As part of the Festivalo de Tutmondaj Futbaloj, Sorthern Rugby League (SRL) are arranging a rugby league tournament for ten teams. Teams should be club teams rather than national teams and initially at least, there will be a limit of one team per nation.
Format
The tournament will be held mainly within a round-robin structure with each team playing each other team in the competition on two occasions, once at home and once away. Two points will be awarded for winning matches, and one for draws with the teams ranked by their points titles. Should teams be tied on points they would be split using, in order, scores difference, scores for, results between tied teams.
The top four teams would then progress into a semi-final stage, with the top placed team hosting the fourth placed team and the second placed team hosting the third placed team. The two winners would go on to play the championship match, whilst the two beaten semi-finalists would compete for third-place.
In order to lessen the length of time the tournament will take, group matchdays may possibly be scorinated two at a time.
Scorination
Being a part of a the Festivalo de Tutmondaj Futbaloj series of events, the John Cookson Memorial Shield will be using .ods version of Footba11er.
Sign-ups
One place will be reserved for a team from The Babbage Islands (or a puppet of that nation). Should more than the required number of teams sign-up the SRL reserves the right to chose from the sign-ups on a subjective basis rather than a completely first come first served basis.
1. Oosehill [Sorthern Northland]
2. Motligurpup Pasgarmises [84733842]
3. Exile Portsham [Virabia]
4. St Lawrence State [Polar Islandstates]
5. Pire City Pios [Bisim]
6. Scott City AC [Darmen]
7. Stanick City Monsterdemons [HellHorn]
8. Bailatha City [St Eedyets]
9. New Wolfmanne Panthers [Wolfmanne]
10. Gaduz Generals [Swartaz]