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Sign-Ups - Bid - CR43
PARTICIPANTS
The signup period for this region-specific football/soccer tournament is over. Do not post in this thread unless you can find yourself in the list below. If you are on the list below, you should also have received an invite by TG from the host, Naixi. If you are listed below and have received a TG invite, please feel free to begin placing in-character posts in this thread. I will post announcements, stadium assignment info, and match results and tables here. You may post a roster, a match report, the transcript of a radio interview, a drawing that a 4-year-old child did about a completely unrelated subject... as long as it is in-character, anything goes. Please contact me by TG if you have any questions... this thread is an in-character thread and it is not an appropriate place for OOC chatter.
This has already been sorted out, but note that participants are limited to a single, declared puppet. I have liaised with The Mod; as host, it was my responsibility to enforce this. As a present and future reminder, always report your puppets on the NS Sports forum.
The following rankings will be used to create pots for the tournament draw, to be found below. Please remember that these rankings exist separately from the KPB rankings used for the NationStates World Cup, though they do partially draw upon the KPBs to generate ranks. As always, please remember as well that these rankings are only part of what affects results. Your roster post, as well as any supplemental roleplay posts, will juice this rating substantially, and if someone below you in the rankings roleplays more than you, or better than you, you might find that rank doesn't determine everything!
Thanks as always to the tireless ESF for her hard work maintaining these rankings.
Post CR43 Rankings
Your roster and roleplays will be graded by me, the host. I cannot and will not provide you any "hacks" that will guarantee I grade your post highly; there is no set rubric. However, I will offer the following advice. Character count in your roleplays is not terribly important to me. Whether or not your roleplays are "on-topic" is not terribly important to me. If you make me laugh or shed a tear, I'll be impressed. If you demonstrate complex world-building skills, or have really fascinating characters, I'll be impressed. If your roleplays are incomprehensible and weird, but go above and beyond with originality, I'll be impressed.
Participants are reminded that your roster will be worth three times that of a roleplay. As such, it is very much worth your while to post a roster, even if you feel you are unable to participate meaningfully in roleplaying the tournament. Furthermore, it's a respectful thing to do for your tournament co-participants, who have a right to know something - anything - about your nation so that they can write their own roleplays.
Do not harass other participants or otherwise cause an atmosphere of discomfort. Do not intentionally misgender any other participant. Do not attempt to doxx anyone. TLDR: just try to not be a dick. It's not that hard.
Do not create single-word posts such as "placeholder," "tag," or "bump" in this thread. It annoys the shit out of me and I will 100% take disciplinary action, such as resetting your roleplay bonus or placing a cap on the size of any future roleplay bonuses.
Participants are reminded that they must place a citation at the beginning or the end of any post that contains AI-generated imagery. While AI-produced imagery is now common on NS Sports, I do still ask that participating nations be straightforward about their usage. AI-generated text, by contrast, will not be tolerated at all. Any discovered use of AI-generated text will be treated as indistinguishable from plagiarism and will cause me to reset your roleplay bonus and place a cap on the size of any future roleplay bonuses.
Your roster post must include the following text box, with responses to all the questions. Please place the box within /box or /pre tags.
RP PERMISSIONS
If my opponent role-plays first they may:
Choose my goalscorers: Y/N
Godmod scoring events: Y/N
RP injuries to my players: Y/N
Godmod injuries to my players: Y/N
Hand out yellow cards to my players: Y/N
Hand out red cards to my players: Y/N
Godmod other events: Y/N
Style modifier: -5 to +5
If you respond "N" to the top question, I will expect you to provide a persuasive IC reason why. Should you fail to provide one, I will permit your opponents to freely choose your goalscorers. You might have plans for this player or that, but this is a multiplayer game. You're expected to play well with others - end of discussion. Also, note that you are encouraged to list a style modifier for your team. A negative style modifier will cause your team to play more defensively, whereas a positive style modifier will take you in the other, more attacking direction. You may omit this, if you like, in which case I will assign you a style modifier of 0.
The Celestial Empire of Naixi is one of Rushmore's most conservative nations. Many economic rights and most civil rights are significantly curtailed or banned. Visitors from your nations will likely not be held to a different standard than Naixese citizens. Your coaches and team administrators should warn your players and fans to avoid the following activities:
1) Do not attempt to drink, distill, or distribute alcoholic beverages in Naixi. Alcohol consumption is prohibited.
2) Do not seek out a divorce in Naixi. Divorce is prohibited.
3) Do not attempt to publish or disseminate written or printed materials in Naixi. Rights of free speech and association are limited, and all press organizations are owned by the Naixese government. Foreign journalists must be accompanied by a government official.
4) Do not attempt to get or administer a tattoo or piercing in Naixi. Body modification is prohibited.
5) Do not attempt to biologically reproduce in Naixi. Sexual activity is relatively unregulated, but pregnancies are not permitted. (The government feels that all new children must have their genetic makeup created and controlled by the state, and all babies are now grown in vats administered by the powerful Naixese Genome Project.)
There are dozens of other restrictive laws your characters may run afoul of. If you're curious whether such-and-such activity is allowed or not, feel free to TG me. Rest assured that I treat these things more like an RP opportunity rather than a hindrance to entry for any rebellious, freedom-loving character. Am I actually going to be disciplining anybody for not obeying these laws? No, of course not. You're free to RP your characters violating as many of the above-listed laws as you like. The only consequence you'll face is perhaps me RPing back at you that the quasi-fascist national police, or some reactionary triad group, are working to arrest or otherwise bother your characters.
One thing you'll be relieved to hear is this: cannabis is totally legal in Naixi. That's right, weed/pot/marijuana is totally legal here, and your fans, coaches, and players are welcome to purchase and use the drug recreationally anywhere they like. (Under normal circumstances, many business prohibit smoking weed in their establishment, but the Naixese state has agitated for business owners to loosen their requirements for visitors' sake.) The CR44 hosting committee have even issued a celebratory octopus-shaped green glass cannabis pipe, modeled after the tournament's mascot, Squelchy, which can be purchased (and used at) any of the nation's venues, fan zones, or hotels.
Reposted from the bid:
I know that people have strong opinions about scorinators, and have in the past devoted A LOT of time to arguing about which one is best. I genuinely just do not care. In the interest of cowardly avoiding any potential disagreements, and in the same spirit as my annoying Discord shitposts in which I select a Brazilian football team to be a fan of, I have flipped a coin to decide whether to use the NSFS or SQIS formula in the latest version of xkoranate. That coin flip determined I should use the NSFS formula. (You can't get mad at me - you can only get mad at Margaret.) I will be applying a -5 to +5 additive style modifiers for each team and will be open to changing style modifier during the tournament provided the request is roleplayed. Third-party scorination of my matches will be requested at all times for any matches involving the Naixi or Stvoto Latoli national teams.
Reposted from the bid:
Once again, I cannot be bothered to care about tiebreakers, but I know other people have strong opinions. In the interest of avoiding the debate, because I absolutely will not be drawn into it, I have thrown "goal difference/goals for," "head-to-head results," and "wins" into a hat and drawn them at random to determine the order. That draw has resulted in the following set of tiebreakers (with "points" obviously coming first):
1) Points
2) Wins
3) Head-to-head results
4) Goal difference
5) Goals for
6) Fair play points (an entirely IC tiebreaker - the OOC tiebreaker will be a match scorinated between tied teams using only accumulated RP and roster bonus)
I will announce RP cutoffs every 48 hours at 9:30 PM US Central Daylight Time. That's 2:30 AM UTC and 10:30 AM Singapore time. I will not be offering extensions under any circumstances. Sorry. (Nothing against extensions philosophically, but I'm an RL dad. My availability is limited.) Results should follow approximately an hour after cutoff.
As explained below, there will be four groups of ten to start the tournament off, playing single round-robin. (For stadium assignments, please see the post below this one that provides IC information.) That means that every group will be running through the following fixture list.
I will be holding a live draw on the NS Sports Discord at 3:00 PM US Central Daylight time (that's 8 PM UTC and 4 AM tomorrow in Singapore) on August 31st. Note that this time is different from the cutoff time! This is a one-off event at this time. I'm switching the time in this case because I don't want to completely cut European-time-zone-havers out of the live draw. Apologies to those in the Asia/Pacific region who I've screwed. (It's a live draw hosted by me, it's not going to be that fun. Or, rather, it'll be fun but only because of how bad a job I do.)
The following pots will be used in the draw, with the only caveat being that the hosts, Naixi, will be drawn into Group 1.
Here are the results of the draw, held on 31 August 2023. The groups below have been scrambled, so you may begin calculating your teams' schedules for the upcoming group stage of the tournament. Precise stadium assignments can be found in the 'IC' post below.
Group 1
Mytanija
Darmen
Nephara
Eastfield Lodge
San Isidro Labrador
Naixi
Ketiou
República Guanacasteca
Rea San Vegas
The Kytler Peninsulae
Group 2
Pasarga
Southwest Eastnorth
Isle Noire
Tikariot
Græntfjall
Valladares
Glazgo
Nyowani Kitara
Gatchingerrak Union
Polar Islandstates
Group 3
Cabo Azure
Olastor
Thibaea
Stvoto Latoli
Gnejs
Elmyia
Sargossa
Schutzenphalia and West Ruhntuhnkuhnland
Astograth
Captina Island
Group 4
Eura
Aerágny
Yuezhou
Norrhem
Pridnestrovia
Oberour Ar Moro
Cassadaigua
The Askari Union
Zenic
Savojarna
Octofinal 1: Græntfjall v San Isidro Labrador (@ Sha Dadao in Qiawutian)
Octofinal 2: Eura v Gnejs (@ Paodao Shuibian in Qiawutian)
Octofinal 3: Naixi v Stvoto Latoli (@ Sha Dadao in Qiawutian)
Octofinal 4: Tikariot v Oberour Ar Moro (@ Paodao Shuibian in Qiawutian)
Octofinal 5: Cassadaigua v Nyowani Kitara (@ Huangse Migong in Chumeichang)
Octofinal 6: Sargossa v Nephara (@ Xuanwuyan Zhu in Chumeichang)
Octofinal 7: Cabo Azure v Yuezhou (@ Huangse Migong in Chumeichang)
Octofinal 8: Mytanija v Glazgo (@ Xuanwuyan Zhu in Chumeichang)
Quarterfinal 1: Winner Octofinal 1 v Winner Octofinal 2 (@ Sha Dadao in Qiawutian)
Quarterfinal 2: Winner Octofinal 3 v Winner Octofinal 4 (@ Sha Dadao in Qiawutian)
Quarterfinal 3: Winner Octofinal 5 v Winner Octofinal 6 (@ Huangse Migong in Chumeichang)
Quarterfinal 4: Winner Octofinal 7 v Winner Octofinal 8 (@ Huangse Migong in Chumeichang)
Semifinal 1: Winner Quarterfinal 1 v Winner Quarterfinal 2 (@ Sha Dadao in Qiawutian)
Semifinal 2: Winner Quarterfinal 3 v Winner Quarterfinal 4 (@ Huangse Migong in Chumeichang)
3PPO: Loser Semifinal 1 v Loser Semifinal 2 (@ Huangse Migong in Chumeichang)
Final: Winner Semifinal 1 v Winner Semifinal 2 (@ Sha Dadao in Qiawutian)