General Sports Roleplaying Questions (OOC)

[Drawkland]

Typically RP permissions have "Choose Scoring Events" and "Godmod Scoring Events." They're two different things. Choosing scorers/scoring events is the default nature of doing a match report RP before your opponent. Godmodding scoring events means you're doing outlandish things in those scoring events (goals kicked from the other side of the field, 500 foot home runs, "immaculate reception" type touchdowns, etc). Most RPers are fine with you RPing normal events with their teams, but the statistically unlikely/impossible occurrences aren't as welcomed.

Ohhh... so that's what it is, I am learning as well. I will admit, for the "godmodding" part, I thought it was not about outlandish stuff and more of "overriding what the other player wrote", thus the godmodding part.

Thanks for the answer, much appreciated!

Yeah, generally once one player posts a match report, the other player is forced to abide by that account. They can add stuff or re-contextualize it (or even ask the first player for some changes), but you're normally stuck with what you've got. Overriding the other player's post is seen as bad form and not really related to RP permissions.

kinda new to RPing do I get all permissions or no permissions if they dont post permissions

Technically if a nation doesn't post permissions in NSS you get free reign. Though it's not very sportsmanlike to start going crazy with godmod-type scoring just because the other nation hasn't posted a roster. They could just be late to posting their roster and might not appreciate someone doing weird things to their team.

[Krbustan]

Does this mean that if competitor posts a description of the match, for example:
"I lost 3-1," the opposing goal scorer named player A, and described my team's performance as sluggish and slow, and that we were no match for his team.
I know I should stick to the name of the player who scored the goal, but should I stick to this competitor description of the team's performance?

[Eastfield Lodge]

Does this mean that if competitor posts a description of the match, for example:
"I lost 3-1," the opposing goal scorer named player A, and described my team's performance as sluggish and slow, and that we were no match for his team.
I know I should stick to the name of the player who scored the goal, but should I stick to this competitor description of the team's performance?

Generally, yes, but you can be more liberal with how "sluggish and slow" you were, or write it from someone with a different perspective of your team's performance. As long as any deviations are logically consistent.

[The Batavia]

Heya, here I am again.

So I've been checking the discussion thread for NSCF (viewtopic.php?f=7&t=72973&start=6200) and well, I'm starting to wonder something: the OP mentioned in the latest post that the everything/signup threads would be open between the 14th and 17th of august and well, it's the 17th where I am. Now I'm assuming that IRL stuff probably got in the way (they did mention that they were leaving on vacation until next month in the post. Is this normal and should I not be concerned? I hope this does not come across as me being impatient or anything like that.

[Tumbra]

Heya, here I am again.

So I've been checking the discussion thread for NSCF (viewtopic.php?f=7&t=72973&start=6200) and well, I'm starting to wonder something: the OP mentioned in the latest post that the everything/signup threads would be open between the 14th and 17th of august and well, it's the 17th where I am. Now I'm assuming that IRL stuff probably got in the way (they did mention that they were leaving on vacation until next month in the post. Is this normal and should I not be concerned? I hope this does not come across as me being impatient or anything like that.

Oh, that's normal. You can join the NSS Discord server — the link is located in the Guide to Sports Roleplaying — and get in touch with a participant in NSCF, who'll let you know more. We also encourage a policy of RL > NSS in general, so real-life things of this sort generally take priority.

[Quebec and Shingoryeo]

Heya, here I am again.

So I've been checking the discussion thread for NSCF (viewtopic.php?f=7&t=72973&start=6200) and well, I'm starting to wonder something: the OP mentioned in the latest post that the everything/signup threads would be open between the 14th and 17th of august and well, it's the 17th where I am. Now I'm assuming that IRL stuff probably got in the way (they did mention that they were leaving on vacation until next month in the post. Is this normal and should I not be concerned? I hope this does not come across as me being impatient or anything like that.

Hello! Sorry for not getting back sooner.

Please see here for the NSCF 34 signup thread. It normally takes around two to three weeks of signups for the NSCF. Afterwards, I will post the everything thread with about 5 days to a week before MD1. Right now, I think MD1 will happen on either the second or the third week of September.

[The Batavia]

Heya, here I am again.

So I've been checking the discussion thread for NSCF (viewtopic.php?f=7&t=72973&start=6200) and well, I'm starting to wonder something: the OP mentioned in the latest post that the everything/signup threads would be open between the 14th and 17th of august and well, it's the 17th where I am. Now I'm assuming that IRL stuff probably got in the way (they did mention that they were leaving on vacation until next month in the post. Is this normal and should I not be concerned? I hope this does not come across as me being impatient or anything like that.

Hello! Sorry for not getting back sooner.

Please see here for the NSCF 34 signup thread. It normally takes around two to three weeks of signups for the NSCF. Afterwards, I will post the everything thread with about 5 days to a week before MD1. Right now, I think MD1 will happen on either the second or the third week of September.

Thanks for letting me know! I applied as soon as I was able to

[NSCF]

Hello! Sorry for not getting back sooner.

Please see here for the NSCF 34 signup thread. It normally takes around two to three weeks of signups for the NSCF. Afterwards, I will post the everything thread with about 5 days to a week before MD1. Right now, I think MD1 will happen on either the second or the third week of September.

Thanks for letting me know! I applied as soon as I was able to

Sounds good! If you'd like more prompt, on-the-clock updates, we are also available on Discord at the NationStates College Sports Server! Come join!

[Sinyal]

what do we have for boxing, and rally racing in nss?

[Hapilopper]

I'm not sure we have any dedicated boxing competitions in NS Sport - but I think one would be cool if we had something of that nature.

As far as rallying, we had the World Stage Rally Championship that Aboveland was trying to get going but ran into time constraints. Hopefully that could get going sometime because Aboveland did a fantastic job on it.

[Sinyal]

I'm not sure we have any dedicated boxing competitions in NS Sport - but I think one would be cool if we had something of that nature.

As far as rallying, we had the World Stage Rally Championship that Aboveland was trying to get going but ran into time constraints. Hopefully that could get going sometime because Aboveland did a fantastic job on it.

I definitely have time to host something for boxing, I just need to learn some things first. As for the rally would that end up being any time soon, or gonna be a while? Also I'm assuming we don't have anything for pesäpallo (finnish baseball)?

[Sinyal]

So I was wondering if a sort of high-school gridiron football thread would be an idea that people would like to participate in, kind of how like the top high-school teams in the United States are nationally ranked and played a national schedule, like that but international obviously for NS purposes. There would just be rankings throughout the season although there wouldn't necessarily be a champion crowned as there isn't in real life because the teams that can will still play in their individual state championships, so for that maybe there could be assigned "regions" as states that could include the teams from a group of NS nations?

[Drawkland]

So I was wondering if a sort of high-school gridiron football thread would be an idea that people would like to participate in, kind of how like the top high-school teams in the United States are nationally ranked and played a national schedule, like that but international obviously for NS purposes. There would just be rankings throughout the season although there wouldn't necessarily be a champion crowned as there isn't in real life because the teams that can will still play in their individual state championships, so for that maybe there could be assigned "regions" as states that could include the teams from a group of NS nations?

As far as I know, there's never been a high school level gridiron football competition between nations. There's a couple nations who do domestic high school football leagues, but they're few and far between. I'm not sure there's enough demand for a well-RP'd high school football international tournament. NSCF pretty much covers the amateur gridiron niche as needed.

[Andso Mangis]

(The NS sports elders are gonna reject this) What if there was like a permanent BOF where no matter if you've on 50 championships in a row or 0 you're the same rank and it stays this way FOREVOR

[Ceni]

(The NS sports elders are gonna reject this) What if there was like a permanent BOF where no matter if you've on 50 championships in a row or 0 you're the same rank and it stays this way FOREVOR

I mean, you're more than welcome to host rankless (or "RP bonus only") invitational tournaments to effectuate this concept. The Di Bradini Cup and U-18 World Cup are like this for youth football, for example. But, yes, it's unlikely to become a WCC-sanctioned event.

[Bonusia]

(The NS sports elders are gonna reject this) What if there was like a permanent BOF where no matter if you've on 50 championships in a row or 0 you're the same rank and it stays this way FOREVOR

Could be a lot of fun LMAO we should organize, maybe call it the Margaret Cup

[Ko-oren]

A lot of the tournaments in the Non-WCC Football list seem to do roughly that. Anything from RP limits (Brevity Cup) to... uh, tournaments where Ko-oren has to finish as the runner up (Market Cup, CAFA Cup). Yes, I'm sure that's what the rules for those tournaments were.....

[Sinyal]

So I was wondering if a sort of high-school gridiron football thread would be an idea that people would like to participate in, kind of how like the top high-school teams in the United States are nationally ranked and played a national schedule, like that but international obviously for NS purposes. There would just be rankings throughout the season although there wouldn't necessarily be a champion crowned as there isn't in real life because the teams that can will still play in their individual state championships, so for that maybe there could be assigned "regions" as states that could include the teams from a group of NS nations?

As far as I know, there's never been a high school level gridiron football competition between nations. There's a couple nations who do domestic high school football leagues, but they're few and far between. I'm not sure there's enough demand for a well-RP'd high school football international tournament. NSCF pretty much covers the amateur gridiron niche as needed.

Yeah I guess that makes sense, I was just seeing if there would be any type of interest in it, and I mean it wouldn't necessarily take a lot of nations the ones in could just enter a lot of teams, but yea probably not the most popular idea.

[Free Republics]

As far as I know, there's never been a high school level gridiron football competition between nations. There's a couple nations who do domestic high school football leagues, but they're few and far between. I'm not sure there's enough demand for a well-RP'd high school football international tournament. NSCF pretty much covers the amateur gridiron niche as needed.

Yeah I guess that makes sense, I was just seeing if there would be any type of interest in it, and I mean it wouldn't necessarily take a lot of nations the ones in could just enter a lot of teams, but yea probably not the most popular idea.

I think the best case scenario for international high school football would probably be something like NS College Baseball. That got a respectable number of signups but basically nobody RPed it so it mostly ended up being just a beta test of Baseinator. Which is why there was no second season.

But you can get any tournament to fit into a small niche if there are 3 or 4 users who want to actively RP it. For a while, the World Korfball Classic carved out a niche because Nephara (known at the time as New Sideburn), Some Village (AKA Buyan IIRC) and myself (as Saintland's illegal radical feminist protest group) were RPing it despite none of us really knowing much of anything about korfball afaik besides what was on the sport's Wikipedia page. If you can get just 10-15 users to actually care about it, you've got a tournament that will likely continue to exist in some form long-term. Assuming it isn't overly complicated to host, anyway. I doubt a World Sailing Classic would last very long even if it was actively RPed for reasons that anybody who's hosted the Summer Olympics knows all too well.

[Bonusia]

A lot of the tournaments in the Non-WCC Football list seem to do roughly that. Anything from RP limits (Brevity Cup) to... uh, tournaments where Ko-oren has to finish as the runner up (Market Cup, CAFA Cup). Yes, I'm sure that's what the rules for those tournaments were.....

Damn I hadn't really gone through it all, there's loads of interesting tournaments there. Except that Market Cup, at least the last three editions look rigged

[Ko-oren]

I just noticed this is the old Questions thread, we should take future questions to this thread (with the new guide in it). My bad.