The World Bowl Discussion Thread (OOC)

[Newmanistan]

Top 5: Tocrowkia, Fujisawan Territories, Bluth Corporation, Vephrall, and The Babbage Islands.

Amazing how times have changed.

[Arroza]

No one stays on top forever.

[The Babbage Islands]

Pete Rozelle would be proud of our NS parity if he existed here.

[Dancougar]

Pete Rozelle would also be happy if people went and signed up for the new one :-D

[Whittoria]

What is the "kash rule"?

[Tocrowkia]

What is the "kash rule"?

Basically, it's an unnecessary roughness foul call on a defensive player that tackles or even just makes contact with the QB. Sarz mentioned it in one of his posts in the last World Bowl. It's often called seemingly out of nowhere, on an otherwise legal play that looks like it just damaged a valuable QB too much. Or had the potential to.

[Dancougar]

Gabe Martin takes offense to that.

See, this is exactly what isn't supposed to go in the sign-up thread

[Taeshan]

Gabe Martin takes offense to that.

See, this is exactly what isn't supposed to go in the sign-up thread

I know but im not much of an over quater. anyways interestingly enough Martin has been Team Captain for 11 years in the next one. Jeez.

[Newmanistan]

You can all debate who's been the best QB all you want but clearly the best running back in World Bowl history is Corey Parisi.

[Tocrowkia]

I think you should do an All-World team for the World Bowl, New,

[Sarzonia]

If it's all the same, Tae, keep debates about best NS World Bowl players of all time on THIS thread, not in the sign up thread.

Besides, Gavin Davis laughs in a few people's general directions.

[Taeshan]

Well i would tend to beleive that on average about 2000 yards catching and throwing in 10 seasons for both that Gabe Martin has a great chance at being the best QB in WB history. Other famous Taes would be Trevor Karker, and some of the lineman. They all play both ways so interestingly enough they have lots of defensive stats to.

[Tocrowkia]

Kash has a much younger career than Martin though, so only time can tell.

[Dancougar]

Those players are all great and I'm going to let them finish, but all my old guys are just going to coddle their three trophies and whine how our kids these days can't grid no irons ^_^

[Sarzonia]

Dude, don't kanye them!

[Osarius]

I think you should do an All-World team for the World Bowl, New,

that would be cool. maybe a bit too much to ask though.

[Arroza]

I'm going to let you all finish, but Chadwick and Chavez were the greatest runningback duo of all time.

[Dancougar]

Old Cola signs up (1st time!) We'd also like to sign up for the Baptism of Iron

What's the ruling on Puppets, btw?

I don't think we ever had one, did we? We should probably fix that. I propose we simply follow the existing World Cup model with some modifications:

A player who controls a nation which is a voting member of the World Bowl Committee may enter one additional nation in the tournament, a "puppet."
* The player must sign up separately with both nations and clearly identify which nation is the master and which is the puppet.
* The nations are treated as separate entities that happen to be controlled by the same player. Posts by one nation count only for that nation.
* Puppets may become Committee members, but this does not entitle the player to enter additional puppets or votes.
* A player may enter at most one puppet per tournament. If it is determined that a player has entered more than one, all of that player's puppets will be withdrawn and the main nation will have its Committee membership reset. Should the infraction be discovered after the tournament has already begun, the course of action will be determined by the hosts and Committee.

Looking for seconds/amendments/discussion/etc.

Edit: Babbage Islands pointed out third bullet should also prevent players from getting additional Committee votes.

[The Babbage Islands]

* Puppets may become Committee members, but this does not entitle the player to enter additional puppets.

It should also be made clear that a player may have only one vote, regardless of puppet statuses.

[Qazox]

Old Cola signs up (1st time!) We'd also like to sign up for the Baptism of Iron

What's the ruling on Puppets, btw?

I don't think we ever had one, did we? We should probably fix that. I propose we simply follow the existing World Cup model with some modifications:

A player who controls a nation which is a voting member of the World Bowl Committee may enter one additional nation in the tournament, a "puppet."
* The player must sign up separately with both nations and clearly identify which nation is the master and which is the puppet.
* The nations are treated as separate entities that happen to be controlled by the same player. Posts by one nation count only for that nation.
* Puppets may become Committee members, but this does not entitle the player to enter additional puppets.
* A player may enter at most one puppet per tournament. If it is determined that a player has entered more than one, all of that player's puppets will be withdrawn and the main nation will have its Committee membership reset. Should the infraction be discovered after the tournament has already begun, the course of action will be determined by the hosts and Committee.

Looking for seconds/amendments/discussion/etc.

Forgot the IMPORTANT PART:

No puppets until you have competed in ONE WORLD BOWL.

[Dancougar]

Forgot the IMPORTANT PART:

No puppets until you have competed in ONE WORLD BOWL.

That's covered by "A player controlling a nation which is a voting member...", which actually implies two.

[Whittoria]

Old Cola signs up (1st time!) We'd also like to sign up for the Baptism of Iron

What's the ruling on Puppets, btw?

I don't think we ever had one, did we? We should probably fix that. I propose we simply follow the existing World Cup model with some modifications:

A player who controls a nation which is a voting member of the World Bowl Committee may enter one additional nation in the tournament, a "puppet."
* The player must sign up separately with both nations and clearly identify which nation is the master and which is the puppet.
* The nations are treated as separate entities that happen to be controlled by the same player. Posts by one nation count only for that nation.
* Puppets may become Committee members, but this does not entitle the player to enter additional puppets.
* A player may enter at most one puppet per tournament. If it is determined that a player has entered more than one, all of that player's puppets will be withdrawn and the main nation will have its Committee membership reset. Should the infraction be discovered after the tournament has already begun, the course of action will be determined by the hosts and Committee.

Looking for seconds/amendments/discussion/etc.

So only Committee members can enter puppets?

[Newmanistan]

Looking for seconds/amendments/discussion/etc.

It all looks good to me.

[Qazox]

Forgot the IMPORTANT PART:

No puppets until you have competed in ONE WORLD BOWL.

That's covered by "A player controlling a nation which is a voting member...", which actually implies two.

Gotcha

[Dancougar]

So only Committee members can enter puppets?

Yes. I figured that a nation which sticks around long enough to warrant a vote can be counted on to participate enough to warrant a puppet, and it also makes the punishment for having multiple puppets actually do something.

The original proposal has been edited to account for Babbage's comment. Looking at it, it seems like it might just be easier to say "Puppets may not join the World Bowl Committee regardless of participation," although I'm not sure if it matters.