What is this?
A college basketball tournament, modeled after the NCAA Tournament in the real world.
The competition is being centrally run by Newmanistan this year, with the approval of both Ceni and Drawkland. The NSCAA thanks Ceni for his fantastic running of the tournament in recent years. There will be no other differences in the running of the tournament then what has recently occurred.
Who is hosting?
Unlike other competitions, the NSCAA basketball tournament uses a collection of hosts, instead of one single person. Each host will be assigned anywhere between 1-3 Conferences to scorinate; and then when it comes time for the final NSCAA Tournament, they are the nations that will host regionals (hosts are expected to scorinate their respective regionals). The final four will take place at Arena At The Proving Grounds, in Tundra Falls, Newmanistan.
Hosts will be required to use xkoranate, but may choose whatever scale they desire for implementing RP bonus. However, it is mandatory to apply a RP bonus for a roster posted by a nation.
Isn’t this going to conflict with the World Cup?
As stated, this tournament is modeled after the real NCAA tournament, and this is the time of year that tournament takes place. Likewise, this tournament will also take place throughout March, and going into April. So, yes, it will conflict, but its not called “April Madness!”
How do I sign up? (READ THIS SECTION CAREFULLY)
When you sign up, include up to eight schools from your nation, but rank them in order of preference. If there ends up being more signups then expected, I may eliminate schools at the bottom of you list. I will reiterate the bolded part, because last time just bolding it wasn't enough: list them in order of your preference!! So the bottom schools will be the ones you are most willing to leave out if some schools must be cut. Also, the nations at the top of your list will be considered your better schools, and when putting the conferences together, I will try to mix and match things, so that for example, the favorite school of ten different participants are not all in one conference, and are spread out.
Also, when signing up, place your national trigramme after the name of each school. (Not just one of them). Entries which do not do this will be conditionally rejected until they are fixed.
Format:
*Please note that there is no set number of conferences right now. The amount of conferences will depend on the number of sign-ups. These formats should stay this way but are still subject to change if necessary.
10 team Conferences
- Triple Round Robin (27 games)
- Four games per day until the final regular season day, where three games will be left
- Each conference holds a conference championship, which the winner of automatically advances to the 64-team tourney
12 team Conferences
- Triple Round Robin (33 games)
- Five games per day until the final regular season day, where three games will be left
- Each conference holds a conference championship, which the winner of automatically advances to the 64-team tourney
16 team Conferences
- Double Round Robin (30 games)
- Five games per day
- Each conference holds a conference championship, which the winner of automatically advances to the 64-team tourney
In all conferences, scoring should be done every other day. The conference championship will be up to each individual scorer, but I have a preferred format that I'd like to see used in order to end all conferences at around the same time. With ten colleges per conference, I'd love to see the lowest four play on the first day to advance to the eight team playoff, then one round per scoring day until your championship ends. With twelve teams, it'd be the best four teams already being in the round of eight, while the other eight play to move into that round of eight. Then it advances from there like normal. With sixteen times, it'd be a normal tournament. Last editions we gave some flexibility on the format but this year we're probably going to crack down and make everybody do the same thing to make things more consistent and logical.
With the playoffs, the conference tournament champion automatically qualifies for the big tournament. The rest of the teams are decided by a committee made up of every person who scorinated a conference during the season. Each round will be scored by the person who runs that particular region, and scorinating will happen every other day. The final four and championship will be scorinated by the organizer of the tournament, unless a conflict of interests should occur. However be very aware that every effort is made to keep schools from the same nation away from each other in the NSCAA bracket for as long as possible; and to keep potential regional hosts from possibly scorinating games involving their own schools. This can cause some schools to "jump up" or "fall down" in regards to their general seeding.
Deadlines:
Signups will be kept open for two weeks. They will close Sunday, March 3rd, 2019 at around 9PM EST.
If you wish to host a conference or two or three, indicate this on your signup. (if you only want one conference, please specify). Anyone who is an established host on NS Sports that wishes to be a host here can make plans now that they will be hosting something.
This year we're going to try and limit the amount of hosts, in order to limit the wide and whacky range of cutoffs we've had the last 2 editions. We'll still have a fair amount, but we won't have 7 or 8 like last time, hopefully. Also, once the hosts are selected, they will communicate on a common format to use for each conference, so that the amount of matches scorinated per cutoff per conference remains constant.
