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BenchBrawl

BenchBrawl

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Guys I have a question for everyone: Which ATD was your first one?

So as of now (will update as more people answer):

ATD#1: Leaf Lander, BM67 (even before)
ATD#2:
ATD#3: VanIslander, Hockey Outsider
ATD#4:
ATD#5:
ATD#6:
ATD#7:
ATD#8: seventieslord, Sturminator
ATD#9:
ATD#10:
ATD#11:
ATD#12: Johnny Engine, TheDevilMadeMe, Dreakmur, overpass, MadArcand
ATD2010:
ATD2011: tony d, Hawkey Town 18, BenchBrawl, Selfish Man(MLD2011), BraveCanadian
ATD2012:
ATD2013:
ATD2014: ResilientBeast, ImporterExporter, ted2019
ATD2015: rmartin65
ATD2016:
ATD2017: tinyzombies
ATD2018: habsfan18, Claude the fraud
ATD2019:
ATD2020: tabness
ATD2021: Professor What
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2004. The 3rd one on the boards.

I lobbied for our own board. We got it. Unfortunately at "Fantasy Games". I complained to numerous mods to no avail. Then suddenly a couple of year later we got to be where we belong and began: the History board.
 
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Dirt 101 said:
2004. The 3rd one on the boards.

I lobbied for our own board. We got it. Unfortunately at "Fantasy Games". I complained to numerous mods to no avail. Then suddenly a couple of year later we got to be where we belong and began: the History board.
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So the 3rd one was ATD#3? Before the playoff era?

Nice piece of ATD history there. Thank god we got away from the fantasy board.

Edit:

This one? All-time X 3 Draft Roster Thread

Man, whoever @GFS is, his mega thread consolidating all the threads of ATD history is so useful. A gold mine of reference. Thanks GFS.
 
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BenchBrawl said:
So the 3rd one was ATD#3? Before the playoff era?

Nice piece of ATD history there. Thank god we got away from the fantasy board.

Edit: This one? All-time X 3 Draft Roster Thread

Man, whoever that @GFS guy is, his mega thread consolidating all the threads of ATD history is so useful. Thanks GFS, whoever you are.
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I don't know if I'd be in it if it weren't part of the history board. I love the history board, but a bit of occasional lurking in other forums has been enough to tell me that I'd prefer to just stick to this section.
 
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Hawkey Town 18 said:
2011 for me too. Were Reds and I the other side of that trade? I think we were.
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I think it was with VanI? But maybe I confuse it because I attempted to reunite Gretzky and Lemieux with a big trade with VanI, but it was vetoed. Could have been you.

I remembered that you too started in 2011. Looks like 2011 was a big recruiting draft for the years to come.
 
On HFBoards, ATD #12, 2009, but I did two others on a different board that seventieslord (as well as future HF GMs Dreakmur, Jarek, Dwight, a few others I may be forgetting.)
I can picture myself making my ATD picks in a bedroom in Sackville, NB that I lived in circa 2006, so at least one of them happened that long ago.
 
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So as of now (will update as people answer):

ATD#1:
ATD#2:
ATD#3: VanIslander
ATD#4:
ATD#5:
ATD#6:
ATD#7:
ATD#8
ATD#10:
ATD#11:
ATD#12: Johnny Engine
ATD2010:
ATD2011: tony d, Hawkey Town 18, BenchBrawl
ATD2012:
ATD2013:
ATD2014: ResilientBeast
ATD2015:
ATD2016:
ATD2017:
ATD2018:
ATD2019:
ATD2020:
ATD2021: Professor What
 
Johnny Engine said:
On HFBoards, ATD #12, 2009, but I did two others on a different board that seventieslord (as well as future HF GMs Dreakmur, Jarek, Dwight, a few others I may be forgetting.)
I can picture myself making my ATD picks in a bedroom in Sackville, NB that I lived in circa 2006, so at least one of them happened that long ago.
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Such an oldster ! I also did one on the Leafs board but it was after 2011. I won it too.
 
Johnny Engine said:
On HFBoards, ATD #12, 2009, but I did two others on a different board that seventieslord (as well as future HF GMs Dreakmur, Jarek, Dwight, a few others I may be forgetting.)
I can picture myself making my ATD picks in a bedroom in Sackville, NB that I lived in circa 2006, so at least one of them happened that long ago.
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Kindda weird, that you guys were doing ATDs in 2006 on the Leaf board, but didn't come to hfboards to participate in the ATDs that were already running. But I guess such was the internet of old, that not everything was centralized. Hfboards was not yet "Hfboards", the big main site that it is today (I assume).
 
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Kindda weird, that you guys were doing ATDs in 2006 on the Leaf board, but didn't come to hfboards to participate in the ATDs that were already running. But I guess such was the internet of old, that not everything was centralized. Hfboards was not yet "Hfboards", the big main site that it is today (I assume).
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Actually, 70s was a relatively longstanding ATD participant on HFBoards, and brought it to chat.mapleafs.com in 2005 or 2006, depending on whether I was in the first one there (don't remember really). And HF was already up to 12 ATDs in 2009 when I switched over.

No idea what VanIslander is talking about when he talks about ATDs starting on a Leafs board. If it did, it's way before my time.
 
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BenchBrawl said:
Guys I have a question for everyone: Which ATD was your first one?
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My first main draft was ATD 12, the last one in 2009 before we went to the once per-year format. Got to start with Bobby Orr right from the start - that was fun!

My first overall draft was MLD 11, back when the Minor League Draft was promoted as a way to introduce newbies to this. I remember @seventieslord gave me the hard sell before I joined. He was always the best at getting new people to join these.
 
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Question for everyone: Which ATD was your first one?

Updated

So as of now (will update as more people answer):

ATD#1: Leaf Lander, BM67 (even before)
ATD#2:
ATD#3: VanIslander, Hockey Outsider
ATD#4:
ATD#5:
ATD#6:
ATD#7:
ATD#8: seventieslord, Sturminator
ATD#9:
ATD#10:
ATD#11:
ATD#12: Johnny Engine, TheDevilMadeMe, Dreakmur, overpass, MadArcand
ATD2010:
ATD2011: tony d, Hawkey Town 18, BenchBrawl, Selfish Man(MLD2011), BraveCanadian
ATD2012:
ATD2013:
ATD2014: ResilientBeast, ImporterExporter, ted2019
ATD2015: rmartin65
ATD2016:
ATD2017: tinyzombies
ATD2018: habsfan18, Claude the fraud
ATD2019:
ATD2020: tabness
ATD2021: Professor What
 
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BenchBrawl said:
Question for everyone: Which ATD was your first one?

So as of now (will update as more people answer):

ATD#1: Leaf Lander
ATD#2:
ATD#3: VanIslander
ATD#4:
ATD#5:
ATD#6:
ATD#7:
ATD#8
ATD#9
ATD#10:
ATD#11:
ATD#12: Johnny Engine, TheDevilMadeMe
ATD2010:
ATD2011: tony d, Hawkey Town 18, BenchBrawl
ATD2012:
ATD2013:
ATD2014: ResilientBeast
ATD2015:
ATD2016:
ATD2017: tinyzombies
ATD2018:
ATD2019:
ATD2020:
ATD2021: Professor What
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I came in the leaf board migration for ATD 12
 
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Dreakmur said:
I came in the leaf board migration for ATD 12
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Can you document what this migration consisted in for the rest of us? It seemed like a significant event in ATD history, with several people joining hfboards or something like that.
 
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