, I'd really like to see him come back with a new account. We don't need to lose good members because of stupid technical crap.

 

[Habsfan18]

Edit

 

[Professor What]

Had we decided on a playoff format for this year?

Are we looking at the #1 seeds getting a bye, while #2 matches up against #5 and #3 takes on #4? That way everyone gets a playoff series.

Or are we going with #5 missing out, with #1 vs #4 and #2 vs #3?

What does everyone prefer?

If we did the first option, that would get each division to 3 teams. If we want everyone to have a playoff series, we'd need to have #4 and #5 play each other, then do a standard playoff.