Independents Cup 11 OOC Thread

[Npc West Florida]

I’ll join

[Pripet Socialist Republic]

Y

Puppet here also

[Squidroidia]

Hello, ready for 3rd place again!

[Recuecn]

Would love to make it past the Round of Sixteen again!

[Space]

here

[Kriegiersien]

In

[Murphtannia]

Murphtannia wishes to enter, please.

[New Lusitania and the Algarves]

Joining once more.

[Silver Beach]

Signing up

[Somehow Related to Rarity]

Coming as Twicetagria’s wonderful puppet

IC name in sig pls use that

[Otksarin]

Defending champions here. Bringing Otksarin with me too

Hello

[Neo-Futurist Wyoming]

Hi

We want to join.

[Juvencus]

I'm totally in

[United Hemand Insia]

UHI signs up.

[Rwekazaland]

in

[The Fortem]

We're gonna join, I guess.

[Thea Liters]

We join

[Muralos]

In!

[Port Ember]

REVANGE!! (Or milkshakes?)

[Sharktail]

In

[Vykta]

Vykta joins for an attempt at football glory.

[Havynwilde]

any update on this? rankings? it still fin happen?

[HUElavia]

any update on this? rankings? it still fin happen?

It's still going to happen, just that signups are still open, plus a host bid would have to come up.

[Havynwilde]

say less ill drop sum tn

[Havynwilde]

Havynwilde [and hopefully one co-bidder] looks to welcome forty+ nations to the eleventh edition of the perennial Independent Associations Cup - considered the most-admired championship for non-big three nations. Looking to gain recognition from amongst the Independents and perhaps garner support for what's to come, Havynwilde is proud to unveil its bid to host the IAC11 lacrosse five cities and welcome the world and more to Havynwilde. With a focus on developing the future, Havynwilde hopes to use this bid not only as an exposition for sport but also to discuss and showcase the future in tech, literature and other areas of nations who shall partake in this highly-publicized event.

Havynwilde is one of the smallest nations in the Melayu Archipelago, located in the far north reaches of the region - the empire of endless winter is a rather desolate piece on the greater landscape of the region, a rare puzzle in the greater region - operating within a winter climate for most of the year. Havynwilde has been the more prolific of the nations in the Melayu Archipelago and is perhaps the most well-known out of the big four in the region - being Eraman, Ziwana, Havynwilde and Sharktail. Originally founded as a trading post between Receucian fur traders from the West Pacific, branching into the archipelago, Havynwilde has flourished in the two-hundred or so years since then, growing into...a miniscule nation. Home to around 4.3 million people, the heartland of the country is the north, situated near the large Linkralldr Riverfields, a crisscrossing frozen-over marsh with rivers running through in which the capital Bellymn lay south of the largest river, River Velma which splits the capital on two sides. Elsewhere, other major towns include Easterbridge - really a great suburb of Bellymn, but don’t tell any Easterbridger that! Hvalltr to the east lies the biggest Scandinavian town in Havynwilde, wit 102,000 people, the second largest city; Baywall sits in the Kierven Fjord region, with 850,000 it is far dwarfed by the capital city, Bellymn wit 3.1 million people. To the south lay a frozen tundra, with little signs of life, although people do live there, transportation and infrastructure to the south lay rather lacking - with much of it left undiscovered, however, it is home to large fauna including the supposed Indomitable Snowmen, leftover relics from the Ice Age. And of course, the legend of the yeti - spotted twice - reigns supreme over the land, it notably prowls the south. Supposedly…

A small nation, Havynwilde has a burgeoning obsession with football - operating a seven team league with one team from fellow nation, Springmont, to the west, the league which is ranked 78 is dominated by the Thrice Firm of Avante Leipreachán, Virtus Advernians and Union Forge - however in recent years, the rise of Baywall Athletic has been storied and summarized over the past three seasons. Havynwilde’s clubs enjoy support on the international scale and have a few international achievements including Baywall Athletic’s overachieving and winning the CMFA Champions League ina recent. The national team however, has found life hard, failing to accomplish much during its short tenure. Notably, it crashed out of the last CMFA MAC despite being tagged as possible champions, since then, the team failed to do much during World Cup qualifiers, however building a buzz, it looks to build on some success it had from that time. Domestically, the infrastructure for football exists - largely is a multitude of smaller stadiums splattered through the northern parts of Havynwilde. From the flagship Nordstadion in Bellymn to the Wanderers 3,000-seater ground, Havyish football is largely defined by its many stadiums and quirky designs. Perhaps the most storied is Shamrocks Park - the Shamrock Club have won nine of their twelve titles there and it is one of the most-historic parks in LygaHaven, likely to receive renovations if used. A proposed total of seven new stadiums will be built for this tournament, capable of hosting 35,000+ people each, it is expected if given hosting rights some of these will have temporary seats added which will then be reconfigured and sent to other nations in the Melayu Archipelago given Havynwilde’s extremely small size.

It is expected the project would cost upwards of N$102 billion for the Havyish government to pull off the needed renovations aside from the sporting facilities, with a planned artificial island set ten miles off the coast planned as the showpiece for the IAC 11 tournament, the designed also include massive upgrades to the international airport, excess hotel accommodations and four fan villages which will serve as hubs for them during the entirety of the IAC.

Scorination
If I am chosen as host, I will use Xkoranate with the association football using NSFS formula set on additive style mods, home field advantage will be turned off, however Havynwilde shall have the equiv. Of the home field advantage added as part of their coefficient. KPB will be used to seed participants although Havynwilde andPoafmersia will be assigned to Pot A with codes A1 and A2 respectively to record themselves as host and the latter as defending champions.

RP Bonus will be copious and will favor quality rather than quantity, there will be a sizable roster bonus and sizable bonus for RP challenges I will unveil at the start of the tournament. Similarly to help with visual aides, I will attempt to produce some photo-realistic branding for the IAC11 to assist with the prompts and to help with the flow of wanting to rp.

Finally, an All-Star team of the group stage and All-Star team of the knockouts will be created for added fun if y’all will be interested.

Scorination will be 48 hours apart and will be reported around 00:00am Eastern Standard Time give or take 30 minutes as they’ll be scored with ample time for me to get home from work and read over the rps for the matchday., the 3PPO and the Finals will be scored on the same day as to eliminate an unnecessary waste of time.

If I make it past the group stages, I will find a third-party scorinator not participating in the IAC11 proper to score matches involving me.

40 nations: 8 groups of 5; group winners and group runners-up advance.
48 nations: 8 groups of 6; group winners and group runners-up advances.
50 nations: 10 groups of 5; group winners, group runners-up and 4 best group third-place advances.
Tiebreakers: Points, GD, GS, H2H Pts, HTH GD, HTH GS, 'Fair Play' (ICly - OOCly is RP bonus rather then fair play table)

OOC Info
For OOC information: I’ve rp’d as Havynwilde since December 2019, the user behind this account is better known for Razenthuria or Kep; my recent experience includes being the co-scorinator for the Federação de Clubes de Futebol Independente’s secondary competition, Copa das Confederações, I also score the CMFA Champions League, the CMFA Nations League and serve as Secretary of Sports for Melayu Archipelago. In addition I have co-hosted a WLC (as Razenthuria), hosted the CE26 (as Velestria) and a slew of minor tournaments as Kep.

Proposed logo
Similarly goin the Omerica route of Havynwilde in bolded letters underneath the title card for the IA11. Green in reference to Havynwilde's flag.