NS Youth Games: Announcements and Charter Thread

[The Youth Games]

Official Charter of the Youth Games
“The practice of sports is a philosophy of life, which places sport at the service of the world’s life beings”
"For the youth. For the sport. For a better world."

The Official Charter of the Youth Games (OCYG) is the codification of the Fundamental Principles of the Sport Movement orientated to the youths of the multiverse, and it encompasses the rules that govern the organisation, action and operation of the Youth Games and the Youth Sporting Movement that these represent, setting the conditions for the celebration of the event for posterity.

This event is born as a response to the lack of an sporting atmosphere for the youths, gathering together the highest amount of nations possible to create a haven for understanding, competition and fair play. The Youth Games will gather the young athletes from all over the world to show the importance of sport and well being.

The first Youth Games will be the Winter Games of 2012, which will take place in Harrikes, the capital of Euskirribakondara.

The only people allowed to post in this thread are: (apart from Moderators), an elected host country, an authorized votes collector, and last but not least, the Organizing Committee of the Youth Games.

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Contents
* Principles of the Sports Movement
* Official Charter
* Members of the Executive Board
* Event List for the Winter Youth Games
* Event List for the Summer Youth Games

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Previous/Future Games
I Winter Youth Games: Harrikes, Euskirribakondara
(Signups - Rosters - Roleplay - Ceremonies and Announcements - Bid)

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Other Links
Bids Thread for the Youth Games
Discussion Thread for the Youth Games

[The Youth Games]

Fundamental Principles of the Sports Movements

1. The practice of sports is a philosophy of life, exalting and combining in a balanced whole the qualities of body, will and mind. Blending sport with culture and education, the sporting movement seeks to create a way of life based on the joy of effort, the educational value of good example, social responsibility and respect for universal fundamental ethical principles.
2. The goal of the Youth Sports Movement is to place sport at the service of the harmonious development of humankind, with a view to promoting a peaceful society concerned with the preservation of human dignity. And in this case, this goal is specially aimed at the youth of the world.
3. The Youth Sports Movement is the concerted, organised, universal and permanent action, carried out under the supreme authority of the YOGAC (Youth Games Administrating Committee), of all individuals and entities who are inspired by the values of the practice of sports. It covers the thousands of regions, and more than three million nations. It reaches its peak with the bringing together of the world’s young athletes at the great sports festival called the Youth Games, whose symbol are the “two colourful letters”.
4. The practice of sport is a human right. Every individual must have the possibility of practising sport, without discrimination of any kind and in the Sporting spirit, which requires mutual understanding with a spirit of friendship, solidarity and fair play.
5. Recognising that sport occurs within the framework of society, sports organisations within the Youth Sports Movement shall have the rights and obligations of autonomy, which include freely establishing and controlling the rules of sport, determining the structure and governance of their organisations, enjoying the right of elections free from any outside influence and the responsibility for ensuring that principles of good governance be applied.
6. Any form of discrimination with regard to a country or a person on grounds of race, religion, politics, gender or otherwise is incompatible with belonging to the Youth Sports Movement.
7. Belonging to the Youth Sports Movement requires compliance with the present Charter and recognition by the YOGAC.

[The Youth Games]

Official Charter

1. The Youth Sports Movement

1.1 (Composition) The main constituents of the Youth Olympic Movement are the Youth Games Administrating Committee (YOGAC) and the specialized branches of each one of the National Sport Committees (NSCs) that work with the Youth Games. Also, the bodies known as the Organising Committees of the Youth Games (OCYG), the athletes, the sports clubs, the judges, the referees, coaches and other sports officials and technicians.
1.2 (Belonging to the YSM) Any person or organisation belonging whatsoever to the Youth Sports Movement is bound by the provisions of this charter and the decisions of the YOGAC.

2. Mission and Role of the YOGAC

2.1 (Mission and Role) The mission of the YOGAC is to promote the practice of sports in the youths of the multiverse, therefore, leading the Youth Sports Movement (YSM). The role of this entity is:

2.1.1 To encourage and support the promotion of ethics and good governance in the sport as well as the education of youth through sport and to dedicate its efforts to ensuring that, in sport, the spirit of fair play prevails and violence is banned.
2.1.2 To ensure the regular celebration of the Youth Games.
2.1.3 To take action to strengthen the unity of the Youth Sports Movement, to protect its independence and to preserve the autonomy of sport.
2.1.4 To act against any form of discrimination affecting the Youth Sports Movement.
2.1.5 To encourage and support measures protecting the health of athletes.
2.1.6 To encourage and support the promotion of rational animals in sport at all levels implementing the principle of equality of mankind and other rational species.
2.1.7 To encourage and support the development of sport for all.
2.1.8 To promote a positive legacy from the Youth Games to the host cities and host countries.
2.1.9 To encourage and support a responsible concern for environmental issues, to promote sustainable development in sport and to require that the Youth Games are held accordingly.
2.1.10 To encourage and support initiatives blending sport with culture and education.

3. Recognition by the YOGAC

3.1 (Recognition) The YOGAC may grant formal recognition to the constituents of the Youth Sports Movement. This means, any OOC player that represents a National Sports Committee.
3.2 (Limitations) Any recognition can be withdrawn by the YOGAC Executive Board, which will determine the conditions for that recognition/withdrawal.

4. Composition of the YOGAC

4.1 (Main Composition) The YOGAC is composed by three main bodies. These are the Youth Games Congress (YOGACON); the Executive Board (EB) and the Directive Board (DB).
4.2 (Youth Games Congress) This congress is composed by the OOC players who participated in the most recent completed Youth Games, on any of its two versions; and the appointed members of the Executive Board (EB) and the Directive Board (DB), regardless of whether they participated in the most recent Games.

4.2.1 Youth Games Congress Rights: The members of the YOGACON are permitted to:
• Vote on hosting bids for a future edition of the Youth Games.
• Propose and vote on amendments of the present charter.

4.3 (Executive Board) The Executive Board is composed of five members appointed by the Directive Board of the YOGAC. When there are four completed editions of the Youth Games, this board will be composed by the four hosts of the three most recent editions plus one member appointed by the Directive Board. In case there have been four editions, but hosted by three or less OOC players, the spots remaining will be appointed by the Directive Board.

4.3.1 Executive Board Rights: The members of this board have the same rights of the Youth Games Congress as part of it; and also they are permitted to:
• Vote to break a tie in a host selection vote.
• Vote on a replacement host for an incomplete Youth Games.
• Making the shortlist of bids on the bidding selection process. (See article 6)

4.4 (Directive Board) The Directive Board is composed of two members. These are the President and the Vice President. The President shall be the host of the most recent completed Summer Games. The Vice President shall be the host of the most recent completed Winter Games. For the first cycle (2011-2012), the president will be Euskirribakondara, as host of the First Winter Youth, until the First Summer Youth Games are held. If a country has hosted the most recent Winter and Summer editions, this one will be President and the Vice President will be one of the members of the Executive Board, voted by the same board.
In the event that the President is unavailable to perform his or her responsibilities, the Vice President shall assume the role of President.

4.4.1 Responsibilities of the President:
• Opening and closing votes of the YOGAC.
• Determining whether an application (see article 6) meet the bid requirements.
• Evaluate (with the vice-president) the applications as established on the article 6.3.2
• Casting a tiebreaking vote in the Executive Board if needed.
• Maintaining a list of members of the three bodies that compose the YOGAC.
• Comparing the events lists of the Youth Games and the real-life Youth Olympics, in order to determine and accept additions to that list.
4.4.2 Responsibilities of the President:
• In the event that the President is a candidate to host an edition of the Youth Games, the Vice President will be responsible for the latter points. If both are candidates, or the Vice President is unavailable, a third person must be appointed by the President.
• Evaluate (with the president) the applications as established on the article 6.3.2

5. Events

5.1 (Overview) The YOGAC shall organize only two events, the Winter Youth Games and the Summer Youth Games. The Winter Youth Games shall be held in December or January, whilst the Summer Youth Games shall be held in April, May or June. A cycle is composed by the two versions of the Games, and these two versions must have the same numeral identification. (If the cycle has the FIRST Winter Youth Games, the Summer Youth Games must be also FIRST).
5.2 (Choice of Sports) The Winter Youth Games shall contain only sports contested on snow or ice, whilst the Summer Youth Games shall contain sports not contested on snow or ice. The events to be contested are established by the events list at the end of this charter. Removals or alterations, and any additions must be identified in a hosting bid. No restriction is made on the inclusion of demonstrations sports and events for which Youth Games medals are not awarded.

6. Host Selection

6.1 (Location, sites and venues) All sports competition must take place in the host city (ies) of the Youth Games, unless the Executive Board authorises the organisation of certain events in other cities of the same country. The Ceremonies must take place in the host city itself. For the Winter edition, the Executive Board may accept that, if in the host country it is impossible to organise certain events or disciplines, these take place on a country of the same region.
6.2 (Final Bid Recommendation) When a NSC is bidding for hosting, it’s recommendable to quote the articles expressed in this charter. This proves a true commitment to the Youth Olympic Movement, and the real will to host the event.
6.3 (Bid submission) Any NSC (OOC person) may submit a bid to host an edition of the Olympic Games. If more than one person/nation is involved in the bid, a single person/nation must be appointed to fulfill the requirements of this charter when it comes to the YOGAC composition. One only person may submit a bid with various nations (master and puppet(s)) too. When a bid is submitted, it shall be referred to as “application”.
6.4 (Bid requirements) OOCly, bids must identify what scorinators will be used for all medal events, and must make all these scorinators publicly available for testing. Bids that do not include a testable scorinator will not be considered by the Council. ICly (for purposes of roleplaying) the application must refer to the following points:

• Environment
• Transportation
• Accommodation
• Financing, Government and public support
• Sports Venues
• Olympic Village
• Safety and Security
• Experience from past events
• Overall image of the bid (Logo, Slogan)
• Legacy

6.5 (Shortlist) Just candidate cities can be voted by the whole YOGACON. To become a candidate city, an applicant city must abide by the rules of the following process:

6.5.1 An applicant city can present its bid on anyway, through the bid thread of the Youth Games.
6.5.2 The Directive Board will evaluate the applications, ranking each one of the ten points mentioned in the article 6.2, in a scale from 0 to 10. The rankings will become an overall average scored that will be taken into account when short listing.
6.5.3 When all the applications are evaluated, and the scores are known by the Executive Board, this body will vote; and the cities with the largest quantity of votes will be part of the shortlist, therefore becoming a “candidate city”.

6.6 (Candidate City) When a bid is named as “candidate city” it can provide more information about the bid, and can receive questions and replies from any nation in the Discussion Thread. It can also change the whole image of the bid, retaining the concept presented beforehand. After a determinate amount of time (specified by the Directive Board), the final voting will start.
6.7 (Final Voting) For one week, the NSCs that conform the YOGAC will participate:

• Voting for one and only one of the candidate bids.
• Abstaining from voting.

6.8 (Tiebreakers) In the final voting, the city with the most votes will be awarded the hosting rights of that edition. If two or more candidates are tied for the greatest number of votes, the Executive Board will vote to break the tie.
6.9 (Backup) After being awarded the hosting rights, a bid will become officially the “host city(ies) of the N Summer/Winter Youth Games”. This NOC must provide signup data and scorinator input files to the Executive Board, as would be needed to allow a replacement host to complete the Games. If the games are abandoned, the Executive Board will appoint a replacement host (Generally, taking in account the bidders that failed).

7. Voting Rights
Each nation has right to one vote in any of the voting procedures hereby mentioned. In the case that two or more nations belong to the same OOC player, it must be specified that these nations are ‘puppets’ of the ‘master’ nation; and just the votes from the master nation will be counted.

8. Symbols

There are four symbols that represent the Youth Games and the Youth Sports Movement:
• The Youth Games Symbol composed of two letters, Y and G, with four colors: Blue, Yellow, Red and Green as it is seen in the following representation: The letters must be surrounded by a black square, and below them, the words “Youth Games” in the same five colors are written.



• The Youth Games Flag
The Youth Games Flag has a white background, with no border. The Youth Games is located in its centre.

• The Youth Games Motto
The motto is “For the youth. For the sport. For a better world”. A motto that gathers the principles of the Youth Olympic Movement in three simple phrases, and expresses the aspirations of the Youth Games.

• The Youth Games Emblems
A Youth Games emblem or “logo” is an integrated design associating the Youth Games symbol with another distinctive element.

• The Youth Games Anthem
The Youth Games Anthem is the musical work entitled “Olympic anthem”, composed by Spiro Samara. And its lyrics are the ones composed by the Youth Games First Directive Board, to be found in Annex 1.

• The Youth Games Flame and Torches
The Youth Games Flame is a flame which is kindled in Harrikes under the authority of the YOGAC. The Youth Games torch is a portable torch, or a replica thereof, as approved by the YOGAC and intended for combustion of the Youth Games flame.

• Official Languages
On each edition of the Youth Games, the official languages will be: English, and the official/national language of the hosting nation(s).

9. Amendments
Any amendment or modification to this charter can be proposed by any NOC, and shall be voted by the Executive Board in most cases. If this modifications affects greatly the traditional rules hereby established, a general voting on the YOGACON will be required. In both cases, the amendment will be rejected or accepted based in the plurality of votes. It must be taken in account that each amendment is put into effect before or after a host selection process or an edition of the Games, not during its development.

[The Youth Games]

Members of the YOGAC

DIRECTIVE BOARD
President: Euskirribakondara, Dago Lesmes
Vice President: Carmadin, TBA

EXECUTIVE BOARD

*Albertasby
*Belikovia
*Carmadin
*Chenkorya
*Euskirribakondara
*Soviet Canuckistan

The creators of this event are Euskirribakondara and Soviet Canuckistan, they both co-created the idea, whilst the idea was developed by the first. The YOGAC specially thanks all the other nations that have made, make, and will make this possible.

MEMBERS OF THE YOGACON
As of December 11th, 2011

* Albertasby
* Belikovia
* Carmadin
* Chenkorya
* Euskirribakondara
* Soviet Canuckistan
* Thatius

[The Youth Games]

Events List for the Winter Youth Games

The events scores (obtained by average scorinators) must be split in half in Biathlon, as the distances are the half of those in the adults’ events. Between brackets, is the maximum number of athletes allowed per NOC (These numbers can be altered by the host). Overall, a NOC must not exceed 120 entries; except for the host, who can enter 140 entries. A same player can have as many NOC delegations as he/she wants but overall, the number of entries shall not exceed 250; except when hosting, when he/she can enter 270 entries. Nonetheless, there shall be no more than 3 nations of the same player in the same event.

The list currently encompasses 62 events in 15 disciplines of 7 sports.

EVENTS
BIATHLON

BIATHLON (5 Events)
Boys Sprint (4)
Boys Pursuit (N/A)1
Girls Sprint (4)
Girls Pursuit (N/A)1
Mixed Relay (1 team of 4)
1. The top twenty finishers in each sprint event qualify for the pursuit event.

BOBSLEIGH

BOBSLEIGH (2 Events)
Boys Duo (3 teams of 2)
Girls Duo (3 teams of 2)

SKELETON (2 Events)
Boys Individual (3)
Girls Individual (3)

CURLING

CURLING (2 Events)
Mixed Doubles Tournament (2 Teams of 2)
Mixed Team Tournament (1 Team)

ICE HOCKEY

ICE HOCKEY (2 Events)
Boys Tournament (1 Team)
Girls Tournament (1 Team)

LUGE

LUGE (4 Events)
Boys Singles (3)
Girls Singles (3)
Mixed Doubles (2 teams of 2)
Mixed Team Relay (1 team of 4)

SKATING

FIGURE SKATING (5 Events)
Boys Singles (3)
Girls Singles (3)
Mixed Pair Skating (3 teams of 2)
Mixed Ice Dance (3 teams of 2)
Team Trophy (Based on a ranking that encompasses the other four events)

SHORT TRACK SPEED SKATING (6 Events)
Boys 500 Metres (3)
Boys 1000 Metres (3)
Girls 500 Metres (3)
Girls 1000 Metres (3)
Mixed Team Relay (1 team of 4)
Team Trophy (Based on a ranking that encompasses the other five events)

SPEED SKATING (8 Events)
Boys 500 Metres (4)
Boys 1500 Metres (4)
Boys 3000 Metres (4)
Boys Mass Start (3)
Girls 500 Metres (4)
Girls 1500 Metres (4)
Girls 3000 Metres (4)
Girls Mass Start (3)

SKIING

ALPINE SKIING (9 Events)
Boys Super-G (4)
Boys Giant Slalom (4)
Boys Slalom (4)
Boys Super Combined (4)
Girls Super-G (4)
Girls Giant Slalom (4)
Girls Slalom (4)
Girls Super Combined (4)
Mixed Downhill (4)

CROSS-COUNTRY SKIING (5 Events)
Boys 10Km Classical (3)
Boys Sprint (3)
Girls 5Km Classical (3)
Girls Sprint (3)
Mixed Relay 4x5Km (3)

FREESTYLE SKIING (4 Events)
Boys Half-Pipe (3)
Boys Ski Cross (3)
Girls Half-Pipe (3)
Girls Ski Cross (3)

NORDIC COMBINED (1 Event)
Mixed Individual (4)

SKI JUMPING (3 Events)
Boys Individual (4)
Girls Individual (4)
Mixed Team Competition (1 team of 4)

SNOWBOARDING (4 Events)
Boys Half-Pipe (4)
Boys Slopestyle (4)
Girls Half-Pipe (4)
Girls Slopestyle (4)

CEREMONIES
The ceremonies that shall take place in the same time of the Games development are:

• Opening Ceremony
• Medal Awarding Ceremonies (It can be one per day, or one per event)
• Figure Skating Gala
• Closing Ceremony

The OOC player must create a thread of ceremonies/announcements, where these ceremonies and its description are. The player can create other types of ceremonies that showcase the culture of its country, or a determinate sport (e.g. a concert before the Ice Hockey Final).

The making of these ceremonies shall be accounted as the roleplaying of the host nation, and therefore, taken into account for the RP bonus.

[The Youth Games]

Events List for the Summer Youth Games

To be decided at a later stage by the Executive Board.

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List of recognized three-letter codes by the YOGACON

So far, we recognize these 17 codes as taken, into the YOGACON membership. As, one way or another, they have announced to be participating into the First Youth Games to be held in Harrikes, Euskirribakondara.

AHO = the Island of Aho
ALB = Albertasby
ART = Artsakhestan
BAR = Barrasso
BKV = Belikovia
CKY = Chenkorya
CRM = Carmadin
EBR = Ebrorendonostia
EUS = Euskirribakondara
HAK = Hakkland
MNL = Monlyuxeburga
PCN = Puerto Candelaria
SCK = Soviet Canuckistan
THA = Thatius
VAL = Valdaranes
VEK = Vekaiyu
VUL = Vulshain

[The Youth Games]

Selection of the host city for the First Winter Youth Games

Instead of a bidding process, it has internally been decided that the First Winter Youth Games are awarded to the city of Harrikes, Euskirribakondara. Whose succesful bid showed us the important of being "expecting high".

The bid acquired a punctuation of 9.0 in the evaluation by the Directive Board.

The bid can be seen here.