Welcome to the roleplay thread for World Cup 94.
Please consider posting a roster even if you don't think you will be roleplaying. Doing so is a basic courtesy to your opponents. It will also help you do better, as there is a 50% rank penalty for teams with no roster, increasing to 100% at the halfway mark of qualifying.
The finals will see 30 teams travel to Græntfjall and Kelssek, but to get there, they will have to beat off 135 other teams. As your mother can attest, beating off 135 people at once is very difficult. So the format will see 15 groups of 11 teams, playing double-round robin (one game at each other's home). For this reason you are encouraged to list home stadium(s) and any relevant IC information in your roster. In each group the top team will qualify automatically, and the 2nd and 3rd placed finishers will enter the playoff pool, with 15 one-off playoff matches deciding the final 15 places. Those not qualifying for the World Cup may still have a chance to compete in the Cup of Harmony.
Qualifying will take place with two matches played every 48 hours, except for the first and last matchday, which are single games. Daily cutoff will be about 2100 UTC. Please do not ask for extensions as being told to fuck off may offend.
We are both believers in the philosophy of "enough is as good as a feast" when it comes to RPing. You do not need to write very long RPs to earn substantial RP bonus. In general, qualities that help earn a good RP bonus are: interactivity (showing you have read others’ RPs and rosters); salience (it is fine to write your own storylines or pursue non-football stories, but if there is no sense at all in your RP that a football World Cup is even happening, it may be difficult to justify absolute max bonus); and good RP etiquette (respecting permissions, respecting hosts, taking bad results in reasonable grace). Please don't use AI text generators, or if you do, at least be honest about what's been done. Please don't plagiarize, from RL sources or other NS players.
All RP permissions disputes should be resolved between players and, if this proves impossible, hosts will have the final word. That said, we will not enforce any "choose my scorers: N" permission unless the player's roster contains an RP explanation of why this permission has been chosen. Our sample permission box will not have an option for choosing scorers.
The RP bonus system will be as follows:
- One third will be based on the average RP bonus you've gained over the whole WCQs.
- One third will be based on the RP bonus you've gained that cutoff window.
- One third will be based on the highest single day RP bonus you've earned throughout WCQs.
Group A
Græntfjall (2)
Ko-oren (19)
Sylestone (77)
Eura (29)
Group B
Gnejs (41)
Chromatika (5)
Squornshelan Remnant States (12)
Pasarga (23)
Group C
Tikariot (20)
Independent Athletes from Quebec (17)
Banija (1)
Delte (39)
Group D
Huayramarca (7)
Saint Eleanor (38)
Vilita (18)
Commonwealth of Baker Park (21)
Group E
Audioslavia (27)
Pemecutan (13)
Kelssek (6)
Mytanija (31)
Group F
Farfadillis (15)
Elmyia (51)
Cassadaigua (28)
Zwangzug (3)
Group G
HUElavia (45)
Turori (4)
Flavovespia (26)
Nephara (11)
Group H
Yuezhou (30)
Brookstation (40)
Tumbra (9)
Valanora (8)
Schedule
27 July: 1v4 2v3
29 July: 1v2 3v4
31 July: 1v3 2v4
2 Aug: Ro16
4 Aug: QF
6 Aug: SF
7 Aug: 3PPO
8 Aug: Final