After a long time, and long hiatus, the Ultimate Cup is once again up for grabs, this time in the Yttribian capital of Fontvieille. The best Ultimate teams are going to fight for the right to call themselves "the Ultimate champion," and for national pride and glory.
OOC Information
Ultimate
As with the previous Ultimate Cup, the seven-a-side format of Ultimate will be used. The size of the field will be following USA Ultimate's regulations of 120 meters by 37 metres with the endzones being 23 meters deep. If you don't know about Ultimate, please take a look here.
RP Bonus
I'll be using a 0 to 4 grading scale, with quality topping quantity. So, writing a great match report, or a storyline, or even a great quintain (poem with five lines), will get you a nice bonus, but a single sentence? Not so much of a bonus. Rosters will count to your RP bonus as a day's worth of RP. There will also be RP Challenges throughout the competition, that will double your RP bonus for the day, which will be announced on the cut-off post for the previous MD.
Scorination
I'll be using xkoranate 0.3.3's Ultimate function. If I am to qualify to the knock-out round, I will be using a third party scorinator.
Format
A double-round-robin group stage will be used. As this is a twenty team tournament, five groups of four will be used, with the top nation from each group will qualify to the knock-out rounds. The top second place team will qualify directly to the knock out rounds, while the other four second-place finishers will play-off to determine the final two teams going to the knockout rounds, reducing the field to eight teams.
The knock-out rounds will be one match only, until the final and third-place-play-off, which shall be a best of three series.
In the event of a tie in the group stage, the following tiebreakers will be used: points, goal difference, goals for, h2h points, h2h goal difference, h2h goals for. If at the end of this, the tie is not broken, then a play-off between the teams will be played.
Confirmed Schedule (pushed back a day)
April 22 - MD1 1v4 2v3
April 23 - MD2 1v2 4v3
April 24 - MD3 2v4 3v1
April 25 - Off Day
April 26 - MD4 4v1 3v2
April 27 - MD5 2v1 3v4
April 28 - MD6* 4v2 1v3
April 29 - Off Day
April 30 - Play-off matches
May 1 - Quarter-Finals
May 2 - Semi-Finals
May 3 - Off Day
May 4 - Off Day
May 5 - Final/3PPO MD1
May 6 - Final 3PPO MD2
May 7 - Final/3PPO MD3 (if necessary)
Scorination Times for all matches are to come between 19:00 and 21:00 UTC -7, except for April 28. April 28's scorination is to come between 15:00 and 17:00 UTC -8. Remember, my time zone is likely different than yours.
Group A
Yttribia
Britonisea
New North Aqmuland
The Sarian
Group B
Jeckland
Equestrian States
Darmen
Cosumar
Group C
Vettrera
Avissian Union
Gregoryisgodistan
Otakuverse
Group D
Hutt River
Andiatia
Alpaira
Macquarrie
Group E
Estenia
Electrum
Celter
Menukten
Yttribia is to automatically be placed in Group A, as they are the hosts. Live group draw scheduled to take place at around 14:00 UTC -7, on irc.esper.net, with the channel being #ultimatecupdraw. Remember, my time zone is likely different than yours.
RP Permissions:
If my opponent RPs first, I hereby allow them to:
Choose and RP my scorers: Y/N
Godmod any scoring events: Y/N
RP injuries to any of my players: Y/N
Godmod injuries to any of my players: Y/N
RP Penalties to any of my players: Y/N
Godmod any other events: Y/N
Once again, welcome to Fontvieille, and welcome to Ultimate Cup 4!