SSA Presents:
Savojar IWPC Host Bid
Savojar IWPC Host Bid
About Us:
The Socialist Federate Republic of Savojarna is an island nation located in the Northern parts of Rushmore, consisting of three major islands, a small part of mainland possessions which was formerly a colony and around 1400 small islands, of which a majority is not constantly inhabited. It was an empire until 1909, when we had a revolution and the resulting state was the People's Republic of Savojarna, a socialist state aiming to increase its people's life standards and development while working towards communist society. As a result, the 22.8 million Savojars enjoy one of the most beneficial ratios of standard of living to price levels. Water Polo is fairly popular among players, but usually does not draw huge crowds. However, due to the general love of sports in our nation, we would of course hope that there would be a lot of attention paid to an international competition in our cities!
Host Cities:
Sjoedrhavn is our national capital and the biggest city of the nation. It is located on the main island of Vestrholmen and connected to the world by an international airport. Thanks to a new express underground line, you can reach central Sjoedrhavn in only 20 minutes from there. Flights will be offered to all participant nations by International Air Savojarna. Participant accomodation will be provided by the National University of Savojarna in Sjoedrhavn, where training facilities will be provided as well. There are two stadia in Sjoedrhavn, which will host group stage matches and KO games, including the final. The NUS Aquatic Stadion has a capacity of 1'500 people, while the Dynamo Aquatic Centre is the biggest stadium of the competition with place for 3'400 people.
Thorsborg is the third-biggest city in Savojarna and a center of the tech industry. It is also located in Vestrholmen and connected to the rest of the world through its own, smaller international airport mainly used by low-budget companies as well as a highspeed train to Sjoedrhavn which takes about 90 minutes. One return train ride to Sjoedrhavn is included in every ticket for games played in Thorsborg. It is fairly strongly influenced by the army, who has a massive barracks there, and the stadium used is the Army Aquatics Centre with a capacity of 2'100 people.
Pawlograd is the second-biggest city of Savojarna and the biggest city of Russica Savojar (but not the capital). It is a port city located on the Savojar mainland, equipped with the second-biggest airport of the nation. It has direct connections to most Rushmori nations and multiple major out-of-region nations offered by IAS, as well as some low-budget airlines. It is connected to Sjoedrhavn through a ferry, which takes roughly two hours, and by plane. Its stadium is the Denis Krizov Aquatic Centre with a capacity of 2'700 people.
Tournament Format
As of now, we have 19 signups if I counted correctly. Therefore, I'd aim at 20, with 4 groups of 5. The top 2 of each group will qualify for the quarterfinals, from where on we do a single-elimination tournament. In the case of 24 teams (unlikely, because I'd like to lock signups asap), it'd be 6 groups of 4, top 2 and 4 3rd place advance to octofinals. KO games will be re-seeded after each round.
Tiebreakers:
0. Group rank (only for KO seedings)
1. Points (3 for a win, 1 for a draw, 0 for a loss)
2. Head-to-head
3. Goal difference
4. H2H goal difference
5. Goals scored
6. H2H Goals Scored
7. Coin flip
OOC Stuff
Experience:
The user behind this bid has a history of almost two years on NS Sports as Ficiscia and Savojarna. I organised the Neptunia International Sixdays as Ficiscia and the World Junior Hockey Championships as Savojarna. Both these nations also ran domestic leagues in ice hockey, football and handball (Savojarna), and I scorinated domestic Olympic Trials for Ficiscia before.
Ranking and scorination:
The WPIC ranks obv apply, as well as a cumulative RP bonus. Quality > Quantity as always, and the scorination will happen with Xkoranate. Cutoffs will likely happen around 22-23:00 UTC daily.
For any questions, ask in this thread or, if you wanna ask anonymously for whatever reason, ask by TG!
