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Shaping Your Roster:
It's important to have a roster, not only because it helps you write about your team but also because it provides a platform for others to write about the results too, with the ability to reference opposition. Rosters help improve the World Cup Qualifying experience for everyone, and so we would like to really encourage all participating teams to provide a roster.
The minimum expectations for a roster is a list of eleven players, ideally with positions, to tell us who starts for your team. Reserves and substitutes are also strongly recommended, because they are important in telling the story of the game. This can also be listed by position, but however you shape it is your choice. We'd also suggest including your manager; RPs can then reference them on the touchline too. Some nations go above and beyond this and include other staff members; if you're feeling ambitious.
Information about where teams will be playing the game is also useful - be it one stadium or multiple. This is where some of your qualifying games will be taking place - shown by games in which your team is listed first - so information regarding these venues is helpful.
Additionally to this, we'd suggest you tell us a bit about your tactics, or how your team plays. Are you very possession based? All about the counter attack? Or does your team have a relentlessly high pressing strategy? It could even be more far-reaching and different than these tactics. But it is helpful to let others know - formations and descriptors can be useful. If you're up for it, national information and background, traditions, historical achievements of the team, team kits, info about fans, or just any other information you feel may be of use to your opponent can be included.
Feel free to check out other nation's rosters for inspiration and ideas on how to structure your rosters - the community has a wide array of different approaches and designs.
Style Modifier:
In your roster, we also want you to include a style modifier. This is a number from -5 to +5 which allows us to tell Xkoranate a little more about the strategies that your team utilises, thus this number should reflect your team's chosen strategy. -5 is very much park-the-bus ultra-defensive style, while +5 is extreme attacking. 0 is a neutral strategy. If you choose +5, you're likely to score a lot, but also concede a lot of goals, even some to teams far below you in the rankings. If you choose a -5 modifier, you'll not ship many goals but you'll likely also struggle to net goals yourself.
RP Permissions Box:
You should also include RP permissions in your roster. This tells your opponents what they can and cannot do when writing about your team and the match you played with them. The rule is that the first nation to write about the match is the one who gets to tell the narrative of the game. For example, if you choose yes to 'choose my goalscorers' and they choose striker B, then you must follow along with the fact that striker B scored the goal. This box tells them the limitations they have when writing about the game. We'd recommend at least selecting 'yes' to 'choose my goalscorers'.
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My opponent, if they RP first, may do the following:
Choose my goalscorers: Yes/No
Godmod scoring events: Yes/No
RP injuries to my players: Yes/No
Godmod injuries to my players: Yes/No
Hand out yellow cards to my players: Yes/No
Hand out red cards to my players: Yes/No
Godmod other events: Yes/No
Roster Penalty:
To incentivise the posting of rosters and to create a better experience in roleplaying, we're implementing a roster penalty system for this World Cup. The details are here:
- If you post a roster by MD1, no penalty will be applied.
- If you have not posted a roster by MD1, a 15% KPB penalty will be applied to your rank.
- If you then have not posted a roster by the half-way stage, then the roster penalty is doubled to 30%.
- As soon as you post a roster, any penalty is removed. For example, if you post a roster in time for MD7, for MD1-6 you would have had a 15% KPB penalty, but from MD7 for the rest of the tournament, no KPB penalty would be applied to your rank.
Thus, to avoid being penalised it is important to get a roster in before the match day 1 deadline, which can be found on the RP thread.
If you have any questions about the roster penalty or anything else, please reach out to Ethane or Taeshan via TG, PM on the Discord server, or on the Discussion thread.
Jared Sednah 
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AC Itotz Zubia, Age: 19
Bul Khungur Miners, Age: 22
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