Ice Hockey: Season 10 in 2010 at GOHA!

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!

We have a landmark anniversary coming up: GOHA will be starting its 10th season of play on January 10th, 2010. Yep, that's a lot of tens, and we will be celebrating this momentous season with many surprise new features and events leading up to the season. Come by the rink this month on the Jericho Hill sim and join in our free games. Speak with me or Katia Ixtab, Rookie Manager, if you'd like to join up. We also need more European players, we are expanding to a 4th team in the Euro divison, which plays in Euro-friendly times! Contact European Division Manager Tuvok Dingson for more information.

During the winter months, come check out our fantastic pond hockey! Every winter, Anhayla Lycia, the owner of TreeSong (our neighbor sim), sets up a fantastic winter wonderland of a frozen pond for us to play. She has really outdone herself this year, the scene is breath-taking. If you stop by the main rink and find it surprisingly empty..follow the teleport sign to the Pond next door! We've been pretty much living there! Anhayla has set up benches for spectators and you will have a blast kicking back, staying warm and watching a wild hockey match (Rules? We don't need no stinkin rules!)

Pond hockey games will continue daily through the holidays! Anyone is welcome to jump on the ice! We've had a lot of rookies join up recently and are having a lot of fun showing them the ropes at the pond. One of our rookies verbalized he is thrilled to find a place with such open community with many events, off and on the ice and the friendliness he has found here. We'd like for you to enjoy the same! Come on by!

**We have been thrilled to lately introduce special features that make it a snap for those with real life physical disabilities to be able to play this game with us. If you would like to experience simulated hockey but are hesitant due to real life problems with your hands or coordination or other issues, speak to myself or Dyz Warburton.**

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 are a full-fledged sporting community and love to welcome new people.

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 2 divisions and 11 teams.

Our game script was created as a team with the league collaborating with the maker of Wastelands, NeoBokrug Elytis and our own longtime league member and professional scriptor Dyz Warburton of Dyzware. The game offers the most realistic hockey game you could imagine in SL. The game boasts life-like 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.

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, Kert Upshaw and Vivienne Coppola 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, 8 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.

Website:
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Facebook:
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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 10. 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.