Welcome to the 37th World Baseball Classic! Teams from 48 nations will soon compete in Frenline Delpha and Ilyseum to determine the best baseball team in the multiverse. For some of those teams (including Ilyseum), this is their first time competing in the most prestigious international baseball tournament. For others (including Frenline Delpha), this is just another chapter in a long series of tournaments. Underneath the spoiler, you will find a list of all 48 nations that are participating in this tournament, along with their current ranking and which pot they were placed in for the group draw.
The format for this WBC will be 8 groups of 6, with each team playing a 6-round-robin for a total of 30 games against their groupmates (3 "home" games and 3 "away" games against each opponent) in one of the host nations, with 3 games scorinated per day. The top 2 teams in each group's final standings will advance to the Round of 16. Should any teams finish the group stage tied, the ties will be broken based on the tiebreakers in the host bid.
The first 3 games will be scorinated on WEDNESDAY AUGUST 24th, 2016. You may post your rosters and RPs at any time. Please use the WBC Discussion Thread for purely OOC posts and comments and reserve this thread for rosters, RPs and results.
If you wish to use umpires in your RPs, we do have an Umpire Thread, which has (unfortunately) not been used in a long time. If you wish to add umpires to this thread, feel free to do so.
Rosters
Rosters are a list of your players, the positions they occupy and your team's home stadium(s). This can also include statistics, both personal and about their play, as well as their handedness, stengths and weaknesses, uniforms, nicknames, coaches, or anything else you find appropriate. You can find examples of rosters in last WBC's thread, starting here and continuing for the remainder of the first page.
Rosters are appreciated and there will be a roster bonus for nations that post rosters. Rosters may include a RP permissions box (godmodding, injuries, choosing scorers, etc.) if players want to put restrictions on the roleplaying of their characters. Here is an RP box form that you could copy and paste into your roster post:
- Code: Select all
My opponent, if they RP first, may do the following:
Choose my runscorers: Yes/No
Choose my lineup: Yes/No
Follow my pitching rotation: Yes/No
Godmod scoring events: Yes/No
RP injuries to my players: Yes/No
Godmod injuries to my players: Yes/No
Eject my players: Yes/No
Godmod other events: Yes/No
Use DH at home: Yes/No
New to baseball RPing, or sports RPing in general?
If you're new to sports RPing in general, please read this thread, as it provides a great guide for what you need to know. If you have any questions, you can send a TG to Ilyseum or Frenline Delpha, post on the WBC Discussion Thread, or on the Sports Roleplaying Questions thread.
One thing unique to baseball is the designated hitter, a feature often confusing to newcomers. For explanation, I turn to Equestrian States' concise summary:
Equestrian States wrote:The Designated Hitter (DH) Rule is an aspect that is unique to baseball here on NS Sports. In short, the DH rule allows for teams to designate a player to bat for their pitcher, generally giving teams more flexibility when at bat. For more information on the DH rule and its implementation, please refer to the Wikipedia article on the subject, as it goes into far more detail than I can here. In regards to the WBC, the DH rule is only used if the home team uses a DH. If the home team does not use a DH, neither team will use the DH, regardless of the away team’s preference. If the home team has not specified (in their roster or an RP) whether they use a DH or not, the first participant to RP will dictate the use/nonuse of the DH in that game.
IC information, as well as the group draw, is provided in the posts below.
Schedule
MDs 1-3: August 24th
MDs 4-6: August 25th
MDs 7-9: August 26th
MDs 10-12: August 27th
MDs 13-15: August 28th
Mid-Group Stage Off Day: August 29th
MDs 16-18: August 30th
MDs 19-21: August 31st
MDs 22-24: September 1st
MDs 25-27: September 2nd
MDs 28-30: September 3rd
Pre-Playoffs Off Day: September 4th
Round of 16 Games 1 & 2: September 5th
Round of 16 Games 3 & 4: September 6th
Round of 16 Game 5: September 7th
Quarterfinals Games 1 & 2: September 8th
Quarterfinals Games 3 & 4: September 9th
Quarterfinals Game 5: September 10th
Semifinals Games 1 & 2: September 11th
Semifinals Games 3 & 4: September 12th
Semifinals Game 5: September 13th
Finals/3PPO Games 1 & 2: September 14th
Finals/3PPO Games 3 & 4: September 15th
3PPO Game 5/Finals Games 5 & 6: September 16th
Finals Game 7: September 17th
Helpful Links
World Baseball Classic Discussion Thread
Our bid
Signup Thread