Survival

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The Survival League is a league where one most pick a winning team per week. After picking that team, you cannot pick them again for the rest of the season. If you incorrectly pick a team then you are out of the running to become the KSL Survival Champion.

History

The Survival League was introduced to KSL in 2008 through MFL. It quickly became a huge hit and was quickly implemented into the KSL Leagues. Doug Hahn had won Survival for 2 times in 3 years. In 2011 Andrew had wanted to try a 3 Strike rule without testing it out first. The 3 Strikes rule was unpopular and so in 2012 KSL went back to a 1 and done style of Survival. Because of the 3 strikes policy of 2011, there is a conflict within KSL about who the real champion is. Andrew went the farthest without getting a strike but Doug ended up going the farthest before getting all three strikes. Yahoo's Survival system only has a team go until the other ones are no longer there and they end it. Therefore we can't see how far a team could possibly go like we could in MFL

For the 2012 Survival Season, every member of the league made it past week 1 which was a first but for week 2, every member went out. Because of this unprecedented occurrence, KSL voted on whether or not to restart the Survival. It was struck down and so the winner of the 2012 Survival Trophy is... Everyone.

In 2020, Doug had an impressive run where he lasted the entirety of the Regular Season and the first 3 weeks of the playoffs. In total, Doug made it to Week 20 out of 21 total weeks. A feat we don't expect to be completed again.

Individually, Doug has won the Survival Trophy on 4 separate occasions. He has 8 total.

Winners

2008 - Doug Hahn - Week 6 (Week 14 Eliminated)

2009 - Joe Snider - Week 9 (Week 13 Eliminated)

2010 - Doug Hahn

2011 - Doug Hahn / Andrew Hughes

2012 - Everyone - Week 2

2013 - Andrew Hughes - Week 8

2014 - Doug Hahn, Kevin Smith, Dave Nanninga - Week 7

2015 - Cameron Lincoln - Week 2

2016 - Doug Hahn - Week 7

2017 - Dave Nanninga, Travis Peterson - Week 6

2018 - Dave Nanninga - Week 2

2019 - Doug Hahn, Kevin Smith - Week 10

2020 - Doug Hahn - Week 15 (Week 20 Eliminated)

2021 - Aaron Hughes - Week 9 (Week 10 Eliminated)

2022 - Aaron Hughes - Week 2

2023 - Roger Cave - Week 7 (Week 13 Eliminated)

Best Streak

  1. Week 20, 2020 - Doug Hahn
  2. Week 14, 2008 - Doug Hahn
  3. Week 13, 2009 - Joseph Snider
  4. Week 13, 2023 - Roger Cave
  5. Week 10, 2019 - Doug Hahn, Kevin Smith
  6. Week 10, 2021 - Aaron Hughes

Most Wins

  1. Doug Hahn - 8
  2. Dave Nanninga - 4
  3. Andrew Hughes - 3
  4. Kevin Smith - 3
  5. Aaron Hughes - 3