I wasn't referring to your straw poll which was obviously a joke and I'm certainly not one of the parties involved so I don't take things personally. My concern would be the repeated mentions of Flames bot lineup in the finals. This isn't just directed at you either as many people brought that up. OK, we get it, Flames messed up and ended with a bot lineup in the finals. Bringing it up repeatedly to me was a bit over the top. In my mind, his accomplishment of bringing a team that had never received any trophy before to the finals was a great accomplishment. For me, it is just as impressive as your record managing your squad.

Hopefully, obviously, using the term mud slinging was also meant to be a bit of a joke playing on what we hear about repeatedly in political elections.

In a WC competition I am going to give a lot of credit to the person who exhibited a lot of WC success. Your titles are through a different process where you are building a team through managing finances and training players. It doesn't make your accomplishments insignificant, it's just that they are not an apples to apples comparison of assembling a team of all stars from a country and managing them through a tournament. Flames success last season was in the exact tournament we are voting on for the manager. While I believe you would make a successful manager, Flames in this case has last season to show he can manage successfully in the WC. If Flames were to get the nomination (which I doubt), I would like to see you follow his same path of grabbing another country and lead them to over achieve.

also on botting the finals everyone seems to be over it, except gatr. when youre still talking about something even after projectraisin was done with it i think theres an obvious stretch. also if anyone saw the roster that the czechs had youd be baffled. there arent many czech teams, even fewer with properly trained players, and even less players that could compete on a wc level. i was not carried by my players, not at all. if that was the case the czechs wouldve had loads of wc success before me, but they didnt, because outside of a handful of core players they arent that good of a team. 12-2 isnt easy to replicate, with any team, let alone a wc ghost like czech republic.