International Hockey Discussion Thread (OOC, version II)

[Elejamie]

No but we're shutdown for using the exact same name (World Cup of Hockey) for one of their trademarked events. We're lucky that the NHL didn't pursue legitimate legal action against us for sharing the exact same name as them.

Is this a joke? We had it first. If anything we should sue them. Please tell me this is a joke.

It was, yes. As Ontie said over here, they were - in their own words - "bullshitting the new guy".

Also, the first IRL World Cup of Hockey was in 1996 (or 1976 if you want to count the Canada Cup which came before it), so I think the NHL would've had dibs on it first.

Edit: Also, I don't do ranks anymore. I think Saintland does them.

Thanks for the correction, Lord Almighty Gregory. I wasn't sure if it was still you or if you had passed the torch on to another nation, which is why I asked for someone to correct me if I was wrong.

[The Royal Kingdom of Quebec]

Well I'd appreciate if we don't try confusing the hell out of new users with unnecessary jokes.

Anyways, be patient with WCoH signup thread people. Mama elf (Valanora) should be getting it up soon. It's holidays after all.

[Novaya Zemlya]

Due to unforeseen events occurring, the HCL has been postponed due to lack of interest.

What's your plan for the HCL, Valanora? You had 24 or 25 clubs signed up three two months ago, which does seem like enough interest to me.

Also, do you plan on bringing back the WJHC at some point? No WJHC or HCL leaves us with only the WCoH as a relevant international hockey tournament, which kind of sucks for those of us who enjoy hockey more than other sports.

[Vyinta]

WCoH 31 signups are open

Only two users received nominations for World Cup Presidents; Valanora and Elejamie, with only Valanora receiving the required two nominations to be put into the Presidential position. As a result, Valanora shall be awarded the Presidency and Elejamie will be awarded the Vice Presidency.

[Valanora]

Due to unforeseen events occurring, the HCL has been postponed due to lack of interest.

What's your plan for the HCL, Valanora? You had 24 or 25 clubs signed up three two months ago, which does seem like enough interest to me.

Also, do you plan on bringing back the WJHC at some point? No WJHC or HCL leaves us with only the WCoH as a relevant international hockey tournament, which kind of sucks for those of us who enjoy hockey more than other sports.

I'll be looking at the interest levels post the WCoH and see if more than just three or four users are interested and willing to commit to it. If they are not, the HCL will continue to be on a hiatus. As for the WJHC, I never had anything to do with that, you'll have to ask those who were running it.

[Esparmuran]

Err, maybe I'm missing something here, but we kind of already had the 31st WCoH? You mean the 32nd?

[Elejamie]

WCoH 31 signups are open

Only two users received nominations for World Cup Presidents; Valanora and Elejamie, with only Valanora receiving the required two nominations to be put into the Presidential position. As a result, Valanora shall be awarded the Presidency and Elejamie will be awarded the Vice Presidency.

Fine by me, considering that, had I actually won the presidency, I would've given it to whoever the runner up was and carried on the role of vice president. Mostly because I don't think I'm ready or capable of actually running everything.

Err, maybe I'm missing something here, but we kind of already had the 31st WCoH? You mean the 32nd?

I'll announce that I'm in and then I'll get to work on fixing that.

EDIT: Done. I've also updated the signups to me.

[Neu Engollon]

I'll be looking at the interest levels post the WCoH and see if more than just three or four users are interested and willing to commit to it. If they are not, the HCL will continue to be on a hiatus.

I never knew it existed. I'd be interested in submitting teams.

[Kep]

Heya, if anyone is interested in college and youth hockey and wants to see its inaugural season, NSCYH is slated to start tmrw., given Qasden is online.

Tomoroow is pushed back ill past Christmas at worst, next week at best. Due to the problems my computer suddenly has.
Sowwy, ;~;
( This be Kep )

Still on hold ;~;

[Elejamie]

A couple of quick questions:

1. When's the RP cut-off time for each game? I know that there's a day off in between each game so we've got enough time to get RPs up, but I still think it might be helpful to know when we have to get them up by.
2. Is anyone up for a pre-tournament friendly? Granted we might need to find a third person to scorinate but it's still something we can put in our RPs (and good practice for our players to warm up their skills).

[-Anthor-]

A couple of quick questions:

1. When's the RP cut-off time for each game? I know that there's a day off in between each game so we've got enough time to get RPs up, but I still think it might be helpful to know when we have to get them up by.
2. Is anyone up for a pre-tournament friendly? Granted we might need to find a third person to scorinate but it's still something we can put in our RPs (and good practice for our players to warm up their skills).

I'm down for a pre-tournamnet friendly ^_^ Gotta get revenge from last time around

[Elejamie]

A couple of quick questions:

1. When's the RP cut-off time for each game? I know that there's a day off in between each game so we've got enough time to get RPs up, but I still think it might be helpful to know when we have to get them up by.
2. Is anyone up for a pre-tournament friendly? Granted we might need to find a third person to scorinate but it's still something we can put in our RPs (and good practice for our players to warm up their skills).

I'm down for a pre-tournamnet friendly ^_^ Gotta get revenge from last time around

And if you don't get revenge in the pre-tourney friendly, we've both been drawn into Group D so maybe you'll get it there.

But yeah, I'm down with that. Just need to find someone to scorinate and we should both be good to go. Don't know if you want to do home and away legs or just the one game but, either way, it should be fun.

[Qasden]

I'm down for a pre-tournamnet friendly ^_^ Gotta get revenge from last time around

And if you don't get revenge in the pre-tourney friendly, we've both been drawn into Group D so maybe you'll get it there.

But yeah, I'm down with that. Just need to find someone to scorinate and we should both be good to go. Don't know if you want to do home and away legs or just the one game but, either way, it should be fun.

Top of the morning, to ya! Just lmk when y'all are all set and I'll get it done in a jiffy.

[Novaya Zemlya]

Question: are the new rankings available somewhere?

I'd be interested in a couple of friendlies as well, provided we can find some rankings.

Maybe we should use the Ice hockey friendly scheduler thread to avoid cluttering this thread.

[Valanora]

A couple of quick questions:

1. When's the RP cut-off time for each game? I know that there's a day off in between each game so we've got enough time to get RPs up, but I still think it might be helpful to know when we have to get them up by.
2. Is anyone up for a pre-tournament friendly? Granted we might need to find a third person to scorinate but it's still something we can put in our RPs (and good practice for our players to warm up their skills).

Cutoff will generally be evenings to late night CST, there is no exact "window" as my work has rotating shifts that vary per week.

As for the ranks, they are here.

[-Anthor-]

I'm down for a pre-tournamnet friendly ^_^ Gotta get revenge from last time around

And if you don't get revenge in the pre-tourney friendly, we've both been drawn into Group D so maybe you'll get it there.

But yeah, I'm down with that. Just need to find someone to scorinate and we should both be good to go. Don't know if you want to do home and away legs or just the one game but, either way, it should be fun.

I swear, the Warriors will reap vengeance! xD

Home and away legs work fine, will give me and you plenty to RP about. And yes, I quite agree, it shall be fun.

[Elejamie]

A couple of quick questions:

1. When's the RP cut-off time for each game? I know that there's a day off in between each game so we've got enough time to get RPs up, but I still think it might be helpful to know when we have to get them up by.
2. Is anyone up for a pre-tournament friendly? Granted we might need to find a third person to scorinate but it's still something we can put in our RPs (and good practice for our players to warm up their skills).

Cutoff will generally be evenings to late night CST, there is no exact "window" as my work has rotating shifts that vary per week.

As for the ranks, they are here.

Alright, thanks Val. Sorry, I just wanted a vague idea of when I should have everything done and up by.

Question: are the new rankings available somewhere?

I'd be interested in a couple of friendlies as well, provided we can find some rankings.

Maybe we should use the Ice hockey friendly scheduler thread to avoid cluttering this thread.

Agreed. I just thought I should bring up friendlies just in case there was anyone out there who was interested.

And if you don't get revenge in the pre-tourney friendly, we've both been drawn into Group D so maybe you'll get it there.

But yeah, I'm down with that. Just need to find someone to scorinate and we should both be good to go. Don't know if you want to do home and away legs or just the one game but, either way, it should be fun.

I swear, the Warriors will reap vengeance! xD

Home and away legs work fine, will give me and you plenty to RP about. And yes, I quite agree, it shall be fun.

Alright, then. I'll send Qasden a TG once I've gotten this message up letting them know we're both ready. And once the results are up, just send me a TG if you need any details (like where the match was played, who scored, who assisted, who got penalties, etc.).

[Lisander]

Correct if I'm wrong. Valanora have not posted any information about arenas, hosting the teams and national structure. So the WCoH is played in home-away system, right?

[Elejamie]

Correct if I'm wrong. Valanora have not posted any information about arenas, hosting the teams and national structure. So the WCoH is played in home-away system, right?

The group stage games are single round robin. The elimination stage games are best of three (except for the final, that's best of five); if you make it that far and if you want to, you could RP them as home and away, even if Val doesn't scorinate them as such.

P.S. I don't know if you've received my TG, Qasden, but if you haven't then I'm just letting you know that -Anthor- and I are ready for you to scorinate our friendlies.

P.P.S. If you want to, Novaya Zemlya, I'll play a friendly against you.

[Valanora]

Correct if I'm wrong. Valanora have not posted any information about arenas, hosting the teams and national structure. So the WCoH is played in home-away system, right?

The entire tournament takes place in Valanora, I just don't have any named arenas outside of one, so I don't post the IC info for the WCoH when I host it.

Edit: For the sake of IC continuity, I've added IC info with arenas.

[Savojarna]

Hello everyone! Could someone do me a favour and point me to either a hockey kitmaker or to a good template for hockey kits? I just noticed Savojarna has nothing, and while I liked the Ficiscia design, I always thought the template I had used was pretty shitty (and I also don't have it saved on this laptop, nor would I know where I found it). Thanks in advance, and good luck for WCoH everyone! Well, maybe except those in my group

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As for the WJHC, I never had anything to do with that, you'll have to ask those who were running it.

Could said person(s) who was/were running it raise their heads? As NZE indicated earlier, some people are not much into football/US sports, and it would be nice to have more hockey going on, especially in winter. Now I don't know what the schedule is going to be with the Olympics and WC77, but if it allows it, I'd be interested in getting into hosting stuff this size and may consider bidding if there is interest to restart WJHC.

Yes, I know I am not in the best position to host concerning experience or the fact I blew off the skiing thing I talked about a few months ago, but this was due to the pile of work Maastricht dumped onto me without warning. By February, I will be back home in calm and free-time-granting Zurich, and if we start soon after WCoH, it'd be in my holiday for about 75% of the tournament, and I presume that the KO rounds would be less work anyway given the fact that a majority of teams will be out of the competition by then

[Nova Anglicana]

Hello everyone! Could someone do me a favour and point me to either a hockey kitmaker or to a good template for hockey kits? I just noticed Savojarna has nothing, and while I liked the Ficiscia design, I always thought the template I had used was pretty shitty (and I also don't have it saved on this laptop, nor would I know where I found it). Thanks in advance, and good luck for WCoH everyone! Well, maybe except those in my group

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As for the WJHC, I never had anything to do with that, you'll have to ask those who were running it.

Could said person(s) who was/were running it raise their heads? As NZE indicated earlier, some people are not much into football/US sports, and it would be nice to have more hockey going on, especially in winter. Now I don't know what the schedule is going to be with the Olympics and WC77, but if it allows it, I'd be interested in getting into hosting stuff this size and may consider bidding if there is interest to restart WJHC.

Yes, I know I am not in the best position to host concerning experience or the fact I blew off the skiing thing I talked about a few months ago, but this was due to the pile of work Maastricht dumped onto me without warning. By February, I will be back home in calm and free-time-granting Zurich, and if we start soon after WCoH, it'd be in my holiday for about 75% of the tournament, and I presume that the KO rounds would be less work anyway given the fact that a majority of teams will be out of the competition by then

Can't help you with the template, but Quebec was heavily involved with the WJHC. It's something I'd like to revive/participate in again as well, as it allows me to create future players for my NT.

[Northern Sunrise Islands]

Hello everyone! Could someone do me a favour and point me to either a hockey kitmaker or to a good template for hockey kits? I just noticed Savojarna has nothing, and while I liked the Ficiscia design, I always thought the template I had used was pretty shitty (and I also don't have it saved on this laptop, nor would I know where I found it). Thanks in advance, and good luck for WCoH everyone! Well, maybe except those in my group

'sup

[Valanora]

Host announcement

There is a small chance of the WCoH not being scorinated tomorrow due to me being out of town. If it is not, then matchday 3 will be scorinated on the next schedule matchday and the entire schedule moved back.

[Kaboomlandia]

Elejamie, in what world is 5-4 a "blowout"?