Welcome to the first ever Commonwealth Confederation of Association Football Cup! From all around the Commonwealth of Crowns 14 teams have gathered in Alkoul to participate in this historical event.
*I did not create this quick guide, Baptism of Fire 48 Introduction guide for new players of NS Sports
"What do I do?"
Well, many things. IC (In Character) information about the host nations and the stadiums you'll be playing in will appear in the thread soon, and will also be linked here. The hosts will generate the scores, and they will also appear here.
And what do you do? Well, first of all you are encouraged to post a roster. This is basically a list of the football players in your team, and can include a variety of different information. Player names are the most important, then there are things like shirt number, age, heigh, weight, gender, style of play, formations, tactics, managers, coaches, kits, home stadiums, and much more. Home stadiums obviously won't come into this tournament as you'll all be playing in Iturributa or Ossidiacqua, but it provides nice background information on your nation. Likewise, style modifiers won't be used in this tournament, but if you want to tell us how attacking/defensive your formation is, feel free. Roster will count towards your RP bonus, and rosters before the group draw will count towards how many other RPers end up in your group.
A vast array of different rosters are permissable. Some examples from my own past - 1 2 3 4
You may also notice the permissions list in those rosters, and what these do is basically give permission for your opponents to make up different facts about your team in their RPs.
Choose my goalscorers? Y/N - Do you give permission for your opponent to determine which of your players scored any goals.
Godmod scoring events? Y/N - Do you give permission for your opponent to come up with rather more unusual ways in which goalscoring happened - i.e. a meteorite crashing down and distracting your keeper resulting in the only goal of the game being a tap in.
RP injuries to my players? Y/N - Do you give permission for your opponent to say one of your players was injured? For how long?
Godmod injuries to my players? Y/N - Do you give permission for your opponent to say your players got injured in a less than normal way? Meteors? Bear attacks? Sudden gastronomic flu attack?
Hand out yellow cards to my players? Y/N - Do you give permission for your opponent to say your players were given yellow cards?
Hand out red cards to my players? Y/N - Do you give permission for your opponent to say your players were given red cards?
Godmod other events? Y/N - Do you give permission for your opponents to RP that any other rather unusual events happened? A flood sweeping half the crowd away at half time? A hawk carrying away the goalposts? The referee becoming a tiger five minutes in?
Remember - If your opponent has said you can't decide his goalscorers, don't decide his goalscorers. Otherwise, this could result in losing RP score. Similarly, contradicting what your opponent may have said in an earlier RP may also do that. Also, remember that these permissions will never change a scoreline, so if you happen to get hammered 5-0, it might actually be a blessing to allow your opponents the chance to say your captain got red carded or similar, might explain a heavy defeat...?
RP
RPing means role play, and in its most basic form is talking about the results that the hosts generate. These could take a huge variety of different forms. From newspaper reports on the team's efforts, to a scathing talk show host slamming your team for a poor performance, to a first hand account of a striker scoring the winning goal, the internal monologues of a coach on the sidelines, the team relaxing in a bar and singing drunken sea-shanties between games... Anything.
For great examples of the type of things that can be RPed, check the Guide to Sports Roleplaying, and the General Sports Roleplaying Questions Thread.
Choose my goalscorers Y/N
Godmod scoring events Y/N
RP injuries to my players Y/N
Godmod injuries to my players Y/N
Hand out yellow cards to my players Y/N
Hand out red cards to my players Y/N
Godmod other events Y/N
Style modifier (-5|+5) -5 extremely defensive, + 5 extremely offensive. (you can chose any numbers between -5 and +5.
Format
For the first CCAF you'll be confused at first but after about three days you'll get the hang of it.
14 Teams split into three groups, two groups of four, one group of six. Each group will play single round robin, all groups will have five matchdays, but two will have BYEs on two of them, while one group will have none. The top two of each group plus two wild cards will advance to the quarter-finals, where there after will be single game elimentation.
Games will be scorinated (I know many of you still haven't and idea what that word is) every day. Between each of those times when I post results your can rp about how well or how poorly your team is doing. before I scorinate each matchady i'll give a warning post called a RPing cutoff, then a few minutes latter i'll post that days results.
Like said results will be posted each day around the same time, which will be around 5pm CST(Chicago), so when this starts make sure to get in your rping.
Rps will be graded from 0-3: 0, means you didn't rp; 3 means that I found your rp to be very excellent.
Now I'd like to get this point across, a scorinator is a java program that randomly spits out numbers. Rping will help improve your chances of winning, but it happens some who don't rp once may still beat you. That is why rping very well over the long term can help you in the end.
14 Teams split into three groups, two groups of four, one group of six. Each group will play single round robin, all groups will have five matchdays, but two will have BYEs on two of them, while one group will have none. The top two of each group plus two wild cards will advance to the quarter-finals, where there after will be single game elimentation.
Games will be scorinated (I know many of you still haven't and idea what that word is) every day. Between each of those times when I post results your can rp about how well or how poorly your team is doing. before I scorinate each matchady i'll give a warning post called a RPing cutoff, then a few minutes latter i'll post that days results.
Like said results will be posted each day around the same time, which will be around 5pm CST(Chicago), so when this starts make sure to get in your rping.
Rps will be graded from 0-3: 0, means you didn't rp; 3 means that I found your rp to be very excellent.
Now I'd like to get this point across, a scorinator is a java program that randomly spits out numbers. Rping will help improve your chances of winning, but it happens some who don't rp once may still beat you. That is why rping very well over the long term can help you in the end.
