Group A
The Ancient World
The Royal Kingdom of Quebec
The Serbian Empire
The Neo-Jeffersonians
Group B
Maluponu Kunoa
Alleniana
The Grand Millian
CoolLand
Southern Conference
Group C
Kambota
Saintland
Maklohi Vai
New Tebow
Group D
Shadowbourne
The Bloodied Soul
Lymantatia
German American States
Each team will face the opponents in its group twice, once home and once away, for a total of six matches. The teams with the best record in each conference will receive the top two seeds automatically. The two other division winners will earn the third and fourth seeds automatically depending on overall records and point difference.
The remaining four seeds of the eight playoff spots will be determined in a Wild Card round. Each second-ranked team in their group will play the third-ranked team from the other group in their conference. The winners will then receive the final four seeds based on overall records and point difference.
The matchups will be as follows, with home teams on the left per NS Sports convention:
MATCHDAY 1 (3 January)
1 v. 4
2 v. 3
MATCHDAY 2 (4 January)
3 v. 1
4 v. 2
MATCHDAY 3 (5 January)
2 v. 1
4 v. 3
MATCHDAY 4 (6 January)
4 v. 1
3 v. 2
MATCHDAY 5 (7 January)
1 v. 3
2 v. 4
MATCHDAY 6 (8 January)
1 v. 2
3 v. 4
The play-offs will be a basic single elimination tournament, with the final two teams playing in the Arena Bowl.
Here is a tentative play-off schedule:
WILDCARD (9 January
QUARTERFINALS (11 January)
SEMIFINALS (13 January)
CONSOLATION GAME (15 January)
ARENA BOWL (16 January)
RP cutoffs will usually be around 7:00 PM ET.
VERY IMPORTANT: If you have a comment or concern that is solely OOC, please post it in this thread. If you have an OOC note to add to the top of a IC post, that's fine. However, ANY solely OOC posts in this thread will result in a RP bonus penalty. Multiple infractions would be addressed appropriately.
A final note: Please adhere to your RP opponent's stated permissions if there are any. If your opponent expresses a desire to have you change something you've RP'd within reason, I expect you to accommodate the request. I don't want to have to issue a ruling, which I would do in this thread.
With all that said, let's get to RPing!