2013 Season GDT Sign-Up Thread (Playoff SIGN-UPs OPEN)

[TheJuxtaposer]

Welcome one, welcome all, to the Lockout-shortened 2013 NHL season GDT sign-up thread!

Round 2

Game	Date	Time (PT)	Game	Creator	Result
Game 1	5/14	7:00pm	@Kings	AstroDan
Game 2	5/16	7:00pm	@Kings	AstroDan
Game 3	5/18	6:00pm	Kings	KirbyDots
Game 4	5/21	7:00pm	Kings	HatrickMarleau
Game 5*	5/23	7:30pm	@Kings	Open
Game 6*	5/26	TBA	Kings	Open
Game 7*	5/28	TBA	@Kings	Open

*If Necessary

Reminder, if you have a home game (3, 4, 6*), your GDT will be put on the main Stanley Cup Playoff forums. Please make it appropriate for all eyes. And obviously, represent the Sharks board well.

First come, first serve.

GDT Standings

Rank	Creator	GP	W	L	OTL/SOL	Pts	Pts%	[center]Streak
1	Hatrick Marleau	12	8	3	1	29	80.56%	Lost 1
2	AstroDan	9	4	4	1	18	67.67%	Lost 2
3	slocal	6	3	3	0	12	66.67%	Lost 1
4	TheJuxtaposer	4	3	1	0	10	83.33%	Won 2
5	Mafoofoo	4	2	1	1	9	75%	Won 1
6	Fistfullofbeer	3	0	0	3	6	66.67%	Lost 1 (OT)
7	LadyStanley	2	1	1	0	4	66.67%	Lost 1
	sjshark91	2	1	1	0	4	66.67%	Lost 1
8	KirbyDots	1	1	0	0	3	100%	Won 1
	sonticus	1	1	0	0	3	100%	Won 1
9	rangerssharks414	1	0	1	0	1	33.33%	Lost 1
	RainbowDash	1	0	1	0	1	33.33%	Lost 1

Originally Posted by Markus

GDT standings will dictate the order of the GDT creator's tier in next year's avatar draft. Points will be rewarded as follows:
3pts - Win
2pts - Shoot out loss or overtime loss
1pt - Loss

This way you are rewarded for creating multiple GDTs even if you're bad luck and really shouldn't be creating them in the first place.

Have at it people.

[TheJuxtaposer]

Past Months:

January

Date	Time (PT)	Game	Creator	Result
1/20	3:00pm	@Flames	slocal	W 4-1
1/22	7:00pm	@Oilers	TheJuxtaposer	W 6-3
1/24	7:30pm	Coyotes	KirbyDots	W 5-3
1/26	1:00pm	Avalanche	slocal	W 4-0
1/27	5:00pm	Canucks	Mafoofoo	W 4-1
1/29	7:30pm	Ducks	Hatrick Marleau	W 3-2 (SO)
1/31	7:30pm	Oilers	sonticus	W 3-2 (SO)

February

Date	Time (PT)	Game	Creator	Result
2/2	7:30pm	Predators	Mafoofoo	L 2-1 (SO)
2/4	7:00pm	@Ducks	Mafoofoo	L 2-1
2/5	7:30pm	Blackhawks	Hatrick Marleau	L 5-3
2/9	1:00pm	Coyotes	Fistfullofbeer	L 1-0 (SO)
2/11	4:00pm	@Blue Jackets	slocal	L 6-2
2/12	5:00pm	@Predators	Fistfullofbeer	L 1-0 (OT)
2/15	5:30pm	@Blackhawks	sjshark91	L 4-1
2/19	5:00pm	@Blues	Hatrick Marleau	W 2-1!
2/22	5:30pm	@Blackhawks	rangerssharks414	L 2-1
2/23	5:00pm	@Stars	slocal	L 3-1
2/26	7:30pm	Avalanche	AstroDan	W 3-2 (SO)
2/28	7:30pm	Red Wings	KirbyDots	L 2-1 (SO)

March

Date	Time (PT)	Game	Creator	Result
3/2	7:30pm	Predators	Hatrick Marleau	W 2-1
3/5	7:00pm	@Canucks	slocal	W 3-2 (SO)
3/6	6:30pm	@Flames	TheJuxtaposer	L 4-1
3/9	1:00pm	Blues	Fistfullofbeer	L 4-3 (OT)
3/10	5:00pm	@Avalanche	AstroDan	L 3-2 (OT)
3/12	5:00pm	@Blues	AstroDan	L 4-2
3/14	7:30pm	Kings	Hatrick Marleau	W 4-3
3/16	7:30pm	@Kings	Hatrick Marleau	L 5-2
3/18	7:00pm	@Ducks	AstroDan	L 5-3
3/20	6:30pm	@Oilers	Mafoofoo	W 4-3 (SO)
3/23	11:00am	@Wild	RainbowDash	L 2-0
3/25	7:00pm	@Ducks	TheJuxtaposer	W 5-3
3/27	7:00pm	Ducks	AstroDan	W 4-0
3/28	7:30pm	Red Wings	LadyStanley	W 2-0
3/30	7:30pm	Coyotes	Can HaZ Trainz

April

Date	Time (PT)	Game	Creator	Result
4/1	7:30pm	Canucks	rangerssharks414	W 3-2
4/3	7:30pm	Wild	AstroDan	W 4-2
4/5	7:30pm	Flames	AstroDan	W 2-1
4/7	1:00pm	Stars	HatrickMarleau	L 5-4 (SO)
4/9	4:00pm	@Blue Jackets	AstroDan	L 4-0
4/11	4:30pm	@Red Wings	HatrickMarleau	W 3-2 (SO)
4/13	5:00pm	@Stars	slocal	L 2-1
4/15	7:00pm	@Coyotes	TheJuxtaposer	W 4-0
4/16	7:30pm	Kings	sharks91	W 3-2 (SO)
4/18	7:30pm	Wild	Hatrick Marleau	W 6-1
4/21	5:00pm	Blue Jackets	AstroDan	L 4-3
4/23	7:00pm	Stars	Hatrick Marleau	W 3-2
4/24	7:00pm	@Coyotes	Lady Stanley	L 2-1
4/27	7:30pm	@Kings	Hatrick Marleau	L 3-2

Round 1

Game	Date	Time (PT)	Game	Creator	Result
Game 1	5/1	7:30pm	@Canucks	AstroDan	W 3-1
Game 2	5/3	7:00pm	@Canucks	AstroDan	W 3-2 (OT)
Game 3	5/5	7:00pm	Canucks	KirbyDots	W 5-2
Game 4	5/7	7:00pm	Canucks	HatrickMarleau	W 4-3 (OT)

Here are head-shots if anyone wants to use them for GDTs. In PNG format. Thanks to sonticus. :-*

Originally Posted by sonticus

[LadyStanley]

I added slocal as the first GDT creator (cause he said he'd take it yesterday)

[TheJuxtaposer]

Don't everyone sign up at once!

I'll take the Oilers on the 22nd.

[Mafoofoo]

Uh I guess I'll do the Canucks on the 27th

[Hatrick Marleau]

I'd be interested in doing this but I'm not sure what I'd be doing. Can someone please explain?

EDIT: Does GDT stand for Game Day Thread? If that is what is I'll take the home opener against Phoenix.

[KirbyDots]

I'll take the Yotes game, home opener.

Edit: Hatrick Marleau can I take the Phoenix game? My schedule gets super busy after that.

[rangerssharks414]

Originally Posted by Hatrick Marleau

I'd be interested in doing this but I'm not sure what I'd be doing. Can someone please explain?

EDIT: Does GDT stand for Game Day Thread? If that is what is I'll take the home opener against Phoenix.

Yes, it does. People usually make creative Photoshops in the opening post. I've made GDTs before, but everyone could tell you that mine are lame (since I don't know Photoshop).

[Hatrick Marleau]

Originally Posted by KirbyDots

I'll take the Yotes game, home opener.

Edit: Hatrick Marleau can I take the Phoenix game? My schedule gets super busy after that.

Yeah, I'll take the game against the Ducks instead.

[KirbyDots]

Originally Posted by Hatrick Marleau

Yeah, I'll take the game against the Ducks instead.

Many thanks!

[Hatrick Marleau]

Originally Posted by rangerssharks414

Yes, it does. People usually make creative Photoshops in the opening post. I've made GDTs before, but everyone could tell you that mine are lame (since I don't know Photoshop).

Thanks. Good thing I just learned how to do photoshop this year. The only problem I might have is posting the picture since I haven't posted a picture on HF yet lol.

[WTFetus]

Off topic, but do we not have an avatar draft this year? Did I make a GDT last season for nothing?

[LadyStanley]

Just a reminder...

Nominally GDTs are posted at midnight of game day. For "day" (rather than night) games, 18-24 hours in advance is sometimes warranted.

[slocal]

Originally Posted by WTFetus

Off topic, but do we not have an avatar draft this year? Did I make a GDT last season for nothing?

Without a season being guaranteed, I didn't make any avatars yet. I picked up the GDT thread from last season after Markus went MIA. As you know, he handled the draft with his avatars. I'm currently chugging away at making this last-minute (for me)GDT, so if I do make avatars, they'll have to wait.

Besides, shouldn't a pat on the back be enough? That's all I ever get out of 'em

Originally Posted by LadyStanley

Just a reminder...

Nominally GDTs are posted at midnight of game day. For "day" (rather than night) games, 18-24 hours in advance is sometimes warranted.

Yarp, I'm cramming to get this thing done in time.

[WTFetus]

Originally Posted by slocal

Besides, shouldn't a pat on the back be enough? That's all I ever get out of 'em

That's the difference between you and I slo. You do things out of the kindness of your heart, I do things for the benefits.

[TheJuxtaposer]

Originally Posted by WTFetus

That's the difference between you and I slo. You do things out of the kindness of your heart, I do things for the benefits.

Here you go, you big baby.

[Mafoofoo]

Originally Posted by slocal

Without a season being guaranteed, I didn't make any avatars yet. I picked up the GDT thread from last season after Markus went MIA. As you know, he handled the draft with his avatars. I'm currently chugging away at making this last-minute (for me)GDT, so if I do make avatars, they'll have to wait.

Besides, shouldn't a pat on the back be enough? That's all I ever get out of 'em
.

We should just wait till next season and add all the GDT points from this one and last years to rank the Avatar draft for the 2013-2014 season.

[slocal]

Originally Posted by TheJuxtaposer

Here you go, you big baby.

Originally Posted by Mafoofoo

We should just wait till next season and add all the GDT points from this one and last years to rank the Avatar draft for the 2013-2014 season.

Yeah, I agree. This season has a funky start to it and isn't quite feeling right just yet.

[Mafoofoo]

Originally Posted by slocal

Yeah, I agree. This season has a funky start to it and isn't quite feeling right just yet.

That and it helps me immensely.

[YouJustGotPavelskied]

Oh GDT's, how I've missed thee

[sonticus]

Ugh... Time to play around on Photoshop to try and re-learn all the things I've forgotten during this long offseason. Maybe I should have done some GDTs on the KHL boards during the lockout?

[likewall32]

the painter in me wants to subject you all to my awf...er, awesome skills, the bitter nhl fan in me wants to do just a shade over 50% of the necessary work for a gdt.

conundrum.

[sonticus]

I'm going to bring this info over here from last year's GDT thread because it was invaluable to me last year and I imagine others might need it also. Big thanks to Slo, Markus and Sacto for this info.

If you want width:

Originally Posted by slocal

Max size for slices is 350x300 and you can have 24 images in a post. So you have a max canvas of 700x3600

If you want length:

Originally Posted by Markus

It's actually 550x300 so if you prefer length over girth you could have a canvas of 550x7200.

For reference:

Originally Posted by SactoShark

Just noticed Chrome and Safari break two 350x300's if your window is super skinny.

Firefox, I assume correctly, begins scrolling after a certain point.

[Fistfullofbeer]

Originally Posted by sonticus

I'm going to bring this info over here from last year's GDT thread because it was invaluable to me last year and I imagine others might need it also. Big thanks to Slo, Markus and Sacto for this info.

If you want width:


If you want length:


For reference:

Awesome man. I was looking for some tips on GDT's. I am very comfortable with scripting/programming and what not but never made a GDT so was not sure how to go about it. Will use this to give it a few attempts to see if I am confident enough to volunteer for one.

[Fistfullofbeer]

So is the main idea to make a big gif (with slices) to fit within these dimensions and that becomes the GDT?