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Neway has an eccentric personality, it's hard to explain. He's a good guy though.

personally I'm drawn towards 1 guy atm, but I could still vote for the other 2. I've already voted for the 3 main contenders and changed my votes multiple times haha.

I don't have another question yet, I'll think about it. Then make a final decision.

Good luck to all the candidates.

hmmm....i guess RamQ and I are exempt from this post Haha.

Since there is very little discussion going on I'm going to ask my own question to everyone, those running and those not.

If you had a player with 130 skill points what would your player look like? What would your training look like each season?

Last edited by Isaiah at 4/30/2015 7:02:07 PM

A superstar like that would look like me, blue eyes and everything. Duh.

Two questions.

1. What makes you a better candidate than the rest of the competition?

2. We've clearly had a great run under magiker, but I would say there's always room for improvement or at least evaluation. Do you have any ideas of how you could improve the NT or areas that should be evaluated/re-evaluated? This includes tactics, gameplanning, scouting, developing players, etc.

1.

I don't think there is a best fit. I think everyone brings more of the same i.e experience, understanding of BB, open to discussion

2. I've said it already but it bears repetition. Community-involvement. Scouting(sort of can be considered developing players). Actually community-involvement can even be classified as all that. The past 2 seasons scouting didn't see a considerable amount of attention and while the effects were minimal, if you got a chance to improve something that is incredibly helpful, why not?

Tactics/Gameplanning didn't receive as much attention as I had previously seen lately, I'd like to see more of it. The community is just as vital to success as the manager. He/she makes the call but they provide the valuable insight needed to make the right call. Really adds to magiker's legacy as only a few were helping him during his tenure.

Two questions.

1. What makes you a better candidate than the rest of the competition?

2. We've clearly had a great run under magiker, but I would say there's always room for improvement or at least evaluation. Do you have any ideas of how you could improve the NT or areas that should be evaluated/re-evaluated? This includes tactics, gameplanning, scouting, developing players, etc.

1) to be honest, I think there are three quality candidates running including myself, RamQ and Knowledge. We each will bring something different to the U.S. squad and community.

I personally think I'm the best candidate because I have always been more receptive to new ideas. While in my election speech thingy I say that I'll be sticking a lot to the bread and butter of our team, I will definitely be focused on preparing the team for the future. I've run on this before, but I still want to create a team that can be top notch in every tactic regardless of who we have so that no team can make tactical guesses against us.

2) going back to what I just said, I want to improve on developing the future so that we have a wide variety of options for future NT managers. As for tactics, I know what we are strong in and will be for the foreseeable future but that doesn't mean we can't use more of a variety of tactics that would still lead to wins. Too many teams have guessed on us in the past and I personally feel that we could have avoided that. Now, as for scouting...I feel we have one of the best systems in place with a great group of guys/gals helping out each season so thanks to everyone for that and for those helping moving forward.

To add to what Knowledge and I have both said about the community and posts further back, I think one thing we need to focus on for the community are the new guys joining. We unfortunately don't have the tools we once did on the offsite so we need to make sure that the new guys have a say in tactics and game planning. Maybe we can have "help the Coach" games where some of the new guys can work with the NT coach with the game planing.....including roster, tactics, and guessing to allow them to have a voice. Something very simple, but a way to get new guys more involved to generate more talk in future conversations.

I'm just here so I don't get fined.

Question to all candidates:

You have a certain idea for a game-plan that you are very confident in, and you propose your initial idea. Then magiker comes along and presents a VERY different opinion that does not support your initial roster and tactic idea and he too is very confident and set on it. After much debating both you and him still hold your initial roster and tactic opinions and neither person is swayed. Other offsite members are split about 40/60 with what you should do (40 supporting your opinion and 60 supporting magiker's idea). What game-plan do you go with and why?