Modelled on the RL Diamond League, the GAT aims to bring the world's best – and only the best – together in a series of meets, held across the multiverse, in a number of events but not a full complement as you would expect at a World Championships or Olympics. In other words, more selective and of higher quality.
This season on the GAT, events will be held in: 100m, 200m, 400m, 800m*, 1500m*, 5000m*, 100m/110m hurdles, 400m hurdles, 3000m steeplechase, long jump, triple jump, high jump, pole vault, shot put, discus, and javelin. This is an increase in the number of events from last year. No race walks, relays, 10000m, or combined events will be held. *Meet hosts will have the option of running their 800m events over 800m or 1000m; their 1500m events over 1500m or the mile; and their 5000m events over 3000m or 5000m.
Depending on the number of athletes signed up in each event, and the total number of meets, athletes entered will be assigned to different meets across the season, with every athlete being assigned to at least two meets. If the number of meets registered exceeds the number of planned events for the calendar, a second-tier structure may be instituted with fewer points on offer. The top eight athletes in each of the 32 events will qualify for the Global Athletics Tour Final. As far as possible, no more than X athletes will be entered in an event in each meet, allowing for two heats and a final for the sprints and 800m as well as a straight final for the 1500m, steeplechase, and 5000m. "X" is 10 for field events; 15 for 1500m; 16* for 100m/200m/400m/800m/hurdles; and 20 for steeplechase/5000m. *If necessary, this may be increased up to a hard maximum of 27 for three heats of 9.
Unlike in Season 1, each individual meet will now be held over two days, with sprint heats and throw finals on day one and all other finals on day two. Additionally, not every event will be held at every meet. The following events will be "paired": 200m and 400m, 800m* and 1500m*, 3000m steeplechase and 5000m*, the hurdles events, the long jump and triple jump, the high jump and pole vault, and the discus throw and javelin throw. Non-paired events are the 100m and shot put. Paired events will see one of the two events be run for men and the other for women at a single meet, but never for both (with the exception of the Final). This will help ease the amount of work that needs to be done, given the expansion in the number of events.
SIGNUPS
There are two parts to signups: meet host signups and athlete signups.
Meet hosts
Each user may enter up to two meets. The top tier of the GAT will consist of 12-14 meets and a final. If there is sufficient interest, a second tier of no more than six meets will be created offering fewer points towards the final standings.
Full meet name (e.g. Müller British Grand Prix Gateshead)
Location of meet (Stadium, city)
Middle-distance race length 1: Choose one between 800m and 1000m
Middle-distance race length 2: Choose one between 1500m and mile
Long-distance race length: Choose one between 3000m and 5000m
Additional information (anything you'd like to add, ICly or OOCly - e.g. "this is an indoor stadium", "the pole vault will be held in the city centre away from the stadium", or "the track is of an odd shape", or any information about the country and/or meet sponsor)
Athletes
If you've signed up for the Olympics before, you know how this goes.
Please pay attention and read through the following information very carefully. If there is a problem with your sign-up, it may not be entered and you will need to resubmit your entries.
Copy the event list below. Under each event, write the names of the athletes participating in each event. The number inside the bracket indicates the maximum number of entries a delegation may send to an event. All events being held in the GAT are individual events, and you must give the name of each participating individual on a separate line. (You may enter fewer than the maximum number.) Athletes must be entered in the Name;TRIGRAMME;skill format.
A skill modifier is used to determine how well an athlete or a team performs in an event. For the purposes of the GAT, as this is intended to bring the best of the best together, the minimum skill modifier accepted will be 35, and the maximum the usual 100. An athlete participating in multiple events has a separate modifier for each event. Automatic entries do not contribute to the entry average. The average of a delegation's entries must be 65 or under. Min-maxing will not be possible, as a full entry list of equal 35s and 100s would result in an average over 65. No MMAB will be applied for season 2.
ENTRY LIMITS: In addition to the entry limits in each event, single delegations may not enter more than 50* entries. As there are 32 events to enter, and you can enter up to 3 athletes in each running event and 2 in each field event, you may wish to exclude some events your nation is traditionally weak at in favour of others.
PUPPETS: You may enter a maximum of 75* athletes and 2 delegations per user. Unified teams will be allowed only if each constituent nation of the unified team is an existing nation on NS and is run by a different user. This means a unified team cannot consist of a master and puppet – enter them separately. If a user is entering as part of a unified team, that will count as one of two delegations. Puppets should be declared.
*DEFENDING CHAMPIONS: If your athlete is one of the 20 defending champions from Season 1, they may be entered without counting towards the maximum limit of 50/75, but still within the event limit of 2 or 3 entries.
EVENT LIST
ATHLETICS
Men's 100m (3)
Men's 200m (3)
Men's 400m (3)
Men's 800m (3)
Men's 1500m (3)
Men's 5000m (3)
Men's 110m Hurdles (3)
Men's 400m Hurdles (3)
Men's 3000m Steeplechase (3)
Men's High Jump (2)
Men's Pole Vault (2)
Men's Long Jump (2)
Men's Triple Jump (2)
Men's Shot Put (2)
Men's Discus Throw (2)
Men's Javelin Throw (2)
Women's 100m (3)
Women's 200m (3)
Women's 400m (3)
Women's 800m (3)
Women's 1500m (3)
Women's 5000m (3)
Women's 100m Hurdles (3)
Women's 400m Hurdles (3)
Women's 3000m Steeplechase (3)
Women's High Jump (2)
Women's Pole Vault (2)
Women's Long Jump (2)
Women's Triple Jump (2)
Women's Shot Put (2)
Women's Discus Throw (2)
Women's Javelin Throw (2)
Remember, there is a total limit of 50* entries per delegation / 75* per user in addition to the event limits; defending champions are exempt from the overall limit. Please avoid copy-pasting your Olympics athletics signup, since events have been removed and the entry limits in the field events lowered.
SIGNUP SPREADSHEET HERE – please go to File>Make a copy to use this file.
EDITING ENTRIES AND WITHDRAWING
If you need to edit your entries after they have already been accepted, you must indicate the changes you wish to make in a new post, rather than editing your existing signup post. Edits may be submitted up until the signup deadline.
Wholesale withdrawals will not be allowed once a signup is accepted. On a meet-to-meet basis, for RP, withdrawals may be effected by announcing that a particular athlete has scratched from a particular event at a particular meet in this thread, and that athlete will have their result marked as DNS for that event. This method may not be used for wholesale withdrawals.
The signup deadline for all entries, athletes and meets, is Wednesday 21 September 2022, at 12:00 UTC – exactly four weeks today.
[b]POINTS SYSTEM / FORMAT
At each of the meets, athletes will be awarded 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, or 3 points for ranking 1st to 8th in the final. In events with heats, all other athletes score 0 points. In events with more than 8 athletes in the final, 2 or 1 points will be awarded to the 9th and 10th placed finisher as well; all other athletes score 0 points. This also applies to field events. Should there be a second-tier meet structure, any events held under this banner will award 5, 3, and 1 points respectively for the top three finishers per event only. If there is a tie for any placing, the tied competitors will receive the average number of points for their tied positions.
In field events (excluding high jump and pole vault), instead of the top 8 qualifying for the last 3 jumps at each event, only the top 6 will take the last 3 jumps. The "final 3" system will not be used.
At the end of the GAT regular season, the top 6 athletes in field events, top 8 athletes from 100m to 800m/1000m including hurdles, and top 12 in all other events qualify for the GAT Final. The GAT Final will be a championship-style event, meaning it's winner-take-all and previous points don't matter.
SCORINATION FILES
GAT-specific scorination files, using RL Diamond League-only results, will be used. These files are different from the ones used to scorinate the Olympic Games.
QUESTIONS?
This is the thread to ask them in.
MEET BIDS (currently 22)
Italics denote an event also held during Season 1
- Athletics Grand Prix of TJUN-ia, National Stadium, TJUN-ia City, TJUN-ia (8/15/5)
- Thunder Cup, The Castle, Danvirk, Cordia (10/15/5)
- Fjords Classic, Cordasfjord Colosseum, Cordasfjord, Cordia (8/15/5)
- Meeting de Joongyeong, Parc de l'Armistice, Joongyeong, Quebec and Shingoryeo (8/15/5)
- Duomji Athletics Grand Prix, Duomji Athletics Field, Duomji, StrayaRoos Barrier Islands (8/mi/5)
- Neverend Grand Prix, Stade Grande Olympique, Neverend, Liventia (8/mi/3)
- Meeting international d'Oréan, Grovers Olympic Park, Orean, Liventia (8/15/5)
- Met Trust Darmeni Athletics Grand Prix, National Stadium, Scott City, Darmen (8/15/5)
- Stórfjord Grand Prix, Old Sterling Stadium, Sterling City, Darmen (10/mi/5)
- Billboard Heatseekers Grand Prix, Old Town Park, Billboard, Chartistan (8/mi/5)
- StrayaRoos International Athletics Grand Prix, Pale Athletics Center and Nilvana Athletics Park, Pale, StrayaRoos (8/15/5)
- Soluca International Grand Prix, Estadio Matías Almeida, Soluca, Sargossa (8/15/3)
- 'If You Can't Stand The Heat' Maynard Athletic Meet, The Cauldron, Maynard, Ko-oren (10/15/3)
- Tobteki Solar Iwetabi, Tobteki Stadium, Sathtonoru, Ko-oren (10/15/5)
- Talos River Classic, Olympic Stadium, Nassau Bay, New Gelderland (8/15/5)
- Halcyon—Orion International Grand Prix, Cenial Halcyon National Stadium, Cenial, Ceni (8/15/5)
- Internationale Jovannic Grand Prix, Pax Glorius Stadium, Golda, The Jovannic (8/15/5)
- Athletica Arcjuga, Otjalas stadions, Arcjuga, Kuraita (8/15/5)
- RTC Hawabark Classic, Hawabark Olympic Stadium, Hawabark, Banija (10/mi/5)
- Istria Grand Prix, Istria Olympic Stadium, Istria, Banija (8/15/3)
- Ashcroft Bank Britonish Grand Prix, National Athletics Centre, Quickenden, Britonisea (8/mi/3)
- Kirungabi Itangira Guhera International Athletics Festival, Arène Inganji, Imisozi, Kirungabi (10/mi/3)
- Nykipiflugpuun Ihmyysporttityrnyy, Timantirkaan Sporttirakennus, Timantirkas, Nykipiflugpuu (indoor / 10/15/3)
- Münzenbruck Überlaufenwerfenspringenleichtathletikgebangbangsschwachsteinermopedvroomprix, Olympienstadion Arkangelsplatz, Münzenbruck (8/15/5)
