Sixth Annual AVBF Sevens Tournament (2020 Edition)
Hello and welcome to the OOC/Signup thread for the Sixth 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 8 consecutive years, since 2012. Each edition is held 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 sixth time that rugby sevens has been combined with the festival.
Participation
Any and all nations are welcome to sign up and participate in the AVBF Sevens Tournament. 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 3 September 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, or an even number beyond that, the deadline will be extended until our target number is reached. The last puppet account signed up may be cut to reach this target even number.
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 the numbers 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. As with all NSS 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 in the tournament will be subject to a GHR, and all accounts of that player will be booted from the tournament if proven to have more than 2.
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.
Current NSRB 7's Rankings
AVBF R7's # 5 Everything Thread (Most recent past edition for reference)
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 and is encouraged for the benefit of your fellow players. RP can be posted to the AVBF 7’s Everything Thread when it appears. Like the previous couple years, there will not be an Alpen View Brew Festival social character 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.
If you would like to sign on as a sponsor, contact me. I will need a corporate logo of your IC sponsor. If you want to RP that your brewer, distiller or food vendor is participating in the Festival, also please contact me. I’ll be happy to include you, but we’ll need to have it fit a certain format. You do not need to participate in the rugby 7’s tournament to sign on as a sponsor, food or beverage vendor, or brew competitor.
Consider this post a signup for Neu Engollon and puppet Hutanjia. 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. Hutanjia (Puppet of Neu Engollon)
3. Northwest Kalactin
4. Elejamie
5. The Royal Kingdom of Quebec
6. Hannasea
7. Darmen
8. Natanians and Nosts
9. Terre Septentrionale
10. TJUN-ia
11. Abanhfleft
12. Copper Cuprum (Puppet of Abanhfleft)
13. Nova Anglicana
14. Pratapgadh
15. Boda
16. Commonwealth of Baker Park
17. Kriegiersien
18. The Jovannic
19. Sajnur
20. Lisander
21. HUElavia
22. North Alezia
23. Ko-oren
24. Esportivan Darmen (Puppet of Darmen)
