Saugeais Stadia Info
Group A, Ville-DuPont
Group A's matches will be played in Ville-DuPont, a very quaint, rustic town that only started fielding a football team in 1991. Situated on the edge of the Saugeais National Forest, the Ville-DuPont economy is centered around logging, slowly becoming the national leader of lumber production and exports. The stadium they will be in is Hawkshead Point, a 34,550 all-seater venue that has seen its fair share of joy and sorrow in the past 20 years. It's club team, the Hawks, have only been in Saugeais League 1 only twice, and its stadium has been been under-used because of it. This was also led to the decline of tourism drawn to the area because of football. Hopefully with the arrival of the Cup of Harmony crowd, the amount of revenue the matches and tourism bring will upgrade the team and the stadium.
Group B, Metalton
Group B will take place in the industrial city of Metalton, where they will play at the high-tech Tapandie Stadium. It holds 35,000 and is home to the Metalton Miners of SL1. The stadium boasts that it has the cleanest pitch in all the world, as rarely has there ever been pock marks or divots, not even browned grass has shown up on the pitch. It really is the perfect playing field. The city of Metalton has become one of the fastest growing cities in the country, with its ever expanding mining industry and subsequent iron works industry. The Metalton Domestic Iron Works Foundry is the largest producer of iron in the country, making iron for all uses: from I-beams to truck chassis. A statue of a miner holding a pick-axe above his head, titled "Risen" pays tribute to the 21 miners that died in a mine collapse in 2002.
Group C, Bugny
Group C's matches will take place in another forest town: Bugny, and it's home pitch, The Old Forest Stadium. Seating 38,000 with the backdrop of the Saugeais National Forest outside of the stadium, one cannot picture how breathtaking a match at "The Forest" can be. Of course, with the help of a championship caliber football club, Bugny FC, it really isn't hard to get out for a match on a Saturday. The town of Bugny is situated with the forest to the north end and the Iban Lake and trailing Bugny River to the east, making Bugny a perfect summer getaway if Montbenoit is too steep of an option. Bugny's economy is divided between logging and fishing, the latter more well known, as aside from being one of the main tourist reasons, also holds the National Fishing Championships every August.
Group D, Longview
Group D will be in the venerable wind tunnel that is Longview. This blustery city is home to not only some of the countries strongest tornadoes, but also one of the wildest teams in SP1. The resident club team, aptly named the Tornadoes, play in Circle Stadium (cap. 37,500) named so in honor of the founder of the club, Stephen Circle, and not the shape of the stadium (it is, in fact, a very rectangular stadium). With so many wind storms and tornadoes every year, Longview is home to all of the country's wind power plants. They generate enough energy to power the entire southern half of the country every year with energy to spare. Unfortuantely that same energy can't transfer to the people, as most of the population are very apathetic to the rest of the nation, much less the rest of the world. It'll be interesting to see how they handle the influx of Cup of Harmony tourists.
The Round of 16 will take place in Ville-DuPont and Metalton, with Bugny and Longview hosting the quarter final matchups.
Saugeais regional Final, Arçon
The regional final of Saugeais will be contested in the beautiful city of Arçon. The stadium that will hold the event is Arrowpoint Place, which will hold 51,000 spectators.
Cup of Harmony Third place match, Montbenoit
The third place match of the 47th Cup of Harmony will take place in the capital of Saugeais. Montbenoit is home to the national football stadium of Saugeais, Stade de Saugeais, which can hold 68,500 fans. Placed in the entertainment district of metropolitan Montbenoit, it is not far from any nightlife venue or shopping area that can appease fans to spend their money. Tourism has long been Montbenoit's strong suit, being compared to a "London mixed with Shinjuku", having both bits of historically old and the flashy new to appeal to all walks of life.
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