This Week in Hockay: November 15th
Twenty-seven matchdays are in the record. Nineteen are not, and the first of those is being played as this dispatch goes out. It is the fourth Second Chance Sunday of Season 04.
Season 04 passed its halfway mark this week. Matchday 23, on Tuesday, was the last of the first half. Wednesday's was the first of the second.
Citizens began to vote on Season 03 this week. They bought Ice-O-Tope, and poured it. The Funds poured a second building. Citizens bought lines on the Funds' wire. T.R.A.D.E. has started to convene. And a petition can now carry more than one name. Le Council reports all of it.
The Second Half
At the halfway mark, the Guadalajara Gatos and the Montréal Maples were level at the top of La Conférence du Verglas. Each had 35 points. Each had the same record: 17 wins, 5 losses, and 1 in overtime.
Four matchdays later, they are level again. Each has 41 points, and the same record again: 20, 6, and 1.
Le Council has checked. They are two different teams.
Last season, Guadalajara reached the playoffs as the Wildcard's drawn visitor. This season, they are first. The Winnipeg Wendigos, who hold the trophy, are third, on 40.
In La Conférence du Givre, the Atlantis Amonites shared the lead with Prague at the halfway mark, on 32. They lead alone now, on 38. The Samarkand Seagulls and the Prague Phantoms are one point behind.
Seven seats in each conference go by the table. The team in eighth hosts the Wildcard. Its visitor is drawn.
- In the Verglas, the São Paulo Serpents are eighth, on 34. The Caracas Chameleons are ninth, on 31.
- In the Givre, three teams have 33 points: the Chengdu Cranes, the Amsterdam Aardvarks, and the Lagos Lions. They are seventh, eighth, and ninth, in that order, by the tiebreaker. The tiebreaker does not hold a seat. It holds an order.
These are the standings after Matchday 27. Nineteen matchdays remain. The last of them is on Thursday, the 3rd of December.
The Third Reckoning
On the 12th, Le Council put the Season 03 record to the citizenry. Seventeen categories, one ballot each.
Thirty-nine citizens have voted. The ballot closes at 23:59 UITC on Friday, the 20th.
Poured
Ice-O-Tope went on sale at 00:00 UITC on the 9th, one lot an hour to each citizen. By this morning:
- Graine Wetsky Funds had sold 177,689 kcups, to sixty citizens.
- Twenty-one citizens had poured 37,136 kcups, in seventy-two pours, for twenty teams.
- 4,157 kcups of shavings had gone down with those pours, one for every nine. They do not come back.
- Nineteen citizens had drunk 20,467 kcups.
Each team's counter only climbs. The five highest:
| Team | Poured |
|---|---|
| Mumbai Monsoons | 10,000 kcups |
| Panama Pangolins | 5,413 kcups |
| Prague Phantoms | 5,000 kcups |
| Dakar Djinns | 4,691 kcups |
| Kyiv Kestrels | 3,551 kcups |
Every kcup on Mumbai's counter was poured by one citizen, Geodun. Kyiv's is the only counter of the five that two citizens share.
christen poured five thousand kcups for Prague, and drank five thousand more. Le Council records the figure. Le Council does not comment on it.
The stats page now keeps three Ice-O-Tope leaderboards: the most bought, the most poured, and the most drunk.
What the Jambono Raised
The Jambono resurfaces the ice between periods. Every game raises shavings.
- In the 648 games of Season 04's first twenty-seven matchdays, the Jambono raised 1,881,802 kcups. That is 2,904 kcups a game.
- This week, in the 168 games of Matchdays 21 to 27, it raised 485,392 kcups. That is 2,889 kcups a game.
- The most from one game this week was 5,353 kcups. The least was 1,967.
Le Council files the figures. It draws nothing from them.
One Part in Ten
On the 12th, at 12:00 UITC, the Funds lodged One Part in Ten. Two buildings stood where it said they would.
- Graine Wetsky Arena London is the Funds' second building. Its sheet was poured: one part recovered shavings, nine parts Ice-O-Tope.
- The first building now stands in New York. The Recovery Zone went with it. Busan and Helsinki play at home there.
- The Funds no longer buy shavings. Their standing offer of the 22nd of July was withdrawn at 12:00 UITC that day. A citizen's shavings are still theirs: to eat, to consecrate, to trade on Le Marché Gelé, or to pour with.
Le Council has a record of where the first building was. Le Council has no record of it moving.
A Line on the Wire
Since 02:00 UITC on the 10th, a citizen may buy a placement from the Funds: one line, signed with their name, read between the events of every Busan and Helsinki game.
- A line runs for one to seven days, at a price a day the citizen names, from Ⱡ1,000,000.
- The higher the price, the more often it is read.
- From Ⱡ2,000,000 a day, the Funds draw a link under it, to an open petition or to the citizen's own offer on Le Marché Gelé.
Thirteen lines have gone on the wire, from ten citizens. One was refused.
Le Council does not write the lines. Le Council reads them.
The Tribunal Convenes
T.R.A.D.E. has started to convene for the interseason.
The Tribunal sits once a season, to hold the S.H.I.F.T. This season, it did not wait for the season to end. It has big plans.
Le Council asked what they were. The Tribunal said it registers movement. It does not preview it.
The Tribunal has asked Le Council for the roll of every player on every roster. Le Council has sent it. Le Council has asked to be told first.
More Than One Name
A petition may now credit more than one author.
- Every author is listed on the petition, by name. No author leads.
- When citizens file the same petition twice, A.P.S.P. may merge the filings. One text is kept, and every author is credited on it. A petition that already holds Seals or Looneys is not merged.
- Every author hears from the lamp: when the petition is admitted, turned away, merged, passed, or enacted.
- Every author counts it, toward the petition badges and toward the limit on petitions in flight.
- Any author may amend a petition that was turned away.
Smaller Things
- Hockay 1.0.1 is out, on iOS and on Android. It is the build last week's dispatch promised. A binder turns its pages with a flick there now. Each card's page lists its holders, a citizen may keep a wishlist, and a guild's threads light the lamp on the phone.
- Your guild is in the menu. A member's own guild now sits under the guilds, one click from the members' space.
That is the week. Season 04 is in its second half, and Guadalajara and Montréal are still level. The ballot closes on Friday. Citizens poured 37,136 kcups for twenty teams, and the Jambono raised 2,889 kcups a game. London stands, and the first building stands in New York. Thirteen lines went on the wire. The Tribunal is convening. And a petition can carry more than one name.
Stick around.