Welcome to The Northern Union, Patistan, and Jeckland for World Baseball Classic 32!
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Yay! What do I do now?
Firstly, thank you for signing up for this tournament! The first thing you can do is post a roster. This is a list of players on your team, which other people and yourself can use when writing RPs later on. It will also earn you RP bonus. Some rosters are simply lists of players, others are a lot more detailed. If you want to see examples, check out the WBC 31 thread linked above or the rosters your fellow competitors have already posted.
Then, throughout the tournaments you may want to post roleplays, or RPs for short. These can be match reports, interviews, or something completely unrelated to baseball. Remember when you are writing that the better your RP is, the higher it will be graded by the host of your games, and the higher your chances are of winning are. That being said, your chances of winning are also affected by your rank, accumulated from previous tournaments, and Margaret, the NS Sports Goddess of Random (or the RAND part of the scorinator)
How's this going to be run?
Teams will be drawn into eight groups of six, based on the pots listed below. They will then play home and away double round robin, with the top two teams from each group progressing to the Round of 16. This will be a best of three series, with teams seeded based on their group record. Teams will not be reseeded for subsequent rounds. The final eight teams will then enter a double elimination format.
Tell me about scorination, cutoffs and stuff
Scorinating will use the latest version of the NSFS formula. This displays linescores, although you may use your own, provided that you adhere to any your opponenet has posted in an RP before you. The RP bonus system will be a degrading bonus, with each RP graded out of 1.5. However, the RP from the day before will count for half this value, the one before half of that, and so on.
The cut-off times are as follows:
Jeckland: 22:00-23:00 UTC (Groups A-C)
The Northern Union: 23:00 UTC (Groups D-E)
Patistan: 16:00 UTC (Groups F-H)
Schedule
17th December: Thread opens
27th: MD1 (1v6, 2v5, 3v4)
28th: MD2 (6v4, 5v3, 1v2)
29th: MD3 (2v6, 3v1, 4v5)
30th: MD4 (6v5, 1v4, 2v3)
31st: MD5 (3v6, 4v2, 5v1)
1st January 2015: Off Day
2nd - 6th: MD6-10 (Fixtures reverse of MD1 to 5
7th: Off Day
8th to 10th: Round of 16
11th to 13th: Quarter-Finals
14th to 16th: Semi-Finals
17th to 21st: Final and 3PPO
If all matches are completed in a knockout round without the need for a third day, this schedule will be pushed forward a day (ie: there will be no break days from the end of the group stage onwards.
Groups
Group A
Super-Llamaland (1)
The Royal Kingdom of Quebec (17)
Abanhfleft (40)
The Qocaekian Isles (UR)
Star United States (UR)
Teague (UR)
Group B
Estope (13)
Diegstra (28)
Paymina (58)
Pacificana Islands (98)
Southern Democratic States (UR)
ViZion (UR)
Group C
Nova Anglicana (6)
Nassau-Hessen (29)
Imota (37)
Thibaut (UR)
United States of Devonta (UR)
Val Halla (UR)
Group D
Patistan (11)
Milchama (27)
Wolfbenz (44)
New North Aqmuland (98)
Williamstad (UR)
Joshulia (UR)
Group E
Ko-oren (9)
Britonisea (25)
Maklohi Vai (35)
Walamazia (UR)
Coconut Isle (UR)
Elykyellek (UR)
Group F
Jeckland (2)
Hicana (20)
Crystal Empire (31)
Naval Monte (UR)
England-Ireland (UR)
Communist Eurasians (UR)
Group G
The Fair Republic (8)
Gregoryisgodistan (16)
Cosumar (30)
Icrum (UR)
Greater Weselton (UR)
Thebear (UR)
Group H
Equestrian States (15)
San Jose Guayabal (19)
Estenia (58)
New Matawan (UR)
UNITED WE STAND123 (UR)
Arana (UR)
Pots