XIII Winter Olympics — OOC thread

[Greater vakolicci haven]

btw, party is at the weekend. I meant for the invite to have gone out a few days early, hence why I said that the band announcements would be coming soon.
Also, if you want any bands from your nation to be performing reply here or tg me and it'll be all good.

[Amuaplye]

Do RP bonuses apply to specific players, or the whole delegation?

[Dunnes]

What're the rules regarding roleplaying events of the day that the rp is for.

Like can I rp the events leading up to one of tomorrows events? (e.g., the ride to the venue, the warmup, etc)

[Banija]

What're the rules regarding roleplaying events of the day that the rp is for.

Like can I rp the events leading up to one of tomorrows events? (e.g., the ride to the venue, the warmup, etc)

I don't see why you wouldn't be able to do so? NS Sports RPing would certainly allow it.

[Greater vakolicci haven]

Do RP bonuses apply to specific players, or the whole delegation?

I believe they apply to the whole delegation, unless I've been doing something very wrong for a long time.

[Free Republics]

Do RP bonuses apply to specific players, or the whole delegation?

I believe they apply to the whole delegation, unless I've been doing something very wrong for a long time.

They definitely apply to the entire delegation. There's no way any host in their right mind would want to keep track of thousands of separate RP bonuses instead of a few dozen.

[Liventia]

Just a note for those who don't know: in speed skating (not short track), the only event where competitors race together is the mass start. In all other races in speed skating, skaters race in pairs against the clock — not each other.

This is also true of biathlon (except the relays and mass start) and the cross-country 10/15 km race (but not skiathlon, mass start, sprints and relays): competitors start at staggered intervals and it is not first-past-the-line who wins gold. Additionally, in biathlon pursuit, competitors start at staggered times (based on their sprint times) but it's a race to the line, and the first to cross it wins (hence the name pursuit).

Other quirks to note:
• In sliding events (luge, skeleton, bobsleigh), runs two and four are taken in reverse order of the overall standings.
• In two-run alpine skiing events, the favourites tend to go first in both runs, but in the second run always in reverse order of the standings after the first run. After the favourites have skied, the rest of the field then takes the course.
• With the exception of parallel giant slalom, boardercross, and ski cross, all snowboarding and freestyle skiing events are judged, not timed.
• In ski jumping and the jumping part of Nordic combined, the score shown is a judges' score and does not equate to the distance jumped. Factors such as style points and wind speed play a part.

Hope this information helps with your RPs.

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Question for Electrum: Will you run B-finals in short-track for the unlikely (but very possible, as we found out in real life today) situation that more than one team/athlete in the A-final is penalised?

[Ioudaia]

RP invitations:

I've left my biathlon team on the course, just finishing up their practice. If anybody wants a short introduction between their biathletes and mine, go ahead and post, and I'll reply before the day's cut-off.

Also, since I've got more time to RP now, two of Ioudaia's TV crews have arrived: Champion Sports, an all sports network, and the Pentapolis Broadcasting network, a general network. Pentapolis is here to do a show on the young Ioudaian athletes, and would be interested in talking to other countries' young atletes. If you'd like interviews with either network, TG me.

[Greater vakolicci haven]

RP invitations:

I've left my biathlon team on the course, just finishing up their practice. If anybody wants a short introduction between their biathletes and mine, go ahead and post, and I'll reply before the day's cut-off.

Also, since I've got more time to RP now, two of Ioudaia's TV crews have arrived: Champion Sports, an all sports network, and the Pentapolis Broadcasting network, a general network. Pentapolis is here to do a show on the young Ioudaian athletes, and would be interested in talking to other countries' young atletes. If you'd like interviews with either network, TG me.

I've posted with Maria Schtenko.

[Electrum]

Question for Electrum: Will you run B-finals in short-track for the unlikely (but very possible, as we found out in real life today) situation that more than one team/athlete in the A-final is penalised?

Hi, same answer as last year, yes I will.

[Ioudaia]

I've posted with Maria Schtenko.

Thanks! Let me get a reply up.

...and posted.

[Savojarna]

Apologies for those who had to RP hockey/curling matches against me without a roster! It's up now.

[Central Shaneville]

Can I just say as this is like the discussion thread lets say, I'm open to RPing with other nations and as this is my nations first games I think the athletes of Central Shaneville need to get out more and also look around the village xD.

[Ioudaia]

Can I just say as this is like the discussion thread lets say, I'm open to RPing with other nations and as this is my nations first games I think the athletes of Central Shaneville need to get out more and also look around the village xD.

That should work. I'm a newbie NS sports RPer too. Feel free to TG me some ideas for RPing here; I should be availalbe for RPing most evenings this week and the weekend.

[Elejamie]

Can I just say as this is like the discussion thread lets say, I'm open to RPing with other nations and as this is my nations first games I think the athletes of Central Shaneville need to get out more and also look around the village xD.

Can I just say as this is like the discussion thread lets say, I'm open to RPing with other nations and as this is my nations first games I think the athletes of Central Shaneville need to get out more and also look around the village xD.

That should work. I'm a newbie NS sports RPer too. Feel free to TG me some ideas for RPing here; I should be availalbe for RPing most evenings this week and the weekend.

This goes out to everybody but it might be worth doing a collab RP instead of doing back and forths. It's really simple, just TG each other with what you're putting in and then one of you copies everything out of the TGs and pastes it into a post. You can use other ways like if you're both on Discord or you both use something like Google Docs. Or if all else fails someone just asks another person the basics or whatever; it's how Mount Pleasant and I did that romance subplot between Jay Bailey and Kelly Morgenstern back at the last Winter Olympics. Not as quick and easy as simply linking to any previous posts but much better than simply quoting what someone else wrote.

P.S. Fortunately for any rhyming lovers I won't be doing any poetry in my RP. At least not intentionally.

[Ioudaia]

This goes out to everybody but it might be worth doing a collab RP instead of doing back and forths. It's really simple, just TG each other with what you're putting in and then one of you copies everything out of the TGs and pastes it into a post. You can use other ways like if you're both on Discord or you both use something like Google Docs.

I usually use G-docs, but I expected that the RPing with Vakolicci would be short enough that it woudn't be worth doing that. Should we continue with the joint practice, we can plan it out and collab it.

[Greater vakolicci haven]

This goes out to everybody but it might be worth doing a collab RP instead of doing back and forths. It's really simple, just TG each other with what you're putting in and then one of you copies everything out of the TGs and pastes it into a post. You can use other ways like if you're both on Discord or you both use something like Google Docs.

I usually use G-docs, but I expected that the RPing with Vakolicci would be short enough that it woudn't be worth doing that. Should we continue with the joint practice, we can plan it out and collab it.

It'd have to be you who puts it all together, for accessibility reasons I generally go through a thread backwards.

[Ioudaia]

I usually use G-docs, but I expected that the RPing with Vakolicci would be short enough that it woudn't be worth doing that. Should we continue with the joint practice, we can plan it out and collab it.

It'd have to be you who puts it all together, for accessibility reasons I generally go through a thread backwards.

OK. We can discuss it by TG if that's easier.

[Amuaplye]

Wow. It seems my delegation gets worse by the minute.

[Liventia]

Wow. It seems my delegation gets worse by the minute.

My advice would be to stop expecting to win and start enjoying the Games for what they are. An opportunity to show off your RPs, with a side helping of medals if you get lucky.

[Amuaplye]

Wow. It seems my delegation gets worse by the minute.

My advice would be to stop expecting to win and start enjoying the Games for what they are. An opportunity to show off your RPs, with a side helping of medals if you get lucky.

Yeah, I'm super competitive in both real life and in roleplay. I often only see stuff as an opportunity to win, not to have fun like I should.

[Greater vakolicci haven]

My advice would be to stop expecting to win and start enjoying the Games for what they are. An opportunity to show off your RPs, with a side helping of medals if you get lucky.

Yeah, I'm super competitive in both real life and in roleplay. I often only see stuff as an opportunity to win, not to have fun like I should.

I'll be providing a big rp opurtunity on Friday as I plan to do the party then.

[Ioudaia]

*looks at results thread* Huh! The random factor must be bigger than I thought! Despite a few more days of RPing, my poor biathlete did no better in the pursuit than in the sprint.

Ah, well. I didn't expect they'd have much of a chance anyway...

[Main Nation Ministry]

*looks at results thread* Huh! The random factor must be bigger than I thought! Despite a few more days of RPing, my poor biathlete did no better in the pursuit than in the sprint.

Ah, well. I didn't expect they'd have much of a chance anyway...

You can have him meet Oswell. He got a silver medal on that event. He's jogging around the Olympic Village, training himself for the next biathlon event that might happen.

[Ioudaia]

*looks at results thread* Huh! The random factor must be bigger than I thought! Despite a few more days of RPing, my poor biathlete did no better in the pursuit than in the sprint.

Ah, well. I didn't expect they'd have much of a chance anyway...

You can have him meet Oswell.

Maybe. I think he might be heads-down, practicing for his next event.

The result just surprised me. Are RPing, chance, and skill equal factors for the scorinator?