Fifth Annual AVBF Sevens Tournament (2019 Edition)
Hello and welcome to the OOC/Signup thread for the Fifth Annual AVBF 7s tournament. This is an NSRB sanctioned event, and part of the NSRB Sevens Series Tour. Therefore, how well you do in this tournament will affect your ranking in future events of this rugby sevens series. The aim for the series event is to provide a fun, challenging and interesting prelude to the next Rugby Sevens World Cup and kick off the NSRB Rugby 7s Series cycle. For those of you not familiar with rugby sevens, here's a link to more information.
What the heck is the AVBF?
The AVBF is the Alpen View Brew Festival, an annual festival that invites brewers and distillers to compete for top honors for their submitted beverages. It has been held for going on 7 consecutive years, since 2012, in Burgunden, Zurich, Neu Engollon. The Festival celebrates brew culture in the Confederacy, as well as being one outrageous party over a long weekend. As well as brewers and distillers offering their award winning crafted brews and liquors through tents on the grounds and having them judged; food vendors are also serving their gourmet dishes; entertainers, deejays and musicians perform on stages, and other events (besides rugby) occur on the adjoining exhibition grounds such as performance art or interactive travel displays. This year will be the fifth time that rugby sevens has been combined with the festival.
Participation
Any and all nations are welcome to participate in the AVBF Sevens Tournament, though signups will likely be capped at an even number of nations in the range of 24-40, depending on how much interest this tournament gets. A cut off will tentatively be on 23 August with at least 24 signed up, or a higher even number by the deadline will close out the sign ups. Should we not reach 24 players signed up, the deadline will be extended until our target number is reached. Previous ranked NSRB nations are encouraged to get in before the cut off. For those that have yet to participate in a NSRB sanctioned sevens tournament, welcome to the start of your journey and we look forward to your RP. If you stick with it and RP, you have a great chance of overturning some of the higher ranked nations and climbing to the top. The format of groups is TBD based on number signed up.
Scoring and Rank
This event will be hosted using the rugby union sevens function of xkoranate 0.3.3. Those that participated and earned rank in previous NSRB Sevens tournaments such as the past editions of the AVBF and URSA Tournaments, as well as the Sevens World Cup, and sign up for this event will see their previous rank carry over and be counted towards this event. As well, rank from this tournament will count towards future NSRB sanctioned 7s tournaments. Players may sign up one additional account (puppet or main), with a total of two accounts from each player possible. Puppets suspected of a player already fielding two nations will be subject to a GHR.
I will be scoring every other RL day, (except for a couple back to back days, please take note of the schedule when posted) which will allow for plenty of RP time. Obviously, the IC time will still be very quick 15 min. matches over a couple days span. I want to give people plenty of time to RP.
2019 NSRB 7's Rankings
RP
Aside from previous earned rank, RP will be your other main form of gaining skill points for your team. Quality over quantity is preferred. Posting a roster will be rewarded with points as well. RP can be posted to the AVBF 7’s Everything Thread when it appears. Like last year, there will not be an Alpen View Brew Festival thread this year. I have decided to retire that hosting component as it's a lot of work. However, if you would like to RP your players at the festival grounds and enjoying the events, feel free to do so. If you have any questions about how to RP a brew festival, TG me, the host.
Consider this post a signup for Neu Engollon. Please direct any and all questions to me and I will answer them as I am able. I prefer you post the questions to this thread, unless they need to be private, then TG me.
BIG KUDOS/CREDIT: Most format and some wording are borrowed, with permission, from Nova Anglicana.
PARTICIPANT NATIONS
1.Neu Engollon
2. Elejamie
3. Terre Septentrionale
4. Hutanjia (Puppet of Neu Engollon)
5. Aimena (Puppet of Geektopia)
6. Pambudia
7. Abanhfleft
8. Solenial
9. Ouna (Puppet of Solenial)
10. Lisander
11. Alice Bay (Puppet of Lisander)
12. Bolgano
13. Darmen
14. United Civil Republic
15. Greater Vakolicci Haven
16. Natanians and Nosts
17. Kandonica
18. Danurbia
19. Kriegiersien
20. Widovia
21. United Civil States (Puppet of United Civil Republic)
22. Lackedaemon
23. Copper Cuprum (Puppet of Abanhfleft)
24. The Ross Isles
25. New Quomir
26. Khazuul
27. Munnius
28. Geektopia
29. Buevos Aires
30. Riysa
