Rider Signup
Deadline: NONE (riders can be signed up at any time during the season)
You can sign up as many riders as you want, which have to be divided into male and female (this should also correspond to the Olympics, so I decided to split it the same way as it is split there). For each rider you enter, you have to post their ratings for speed and technical skill. These can each be a value between 1 and 9, and they need to add up to no more than 10. Speed determines how good your rider is at gliding and managing high speeds. High rates could be reached by classical downhill specialists. Skill determines how well your rider can do turns, stay on their skis and do jumps. High rates of skill are reached by slalom and GS specialists, but some downhillers also reach good skill levels! The signup should contain:
- Your nation name + trigram
- Your male riders + their rating (Speed/Skill)
- Your female riders + their rating (Speed/Skill)
Voluntary: a default start list (see below)
Rider selection
While you can sign up as many riders as you wish, you can only nominate a certain number per race. For an individual race, the following restrictions apply:
- - for each nation: 4 riders
- for the 10 best nations in the Nation's World Cup Ranking (NWCR): 5 riders
- for the 4 best nations in the NWCR: 6 riders
Venue signup
Deadline: 7. January 2018
In order to sign up a venue for a race, fill out the following form:
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[b]Nation name[/b]:
[b]Town[/b]:
[b]Disciplines[/b]:
[b]Extra Info[/b]
Nation name is your nation's name. For the RL example of the Lauberhornrennen, that would be Switzerland.
Town is the town in which your race is located. For the Lauberhorn, that would be Wengen.
Disciplines are the disciplines that should take place in your event. For the Lauberhorn, that would be a men's DH, SL and SC. Please also add a rating for speed and technicality. Like with the riders, each individual rating needs to be between 1 and 9, and this time they need to add up to 10. For the Super Combined, two separate ratings need to be given for the two runs, as they take place on different runs. For slalom and Giant Slalom, this is not the case as they take part on the same hill. For more info on how to sign up an SC, check the example signup or the discipline list in the spoilers.
You can find a guideline for speed and technicality per discipline below.
Extra info doesn't need to be given, but obviously adds to the RP. It can also be added when describing your race in the IC thread later on.
There is no limit on the amount of venues one nation can bid, and in the interest of realism, I ask you to prefer two or three venues with 2-3 disciplines each over one venue holding all the disciplines.
Terminology
As there was a bit of confusion over the terminology in the last season, here is a short recap:
A Race is a single scorination (for example the Men's Giant Slalom of Kallora, Savojarna; or in real life the Men's Downhill in Wengen). For doing well in a race, you receive ASWT points for the overall standings (both in the respective discipline and in the general standings). Whoever has the most points in a discipline at the end of the season receives a small trophy, whoever has the most points overall receives a big trophy.
An Event can mean two things. IC'ly, it refers to all the races conducted in one place (for example the Kallora Ski Days in Savojarna, which include four races; or in RL the Lauberhornrennen in Wengen, consisting of three different races). OOC'ly, it refers to all the races scorinated on a given day - what we would call a Matchday in other sports. ASWT standings are updated after each OOC event. IC events have no special meaning for the ASWT, but their hosts can decide to give out special prices.
Your Roster (or Team) is the entirety of your signed skiers. It can be as big as you want - a realistic size for a small country with few mountains like Croatia could be three to four riders, whereas bigger nations like Switzerland, Canada or Austria may very well have a roster of 15-20 skiers per gender. Your roster will most likely consist of some specialists for both speed races (Downhill and Super-G), some specialists for the technical disciplines (Giant Slalom and Slalom) and maybe one or two "all-rounders".
Your Delegation are the skiers of your nation who will compete in a specific race. It cannot be bigger than 5 skiers (6 if you are among the Top 5 of the ASWT Nation Ranking). As part of your signup, you can nominate a default delegation for each discipline, but you can change the delegation as often as you want. If your delegation is bigger than allowed (for example because you listed six skiers, but fell out of the Top 5), only the first five/six riders will be used. Realistically, you will mostly use the five/six skiers best suited to the race, but sometimes you may wanna use a different skier if they are in contention for the general standings and may reasonably pick up some points.
Bonus, scorination and carry-over
Scorination will happen once a week (not twice every week like in ASWT 1). For every scorination, there will be a skill modifier based on how well your rider fits the slope of the race. Additionally, there will be a bonus which amounts to 60%, administered on country basis. This bonus is divided into a RP bonus and a ranking bonus, each making up equal parts of the bonus. RP bonus will be decaying over the course of the Tour, so the key to winning is to RP consistently. The ranking bonus is attributed based on the ASWT Nation Ranking, with the teams getting a bonus based on the amounts of points they have. For the first race, the bonuses of the end of ASWT 1 will carry over to 50%, but will be deleted following completion of the first event.
