NSCAA 8 - Signups

[Ceni]

I'm dropping this. I don't have time for this.

Too bad. Your teams will still be entered.

(On a related note, you're confirming my decision not to choose you as a host.)

[Reploid Productions]

I'm dropping this. I don't have time for this.

Too bad. Your teams will still be entered.

No. They will not be.

The one golden rule of Nationstates roleplay is "You do not have to play with anyone you do not want to." Musterfield has clearly stated they do not wish to participate. You have no right or authority to try to force another player to participate in your roleplay. If he doesn't want to play, he doesn't have to play. If you don't want to play with him, you do not have to play with him. But if he says "I'm not participating", you do not get to tell him "I'm not letting you quit." If he decides to quit, the only thing you are allowed to do is let him leave. Period. Attempting to force him to participate after he has stated he does not wish to is harassment, and as such a violation of the site rules.


~Evil Forum Empress Rep Prod the Ninja Mod
~She who wields the Banhammer; master of the mighty moderation no-dachi Kiritateru Teikoku

[Stacramon]

Too bad. Your teams will still be entered.

No. They will not be.

The one golden rule of Nationstates roleplay is "You do not have to play with anyone you do not want to." Musterfield has clearly stated they do not wish to participate. You have no right or authority to try to force another player to participate in your roleplay. If he doesn't want to play, he doesn't have to play. If you don't want to play with him, you do not have to play with him. But if he says "I'm not participating", you do not get to tell him "I'm not letting you quit." If he decides to quit, the only thing you are allowed to do is let him leave. Period. Attempting to force him to participate after he has stated he does not wish to is harassment, and as such a violation of the site rules.


~Evil Forum Empress Rep Prod the Ninja Mod
~She who wields the Banhammer; master of the mighty moderation no-dachi Kiritateru Teikoku

Savage

[Newmanistan]

Per the mod ruling above, The Royal Conference will be scorinated as an 11-team conference. 45 minutes until my cutoff, and I need to get these set up in xkoranate at this time.


EDIT: This decision is on hold. As I see a second opinion request in moderation.
EDIT 2: Scorination of my conferences first set of games will occur tomorrow at this time, instead of today. Hopefully we can get this straightened out.

[Newmanistan]

Musterfield, just so you know, it is customary to allow someone 24 hours to provide a response to a question online before complaining about a lack of response. That's just a lesson of life for you, and not exclusive to NS Sports. On a forum like this, I would allow even a longer period of time.

Ceni replied to the more pressing matter first, which was the problem of a school in two conferences. That would have required him to research and fix. Five minutes after his response to that issue, you withdraw. As for why he didn't pick you as a host, I cannot answer that, but I would have looked up your spotty performance in the NSCYH and also not selected you had I been hosting this, which I have in the past.

With the exception of Valanora, I have on NS Sports longer then anyone else here in NSCAA 8. In that time, I have seen nations not get off to a smooth start, which is where you are now. You can change that, and we'd love to have you be a long time player. But that will start in realizing we are a community, and no one is ever entitled to host anything. Ceni made his decision, and in this community, that needs to be accepted. Please think about where you are heading. And most importantly, remember just like you have a real life and far more greater things going in your life then a game within a game..... so does everyone else on NS Sports.

[Musterfield]

I think it would be great if you accepted my compromise or let my teams withdraw, put a rule on further sports roleplays that you can't withdraw after groups are drawn (so something like this doesn't happen again), then everyone forgets this ever happened.

[Ceni]

Newmanistan hit the nail right on the head. I am a person. I have a life outside NationStates. It's called school. It makes people busy.

The reason why I responded to LukakuLaw first is that scorination was impending in a couple of hours, and I wanted to make sure I could contact all the parties involved so that it could proceed smoothly. You never gave me a chance to respond to your question by pre-emptively withdrawing. After your running to moderation complaining, I felt that trying to get the event to run smoothly was also a priority.

Now, the reason why I didn't select you as a host is because I didn't have faith in your scorination abilities. You haven't even run a successful newswire, and the one tournament you did host was not completed. Other hosts wee left out because I felt the community did not have faith in their scorination either.

Now, I do apologize if I ruffled a little feathers here, but my decision not to let you host stands. Especially since you now profess you have "no time" to do so.

[Musterfield]

Newmanistan hit the nail right on the head. I am a person. I have a life outside NationStates. It's called school. It makes people busy.

The reason why I responded to LukakuLaw first is that scorination was impending in a couple of hours, and I wanted to make sure I could contact all the parties involved so that it could proceed smoothly. You never gave me a chance to respond to your question by pre-emptively withdrawing. After your running to moderation complaining, I felt that trying to get the event to run smoothly was also a priority.

Now, the reason why I didn't select you as a host is because I didn't have faith in your scorination abilities. You haven't even run a successful newswire, and the one tournament you did host was not completed. Other hosts wee left out because I felt the community did not have faith in their scorination either.

Now, I do apologize if I ruffled a little feathers here, but my decision not to let you host stands. Especially since you now profess you have "no time" to do so.

Ohh, I didn't know you had to have a successful newswire to host! I have done a good job hosting in the other tournament. im waiting for the other host to post his scores in that.

[Ceni]

My mates on IRC tell me there is a compromise in the offing. I am willing to accept a compromise that has the exact same team names and the same country with the explanation that the players are imposters. And I would very much like this incident to be forgotten.

And also - newswires show that you know what you're doing, basically. They're usually a good entrance to hosting since you won't be affecting other users.

[Musterfield]

My mates on IRC tell me there is a compromise in the offing. I am willing to accept a compromise that has the exact same team names and the same country with the explanation that the players are imposters. And I would very much like this incident to be forgotten.

And also - newswires show that you know what you're doing, basically. They're usually a good entrance to hosting since you won't be affecting other users.

Not exact same team names. The compromise did not involve that. I agreed to change them.

[Musterfield]

My mates on IRC tell me there is a compromise in the offing. I am willing to accept a compromise that has the exact same team names and the same country with the explanation that the players are imposters. And I would very much like this incident to be forgotten.

And also - newswires show that you know what you're doing, basically. They're usually a good entrance to hosting since you won't be affecting other users.

Not exact same team names. The compromise did not involve that. I agreed to change them.

After further irc chat, I have agreed to not change the team names, but whatever happens in this roleplay is non canon in my nations history, the players are imposters.

[Ceni]

Thank you for that.

[Ceni]

Scorination has been pushed back by 24 hours.

[Elgenstad]

The Fjell and Kyst Konferanse will have the first scorination occur tomorrow on what would have been a break day. The rest of the schedule will remain as is. My schedule in the results thread has been edited to reflect this.

[Chromatika]

The Fjell and Kyst Konferanse will have the first scorination occur tomorrow on what would have been a break day. The rest of the schedule will remain as is. My schedule in the results thread has been edited to reflect this.

I'll be doing the same with my conferences, and they have been edited.

[Free Republics]

As the Blue Eagle Conference was already scheduled to start on Friday, I'm going to stick to my original schedule.

[Drawkland]

The Fjell and Kyst Konferanse will have the first scorination occur tomorrow on what would have been a break day. The rest of the schedule will remain as is. My schedule in the results thread has been edited to reflect this.

I'll be doing the same with my conferences, and they have been edited.

And same here.

[Valanora]

The Woodland and Eternal Conferences will have their first scorination tonight and then follow the already posted schedule.

[Kecrazia]

Just wanted to quickly mention - it's Kecrastat University, not Kecrastat

[Qasden]

Due to RL circumstances at the moment (computer not working properly), matchdays 4-6 of the Full House and Cat Valley conferences have been POSTPONED until Saturday, March 25th, 2017. Schedule should hopefully be normal after today, promise! Thank you for your time, and I sincerely apologize for this sudden information.

[Free Republics]

Due to RL reasons that will prevent me from scorinating on Monday, I will be moving the scorinations scheduled for Sunday and Monday to Saturday and Sunday respectively. The final scorination will remain on Tuesday. I've made this decision to move the cutoffs forward instead of backward in the interest of avoiding a delay in the tournament.

[Newmanistan]

Where do we stand with the Full House and Cat Valley conferences?

[Drawkland]

Check the host announcement here.

Basically I'm delaying the day in scorination but not altering the rest of the schedule. Good luck in the conference tournament and all!

[Qasden]

Where do we stand with the Full House and Cat Valley conferences?

I am extremely sorry for having not posted the scores of the past few match days, and I am shameful for it. RL has been a complete B to me lately, especially in terms of statewide tests, benchmarks, and sick family all around me. With the addition of the IBC commencing and me having a competition next week, I will try my best to get everything up to date as soon as I possibly can. I feel as if I have failed my role and honor as an NSCAA host, but I will finish everything. Expect the results to fully pull up tomorrow, updated and everything.

Again, I am truly sorry and retarded for keeping other matters from scoring these past few days. I do hope that you will all understand the situation I am in. Please, I ask for forgiveness.

[Newmanistan]

Where do we stand with the Full House and Cat Valley conferences?

I am extremely sorry for having not posted the scores of the past few match days, and I am shameful for it. RL has been a complete B to me lately, especially in terms of statewide tests, benchmarks, and sick family all around me. With the addition of the IBC commencing and me having a competition next week, I will try my best to get everything up to date as soon as I possibly can. I feel as if I have failed my role and honor as an NSCAA host, but I will finish everything. Expect the results to fully pull up tomorrow, updated and everything.

Again, I am truly sorry and retarded for keeping other matters from scoring these past few days. I do hope that you will all understand the situation I am in. Please, I ask for forgiveness.

Don't be so hard on yourself, we all know things happen. Just keep us in the loop with it!
Good luck with everything you are doing!