The World Bowl Discussion Thread (OOC)

[Qazox]

Apologies in advance for a lackluster RP tonight. I had a nice, full-length reply get wiped out by the fact that it took too long to write and I lost it when I tried to post due to being automatically logged out.

Fucking automatic mechanisms.

Preview every 3 sentences or so, it prevents timeouts.

[The Fanboyists]

Karditan, you will find in my most recent RP a request to change my style modifier to 0 on the -5/+5 scale. If that's possible, it would be much-appreciated.

[Karditan]

Karditan, you will find in my most recent RP a request to change my style modifier to 0 on the -5/+5 scale. If that's possible, it would be much-appreciated.

No problem. I didn't mention it specifically (because it rarely comes up), but I'm in the base of "you get one" in regards to mid-tourney style changes.

[German Zerabithea]

Oh and for the record, I may not be able to post Saturday. So don't be surprised if that's when my winning streak ends. : P

[Free South Califas]

I tried that, Karditan. It didn't work.

Yeah, that can vary by browser and circumstance. If you're not already using Firefox, I recommend switching, because I ave had the best text-recovery experiences with that one. Also, a firefox extension called Lazarus will automatically save *all* entered text across sessions. (Lazarus might be too slow to help if your computer is old and you have other large extensions; I had to remove it, but it might help you.)

[Cassadaigua]

Do your RP's in Microsoft Word or equivalent program, and then just copy & paste them into a post!
This is also good because you end up with a file of just your RP's all together for the competition, so if you want to refer back to something, it will right there in that document.

[German Zerabithea]

Oh and for the record, I may not be able to post Saturday. So don't be surprised if that's when my winning streak ends. : P

Welp, good to know that was not an issue.

[Equestrian States]

Apologies to my groupmates for the lack of RPing from me lately. I've been a bit overwhelmed with school and haven't had much inspiration or time to write lately. Yay, burn out! Anyways, I'll probably be able to get a couple decent RPs together for the last two MDs since I don't expect to be in this much longer.

Also, Karditan, are you even trying to be subtle with that little note? Besides, my cutting it close tonight was nowhere near as bad as it was in WC63. I think I missed something like four cutoffs by a combined five minutes (at most).

[Schmiegelland]

Well, what do you know. After thirteen games, I have a points difference of 0. The wonders of the world rejoice.

[Karditan]

Host Announcement: RE: Scheduling

Following the last group matchday tomorrow, there will be an off day, then the knockout rounds will be scorinated every other day. (IE, Ro16 on Wednesday, Quarters on Friday, etc.)

[Qazox]

Well, what do you know. After thirteen games, I have a points difference of 0. The wonders of the world rejoice.

At least you know you won't finish with a point differential of 0...

[The Fanboyists]

Hey, Karditan, I have a question:

What tie-breakers are getting priority, here? I can't find the information in your original bid post, and I'm not sure anyone actually asked.

I ask mostly because of our group: assuming we both win or both lose our final qualifying round games:
A) If Point Differential is given priority after overall record, then you (Karditan) will win the group.
B) If head-to-head record is given priority after overall record, I would win the group.

[Saintland]

Tiebreaks! Wins, Overall Point Differential, H2H Results, H2H Point Differential. In that order.

That's from the bid post.

[The Fanboyists]

Tiebreaks! Wins, Overall Point Differential, H2H Results, H2H Point Differential. In that order.

That's from the bid post.

I'm not sure how I missed that.

Also, dammit. Can't catch a break.

[Osarius]

random question... do we have a World Bowl Hall of Fame?

[Taeshan]

random question... do we have a World Bowl Hall of Fame?

No not yet at least.

[German Zerabithea]

random question... do we have a World Bowl Hall of Fame?

No not yet at least.

Zerabithea would be honored to host such a building in it's capital. (Though I could imagine selecting people, and finding some of those early posts would be hell, kind of like when we tried to do a Pro Bowl)

[Taeshan]

No not yet at least.

Zerabithea would be honored to host such a building in it's capital. (Though I could imagine selecting people, and finding some of those early posts would be hell, kind of like when we tried to do a Pro Bowl)

I believe it should be held in the nation who one the first world Bowl....Or well the first football championship that counts as such

[German Zerabithea]

Zerabithea would be honored to host such a building in it's capital. (Though I could imagine selecting people, and finding some of those early posts would be hell, kind of like when we tried to do a Pro Bowl)

I believe it should be held in the nation who one the first world Bowl....Or well the first football championship that counts as such

I can get behind that, I would assume if this actually gets anywhere it would be done similar to how the NFL does it's Hall of Fame?

[Taeshan]

I believe it should be held in the nation who one the first world Bowl....Or well the first football championship that counts as such

I can get behind that, I would assume if this actually gets anywhere it would be done similar to how the NFL does it's Hall of Fame?

Id bet id be done more like the world cup and wbc ones. We set up a criteria for who what gets a player into it and each player when they pass each of the criteria gets to add another person to their part of the hallf of fame.

Probably something like

*for each (4-6 is good) amount of attempts at qualifying a country makes they get a person in
*for each (3-5 is good) playoff rounds the country makes they get a player in
*for each championship you get a player in (always is one of the criterion i believe)

[German Zerabithea]

I can get behind that, I would assume if this actually gets anywhere it would be done similar to how the NFL does it's Hall of Fame?

Id bet id be done more like the world cup and wbc ones. We set up a criteria for who what gets a player into it and each player when they pass each of the criteria gets to add another person to their part of the hallf of fame.

Probably something like

*for each (4-6 is good) amount of attempts at qualifying a country makes they get a person in
*for each (3-5 is good) playoff rounds the country makes they get a player in
*for each championship you get a player in (always is one of the criterion i believe)

Alright, I don't do much with those two, did not know they even had something like that. I'll have to take a look and see for myself. Do they require a player to be retired for a certain time? Like with the NFL.

[Taeshan]

Id bet id be done more like the world cup and wbc ones. We set up a criteria for who what gets a player into it and each player when they pass each of the criteria gets to add another person to their part of the hallf of fame.

Probably something like

*for each (4-6 is good) amount of attempts at qualifying a country makes they get a person in
*for each (3-5 is good) playoff rounds the country makes they get a player in
*for each championship you get a player in (always is one of the criterion i believe)

Alright, I don't do much with those two, did not know they even had something like that. I'll have to take a look and see for myself. Do they require a player to be retired for a certain time? Like with the NFL.

No, there is not a way to regulate that with all the different times

[German Zerabithea]

Alright, I don't do much with those two, did not know they even had something like that. I'll have to take a look and see for myself. Do they require a player to be retired for a certain time? Like with the NFL.

No, there is not a way to regulate that with all the different times

Oh yeah, right forget I asked. Anyone else have anything to add?

[Equestrian States]

Given that the World Bowl is held much less frequently than the World Cup, the requirements for a spot in the WB HoF should be looser. Every championship title, three playoff appearances, and four attempts seems reasonable to me. That way even those of us who miss the playoffs on point differential multiple times despite having a .750 or better winning percentage could get a spot every year or so.

[Karditan]

Just a heads up, scores are in and advancements are posted. Congrats to everyone who made it through, and commiserations to those who fell short.