#and don't get me started on this is their 1st season ever they're competing in mpl ph which really impresses me a lot tho

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when i watch the playoff stage for mpl philippines since wednesday my first impression is just to expect the unexpected but damnnnnn ffs aurora gaming is truly the definition of it what the hell

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As someone who’s the go-to prospects blog in my mind, do you have any thoughts on Aron kiviharju dropping to the fourth round? The video the Wild shared after he got drafted is soo interesting to me

"Let me tell you one thing, man; you just made the biggest steal of the draft. I promise you that."

29/06/2024 - The Minnesota Wild draft Aron Kiviharju 122nd overall

Aron Kiviharju was supposed to go 1st overall.

Can you be a bust before you ever get drafted? Can the narrative miasma of going 1st overall linger on someone who went 122nd?

Kiviharju’s first game report from the 2024 EP Draft Guide is dated November 24th, 2019. He was 13 back then. According to them, no other player in EP's database — nor in any other draft guide this year — has had scouts' eyes on them so early, for so long. They say he understands the game beyond what's reasonable for a player his age, that he's always excelled while playing above his year level, that even though he's small and light there's something special about his game. Singular, elite, a phenom. This child is the next big thing. He is 13, 14, 15, he is anointed Boysaviour before his voice has cracked.

How many times have we heard this story before?

One day, Aron Kiviharju will be competing with and against players his age. And when that day comes, it might feel a bit odd for the defenceman. For years, ever since Kiviharju was young, he has played up a level, or two, or three. At age 13, he was playing U16 hockey with TPS Turku and, this past season, as a 15-year-old, he started with TPS’ U18 team before moving on to the U20 club. His numbers – 30 points in 35 games – would be deemed impressive for a 19-year-old forward, never mind a young defenceman who only turned 16 in January.

Steven Ellis' article on Kiviharju for Daily Faceoff, early September 2023, broadens the scope of public scrutiny even further:

Time travel back to 2022, and you'll find his name is printed right next to some familiar faces from this year's draft: Macklin Celebrini, Cole Eiserman, Berkly Catton, Ivan Demidov — except, they're all listed as possible challengers to his assumed throne.

And then, the accident.

The glaring flag on Kiviharju's draft profile, and across every report, every interview, and article since is the reality of his stalled potential. A scout’s job is to project a player’s future, but progress is rarely linear. What might halt a once-promising player's progress? Injuries and global pandemics and a poorly managed season or two; these things don't care for destiny. For every realised prodigy there are a dozen more who will fall short of expectations — this is something you pick up fast reading backdated draft guides and sifting through the history of the NHL.

In Kiviharju's case, the dislocated kneecap and the skate cut to the throat are the things most will write about. Behind the scenes, however, there were evidently other factors that contributed to his drop to the 4th round.

You see, every time I think I've escaped it, the size issue comes back.

The belief remains, however, that larger is better. I’m understating just how much it pervades hockey discourses: it’s present in scouting reports and has had measurable impacts on drafting; I hear it on professional and amateur hockey podcasts; it’s thrown out casually during interviews by coaches and fellow players. I can’t read or listen to anything about Faber without stumbling across it — the preoccupation with size. I’ll be very clear here: I’m not reading anything malicious from specific people, I’m not accusing anyone of crimes, and in no way am I implying that ice hockey is unique here. Just the opposite, in fact. I know professional sports hinges upon producing stars, that the commodification of young bodies is endemic to the business. Those stars are, stripped down to the basest definition, workers who perform with their bodies and sell their labour, whose bodies will inevitably be coveted and revered for their adherence to the Platonic Ideal of their respective crafts. For men’s sports, there’s something extra on top of the commodification of children’s bodies — it’s the vernacular of near-fetishistic worship; of the masculine, the oxymoronic youthful-but-mature, the virile. The language used to praise Faber and other young d-men like him has my stomach twisting in a discomfort that I find hard to quantify — players, coaches, and the media all talk about him, and the hockey blinders slip. He’s a “workhorse”, a “stud”, he’s got “a man’s body” — and call it projecting, call it reading too deeply into innocuous statements, but the closest thing I can compare it to is hearing my AFAB body spoken about as an object whose value can be reduced to its function, its usefulness, its closeness to sexual maturity.

Excerpt from the last time I wrote about a Minnesota d-man (sensing a pattern here).

Kiviharju probably would've dropped some places regardless of his injury and missed time; that's where the league is trending right now in terms of draft preference. When you're small, every mistake is amplified by your lack of size. You must be twice as skilled, faster, more consistent.

p. 595, The 2024 Elite Prospects NHL Draft Guide

Kiviharju's media appearances read like someone who is haunted by his draft stock despite his assertions otherwise.

Kiviharju's bold proclamation, caught on GM Bill Guerin’s hot mic, that the Wild just got "the biggest steal of the draft” will likely be associated with Kiviharju's rise — or perhaps his fall — as Minnesota media and fans work at their mythmaking. I don't know if I want to care about some hockey myths anymore. My appetite for them sours day by day. These myths were started by the eyes and hands and mouths of people watching a boy of 11 play hockey, who witnessed him and salivated at his unwritten future. Part of me thinks: I don't want to be complicit in their continued weaving — though I know I will be anyway.

I read what he says in the lead up to the draft and it's like he's telling himself as he tells us; that he will not care, because he is worth more than this.

From Kiviharju's draft day interview, transcribed by me:

Q: What's the biggest thing you learned about yourself going through the rehab process? AK: Kind of like... it's — life is more than hockey. Hockey is the biggest thing for me. I love the sport. I will do this for the rest of my life, for sure. First playing it, then probably I will continue with hockey after my career, so I've been always thinking like that, and I'm still thinking like that, but it's just that it's — more. Life is more than just hockey, there's a lot of things. And there's a lot of different things about myself, kind of like when you don't — if hockey is my fuel and I'm a car and I'm 200 days without getting any fuel, we have to find some new ways how to get that fuel, to keep my car going. - Q: How has your cut healed since U-18's? AK: Yeah so (he gestures to the cut right below his jawline) that was a pretty close one, but thank God we're alive. That's what I kind of meant when I said that this life is more than just hockey. So first you're 200 days without playing hockey and when you come back your first game the World Under 18's a skate cuts your throat open, so it's very close calls, and that's when you remember that this is only hockey.

Whatever happens, I want Kiviharju to hold on to this. Don't get me wrong, I'm rooting for him. In so many ways, he fits the archetype of players I enjoy. I want him to make it to the show and blow everyone's expectations out of the water and bring Minnesota the Cup. I love this team, even if I rarely post about them. Even still, whether he shoots into stardom or he washes out of the NHL, it doesn't fucking matter. It's only hockey.

And he is more than his ability to live up to our myths.

[camelotcinematicuniverse]

About Harry and Maple

Well, this is gonna be a really strange little thing that I write, but I'm still excited nonetheless.

In a Mario Golf 64 Twitch stream clip, the awesome speedrunner MetalYoshi ProGamer (yes, that's his alias. No, it's not lame, shaddup) asked the following question to his chat:

"Do you think that Maple has some kind of relationship to Harry?"

And that got me really thinking to the point that this very blog was made. So thanks, MetalYoshi. If you ever read this, I really needed that boost to put my thoughts out there.

Anyway, I actually have a few headcanon theories relating to Maple and Harry, but first we need context. Both Harry and Maple are the final characters from the Camelot OC bunch to be unlocked (without the Game Boy Color Mario Golf save file), thus making them the "best" of the Camelot OC golfers as character progression is measured through how far you get in the various modes of Mario Golf 64. Harry is the final Camelot Character unlocked through Get Character, while Maple happens to be the first character unlocked through earning 50 Birdie Badges. Technically that makes her the weakest of the four final characters (Maple, DK, Bowser and Metal Mario), but out of every Camelot OC she's probably the best alongside Harry.

Metal Mario may topple everyone else in stats and control alone, but don't let that discourage you from checking Harry and Maple out either. They have their own little quirks and low points, but they're still really good choices if you want something different from Bowser and Metal Mario.

Now for the fun part: my headcanons! I have three ideas to throw out in the ring, so you can decide for yourself which headcanon you'd like to go with. Hell, make your own and let's see what we can all come up with! Now then, let's begin!

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Headcanon #1: Maple is Harry's daughter/little sister/family member:

This is an extremely cute idea to me because both of these characters look similar in a way, but they definitely have a difference in behavior with their mode select screen idle poses. Here we see Harry, with his alt colors, doing a semi serious crossed arms look. Like he takes himself a bit too seriously, but you can tell he loves the game of golf:

As for Maple, the screenshot wouldn't be enough, but she's dancing and just generally being cute:

Do you all notice anything about these two? How they have almost the exact same alt colors, how Harry's older, more seasoned presence kind of trickles down to Maple's eagerness (due to her dancing)? They're both blonde, and even the small things like the structure of Maple's nose kind of seem like a natural feminine version of Harry's being smaller and a lot less prominent, but it's still more than Plum's to me.

All this to say I have the theory that Maple could be Harry's daughter or even younger sister. It's just something about Harry that gives me this "older and wiser" vibe to Maple, and with some of the similarities pointed out, I like to imagine that Harry is a proud dad or brother to a young lady (honestly have no real idea of Maple's age, but I go with young adult/older teen vibes) who is as interested in golfing and competing to get even farther drives than before -- Maple. She looks up to him heavily and even starts to wear some of the same things as him but in her style. Note the first (1st) and third (3rd) alternate colors on the pair: the former is an orange shirt, and the latter is a red shirt. Hell, Maple goes so far as to change her shorts color to red as well, instead of the usual blue/purple. Look also at the hair color from Maple to Harry's hat color. The second (2nd) alt on Harry has an auburn-esque color, and Maple has her hair color changed to Auburn too!

I know that the more practical response would be "that's just how the game works in alt colors," but in universe, why else would Maple go out of her way to change her hair color and wear similar color coded outfits to Harry? Could she be extremely happy to emulate his behaviors and style from the extremely healthy bond the two have shared? Could he have been the closest thing to an exceptional male role model she had in her developmental years, so she trusts him and loves him to the point of having the same colors as an alt? That's something I like considering. Imagine if we had Harry console Maple on things that she's going through in her personal life, giving her a man's perspective on relationships and friends, and them enjoying their time together and being super close. When it comes time to golf, though, they are both competitive!

Headcanon #2: Harry is Maple's mentor:

A lot similar to the dad/brother one, Harry still is able to give Maple advice and pointers on her life, but it's about as much time spent as an average evening of golfing practice, typically a few hours at most. This is really the one I spent the least amount of time thinking about as it's not as interesting as the other two points, but I still thought this would be cool to share alas.

Headcanon #3: Maple and Harry are dating:

Ok, ok, here's the one I think MetalYoshi was hinting at with the way he worded his question. "Do you think Maple has some kind of relationship with Harry?" is probably something I figured he meant as a romance thing...well, I'll explore this one here.

From the first headcanon, we can see they have things in common physically and hobby wise, but what else do they like to do? Maybe Harry secretly likes cooking and Maple does too. Maybe he takes her out when she's upset. They would cuddle every night with a glass of wine (dare I say...Sherry?), and for Harry, Maple is what he needed in his life to keep him from taking everything too seriously. Loosening up to let her in after he puts up his own barrier to his emotions and probably has some puppy eyes thrown in.

Maple really likes Harry in this case because it gives her a sense of security, safety, a feeling of trust and realistic love that no one she had ever been with had before. She's unafraid of letting her walls come down and being more social and being herself around Harry. Her cute, tomboy, dorky self is what he truly cares about.

Hell it even goes through to golfing. Maybe the fact that they foil from each other and compliment well together is what makes them strong as golfers with a good drive and above average control. (Clearly not the best, but for them, that's ok)

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When it's all said and done, I do really like the idea of Maple and Harry together in some way. I think it's all too coincidental for them to nearly match in their alt colors, have some of the best stats of all the Camelot OCs, and how much they really do seem to mesh well together. In my eyes, the headcanon I do like the most is the familial one, but the romance option is such a cute option as well, and not to mention in my personal fanfics all three headcanons are interchangeable. The mentor/family friend one is used more often in my writing blurbs, but I liked the other two so much more that I'll have to implement them a lot more!

Ay, thanks for reading this. I really appreciate the traction since I don't usually share a lot of my headcanons on Tumblr...ah well. Enjoy!

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What exactly is their thriller?

How’d they get plenty of competent potential clients too since the way can I do factors specifically the same way?

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All the more, there exists even distinctive amounts of experienced potential clients, objects like fast income chances, potential indirect prospects, and marketing-qualified solution income alternatives.

Alright superb, but like just what is an immediate?

From what I've recognized, a manual could probably be ...

·         an e-mail deal with, or

·         a cellphone sum, or

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And it may be in several distinct places. Analyze has positioned that 44% of business owners have made potential customers by way of LinkedIn, although 39% have completed it using Fb and 30% by way of Twitter.

If you come about for being at any time caught for concepts, you can be able to look for “how to increase an email list” or “how to construct a publication.” Individuals are mostly lead-gen idea models.

For now regardless of the truth that, permit us to give a target to every single inside the several exceptional techniques which you are going to get a great deal certified potential consumers from social websites especially.

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Just to make sure, you may need to assemble several these into your basis layer of immediate seize techniques. Lots much more to adjust to.

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I've utilized a pinned quick gen card to include 373 subscribers to my e-newsletter listing of 950 - which can be a lot more than 33% in the total subscribers, and it's numerous new subscriber each day, all without possessing performing any additional execute previously mentioned and above the preliminary tweet.

Fill a card description, image, and get in touch with to motion textual content. You will also demand a hyperlink to some privateness protection at the same time as a fallback URL, like your homepage or perhaps a publication landing web page on your own have a website.

If you happen to be eager on connecting the cardboard for your current mailing checklist, there’re some fantastic integrations. Here’s a summary of how it is attained for Mailchimp.

Before long right, after the cardboard is produced, you will be able to compose a tweet and publish instantly. Every within the certified prospective customers that seem from this card will quite probably be available to download through the Creatives dashboard in Twitter Adverts.

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Fb adverts in regards to the total are extraordinary, at the same time as in distinctive, the fast advertisements may well be beneficial for almost any individual considering getting a whole lot significantly much more seasoned potential clients from SMM advertising.

In just two clicks or taps, any person can send out jointly any on the information, which is all auto-filled to make it tremendous straightforward:

On Fb specifically, these types of immediate advertisements are further powerful utilizing the many methods to streamline and customize viewers stage and focus on particular demographics.

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I appear ahead to assisting you out! Be at liberty to inquire me any SEO related issues. I’ll answer them correct listed here.

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I couldn't resist, so I tried this strategy out for myself. Inside of 30 minutes, I might have five takers!

 one factor I like about Buffer at the same time as other social sites administration products is how uncomplicated they guarantee it's to obtain impressive insights into your social sharing. Even products I’d by no means anytime believe to appear up!

Within this unique circumstance, I like how smooth it really is to see the women and men who might have retweeted me - women and men who, within the notion, would make for some reasonably fantastic cash flow odds. They may be engaged with what I’m sharing, that's a wonderful 1st movement!

From outlined correctly below, you will be able to adhere to these individuals immediately or simply merely simply click more than to confirm out their profile and procure involved using a DM.

 What I like concerning this social net sites immediate gen advice is how certain and primed it is. Mostly, making use of the electrical energy of social networking lookup and sources, you are capable of seeing any person within your vicinity who’s keen to examine goods like yours.

People would make fairly great income possibilities, correct?

Hootsuite incorporates a relatively extraordinary occasion for what this might look like:

... if you are a chiropractor, you can type “chiropractor” in lookup and discover people within your area who might be inside of the market for you. You may also type in “sore back” or other pertinent phrases for getting capable of finding out these competent prospective customers also.

Twitter’s Outstanding Analysis is amid the very best locations to locate this kind of knowledge.

Reward: There is a neat additional choice to pick only tweets which include an issue mark, using the concept becoming that you’d seize individuals requesting help/advice/research collectively along with your particular important phrase. Rather neat!

 Nevertheless, however yet another instrument that matches with this particular specific distinctive social-geo examining for potential buyers is Followerwonk, which will get you some great perception into your Twitter followers.

Specifically, their follower map is pretty extraordinary!

 To obtain just one yourself,

 The primary focus of Twitter chats and AMAs is most likely to own engagement and goodwill. However, an additional reward is common that these occasions may be immediate era resources also!

I like the way in which via which that Products Hunt does this with their remain chats. By themselves landing web page, they document the impending occasions and offers you a chance to “Remind me,” which back again backlinks for your fundamental digital mail seize type. Development, the equivalent as that, Solution Hunt includes a guidebook they can see about adhering to up with.

We have acquired been generating out our #bufferchat landing web page, and we’d be fired up to analyze this “remind me” substitute for ourselves. It truly is labored exceptional for accumulating fascination in webinars as well as other routines to this point.

 We have acquired been genuinely privileged to amass some of our Slideshares do extremely successfully on the subject of sights.

Numerous our most favored Slideshares even get much more website visitors than some our most favored posts!

And it seems, Slideshare can also be an incredibly social, immediate gen instrument.

Within of Slideshare is an substitute for accumulating capable possible consumers. You may be within a placement to personalize an idea and which particulars you would almost certainly like, then notify Slideshare when to screen display screen the quickly seize type in the course of the slidedeck. We've got run this a single for ourselves appropriate proper listed here at Buffer, and we acquired eighty-two new potential prospects in a thirty doing work working day interval of your time. Genuinely fantastic!

Identify: When I experimented with it, Slideshare was, in fact, exceptional to empower me to identify that the payment for every and each guidebook was present $8.00. It truly is with no question inside of the top leading quality for social networking marketing prospective customers, even though I’d imagine the caliber of direct from Slideshare/LinkedIn might be pretty fantastic also.