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Posted: **Wed Apr 23, 2014 4:02 am**

Cassadaigua wrote:
Sangti wrote:Question:

Are the matches in the Group Stage held in Cassadaigua or home and away?

home and away.

So playing at each team's national stadium, right? Just checking I fully understand.

Posted: **Thu Apr 24, 2014 9:49 pm**

Orennana wrote:
Cassadaigua wrote:
home and away.

So playing at each team's national stadium, right? Just checking I fully understand.

Yes.

A little observation: Of the 60 nations participating, 34 nations are unranked.
Only 8 of the top 20 are returning.

In other words, this is a potentially WIDE OPEN tournament. The door is wide open for newcomers to have success in this, I hope to see a lot of the newcomers stepping up and taking advantage of this.

Posted: **Thu Apr 24, 2014 10:27 pm**

Cassadaigua wrote:
Orennana wrote:So playing at each team's national stadium, right? Just checking I fully understand.

Yes.

A little observation: Of the 60 nations participating, 34 nations are unranked.
Only 8 of the top 20 are returning.

In other words, this is a potentially WIDE OPEN tournament. The door is wide open for newcomers to have success in this, I hope to see a lot of the newcomers stepping up and taking advantage of this.

Can I see the current rankings?

Posted: **Fri Apr 25, 2014 8:59 am**

The rankings are here

Again, these rankings are wide open. An unranked nation who produces a good roster and a good roleplay before matchday 1, is going to be equivalent to a nation that is around 20th place in the rankings, RIGHT OFF THE BAT, before anything is scorinated.

There are really only two nations with a "monster" rank value going into the tournament: The Andomeda Islands and Cassadaigua. Now, given that the World Bowl is going to be running concurrently and I am going to be hosting this, expect my RP effort to be focused in the World Bowl thread, and not as much here, so my nation will not necessarily be a "monster" all tournament. As for The Andromeda Islands, well, you need one big gun to shoot down!

Posted: **Sun Apr 27, 2014 2:34 pm**

Is there somewhere we can find matchups for each day, home and away, for our group? We'd like to complete our schedule.

Posted: **Sun Apr 27, 2014 9:29 pm**

Menukten wrote:Is there somewhere we can find matchups for each day, home and away, for our group? We'd like to complete our schedule.

This information is now included in the everything thread's OP.

Posted: **Mon Apr 28, 2014 5:19 am**

Cassadaigua wrote:
Menukten wrote:Is there somewhere we can find matchups for each day, home and away, for our group? We'd like to complete our schedule.

This information is now included in the everything thread's OP.

Thanks!

Posted: **Tue Apr 29, 2014 9:09 am**

Darvale wrote:New Wolfopolis is the strongest team of the group, and has a very nice reputation in sports. At a ranking of 27, New Wolfopolis managed to reach the Round of 16 in the previous edition of the International Basketball Championships, the 13th edition (IBC XIII). New Wolfopolis has had a lot of experience in basketball, having already co-hosted two editions of the International Basketball Championships, the third and the fourth respectively (IBS III, IBS IV). New Wolfopolis also hosted the 2nd Maple Leaf Bowl (MLF II), and the 3rd Kronum World Cup (KWC III), and is a member of the sporting region of Esportiva.

While I appreciate the exaggeration of what I've done, I wasn't around for IBC 3 and 4, and I didn't co-host them. I co-hosted the 3rd and (OOC-ly) 4th editions of the International Baseball Slam. Also, Maple Leaf Bowl is MLB, not MLF.

Posted: **Tue Apr 29, 2014 9:13 am**

New Wolfopolis wrote:
Darvale wrote:New Wolfopolis is the strongest team of the group, and has a very nice reputation in sports. At a ranking of 27, New Wolfopolis managed to reach the Round of 16 in the previous edition of the International Basketball Championships, the 13th edition (IBC XIII). New Wolfopolis has had a lot of experience in basketball, having already co-hosted two editions of the International Basketball Championships, the third and the fourth respectively (IBS III, IBS IV). New Wolfopolis also hosted the 2nd Maple Leaf Bowl (MLF II), and the 3rd Kronum World Cup (KWC III), and is a member of the sporting region of Esportiva.

While I appreciate the exaggeration of what I've done, I wasn't around for IBC 3 and 4, and I didn't co-host them. I co-hosted the 3rd and (OOC-ly) 4th editions of the International Baseball Slam. Also, Maple Leaf Bowl is MLB, not MLF.

Wow. I can be so thick sometimes :lol2:

Posted: **Tue Apr 29, 2014 2:45 pm**

Just a quick question : MD1 is today? I'm so confused, because of that cheer leading competition! :blink:

Posted: **Tue Apr 29, 2014 2:48 pm**

Alparia wrote:Just a quick question : MD1 is today? I'm so confused, because of that cheer leading competition!

MD1 is Thursday, May 1. Today was a hype/excitement build up day, and to give fodder for people to RP off of if they wanted to do something other then: I predict so and so will have this record and finish in this place in the group.

Posted: **Tue Apr 29, 2014 2:49 pm**

Ahhhh, okay thanks for the clarification..

I'm about to get started on mine.. :lol:

Posted: **Tue Apr 29, 2014 9:18 pm**

I wish you had sent out a notice the tournament was starting; I hadn't noticed until just now, as I am not that regular in NS Sports in the moment. No matter.

Posted: **Wed Apr 30, 2014 9:20 am**

Alparia wrote:Ahhhh, okay thanks for the clarification..

I'm about to get started on mine..

At lest you have time to do that...

Apologies to my groupmates, but I've got two AP exams, the SAT, and a couple big projects within the next week, so I won't be putting up any sort of RP at the moment.

Posted: **Wed Apr 30, 2014 12:58 pm**

New North Aqmuland wrote:
Alparia wrote:Ahhhh, okay thanks for the clarification..

I'm about to get started on mine..

At lest you have time to do that...

Apologies to my groupmates, but I've got two AP exams, the SAT, and a couple big projects within the next week, so I won't be putting up any sort of RP at the moment.

The same goes to my groupmates. School is killer. But I'll post as much as possible

Posted: **Wed Apr 30, 2014 2:27 pm**

Vettrera wrote:
New North Aqmuland wrote:At lest you have time to do that...

Apologies to my groupmates, but I've got two AP exams, the SAT, and a couple big projects within the next week, so I won't be putting up any sort of RP at the moment.

The same goes to my groupmates. School is killer. But I'll post as much as possible

Killer is right.

Posted: **Wed Apr 30, 2014 4:24 pm**

A heads up that MD1 scorination is 16-17 hours away.

Posted: **Wed Apr 30, 2014 4:29 pm**

Cassadaigua wrote:A heads up that MD1 scorination is 16-17 hours away.

Yesssss!

Posted: **Wed Apr 30, 2014 4:34 pm**

Good luck to everybody, I hope that this IBC edition be memorable.

Posted: **Wed Apr 30, 2014 4:39 pm**

Same here. :clap:

Posted: **Thu May 01, 2014 11:46 am**

Well, apologies for my group mates as I completely forgot that I signed up. As described in my post-MD1 RP, The Sarian Executive Department of Sport are paying 10 un-named Cassadaiguan males to play for them.

Posted: **Mon May 05, 2014 5:54 am**

The Dark Star Republic wrote:[list]"Don't bring flax to my games" comments cause storm of controversy

This... this is beautiful. :clap:

Posted: **Mon May 05, 2014 12:50 pm**

New Wolfopolis wrote:
The Dark Star Republic wrote:[list]"Don't bring flax to my games" comments cause storm of controversy

This... this is beautiful.

Wholeheartedly seconded.

Posted: **Tue May 06, 2014 3:34 pm**

Sorry I haven't RPed much, I'm suffering a fair amount of burnout after RPing daily during WCQ and the CoH group stage plus with some personal issues on top, I'm just not in the mood.

Posted: **Tue May 06, 2014 3:41 pm**

Nexxus Drako wrote:Sorry I haven't RPed much, I'm suffering a fair amount of burnout after RPing daily during WCQ and the CoH group stage plus with some personal issues on top, I'm just not in the mood.

Anyways, you are performing a good tournament.

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