COTDELAPOMS AND POLAR ISLANDSTATES HOST BID FOR CUP OF HARMONY XLIX
The FCF and FPIFA, working in partnership, humbly put forward this host bid for the hosting of the Forty-Ninth Cup of Harmony.
The FCF and FPIFA, working in partnership, humbly put forward this host bid for the hosting of the Forty-Ninth Cup of Harmony.
EXPERIENCE
Cotdelapoms has its own extensive history of hosting major events, having most notably hosted a smooth World Cup of Hockey. It has hosted the first and third World Junior Hockey Championships as well, along with the Coupe Pomme d’Or, the Rushmore Six Nations competition for rugby, the last two Champions’ Hockey Leagues and the first Rushmori Copa de las Príncipes. Cotdelapoms is internationally renowned for having some of the most thorough sports leagues (that are actually scorinated) in the multiverse. The Cotdelapomais Curling Championship is the world’s foremost curling competition. Cotdelapoms has also been a highly successful WA delegate of Rushmore.
Polar Islandstates would be the junior member in this hosting partnership, though has already shown himself to be a dependable scorinator. After a successful debut with a series of friendlies, he hosted the Sokhorosk Linii Amateur Shield and a six stage cycling event. The cycling event did suffer from early teething problems, mainly due to the scorinator throwing out results that were difficult to format, but all problems were communicated well with the community. Recently, he has hosted the Cuppet, a successful 40 team event that he conceived and created, hosting it successfully before the current WC cycle. He also shown his reliability and workrate by scorinating the CdlP regularly for the nations of Rushmore, for whom he is the current cartographer, and is undertaking the first in a regular international domestic rugby tournament.
ENTRY AND FORMAT
Both hosts would rather an inclusive CoH than an exclusive one, and as such any nation that has posted two solid RPs over the course of the qualifying campaign will be invited to attend the CoH. When it comes to deciding what counts as a solid RP, quality will be the main factor. Anyone can copy a table, work out a schedule, and post it double spaced to make an RP look bigger, we’re looking for creativity and things that the hosts haven’t told you already. Rosters will not count towards this. Each user can only have one nation attend, so in the event of a single user having two eligible teams, they will be invited to choose which one accepts the invitation.
We are aiming for a tournament of 32, 40, or 48 teams, though 36, 44 and 45 will be considered if we are stuck. We would rather wait until positively responded invitations reach a preferred number, and if numbers of acceptance are slowing down prior to a number like 40 for example, we reserve the right to make an announcement stating 40 as the new limit and wait for the 40th entry rather than waiting until we reach 48. If stuck between usable numbers and forced to cut entries, we would start with those who accepted their invitations most recently.
With 32 teams we’d have eight groups of four with two progressing, with 40 teams it would be eight groups of five with two progressing, and with 48 teams it would be eight groups of six with two progressing. With 36 it would be nine groups of four with the group winners and five best runners-up progressing and the final four runners-up facing a play-in tie, and with 45 teams it would be the same but with groups of five, with 44 teams it would be eleven groups of four with the winners progressing and ten best runners-up facing a play-in tie. From there it would be straight knockout to the final.
Tie-breakers in the group stages would be first of all head-to-heads, then goal difference, then number of wins, then goals scored. We appreciate that a single round robin leaves the possibility for teams to still be tied after that, so as its an RP-based tournament we would propose that 'RP bonus acquired so far' is the final tie-breaker.
As a yardstick, at the time of writing there were 66 nations meeting eligibility, with a further 13 nations with one RP. This is out of 106 nations who posted rosters.
SCORINATION AND RP BONUS
Will we be using xkoranate 0.3.2, a scorinator both hosts are familiar with, using the SQIS formula and xkoranate style modifiers, for which the full range of +/-5 will be used. If you really want to change your modifier mid-tournament, we will accommodate that as long as you make it clear in your RP so as to be fair to your opponents. Cutoffs will be at _______ [preferably the same time? We can work something out timewise.)
RP bonus will be cumulative throughout the whole tournament, and each MD’s worth of RPing will be worth a maximum of 3 KPB points. Multiple RPs on one MD will be counted as one, with the exception of rosters, which will be scored as a separate RP whenever they get posted. RPs will be graded on quality and creativity more than they are on length. Copypasting tables, schedules and scores won’t be rewarded, and a dry run through list of predictions won’t score highly. Grammar and spelling are necessary, but so long as we don’t have to sit and work out what you’re trying to say for too long, mistakes won’t be punished. Here is the first paragraph of the ‘Entry and Format’ section of this bid with the punctuation taken out – this is the kind of thing that you would get scored down for.
AND FINALLY
Both hosts are confident that they would host an enjoyable tournament, and can also offer the additional bonus of full IC hosting/stadium details should their bid be successful, as well as an IC draw on IRC if participants would be interested.
Have at it!
, OP edited to reflect these changes, and to include the tie-breaker information.
