The Colossal Champions Cup
Format: 8 groups of 6, with three games being scored every day, until thirty games have been played by all teams. All games are played at the home team's chosen stadium.
Play-offs: Ro16: Best-of-5 (2 games per day)
Quarterfinals: Best-of-5 (2 games per day)
Semi-Finals: Best-of-5 (2 per day)
Championship: Best-of-7 (2 per day)
Seeded first by group title and then tiebreakers. Every play-off game takes place in Frenline Delpha.
Scorination will start on Wednesday, March 22nd. My cut-off will be between 10 and 11 PM, EDT (UTC -4).
Rosters
Rosters are a list of your players, the positions they occupy and your team's home stadium(s). This can also include statistics, both personal and about their play, as well as their handedness, stengths and weaknesses, uniforms, nicknames, coaches, or anything else you find appropriate. You can find examples of rosters in last WBC's thread, starting here and continuing for the remainder of the first page.
Rosters are appreciated and there will be a roster bonus for nations that post rosters. Rosters may include a RP permissions box (godmodding, injuries, choosing scorers, etc.) if players want to put restrictions on the roleplaying of their characters. Here is an RP box form that you could copy and paste into your roster post:
- Code: Select all
My opponent, if they RP first, may do the following:
Choose my runscorers: Yes/No
Choose my lineup: Yes/No
Follow my pitching rotation: Yes/No
Godmod scoring events: Yes/No
RP injuries to my players: Yes/No
Godmod injuries to my players: Yes/No
Eject my players: Yes/No
Godmod other events: Yes/No
Use DH at home: Yes/No
Note: Godmodding can be anything that would probably never happen in the realm of real life, such as a flock of birds stopping a home run ball from going over the fence by colliding with it. If you want your opponent to be able to do whatever they want with their description of events, turn those on when you post a roster.
New to baseball RPing, or sports RPing in general?
If you're new to sports RPing in general, please read this thread, as it provides a great guide for what you need to know. If you have any questions, you can send a TG to Frenline Delpha, post on the WBC Discussion Thread, or on the Sports Roleplaying Questions thread.
One thing unique to baseball is the designated hitter, a feature often confusing to newcomers. For explanation, I turn to Equestrian States' concise summary:
Equestrian States wrote:The Designated Hitter (DH) Rule is an aspect that is unique to baseball here on NS Sports. In short, the DH rule allows for teams to designate a player to bat for their pitcher, generally giving teams more flexibility when at bat. For more information on the DH rule and its implementation, please refer to the Wikipedia article on the subject, as it goes into far more detail than I can here. In regards to the WBC, the DH rule is only used if the home team uses a DH. If the home team does not use a DH, neither team will use the DH, regardless of the away team’s preference. If the home team has not specified (in their roster or an RP) whether they use a DH or not, the first participant to RP will dictate the use/nonuse of the DH in that game.
IC information, as well as the group draw and schedule, is provided in the posts below.
Note: If your opponent has roleplayed the game before you, you are expected to roleplay it the same way, although you still can have some flexibility: For example, did your opponent RP a three run double, in one inning.... that really should have been called foul? Did the umpire blow a called strike three on the opponents big slugger before they hit the big homer? Those are things you can still have flexibility with.