GCF World Twenty20 Championship XIII – OOC

[Sajnur]

Sajnur in for another group stage exit

[Busoga Islands]

We are in.

[The Grearish Union]

In, of course.

Edit: Confirming the following bid. I'll try to answer any questions that pop up, to the best of my ability!

[Gruenberg]

25 teams currently signed up. Potential formats we are looking at involve 28 or 32 teams, drawn into 4 seeded groups. 2 groups, including whichever group Gruenberg is drawn into, will play their games in Gruenberg (to be scorinated by Grearia); 2 groups, including whichever group Grearia is drawn into, will play their games in Grearia (to be scorinated by Gruenberg).

Each team will play each other team in their group in a single round-robin (6 or 7 games). All ties will be resolved by super over. 2 points will be earned for a win, 1 point for a loss in a super over, 0 points for any other loss.

The top two teams from each group will proceed to a single-elimination bracket (which will include a 3PPO). The tiebreakers will be, in order: points, wins, net run rate, head to head results, drawing of lots.

Scorination will use xkoranate 0.3.3 and the modified T20 sport file used in the last tournament, as well as the super over eliminator sport file if necessary. Style modifiers will be ground-based not team-based (yes, this requires extra work for the hosts to set them before each scorination, but we consider the work worth it to provide IC immersion with scores appropriate to grounds).

There will be a high RP bonus available to try to reward regular RPing. Because cricket can be an intensive sport to RP, scorination will take place with 1 MD every 48 hours.

Previous T20 tournaments have not tended to require co-hosting, but the aim here is to provide Grearia with some experience at hosting, while having Gruenberg on hand as a more experienced partner. Gruenberg has solo hosted several mid-sized tournaments (Baptism of Fire, World Cup of Hockey, International Basketball Championship, Rugby World Cup) and co-hosted a World Baseball Classic; Grearia has solo hosted the Salvador Hills Open tennis tournament. Both users have scorinated cricket previously during GCF seasons/individual tours.

A little more gloss in terms of IC detail will be forthcoming, but we thought it important to get the OOC details up first.

[The Plough Islands]

Signing up again :3 will be another Young Foxes team, so I've got some player generation to do...

[Kriegiersien]

Signing up.

[Liventia]

Just over 20 hours left for any other host bids.

[Vykta]

Due to unforseen circumstances, Vykta must postpone their debut.

OOC: IRL time constraints mean I only have time to really RP in the IBC right now.

[NS Global Cricket Federation]

Signups have been updated, including the withdrawal. 26 signups to this point.

There is one host bid, from Gruenberg/The Grearish Union. The following nations are eligible to vote on the bid:
Ethane
Ko-oren
Liventia
Darmen
The Plough Islands
Lisander
Sajnur
Elejamie
Krytenia
Mattijana
West Phoenicia
Indusse
Busoga Islands
Damukuni

The options are to:
1. Accept the bid
2. Re-open bidding
3. Abstain

All votes should be sent to this nation by no later than Thursday, 15 October, 12:30 UTC.

[Liventia]

Potential formats we are looking at involve 28 or 32 teams, drawn into 4 seeded groups.

As both Gruenberg and The Grearish Union are unranked, will they be seeded as top seeds or fourth seeds?

[Gruenberg]

Potential formats we are looking at involve 28 or 32 teams, drawn into 4 seeded groups.

As both Gruenberg and The Grearish Union are unranked, will they be seeded as top seeds or fourth seeds?

The latter. We will force draw Gruenberg into one of the Gruenberg groups (to be scorinated by Grearia) and vice versa, but as we're both unranked this won't affect the seeding.

[Eastfield Lodge]

Signing up, with 0 expectations of success.

[Pratapgadh]

LET ME IN!

[NS Global Cricket Federation]

Signups have been updated. As Eastfield Lodge and Pratapgadh both signed up after the opening of host voting, they will be ineligible to vote despite qualifying to do so.

[NS Global Cricket Federation]

Voting results:
Accept the bid from Gruenberg / The Grearish Union – 6
Re-open bidding – 2
Abstain – 0

Therefore, Gruenberg and The Grearish Union are elected hosts and have full control over the tournament from here.

[Gruenberg]

Thanks!

Grearia and I will discuss setting things up, but I'm going to jump in to say that signups are provisionally closed at 28. Any further signups will only be included in case anyone withdraws or if we get an even four.

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Signups are now fully closed. An IC thread will be posted shortly.

[Gruenberg]

Closing thoughts:

Thank you to everyone for putting your trust in us as hosts and I hope that, a few minor issues notwithstanding, we did a good job. There was some good RPing and a worthy winner crowned.

The use of style modifiers was variable. I think it's an experiment worth persisting with but perhaps more testing needs to be done to determine the best settings.

Grearia did a fantastic job co-hosting, whipping up some amazing graphics, and was very diligent in all his hosting duties. I really don't consider him the "junior" host in this bid and would commend him to any future tournaments as a worthy host.

[The Grearish Union]

Here's a little note to thank all of you for the trust and faith the NS cricket community as a whole showed in me, to let me co-host the 13th World T20. It has been a beautiful learning curve in some aspects, and a wondrous ride in others.

Gruenberg/Graintfjall/QoD would be the first on the list to thank, for showing utmost faith in me from the get-go, including the point when the bid was first being thought of - even before formulation. I couldn't have asked for a better co-host or a better experience on the whole. Thank you for being fantastic!

Thank you to all regular RPers for making the tournament wonderful to read and follow - even for the neutrals, as we progressed through the matchdays. Grearia has been glad to host all of your national teams, alongside Gruenberg - it has been a brilliant show. Congratulations and commiserations, on that note, wherever and however applicable.

Here's looking forward to more cricket!

[Liventia]

Updated rankings

1	Ko-oren			43.725
2	Liventia		42.574
3	Darmen			37.404
4	Mattijana		36.516
5	The Plough Islands	34.546
6	Elejamie		32.848
7	West Phoenicia		30.788
8	Busoga Islands		22.758
9	Damukuni		22.708
10	Krytenia		19.792
11	Eastfield Lodge		18.914
12	Pratapgadh		18.684
13	Apox			17.982	
14	Sajnur			16.134
15	Lisander		15.114
16	Barunia			14.731
17	Ethane			13.811
18	Indusse			13.459
19	Northwest Kalactin	13.218
20	Teusland		12.185
21	The Grearish Union	11.560
22	Hebitaka		11.366
23	Al Wadiya		9.180
23	Central Shaneville	9.180
23	Sylestone		9.180
23	The Sarian		9.180
27	Rooimervania		7.555
28	Rundel			6.800
28	The Jovannic		6.800
30	Tornado Queendom	5.168
31	Mughals royal		4.788
32	Greater Kamilistan	4.420
32	Gruenberg		4.420
34	Retricoal		3.871
34	Sisdonia		3.871
36	Tulize			3.595
37	Kriegiersien		3.060
38	Deyrland		2.445
39	A Flock of Seagulls	1.019
39	Melbergia		1.019

[The Plough Islands]

Many congratulations to Ko-oren on a second World Twenty20 win - as I said on Discord, you deserve it for your dedication over and above the norm to the NSS cricket scene, and it's been a pleasure to keep bumping in to you throughout the competition. Thanks also to Gruenberg and The Grearish Union for your completely flawless hosting job as well

[Ko-oren]

Thanks to Gruenberg and the Grearish Union for hosting the tournament! Thanks to everyone else for RPing and making this a close contest until the very end. Special thanks to the Plough Islands for plaguing me throughout NSS cricket - this will not be the last we'll see of the Young Foxes, I'm sure.

[Hyperpolis]

Submitting a host bid

[Gruenberg]

As the tournament finished more than two weeks ago, your host bid may be unsuccessful.