The United Republic of Delaclava presents...
World Bowl XXXIX
Welcome, all competitors, to the 39th edition of the World Bowl! The nation of Delaclava is grateful to bring the best (and other) teams together for the world's premier gridiron competition for the third time. Forty-eight teams enter this eastern Atlantian Oceanian republic, seeking to take home all the spoils - including the competition's only six-time champion, six other two-time winners, the defending champions, numerous formidable squads, and promising newcomers.
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The teams entered into this tournament and included in the list above may now begin to post their rosters and roleplay posts. I will also post results in this thread as well as keep this original post updated with tournament details. If you have any questions or OOC notes, please either TG me or post in the Discussion thread linked above.
Keep reading for further details on this edition of the tournament!
Format
Group Stage: Eight groups of six, where every team will play each groupmate twice (once home, once away) for a total of ten games. Group standings will be sorted by Wins, H2H, H2H differential, overall differential, then RP bonus. (If a particular tiebreaker resolves a tie of three or more teams, but two or more teams remain tied, the tiebreakers will restart to resolve the new tie.) The top two teams from each group will advance.
Group A
Delaclava (UR)
Equestrian States (45)
Transmondian Commonwealth of New England (16)
Drunk People at the Local Tavern (UR)
Drawkland (2)
Royal Kingdom of Quebec (32)
Group B
Jeckland (UR)
Xanneria (14)
Silver Beach (UR)
Lisander (30)
Taeshan (7)
Saint Kanye (33)
Group C
Main Nation Ministry (4)
Krytenia (76)
Squidroidia (UR)
Martune (UR)
Geektopia (15)
Velstrania (22)
Group D
The Jovannic (UR)
TJUN-ia (33)
Ko-oren (6)
The Sarian (49)
Cassadaigua (11)
Nagore (UR)
Group E
HUElavia (49)
Terre Septentrionale (21)
Alba and Cymru (UR)
Vangaziland (9)
Western Fardelshufflestein (UR)
Banija (19)
Group F
Lovisa (UR)
Damukuni (UR)
Inner AginanaUsordia (24)
Bongo Johnson (55)
Ranoria (3)
Newmanistan (10)
Group G
Torisakia (23)
Northwest Kalactin (55)
Kohnhead (UR)
Free Republics (1)
The Greater Nordics (18)
Sarzonia (UR)
Group H
Allamunnic States (8)
Mathuvan Union (UR)
South Covello (44)
Karditan (33)
Abanhfleft (17)
United Civil Republic (UR)
Elimination: All matches in this stage take place in Delaclava. The Round of 16 will face off group winners against group runners-up, seeded by group performance and avoiding group rematches. The eight losers are eliminated from the tournament. The eight winners will be re-seeded by group performance, again avoiding group rematches, and entered into a double-elimination bracket. After the winner’s bracket and loser’s bracket are completed, the winners of the two brackets will compete for the World Bowl, with the winner of the loser’s bracket needing to win twice to clinch the championship. The resulting winning team is the World Bowl champion, and the resulting losing team is the runner-up. The third place team is the runner-up of the loser’s bracket.
Tournament Schedule
Group Draw: Friday, June 26
Monday 6/29 — Gameday 1: 1v6, 2v5, 3v4
Tuesday 6/30 — Gameday 2: 6v4, 5v3, 1v2
Wednesday 7/1 — Gameday 3: 2v6, 3v1, 4v5
Thursday 7/2 — Gameday 4: 6v5, 1v4, 2v3
Friday 7/3 — Gameday 5: 3v6, 4v2, 5v1
Saturday 7/4 — OFF
Sunday 7/5 — Gameday 6: 6v1, 5v2, 4v3
Monday 7/6 — Gameday 7: 4v6, 3v5, 2v1
Tuesday 7/7 — Gameday 8: 6v2, 1v3, 5v4
Wednesday 7/8 — Gameday 9: 5v6, 4v1, 3v2
Thursday 7/9 — Gameday 10: 6v3, 2v4, 1v5
Friday 7/10 — OFF
Saturday 7/11 — OFF
Sunday 7/12 — Round of 16
Monday 7/13 — Quarterfinals
Tuesday 7/14 — Semifinals, Elimination First Round
Wednesday 7/15 — Elimination Second Round
Thursday 7/16 — Final, Elimination Third Round
Friday 7/17 — Elimination Final
Saturday 7/18 — World Bowl XXIX Championship, Game 1
Sunday 7/19 — World Bowl XXIX Championship, Game 2 (if necessary)
Scorination
xkoranate 0.3.3, SQIS formula, IFAF overtime, xkoranate-style (additive) style modifiers. Home advantage will be applied for the group stage, but not the knockout stage.
RP cutoff window 11pm-12am US Eastern time (0300-0400 UTC). (Note: This means that any given match will take place in the morning of the day after in UTC time. Gameday 1 will be June 29 in North America, but June 30 in UTC time.)
Roster/Roleplay Notes
Your roster may include a style modifier between and including -5 (most defensive) to +5 (most offensive). You may change this one time by telegram only.
It is recommended that you post the following list of RP permissions in your roster, along with a choice of "Yes" or "No" (or a more specific explanation if you'd like) for each item. This will allow you to cooperate with your opponents and fellow competitors when either you or your opponent RPs is the first to RP about your given match. Please respect the listed permissions of your competitors, as well as their roleplay itself if they have completed their RP before you. If you have any concerns regarding this, please contact me via TG or the Discussion thread.
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[u]RP Permissions[/u]
[b]Choose my scorers:[/b]
[b]Godmod scoring events:[/b]
[b]RP injuries to my players:[/b]
[b]Godmod Injuries to my players:[/b]
[b]Suspend my players:[/b]
[b]Godmod suspension events[/b]:
[b]Godmod other events[/b]:
Additionally, please do not reserve a post for a roster/roleplay and edit it later. This will make it harder to track when an RP has been completed so it can be graded. Any necessary adjustments throughout the tournament, i.e. for injuries, substitutions, roster changes, etc.