Polar Islandstates wrote:Over the course of qualifying tournaments the like of which we have these days, it'd be pretty difficult to RP wise enough so that you favour one of your nations over the other. I'd go so far as to say it wasn't possible, in fact, short of withdrawing your puppet if they finish above your main nation, it isn't really possible at all. You can't just drop your accumulated RP for one match in particular. And now, since Spaamgate, you can't withdraw your puppets in that circumstance, I'd say we're golden.
Personally, I ignore requests to withdraw altogether, once the draw has been conducted. Yes, I actually received several requests to withdraw in response to my reminder TG. If you want to withdraw from the World Cup (or any other tournament), do so before the group draw. If you don't want to enter qualifying but not the WC finals, let your nation CTE. Otherwise, you signed up for the WC finals (should you make it) when you entered qualifying (just as you sign up for qualifying when you enter the BoF and can only withdraw via CTE).
Are there any nations here who genuinely harboured hopes of getting both their main nation and their puppet into the World Cup? Then you could cry "unfair draw!" but otherwise, nah. Not buying it.
Myself, Vilita, Valanora, Arch (all 4 of us have 2 nations in the top 18 of the KPB rankings, so...) and probably several others. Still, if both of your nations are (fairly) drawn into the same group, that's simply the luck of the draw. Its simply a risk that you take, if you have nations in 2 different pots, just as you are always at risk of drawing a group like Group 17 from WC67 (Pasarga, West Angola, Mizuyuki, Free Republics, Felix, Vettera, Sarian).
Personally, I don't understand why you would enter 2 nations into the World Cup unless you were either A) serious about qualifying 2 nations into the World Cup (and/or earning 2 spots in the CoH) or B) want another shot at a BoF title or C) the entry was needed to make the numbers work for the host or D) to avoid the penalty that high-ranking nations face from hosting a World Cup, should you choose to bid in the future (I'd be in favor of an amendment to credit hosts with the average qualifying performance of the 30 nations that qualified rather than just 2 points per match). I can't really think of any other reasons why you'd want to enter a puppet, other than just entering one for the sake of entering it.
At one point, there was a strong chance that the Free Republics wouldn't return for World Cup 66 and I'd make another attempt at the BoF. If I didn't have so many RP ideas for that nation, they wouldn't have.
The Archregimancy wrote:And I'm not sure how anyone thinks they would go about trying to win or lose games with one nation to favour the other given the way scorination works; but I suppose people are welcome to try.
Other than deliberately not RPing with one of the nations, I don't know how one would do that. Then again, I guess you could wait until you're finished playing your puppet to start RPing with them.
Torisakia wrote:I wish my main and puppet were put in the same group, so it'd be interesting to RP since there's a huge dispute between the two.
Actually, you can RP with somebody who isn't in your group, although you won't run into each other on the pitch (unless you schedule friendlies). Given my rivalry with Gregoryisgodistan, you'd think that we've played each other frequently, but this is actually the first time that either of my nations have had to play them in the World Cup. I've also RPed IC conflict between Saintland and Free Republics in the past, even when one of them isn't in the tournament (see: the IBC 14 thread). At some point, you can definitely expect to see major plotlines in my RPs involving my non-WC puppets.