Global Online Hockey Association is the sports league you've heard about in Second Life! GOHA is featured on SL's Showcase, SL6B Linden birthday celebration, TreetTV, CNN's website, and around the virtual worlds and internet. Come be a part of the fun!
Your equipment and participating in the league is FREE. Our league exists solely through the dedication and volunteer efforts of many long time players and we gladly welcome new folks into the fold. We all love the game of ice hockey as well as the longstanding friendships that have developed through this historic SL sporting group. Besides play the game we have many outside activities as a group, it's a great social setting if you're bored or lonely in SL. We live for hockey and good times and gladly welcome anyone wanting to get in on the fun.
The league was born years ago after I came to SL in 2004 and discovered a beautiful outdoor rink (but no players, no teams) and worked hard with a group of folks to achieve our dream to bring hockey to Second Life. Since that time, the league has grown by leaps and bounds from 1 division and 2 teams, to 3 divisions and 12 teams. We are just starting pre-season for Season 9, but there's plenty of time to join up! Drop me a line and I'll help you out.
Our game script is professionally created and offers the most realistic hockey game you could imagine in SL. The game play is amazingly realistic and fun. The game boasts realistic animations and game play and rules based on NHL play, with our own developed modifications to meet SL demands. You will see goalies making breathtaking glove saves, players hit hard enough to knock them facedown into the ice, and more. If you love hockey, it will take your breath away.
Our fantastic rink is built on two Class 5 sims. Spectators are on one side and players on the other. The rink is specifically built to maximize SL performance with minimal prims and rendering costs, along with freedom of movement, so that you can enjoy the game with minimal lag. It's the game that's important! You will love our long league history featured in the only hockey Hall of Fame in Second Life. Come check out our long and enjoyable history here inside SL. Over the years, we've had a few imitators, but as we say in GOHA, we are often imitated but never duplicated!
On Sundays, our games are filmed by the famous TreetTV (formerly SLCN) and broadcast in and out of game. You'll love our announcers Zen Paine and Kert Upshaw as they provide professional live coverage of our games in an awesome studio on-site. You can contact Starr Sonic or Wiz Norberg for advertising information.
On our professional website, you can find a ton of information. The website includes forums, photo history, league rules, history pages, 7 seasons of awards, and much more. Also, unique to the sports world, we have a statistics engine created by Dyz Warburton that provides UP TO THE MINUTE game statistics, team and individual statistics. There's nothing like it anywhere else; you can even watch stats update LIVE as a game goes on.
http://www.globalonlinehockeyassociation.com
Come on by the rink and pick up your free sticks and jerseys. We welcome anyone to get involved now and become a part of the action for Season 9. Talk to any GOHA member for information on getting started with us. We welcome anyone of any skill level and will help you train! Search hockey in Places or IM me in-game and I am glad to drop you a landmark and show you around personally.
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