It's people skiing, very fast, while wearing brightly coloured skin-tight one-piece race suits. How can that possibly go wrong?
Please see also the discussion thread, where any questions or OOC comments should be directed. The following links give more information about the real-world competition and sport this is based on:
FIS Alpine Skiing
The IOC's explanation
The BBC takes a stab too
The events
There are 4 disciplines, which differ mainly in the distance between each gate that a skier must ski through or be disqualified. Consequently, they emphasise speed and technique to differing degrees, with speed being more important in downhill and technique more important in slalom (though perfect technique will do you no good if you take an hour to get through the course):
Speed
Downhill
Super-G
Giant Slalom
Slalom
Technical
The fifth event is super combined, which is an event made up of a super-G race and a slalom race, with times from each run being added together to give the final time.
Competition format
Trophies will be awarded for the champion in each discipline and the super combined. Championship points will be awarded to the top 30 based on placements for each race as follows:
Pos Pts
1 100
2 80
3 60
4 50
5 45
6 40
7 36
8 32
9 29
10 26
11 24
12 22
13 20
14 18
15 16
16 15
17 14
18 13
19 12
20 11
21 10
22 9
23 8
24 7
25 6
26 5
27 4
28 3
29 2
30 1
How to enter
List the skiers who will be representing your nation in the ASWC, with separate lists for male and female skiers. Each skier should be rated from 0 to 10 for speed (S) and technical skill (T), with a maximum of 10 points in total. Each skier can also have a specified specialty discipline which will give them a bonus in those events. Indicate which events the skier will be taking part in using the following codes:
DH - downhill
SG - super-G
GS - giant slalom
SL - slalom
SC - super combined
While you can send as many or as few skiers as you want, you may enter a maximum of 5 skiers into each discipline.
Example signup: to avoid confusion, PLEASE USE THIS FORMAT AS EXACTLY AS POSSIBLE!
Men
Buddy Milliner - S7 T3 - DH* SG GS SL SC
Bobby Dix - S8 T1 - DH SG
Women
Kay Vandertramp - S2 T8 - SL*
In this example, Milliner has a speed rating of 7 and a technical rating of 3, has been entered into all 5 disciplines, and his specialty is downhill. Dix has been entered into downhill and super-G, but doesn't have a specialty. Vandertramp is a slalom specialist with a speed of 2 and technical rating of 8.
Submitting a venue
We will, of course, need mountains to hold the events on. Each nation can host one of each discipline, for now, so you can submit one ski area to have all 5 events, 5 ski areas to hold one event each, or some other combination. I will come up with a schedule to suit the competition's needs.
At the bare minimum, I will need the name of the ski area and the events it can host. However, feel free to give stats like elevation, annual snowfall, snowpack stability, density of après bars, wildlife (one of my local mountains advertises the comforting thought that over 60 black bears live in the area), a description of the downhill course, the brand of ski gates used, etc.
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