The World Cup Discussion Thread (OOC, Version IV)

by **Alasdair I Frosticus** » Fri Oct 21, 2016 1:38 pm

Flardania wrote:It seems like the only way to improve out of the 20's in rank is to get lucky one World Cup and escape the group stages....Enter Eura and the nation that seems to always be in my group Valanora lol. *Prays for a mirac- nay divine intervention*

They're not the end of your problems.

You've perhaps forgotten that the remaining team in your group is the oldest active nation in the tournament, a four-time World Cup winner, and - up until the streak was broken in WC 74 - the nation with one of the longest streaks of consecutive World Cup qualifications in tournament history.

The Empire has fallen considerably in the ranks due to the failures to qualify in 74 & 75, but up until recently Valanora v. The Holy Empire was the NSWC version of Italy v. Argentina.

So 'tis a tough group, to be sure.

But if you want divine intervention, you could always pray to the only god that's actively playing in your group. The Fog-Thing has been known to be merciful.

by **Gregoryisgodistan** » Fri Oct 21, 2016 3:04 pm

Alasdair I Frosticus wrote:
Flardania wrote:It seems like the only way to improve out of the 20's in rank is to get lucky one World Cup and escape the group stages....Enter Eura and the nation that seems to always be in my group Valanora lol. *Prays for a mirac- nay divine intervention*

They're not the end of your problems.

You've perhaps forgotten that the remaining team in your group is the oldest active nation in the tournament, a four-time World Cup winner, and - up until the streak was broken in WC 74 - the nation with one of the longest streaks of consecutive World Cup qualifications in tournament history.

The Empire has fallen considerably in the ranks due to the failures to qualify in 74 & 75, but up until recently Valanora v. The Holy Empire was the NSWC version of Italy v. Argentina.

So 'tis a tough group, to be sure.

But if you want divine intervention, you could always pray to the only god that's actively playing in your group. The Fog-Thing has been known to be merciful.

And now it's the equivalent of.... Italy v. Argentina. Sorry, I had to do that.

by **Tomikosan** » Fri Oct 21, 2016 4:08 pm

Gadirya wrote:> everyone is excited for the WC Final
> did not qualify for the WC Final

*holds Baptism of Fire trophy tighter*

*still looking at 3rd place moment with Qasden*

by **Ethane** » Fri Oct 21, 2016 4:24 pm

Gadirya wrote:> everyone is excited for the WC Final
> did not qualify for the WC Final

*holds Baptism of Fire trophy tighter*

*cries inside*

(sees the pies also crying inside across the seas)

It certainly wasn't my time I guess.

by **Savalen** » Fri Oct 21, 2016 4:27 pm

San Jose Guayabal wrote:And it's time for the so-traditional region stats:

Atlantian Oceania (11): Semarland, Audioslavia, Valanora, Turori, Krytenia, Cosumar, Farfadillis, Vilita, Chromatika, Osarius, Royal Kingdom of Quebec.
Esportiva (9): Nephara, Unified Sunrise Islands, Gregoryisgodistan, Brenecia, San José Guayabal, Chiata, Damukuni, Red Blackiland, Port Christopher.
Rushmore (6): Pasarga, Valladares, Fluvique, Eura, Ceni, Electrum.
International Northwestern Union: Savalen
Social Liberal Union: Ficiscia
Atlas: Flardania
The Union of Red Nations: Barunia
The Dreamed Realm: The Holy Empire
Anctartica: Abanhfleft

Keeping that 100% INWU qualification rate going. That's 2/2!!

by **Anglatia** » Fri Oct 21, 2016 4:28 pm

Ethane wrote:
Gadirya wrote:> everyone is excited for the WC Final
> did not qualify for the WC Final

*holds Baptism of Fire trophy tighter*

*cries inside*

(sees the pies also crying inside across the seas)

It certainly wasn't my time I guess.

We all know that feel bro

by **West by Northwestern Sunrise Islands** » Fri Oct 21, 2016 5:06 pm

Technically, it's more Emirates of Futurnia than anything else on USI, y'know...

by **Nephara** » Fri Oct 21, 2016 5:47 pm

I got bored and compiled the kit colours for every WC nation. Disclaimer: Osarius' kit links from WC74 are broken and there's no more recent WCC roster, so this is just what me and NSI remember them being. Also everyone's was just simplified to their most primary colour, which was really hard with Vilita's kits since it's very, very hard to pick a primary colour (also any stripe/hoop kits).

This was inspired by someone talking about how shiny and bright one of the groups was.

Most popular combination
Six nations have blue homes and white aways.

Most popular home combinations
9 - Blue
6 - Red, White
4 - Black

Most popular away combinations
12 - White
5 - Red (7 counting Nepharim and Barunian terracotta as red)
3 - Black, Blue

have fun with this largely useless information lol

by **Kaboomlandia** » Fri Oct 21, 2016 8:42 pm

San Jose Guayabal wrote:And it's time for the so-traditional region stats:

Atlantian Oceania (11): Semarland, Audioslavia, Valanora, Turori, Krytenia, Cosumar, Farfadillis, Vilita, Chromatika, Osarius, Royal Kingdom of Quebec.
Esportiva (9): Nephara, Unified Sunrise Islands, Gregoryisgodistan, Brenecia, San José Guayabal, Chiata, Damukuni, Red Blackiland, Port Christopher.
Rushmore (6): Pasarga, Valladares, Fluvique, Eura, Ceni, Electrum.
International Northwestern Union: Savalen
Social Liberal Union: Ficiscia
Atlas: Flardania
The Union of Red Nations: Barunia
The Dreamed Realm: The Holy Empire
Anctartica: Abanhfleft

*realizes how close it could have been to having a Europeian on that list*

by **Gadirya** » Fri Oct 21, 2016 9:06 pm

Qasden wrote:
Gadirya wrote:> everyone is excited for the WC Final
> did not qualify for the WC Final

*holds Baptism of Fire trophy tighter*

*looks at participation ribbon*

Tomikosan wrote:
Gadirya wrote:> everyone is excited for the WC Final
> did not qualify for the WC Final

*holds Baptism of Fire trophy tighter*

*still looking at 3rd place moment with Qasden*

Ethane wrote:
Gadirya wrote:> everyone is excited for the WC Final
> did not qualify for the WC Final

*holds Baptism of Fire trophy tighter*

*cries inside*

(sees the pies also crying inside across the seas)

It certainly wasn't my time I guess.

Anglatia wrote:
Ethane wrote:*cries inside*

(sees the pies also crying inside across the seas)

It certainly wasn't my time I guess.

We all know that feel bro

Man, our next Baptism of Fire 63 alumni meeting is gonna be awkward.

Guess I shouldn't have mentioned my first place trophy...

*hides trophy*

by **Electrum** » Sat Oct 22, 2016 3:04 am

Shuffled Groups
Matchday 1: 1v4, 2v3
Matchday 2: 4v3, 1v2
Matchday 3: 2v4, 3v1

Group A
Ficiscia
Ceni
Brenecia
Osarius

Group B
Valanora
Eura
The Holy Empire
Flardania

Group C
San José Guayabal
Abanhfleft
Audioslavia
Port Christopher

Group D
Savalen
Barunia
Krytenia
Valladares

Group E
Vilita
Damukuni
Electrum
Semarland

Group F
Chiata
Turori
Royal Kingdom of Quebec
Unified Sunrise Islands

Group G
Chromatika
Nephara
Fluvique
Pasarga

Group H
Red Blackiland
Gregoryisgodistan
Cosumar
Farfadillis

Provisional Schedule
NOTE: All dates and cutoffs in UTC :
Group A-D (in Ceni, scored by Electrum) - UTC: 0800 - 1100
Group E-H (in Electrum, scored by Ceni) - UTC: 2300 of the day before - 0200 of the day (Approx. six-eight hours before Electrum cuts off)

MD1: October 30
MD2: November 1
MD3: November 3
R16: November 5
QF: November 7
SF: November 9
3PPO/F: November 11

by **Bears Armed** » Sat Oct 22, 2016 4:00 am

Gadirya wrote:Man, our next Baptism of Fire 63 alumni meeting is gonna be awkward.

Guess I shouldn't have mentioned my first place trophy...

*hides trophy*

At one stage we had a recurring competition for past BoF winners, in which the last eight of them (with any of those no longer active replaced at the hosts' discretion either by the runners-up from the same contests or by slightly earlier winners) played against each other during/alongside the WC qualifiers, to provide some extra material for RP. Obviously the Bears would no longer be involved, but maybeso some of you newer winners might consider reviving that contest to have potential?

by **Osarius** » Sat Oct 22, 2016 1:15 pm

Nephara wrote:Disclaimer: Osarius' kit links from WC74 are broken and there's no more recent WCC roster, so this is just what me and NSI remember them being.

Ah. I'd forgotten I was linking in roster posts from my server. I'll have that sorted in time for the new roster post. I actually renamed the files iirc... Probably wouldn't have noticed the broken link otherwise, though... so thanks.

by **Gadirya** » Sat Oct 22, 2016 1:18 pm

Bears Armed wrote:
Gadirya wrote:Man, our next Baptism of Fire 63 alumni meeting is gonna be awkward.

Guess I shouldn't have mentioned my first place trophy...

*hides trophy*

At one stage we had a recurring competition for past BoF winners, in which the last eight of them (with any of those no longer active replaced at the hosts' discretion either by the runners-up from the same contests or by slightly earlier winners) played against each other during/alongside the WC qualifiers, to provide some extra material for RP. Obviously the Bears would no longer be involved, but maybeso some of you newer winners might consider reviving that contest to have potential?

Oooh.

That would be pretty cool. I'll TG some people to gauge interest.

by **Flardania** » Sat Oct 22, 2016 6:17 pm

Bears Armed wrote:
Gadirya wrote:Man, our next Baptism of Fire 63 alumni meeting is gonna be awkward.

Guess I shouldn't have mentioned my first place trophy...

*hides trophy*

At one stage we had a recurring competition for past BoF winners, in which the last eight of them (with any of those no longer active replaced at the hosts' discretion either by the runners-up from the same contests or by slightly earlier winners) played against each other during/alongside the WC qualifiers, to provide some extra material for RP. Obviously the Bears would no longer be involved, but maybeso some of you newer winners might consider reviving that contest to have potential?

*is painfully reminded that I finished fourth behind a bunch of puppets in my BOF

*

by **Qasden** » Sat Oct 22, 2016 7:54 pm

Flardania wrote:*is painfully reminded that I finished fourth behind a bunch of puppets in my BOF *

Fourth place club?

by **Super-Llamaland** » Sat Oct 22, 2016 8:02 pm

Flardania wrote:
Bears Armed wrote:At one stage we had a recurring competition for past BoF winners, in which the last eight of them (with any of those no longer active replaced at the hosts' discretion either by the runners-up from the same contests or by slightly earlier winners) played against each other during/alongside the WC qualifiers, to provide some extra material for RP. Obviously the Bears would no longer be involved, but maybeso some of you newer winners might consider reviving that contest to have potential?

*is painfully reminded that I finished fourth behind a bunch of puppets in my BOF *

Oops sorry

by **Flardania** » Sat Oct 22, 2016 8:27 pm

Super-Llamaland wrote:
Flardania wrote:*is painfully reminded that I finished fourth behind a bunch of puppets in my BOF *

Oops sorry

At least I was first in terms of newbies....*bad attempt at looking at half full cup

*

Qasden wrote:
Flardania wrote:*is painfully reminded that I finished fourth behind a bunch of puppets in my BOF *

Fourth place club?

Ironic seeing as you finished fourth in my nation. It's as if it's destiny.

by **Gadirya** » Sat Oct 22, 2016 9:21 pm

Flardania wrote:
Qasden wrote:
Fourth place club?

Ironic seeing as you finished fourth in my nation. It's as if it's destiny.

I ship it.

Qasdania.

Flarden.

<3

by **The Royal Kingdom of Quebec** » Sat Oct 22, 2016 9:26 pm

The information about Cup of Harmony dates will be up in a couple of days' time. Have a fencing competition and an essay due date both in same day.

by **Gregoryisgodistan** » Sun Oct 23, 2016 6:21 am

Flardania wrote:
Bears Armed wrote:At one stage we had a recurring competition for past BoF winners, in which the last eight of them (with any of those no longer active replaced at the hosts' discretion either by the runners-up from the same contests or by slightly earlier winners) played against each other during/alongside the WC qualifiers, to provide some extra material for RP. Obviously the Bears would no longer be involved, but maybeso some of you newer winners might consider reviving that contest to have potential?

*is painfully reminded that I finished fourth behind a bunch of puppets in my BOF *

I failed to advance out of the group stage in my BoF. So did San Jose Guayabal. We were the two best nations to come out of that BoF. Meanwhile, the winner was Welsh Cowboy, who has done nothing of note.

by **Saintland** » Sun Oct 23, 2016 7:21 am

Gregoryisgodistan wrote:
Flardania wrote:*is painfully reminded that I finished fourth behind a bunch of puppets in my BOF *

I failed to advance out of the group stage in my BoF. So did San Jose Guayabal. We were the two best nations to come out of that BoF. Meanwhile, the winner was Welsh Cowboy, who has done nothing of note.

Welsh Cowboy was very promising though (great RPer who almost qualified for the WC in his first cycle) and its a shame he didn't stick around...

by **Mercedini** » Sun Oct 23, 2016 8:17 am

Saintland wrote:Welsh Cowboy was very promising though (great RPer who almost qualified for the WC in his first cycle) and its a shame he didn't stick around...

I can't think of anyone off the top of my head apart from myself and Bonesea (maybe Arkan at a push) who is still active from the Class of '62.

by **Amuaplye** » Sun Oct 23, 2016 8:43 am

I have 2 questions.

1. Is XKorinate frowned upon in the World Cup? If so, what is normally used, other than spreadsheets?
2. When is the next world cup? Can someone TG me when it is before applications close?

by **Tumbra** » Sun Oct 23, 2016 8:46 am

Amuaplye wrote:I have 2 questions.

1. Is XKorinate frowned upon in the World Cup? If so, what is normally used, other than spreadsheets?
2. When is the next world cup? Can someone TG me when it is before applications close?

xkoranate is used.

Next world cup should be next year.

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