Today is October 21st. I just opened signups for IBC 24 earlier today. October is the 10th month. 1+0=1. For obvious reasons, you separate 2 from 4 in IBC 24. 1+2=3. And everyone knows that 21 divided by 3 is 7. Wait. SEVEN. And ... we still have the 4 left over? You know what that means? 7BALL! 4!!
We're back for another edition of The Sevenful Game! That's right, 7ball is here for International Cup number 4. To the right, you can see the logo and official match balls, courtesy of Meski Sports of Red Blackiland.
Now, if you're not familiar with the last 3 editions, you may be asking, "Hey drawk, what is 7ball?" Well, if you don't know, check out this dispatch I wrote, which contains the rules, regulations, scoring, and likely anything you'll need to know about 7ball. If you click on the green message at the top of the dispatch, it'll bring you to a more ... "readable" version of 7ball. Because there's over 240 instances of the number 7 on that dispatch alone.
Also, check out the first, second, and third editions if you wanna see how it kinda goes down. Here's the results of these tournaments:
FIRST OFFICIAL 7BALL TOURNAMENT
INTERNATIONAL CUP of 7BALL II
- Saint Kanye 7s
- Kebecois 7s (Silver Rainbow Fumes)
- West-East Timor 7s
INTERNATIONAL CUP of 7BALL III
- Drawkland 7s
- Kebec 7s (Kep)
- West-East Timor 7s
Here's to another worthy champion! Now, all you have to do is post in this thread with some sort of message saying you want to play.
Drawkland is in.
There's an example, which also is my official sign-up. Don't worry about coming up with a team name, every team in 7ball is called the "7s." The Examplestan 7s, the Testlandia 7s, the Basic City 7s, John Doe's 7s, for example. Just like last edition, all teams will be referred to as the "<nation> 7s" to avoid confusion. Sorry to those had special nicknames, this makes it easier. Unless your canonical nation name differs from your NS nation name, your nation name will be used.
SIGNUPS: (7*3)+1
7. Qasden 7s
7. Azadeshia 7s
7. Northwest kalactin 7s
7. Juvencus 7s
7. New Danican 7s
7. Eastfield Lodge 7s
7. West-East Timor 7s
7. Ethane 7s
7. Devonta 7s
7. Damukuni Sonnel States 7s
7. Chromatika 7s
7. Fleuronordicia 7s
7. Quebec 7s
7. Eshan 7s
7. Gregoryisgodistan 7s
7. Kingdom of Tunisia 7s
7. Abanhfleft 7s
7. Mercedini 7s
7. Filindostan 7s
7. Cosumar 7s
7. Thibaea 7s
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I hosted the first 2 editions of 7ball, except the playoffs of IC7 II, which were scorinated by Peuples Nordiques des Fleurs (now known as Fleuronordicia, a puppet of Damukuni) due to a vacation I had to take. Then, Fleuronordicia decided to take full-on responsibilities and hosted IC7 III by himself. Thus, following that trend, any nation who wishes to host IC7 IV can bid to host! Standard host bid procedures apply.
You will probably need to be able to scorinate the results correctly, so here's a link to the 7ball scorination file. Just copy/paste the text into Notepad and save as an .xml file and put it into the sports folder for xkoranate, or just download and move the file directly, whatever works for you. I'd encourage you to get a feeling for how the scores work and make sure the file works before bidding. Check out the bid from last edition to get a good idea of what to do. Sure it basically won by default, but that doesn't mean it's not a solid example.
ALSO! Any hosts be sure to use the Official IC7 Rankings. Of course, any participant can check these out to see where you stand.
HOST BIDS: 1/?
With that being said, we hope you sign up! 7ball is truly a sport bourne from NationStates, among the ranks of a cluster of other sports made by NS Sportsers. Enjoy!