RP and roster thread
This is the RP thread for the inaugural Summer World Paralympic Games, NS Sport's equivalent of the real-life Paralympic Games. The Games are open to athletes with a physical disability.
Orean is the capital city of Liventia and has been since the Liventia Act was passed, founding the modern republic. It is technically sited within the Great Folenisa Desert according to government legislation, but as it sits right on the outer boundary of it, daytime temperatures in summer rarely exceed 33°C.
There is a 144-station metropolitan railway system to help fans get around. Spectators will fly into Orean Airport, which handily sits at the eastern end of the Central Line. Alternatively, they can fly into any of Liventia's other major cities, from where they will be able to catch National Rail trains to Great Cross, Salisbury or City Hall.
Public transport on the Metro, National Rail and buses within Orean city limits will be free of charge to all ticketholders, athletes and officials during the Games. All public transport is fully accessible and wheelchair-friendly. Ticketholders to sailing events, which will take place in Schimpol on the offshore island of Lox Land will receive free National Rail travel between Orean and the events.
Traffic in Orean will be congestion-controlled during the Games, with specially-designed 'Games Lanes' in operation at certain hours of the day to ensure speedy movement for officials and athletes.
About Liventia
Liventia has strict laws when it comes to behaviour; rioting used to carry the death penalty until a moratorium on capital punishment was brought into effect three decades ago. There is a widespread ban on outdoor public smoking and outdoor public drinking, and there is also aditional legislation banning all smoking outside of residential areas (homes and hotels). Public alcoholism will result in prosecution. The drugs trade is banned, but casual use is not normally actively policed. Orean Constabulary has indicated it will not take proactive enforcement of this during the Games. The legal age for smoking and drinking in the country is 17 for alcohol and 19 for tobacco.
About these Games
Zone 1—The World Paralympic Park
The World Paralympic Park will be based around Grovers Olympic Park stadium, Orean's largest stadium which hosted the opening and closing ceremonies at the eighth summer Olympics. It lies near the eastern end of the Central Line and is easily accessible from the airport and from the rest of the country by National Rail. The Olympic Village and Media Centre will be located in this zone.
Athletics, with the exception of the two T54 marathons, will take place in a specialist temporary athletics stadium constructed on the site of the one originally built for the Olympic Games. Track cycling and swimming will also be held in this zone at the original venues built for the Olympics. The demonstration sports of blind and cerebral palsy football, as well as wheelchair basketball, will take place in this zone at the arena originally built to host Olympic basketball.
Zone 2—Widmore cluster
Judo, powerlifting, sitting volleyball and wheelchair rugby will take place in a temporary arena constructed in Widmore, near the artificial lake which will host the rowing events. The demonstration sport of goalball will also take place in this temporary arena.
Paratriathlon will also begin in Widmore, with the swimming portion taking place in the same lake. The cycling/handcycle portion of the race will take the athletes to Lothian, east of Widmore, before the running/wheelchair portion of the race returns athletes in the other direction to finish by the lake.
Zone 3—Rest of Orean
Archery will take place at Polarian Gardens, the site of the equestrian events during the Olympic Games a few years ago.
The T54 wheelchair marathons will take place on the roads around east Orean, finishing in the Grovers Olympic Park stadium.
The five cycling road races will be held around the old 5.18 km Orean Desert Circuit motor racing track, just outside Orean (with free accessible shuttles provided between Cricketfield Road station on the Suburban Line and the circuit).
Sailing will be based on the island of Lox Land, with free National Rail travel to and from Orean provided for ticketholders.
Wheelchair tennis will make use of the Lothian Tennis Centre, which also hosted the sport during the Olympics.
Scorination and other concerns
This will double as both the RP and roster thread, with rosters for sitting volleyball and wheelchair rugby also being posted in here.
Scorination will occur once a day, with cutoff likely at around 20:00 UTC nightly — but this is subject to change.
Xkoranate 0.3.3, with modified sport files using data from the London 2012 Paralympics as well as recent Rio qualifying events, will be used to generate results.
Any questions should be asked in the OOC/results thread.
Link to formats of each individual event
Participating nations
Kannap (KAN)
Liventia (LEN)
Britonisea (BRI)
Ariddia (ARI)
San Adriano (SNA)
South Kannap (SKA)
Electrum (ETM)
Kaboomlandia (KBM)
Lunar Republic Islands (LRI)
Free Swiss States (FSS)
Indo-Malaysia (IND)
McIstan (MCI)
The Royal Kingdom of Quebec (QUE)
San José Guayabal (SJG)
Damukuni (DKI)
West Phoenicia (KWP)
Barunia (BAU)
Ceni (CEN)
Mahrcain (MHR)
