DRAWKLAND'S WORLD BASEBALL CLASSIC 48
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Finally, after many cycles of disappointment and failure by Drawland's Base Corps, the Drawkian International Sporting Council (DISC) has deemed it's the right time to host the most storied tournament in international baseball history: The World Baseball Classic! The 48th edition will feature 48 brave and skilled nations duking it out on the diamond, for the right to call themselves champion. Will one of the several WBC dynasties capture a seventh title, or will a fledgling nation break through and claim all the glory for themselves? Only time will tell. Welcome ... to World Baseball Classic 48!
With 48 nations competing in this edition, we will be rolling with an 8 groups of 6 format. Every nation will play every other nation in a three-game series, both home and away, against every other nation in their group. This will amount to 30 total games, across 10 series. For every cutoff, a single three-game series will be scorinated, for a total of 10 scorination days in the group stage.
16 teams will qualify for the playoffs. Each group will send its top 2 teams to the playoffs, with the group winners being seeded 1-8 by record, and the group runners-up being seeded 9-16 by record. The tiebreakers are Wins, H2H Record, Overall Run Differential, H2H Run Differential, and if push comes to shove, a Tiebreaker Game.
Every round of the playoffs, except for the Championship, will be Best-of-5 series. The Championship will be Best-of-7. A Third-Place Series will be held concurrently with the Championship Series (besides the fact that it's Best-of-5 and not 7). For the playoffs, 2 games will be scorinated per cutoff (in the interest of time). Game 5 of any series (and beyond, if the Championship Series needs them) will be only one match per scorination cutoff. See the intended schedule below for a clearer picture.
Group 1
Democratic Publicity Stunts (UR)
Hapilopper (19)
Abanhfleft (11)
Nooooooooooooooo (47)
Pripet Socialist Republic (UR)
Hampton Island (9)
Group 2
TJUN-ia (UR)
Swiaji (UR)
The Greater Nordics (12)
Terre Septentrionale (29)
Devonta (24)
Free Republics (4)
Group 3
The Royal Kingdom of Quebec (29)
Equestrian States (16)
South Newlandia (UR)
Xanneria (18)
Northwest Kalactin (69)
Ko-oren (3)
Group 4
Oscioru (46)
Nova Anglicana (8)
West Phoenicia (14)
Anthor (20)
Kriegiersien (UR)
Daskel (UR)
Group 5
St. Saratoga (21)
Lisander (15)
Cascom (UR)
Sarzonia (UR)
Bolgano (29)
The Sherpa Empire (6)
Group 6
Gekkeom (UR)
Saintland (17)
Cassadaigua (2)
Imperial Joseon (UR)
The Sarian (28)
Mushroom Kingdom (22)
Group 7
Teyniyji (UR)
Chromatika (29)
Liventia (10)
Brooklyn and Queens (UR)
South Covello (25)
Newmanistan (7)
Group 8
Inner AginanaUsordia (UR)
Drunk People at the Local Tavern (UR)
Drawkland (13)
Kita-Hinode (26)
HUElavia (47)
Banija (1)
With the World Cup and other events looming, I'd like to get through this with a little delay as possible (especially considering how it took a week longer than I wanted to get this thread posted). I'll be shooting for cutoffs every day with few breaks. Despite this, if all playoff series in a round conclude without needing a Game 5, that day will simply become a break day, as to keep the schedule from drifting.
Cutoff Window: 10pm-11pm, Eastern Daylight Time.
My cutoffs will likely be towards the back end of this window, but they will never be before 10pm.
Date Schedule:
Each matchday contains a 3-game series between the teams in question. The team listed first is the away team.
Sunday, March 29: Series 1 - 1v6, 2v5, 3v4
Monday, March 30: Series 2 - 6v4, 5v3, 1v2
Tuesday, March 31: Series 3 - 2v6, 3v1, 4v5
Wednesday, April 1: Series 4 - 6v5, 1v4, 2v3
Thursday, April 2: Series 5 - 3v6, 4v2, 5v1
Friday, April 3: Series 6 - 6v1, 5v2, 4v3
Saturday, April 4: Series 7 - 4v6, 3v5, 2v1
Monday, April 6: Series 8 - 6v2, 1v3, 5v4
Tuesday, April 7: Series 9 - 5v6, 4v1, 3v2
Monday, April 8: Series 10 - 6v3, 2v4, 1v5
Thursday, April 9: BREAK DAY
Friday, April 10: Round of 16 - Games 1 & 2
Saturday, April 11: Round of 16 - Games 3 & 4
Sunday, April 12: Round of 16 - Game 5 (Happy Easter!)
Monday, April 13: Quarterfinals - Games 1 & 2
Tuesday, April 14: Quarterfinals - Games 3 & 4
Wednesday, April 15: Quarterfinals - Game 5
Thursday, April 16: Semifinals - Games 1 & 2
Friday, April 17: Semifinals - Games 3 & 4
Saturday, April 18: Semifinals - Game 5
Sunday, April 19: Championships - Games 1 & 2
Monday, April 20: Championships - Games 3 & 4
Tuesday, April 21: Championships - Game 5
Wednesday, April 22: Championship - Game 6
Thursday, April 23: Championship - Game 7
First of all, welcome! If you haven't done any sports roleplaying with us before, please give THIS THREAD a read if you haven't already. Maybe you have participated in tournaments in the past and don't remember exactly what to do, or maybe you've signed up but never posted anything because you didn't know what to post ... and maybe this is your first experience and you're really in the dark! Either way, here's the basic information (assuming you've already read the thread linked above):
To get started, you're gonna want to post a roster. Even if you don't post anything else on the thread, posting a roster will at least help your fellow groupmates make more realistic RPs, as well as get your feet wet so that if you do have the time or inspiration to RP, you have a solid starting point. It can be as simple as just listing your players and their positions in plain text, or you could go overboard and make fancy colorful graphics. Do whatever you're comfortable with, and feel free to look at your fellow participants' rosters for inspiration (just don't steal directly from them - that's obviously bad form)! Once again, I highly suggest that you post a roster, even if you don't plan on participating any further. It goes a long way and it does count towards your bonus in the scorinator.
Now, if you don't really know what baseball is about, try looking at the Wiki article on baseball, so you have some idea of the basics. If you're confused on how to build a roster, try the Wiki article on baseball positions, or look to any rosters that have already been posted. You can even ask your fellow participants (or me ) by TG or Discord - there's no shame in asking for help! Again, your roster doesn't need to be fancy, just needs to have the barebones of players and their positions, so that your fellow nations can RP with it. Of course, if you want to add more information (numbers, age, their home team, handedness, height, weight, etc.), you're perfectly welcome and encouraged to do that. Just do whatever you can manage.
If you're going to post a roster, it's highly encouraged you include an RP Permissions Box. On NS Sports, it's generally accepted that the first nation's RP about a game is the "official" version of those events. If your opponent has already RP'd the match against you and you want to RP about it, you have to roughly conform to what they already wrote (there is some leeway, of course, but that's where this comes in). The RP Permissions box helps other RP'ers know what they can and can't do with your players and team if they RP first. If you have a really specific vision for how you want your team to play, you might want to restrict one or more of these. If you don't care at all what happens, you could just say "Yes" to all of these, or even just put a blanket statement saying you give your opponents full permissions. Copy this text here:
- Code: Select all
[b]My opponent, if they RP first, may do the following:[/b]
Choose my runscorers: Yes/No
Choose my lineup: Yes/No
Follow my pitching rotation: Yes/No
Godmod scoring events: Yes/No
RP injuries to my players: Yes/No
Godmod injuries to my players: Yes/No
Eject my players: Yes/No
Godmod other events: Yes/No
Use DH at home: Yes/No
Style Modifier:
Here's a short description of all these permissions:
Choose Runscorers: This allows your opponent to look at your roster and decide which players scored the runs in the game. Almost everyone grants this because it's hard to RP fully without it.
Choose Lineup: This allows your opponent to choose the order that your players bat in. If you already have a specific lineup specified in your roster, your opponent will probably use that, but it doesn't hurt to specify here.
Follow Pitching Rotation: If you have a pitching rotation on your roster, this allows your opponent to follow the rotation and assume which of your pitchers started in which games. This basically allows your opponent to specify your pitcher without having to ask you first.
Godmod Scoring Events: This allows your opponent to make unrealistic things happen leading to scores. These can range from statistically improbable stuff, like 5 straight batters hitting a homerun, or straight up impossible, like a dragon swooping into the stadium and stealing the ball so the batter can score. If you are strictly realist with your RP, you should say "No" to this permission.
RP Injuries: This lets your opponent RP realistic injuries to your players without having to consult you first. If you don't want that, you could also specify that they can as long as they ask you first.
Godmod Injuries: This is the same as above except the injuries could be more unrealistic, like career ending injuries or deaths.
Eject Players: This allows your opponent to eject your players in their RP if the situation arises.
Godmod Events: Same as the other godmod permissions, except this covers any other events that don't involve scoring or injuries.
Use DH at Home: The Designated Hitter is a unique position in baseball. This permission tells your opponent whether or not your team uses a DH normally (the home team always decides whether or not a designated hitter is used in the game based on their preference).
Style Modifier: This is a number ranging from -5 to +5. Simply put, it's a measure on how aggressive your team is. In some sports (not baseball), this number is put into the scorinator and can affect scores, but here it's simply an easy way to show your opponents how your team operates. Does your team play balls-out, swinging for the fences every at-bat? You'll likely be a positive style mod. Do your players prefer to grind out a low-scoring win, sitting back until the time is perfect to strike? You're more of a negative mod team. If you're a balanced team or don't care, you can always go with 0.
Once you have your roster posted, you're free to RP about whatever you want! Most people like to RP about how their teams perform, giving match reports every day or so about the games that were recently scorinated. You don't have to do this, but it's a good starting point. Some players have posted freeform stories unrelated to the tournament, if that's more your style, or given news about other events in their nations not necessarily relating to sports or the exact games in this tournament. In any case, you can RP about whatever you want! Just be sure if you write RPs including other nation's teams that you check their roster and RP Permissions. If you need any more help, feel free to contact me or any other players here. I suggest you join the NS Sports Discord server, as many NS Sports people hang around there quite often.
For all those participating in World Baseball Classic 48, good luck!