The multiverse's oldest and greatest regional tournament will be held in Ratastan for the first time! yes, this is the official thread for the AOCAF 45, The competition where Atlantian Oceania's finest footballers and legends will fight for the regional glory in Ratastan. This thread is the place for your rosters and RPs, whether they be short but sweet or extraordinary size RP's with great taste! and also for the results of every matchday. The tournament is open for business, so feel free to begin posting your rosters RP's!.
This thread is exclusive for Atlantian Oceania nations only, and I would request that you don't post here unless you're in AO or if you are a mod who needs to post here while doing their duties.
Before the draw, the 36 nations who will be taking part of this edition were divided into four pots of nine. As hosts, Ratastan were assigned to Pot 1 and after that the Pot was completed by the eight highest-ranking teams left in the remaining 35. Pot 2 and 3 contained just ranked teams and the Pot 4 was a combination of ranked and unranked teams who will make their début in this Cup.
Pot 1: Ratastan (host), Farfadillis, Vilita & Turori, Valanora, Audioslavia, Osarius, Legalese, The Inevitable Syndicate, Ko-oren.
Pot 2: Nellietopia, 95X, New West Guiana, Blouman Empire, Ibex, Schiavonia, Cosumar, New Cloudsdale, Naitpyge.
Pot 3: Northern Sunrise Islands, Furellum, The Royal Kingdom of Quebec, Kiryu-shi, Weimania, Florgania, Greater Watford, Mangolana, Mochria.
Pot 4: Bazalonia, The Hakifao Isles, Semarland, Robsonien, New Drakonika, Western Sunrise Islands, Romorov, Mendoya, Austenersey.
Group A
Ratastan (31)
Ibex (18)
Florgania (38)
Semarland (UR)
Group B
Valanora (3)
Naitpyge (24)
Mangolana( 41)
Mendoya (UR)
Group C
Ko-oren (10)
New Cloudsdale (23)
Furellum (26)
Bazalonia (57)
Group D
Osarius (5)
Nellietopia (11)
Mochria (45)
The Hakifao Isles (UR)
Group E
Farfadillis (1)
Cosumar (22)
The Royal Kingdom of Quebec (28)
Austenersey (UR)
Group F
Audioslavia (4)
Schiavonia (19)
Northern Sunrise Islands (25)
Western Sunrise Islands (UR)
Group G
Legalese (6)
Blouman Empire (16)
Kiryu-shi (30)
Robsonien (UR)
Group H
Vilita & Turori
95X (13)
Weimania (35)
Romorov (UR)
Group I
The Inevitable Syndicate (8)
New West Guiana (14)
Greater Watford (39)
New Drakonika (UR)
The format will be of 36 teams using nine groups of four, best sides advances together with the best seven second placed teams according to the tiebreaker criteria proposed for the tournament will advance to the round of 16. The round of 16 matches will be in base of seeding of the teams ranked first in their groups and the best seven second placed teams (i.e. Best group winner vs 7th second placed team and so on with the exception of the 8th and 9th group winner that will play each other in round of 16) the seeding will be made according the tiebreaker criteria for the tournament and a table will be posted showing the seeding and also the fixtures.
Matchdays will be scorinated with a 48 hours gap between each scorination. Cutoffs for this tournament will be between a two hours window of 19:00 to 21:00 in Salvadoran Time (UTC-6, Without DST), in other times is: 21:00-23:00 in Eastern Summer Time (UTC-4) or 1:00-3:00 in GMT. Fixtures to be added on schedule later.
- Sunday 9/21: Group Draw at esper.net IRC channel #AOCAF45 at 20:00 GMT.
- Tuesday 9/23: Matchday 1 - 1v4, 2v3
- Thursday 9/25: Matchday 2 - 1v2, 3v4
- Saturday 9/27: Matchday 3 - 1v3, 2v4
- Monday 9/29: Round of 16 (Fixtures to be chosen via seeding)
- Wednesday 10/1: Quarterfinals R16W1 vs R16W2, R16W3 vs R16W4, R16W5 vs R16 W6, R16W7 vs R16W8.
- Friday 10/3: Semifinals QF 1 vs QF 2, QF 3 vs QF 4
- Monday 10/5: Third Place match. Semifinal loser 1 vs Semifinal loser 2
- Wednesday 10/7: Final. Semifinal winner 1 vs Semifinal winner 2
Best of luck to all the competitors in the tournament, may Margaret help you and bring you luck for the tournament.