RP thread
Bid thread
I say, chaps.... Welcome to World Cup 69, the Cup for Chaps!
This is the World Cup 69 Roster Thread. Nations that have signed up for World Cup 69 should post their rosters in this thread. This is NOT the Signup Thread, so nations that are not signed up for World Cup 69 should NOT post in this thread.
Rosters should include your starting 11, your reserves, your manager/coach/captain and any assistants on their staff. You may also include background information about your players, coaches and nations in this thread. This thread is also the place for information about your team's home stadium.
There are no limits on roster size and no requirements to make your roster realistic. In past World Cups, there have been teams comprised of sentient giant zucchinis, possibly immortal elves, an egg, Aztec deities, talking ponies, bears with guns, monks from another universe, and even a team of kids with magical powerups... But don't let that put you off if you do want to field a team of professional football-playing humans - plenty of us do!
There is also no restriction on team gender. Plenty of past World Cup winners have field part- or all-female teams, while the much-missed (by the Holy Empire, anyway) Errinundera habitually fielded genderqueer teams.
There's also no requirement that your stadium must be located within your nation or, indeed, any requirements for your stadium other than a pitch and 2 goals. Maybe you've banned the sport and have to play in a remote location hiding from the police, maybe your team is being paid to play their home matches in another country, or maybe your nation isn't so much a nation with physical territory as an ideological concept.... And it's all up to you as to whether your team plays in front of fanatically nationalistic crowds in an ultra-modern stadium, or at a run-down high school stadium before one man and his dog. The Archregimancy's monks, for example, regularly play in Orthodox monasteries in front of tiny crowds, while Valanora's elves play in the modern 60,000 capacity Hatire Memorial Stadium.
Rosters should also include a style modifier, which is a number between negative 5 and 5. The higher your style modifier, the more goals you will score and the more goals you will allow. In contrast, the lower your style modifier, the fewer goals you will score and the fewer goals you will allow. You may change your style modifier, by requesting the change in an OOC note in an RP. Note that a high style modifier will have almost no impact on your goal difference, so a high modifier will not increase your qualification chances.
You are encouraged (but not required) to place an RP permissions box in your roster (feel free to cut and paste here!):
My opponent, if they RP first, may do the following:
Choose my goalscorers: Yes/No
Godmod scoring events: Yes/No
RP injuries to my players: Yes/No
Godmod injuries to my players: Yes/No
Hand out yellow cards to my players: Yes/No
Hand out red cards to my players: Yes/No
Godmod other events: Yes/No
You may also add conditions to your RP permissions, such as a request to TG you if they choose your scorers or restrictions on the severity of injuries if you allow them to RP injuries to your players. See here for an example.
Posting a roster will not only net you an RP bonus, but will also help with RP for both the other teams in your group and yourself.
The theme of the current tournament is "the Cup for Chaps". You are under no obligation to engage with this theme, and doing so will not accrue any further RP bonus. However, anyone choosing to field a team of chaps (a term which is gender-neutral in this context) is warmly welcome to do so, and may find additional RP opportunities should they qualify for the tournament.
This thread should only be used for the posting of rosters. If you have any questions, please post them in the World Cup Discussion Thread. RPs belong in the World Cup 69 RP Thread.