General Sports Roleplaying Questions (OOC)

[Karditan]

There has been attempts at Marching Band competitions before, but usually by the especially clueless type of noob. Gymnastics produce scores out of ten, right? Multiply those by ten and it'd probably be a pretty good representation for Marching Band scores. At least, from the circuit I was in, that's how it worked. Perhaps a bit of tweaking would be needed in xkoranate's files, but if 95X is to be believed, that's not too difficult.

[Qazox]

Now, I don't know anything about football, soccer or any other sport, so be easy on me here. What I do know is Competitions and Tournaments involved with Marching Band. So, here is the general question I've been meaning to ask:

I've been thinking about starting a Marching Band Tournament in the near future. I don't know if anyone else considers it a sport, but I was wondering what kind of system could I use to create brackets and generate scores? Or, if there isn't a system available to use for this, would I have to manually judge the RP content of the competitors?

Color me interested, but there has never been a Marching Band/Drum Corps competition on here ever. This means that there is no scorinator for it. As Osarius suggested, gymnastics would likely work best.

Tried before and I think there was a few on Jolt too, but those might be lost to the mists of the internet.

[Vaugania]

Color me interested, but there has never been a Marching Band/Drum Corps competition on here ever. This means that there is no scorinator for it. As Osarius suggested, gymnastics would likely work best.

Tried before and I think there was a few on Jolt too, but those might be lost to the mists of the internet.

Well I suppose you learn something new everyday. I stand corrected.

[Arcadonisia]

What kid of scores would be generated? (like, what range of numbers would we be looking at?) If competitive marching band has similar scores to another sport in Xkoranate, you can just piggyback off of it.

Scores would range from 1 to 10 (1 being the best possible score while receiving a 10 is the worst possible score.) The final scores would be based off of five categories: Appearance, Musical Difficulty, Drill Competency, Drum Major (Directing skills, overall composure and appearance) and Special Effects (Backdrops for performance, Majorettes, etc.)

[Saugeais]

What kid of scores would be generated? (like, what range of numbers would we be looking at?) If competitive marching band has similar scores to another sport in Xkoranate, you can just piggyback off of it.

Scores would range from 1 to 10 (1 being the best possible score while receiving a 10 is the worst possible score.) The final scores would be based off of five categories: Appearance, Musical Difficulty, Drill Competency, Drum Major (Directing skills, overall composure and appearance) and Special Effects (Backdrops for performance, Majorettes, etc.)

10 would be the worst? I think you'll be hard-pressed to find a scorinator that uses that format. You may have to make one yourself with those guidelines.

[Arcadonisia]

Scores would range from 1 to 10 (1 being the best possible score while receiving a 10 is the worst possible score.) The final scores would be based off of five categories: Appearance, Musical Difficulty, Drill Competency, Drum Major (Directing skills, overall composure and appearance) and Special Effects (Backdrops for performance, Majorettes, etc.)

10 would be the worst? I think you'll be hard-pressed to find a scorinator that uses that format. You may have to make one yourself with those guidelines.

Well, now that I think about it, My score range is odd. Maybe using the score range in the normal way is the way to go.

[Vaugania]

10 would be the worst? I think you'll be hard-pressed to find a scorinator that uses that format. You may have to make one yourself with those guidelines.

Well, now that I think about it, My score range is odd. Maybe using the score range in the normal way is the way to go.

If I'm not mistaken, DCI's scale goes up to 100.

[Gregoryisgodistan]

Is there any way to scorinate a two-legged playoff in soccer, so that if the teams are level on points, goals, and away goals after the second leg, it will play extra time, and if necessary, penalty kicks? You couldn't simply set the second leg on prevent draws and ignore the extra time if you don't need it, because if one team wins the first leg 1-0 and the other team wins the second leg by the same score, you would need extra time and possible penalties even though it wasn't a draw.

[Astograth]

Is there any way to scorinate a two-legged playoff in soccer, so that if the teams are level on points, goals, and away goals after the second leg, it will play extra time, and if necessary, penalty kicks? You couldn't simply set the second leg on prevent draws and ignore the extra time if you don't need it, because if one team wins the first leg 1-0 and the other team wins the second leg by the same score, you would need extra time and possible penalties even though it wasn't a draw.

It seems you're using xkoranate, in which case no, to my knowledge it isn't possible. You can on NSFS, however.

[New Wolfopolis]

Would anyone be interested in a trade-wire thread? That is, if you're looking to improve your team, you could say, "Hey I need..." or "Hey does anyone want..." and you could trade players? Or are there strict international rules limiting the nationality of the players on your national team? I think it would be cool to trade players, but I'd like feedback. Thanks.

[Astograth]

Would anyone be interested in a trade-wire thread? That is, if you're looking to improve your team, you could say, "Hey I need..." or "Hey does anyone want..." and you could trade players? Or are there strict international rules limiting the nationality of the players on your national team? I think it would be cool to trade players, but I'd like feedback. Thanks.

Assuming you mean association football, there already is such a thread.

[Darmen]

And there's also one for sports other than football: http://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=175145

[The Licentian Isles]

Would anyone be interested in a trade-wire thread? That is, if you're looking to improve your team, you could say, "Hey I need..." or "Hey does anyone want..." and you could trade players? Or are there strict international rules limiting the nationality of the players on your national team? I think it would be cool to trade players, but I'd like feedback. Thanks.

Assuming you mean association football, there already is such a thread.

Also, there is a recently established IRC channel for transfers. #nstransfers on esper.net

[New Wolfopolis]

Ah, okay. I wasn't aware. Thanks!

[San Jose Guayabal]

Can you repeat a post used before in other thread in a new/other thread?

[Qazox]

Can you repeat a post used before in other thread in a new/other thread?

Offically, yeah, but it's seen by many as "lazy".

[Farfadillis]

Can you repeat a post used before in other thread in a new/other thread?

Offically, yeah, but it's seen by many as "lazy".

I think he might be asking about RPs... in which case it's a no, no, no, no and no.

[Equestrian States]

Offically, yeah, but it's seen by many as "lazy".

I think he might be asking about RPs... in which case it's a no, no, no, no and no.

Well, he can repeat a post, but most tournament hosts (myself included) will be unlikely to give any credit to the user for that particular RP.

In short: don't do it.

[Liventia]

Context is key, I'd say – I've done it before, but in a majority of cases you're unlikely to get anything from repeating an RP.

[Sammurai]

Any

[Liventia]

Any

You'd get a lot further if you actually put your thoughts into a coherent sentence. Laziness does make people not really want to help.

[New Koln]

New Koln is one of the best countries in rugby in the earth that's why is our national sport most of our internationals scoring to many points in their every opponent. American football is also a crashing sport being the best in the earth winning even than The Community of Walking dreaming which the sport was made.

[Saugeais]

New Koln is one of the best countries in rugby in the earth that's why is our national sport most of our internationals scoring to many points in their every opponent. American football is also a crashing sport being the best in the earth winning even than The Community of Walking dreaming which the sport was made.

This is a thread for questions, not stream of conscious spam. Thank you.

[Vitaphone Racing]

Would anyone have a motorsport simulator for circuit races they could possibly let me use, or teach me how to build it? I'm looking for something which I can use in tandem with lap-time simulation software for a series which would let RPers properly tune the set up of their car for each circuit. This can only produce lap times though, so I need something which could predict races based on a score derived from the lap time. What I'm looking for is something which has a single skill input for car speed, like a value out of 10, an input for car reliability, inputs for driver race, qualifying and ability to finish races and a qualifying mode.

[Barunia]

Would anyone have a motorsport simulator for circuit races they could possibly let me use, or teach me how to build it? I'm looking for something which I can use in tandem with lap-time simulation software for a series which would let RPers properly tune the set up of their car for each circuit. This can only produce lap times though, so I need something which could predict races based on a score derived from the lap time. What I'm looking for is something which has a single skill input for car speed, like a value out of 10, an input for car reliability, inputs for driver race, qualifying and ability to finish races and a qualifying mode.

The excel scorinator that Hodori Motorsports uses sounds like it would cover that. You could ask him about it.