The first step to your participation is to post a roster. Even if you do not think you will have time to RP, please consider posting a roster as a basic courtesy to everyone else. The roster should contain at minimum:
- Your players. An ice hockey team has six players on the ice (one goalkeeper, two defensemen, three forwards – left wing, center, right wing) at any one time, but a squad for a tournament will typically have two or three reserves at each position; a squad size of 18-24 is recommended.
- A style modifier, from -5 to +5. This dictates how attacking your team is (-5 being most defensive, +5 most attacking). It will influence goals per game but not affect the overall outcome or margin of victory. You may change this modifier once during the group stage, and once again during the playoffs.
- RP permissions. See the guide to sports roleplaying if you’re new to sports roleplaying. You may customize your permissions as you wish, but a suggested version is included here which you can copy and paste into your roster.
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[b]My opponent, if they RP first, may do the following:[/b]
Choose my Scorers: Yes/No
Choose Scoring Events: Yes/No
Godmod Scoring Events: Yes/No
RP Injuries to my Players: Yes/No
Godmod Injuries to my Players: Yes/No
Assign Penalties to my Players: Yes/No
Eject my Players: Yes/No
Godmod Other Events: Yes/No
[b]Style Modifier:[/b]
Please read and respect other users’ RP permissions, and contact them directly if you are not certain. In addition to individual users’ RP permissions, the following tournament-wide permissions apply to all participants:
- No pandemic, COVID or otherwise, may be introduced to the host nation or spread to any other teams.
- No destructive violence towards the host nation's people or infrastructure.
In addition to the above, you may include other relevant information in your roster such as details about your players or coaching staff, uniforms, team history, tactics guide, PIN number and social security details, etc.
Once you have posted your roster, you may begin roleplaying. These roleplays may take any form, such as newspaper articles, narratives, or images. Audio/visual roleplays must provide a transcript. Please keep images to a reasonable size. For RP purposes, it will be assumed all games will be played under WCoHF [OOC: IIHF] rules; a summary of them, and comparison to RL NHL rules, can be found here.
The format of the tournament will involve all teams being drawn into four groups of 13 teams, and playing a single round robin (playing every other team in that group). The top four teams from each group will progress to the Round of 16 playoffs, which will be single elimination. All games will be played to a result, meaning ties will be decided by overtime, and tied overtime games by shootouts. The procedures for overtime and shootout will run according to the rules listed here.
Groups 1 and 4 will take place in Canadian Dominion and be scorinated by Quintessence of Dust.
Groups 2 and 3 will take place in Quintessence of Dust and be scorinated by Canadian Dominion.
Group 1
Ealdracaland
Delaclava
Elejamie
Ko-oren
Cassadaigua
Sarzonia
Torisakia
Canadian Dominion
Eden and Cambersey
The Spartan Dominion
Aaaaaa
Valanora
The American Hunters
Group 2
Anthor
Græntfjall
Dod Rava
Evinea
Vilita and Turori
Great Germa
United Hawkland
Attestaltarragaby
Darmen
Banija
TJUN-ia
Necroa
Squornshelan Remnant States
Group 3
Gyatso-Kai
Abanhfleft
Eksartonia
Darkmania
Lacfroid
Sannyamathland
Kelssek
Saint-Jean-Jacques-sur-Mer
Kimi-Suomi
Quintessence of Dust
Snow and Ice Caps
Aust Scor
Huayramarca
Group 4
HUElavia
Nova Anglicana
Irritating Stick
Atheara
Golyna
Independent Athletes from Quebec
Huron League
Cordia
Nazi Flower Power
United States of Devonta
Vartugia
Patriotlandia
Germenia
Schedule
Except for the final MD, there will be 2 matches scorinated at each cutoff. The team not listed has a bye.
The cutoff for groups 2 & 3 is 04:15 UTC.
The cutoff for groups 1 & 4 is 08:15 UTC.
Note that for those in the Americas, this means the cutoff will be in the evening of the previous day!
Tue 16 MD1: 2v13 3v12 4v11 5v10 6v9 7v8 / 9v7 10v6 11v5 12v4 13v3 1v2
Thu 18 MD2: 3v1 4v13 5v12 6v11 7v10 8v9 / 10v8 11v7 12v6 13v5 1v4 2v3
Sat 20 MD3: 4v2 5v1 6v13 7v12 8v11 9v10 / 11v9 12v8 13v7 1v6 2v5 3v4
Mon 22 MD4: 5v3 6v2 7v1 8v13 9v12 10v11 / 12v10 13v9 1v8 2v7 3v6 4v5
Wed 24 MD5: 6v4 7v3 8v2 9v1 10v13 11v12 / 13v11 1v10 2v9 3v8 4v7 5v6
Fri 26 MD6: 7v5 8v4 9v3 10v2 11v1 12v13 / 1v12 2v11 3v10 4v9 5v8 6v7
Sun 28 MD7: 8v6 9v5 10v4 11v3 12v2 13v1
Tue 30 Ro16
Thu 1 QFs
Sat 3 SFs
Mon 5 Final+3PPO
Quintessence of Dust (adj.: Quodite or, rarely, Quintessential) is a small (pop.: 5 million) country in the south of Polarverta, Wysteria. 25% of its area is below the Antarctic circle. The majority of its population is of Scandinavian stock, though it has a number of other poorly integrated ethnic groups, most notably its Quintessential-Chinese minority. An unremittingly boring, pointless people, Quodites have mainly achieved fame through sociology, alpine skiing, dreamgaze, fashion design, and anti-slavery advocacy - and are perhaps best known for their rabid secularism and republicanism, and lack of humour.
Quintessence of Dust exists in the mid 22nd century with technology to match including maglevs, advanced nuclear energy, and space travel to the country's extraterrestrial hangouts: a lunar base, a Martian colony, and Deep Space 9 3/4, currently in Triton orbit. Despite their technological advances, however, Quodites remain deeply distrustful of non-human intelligence. Biological sapients, such as ponies and bears, have been grudgingly recognized, but artificial intelligences such as robots, cyborgs, and androids are denied human rights.
Ice hockey is the most popular sport in Quintessence of Dust, especially among Quodites of Fenno-Scandian descent. However, Quodite hockey does have some differences from that played in the rest in the world. First, cross-checking that the referees consider not to be dangerous is legal, unlike in many other foreign leagues (and Quodite players have struggled with being penalised for this when playing abroad). This tournament will be officiated according to international rules, but Quodite officials may be lax in calling this penalty. Second, fighting is totally unknown in Quodite hockey. Of course, foreign teams might still engage in fighting - but home spectators won't respond favourably, and officials are under orders to be strict in breaking up fights. Finally, Quodite sports is well known for its rampant drug problems. Most Quodite hockey players are amped up on amphetamines or on discarded jetpack fuel cells.
You may RP however you like. If you find PMT/FT elements immersion breaking you may ignore them in your roleplaying.
City and stadium details
On each MD, the first two listed games will be played at the first listed stadium, the second two at the second, and the third two at the third.
Group 2
Kynythin
Kynythin Mountain Sports Club (HHL team: Motors) is the second oldest sports club in the country, and has been historically dominant in ice hockey. It has produced the country's two most famous players, Sebestyen Szöllôsi and Mikki Järvinen, and several members of both the men's and women's national squads. Many other athletes from other sports also have their base in Kynythin. It has a very strong rivalry with Greschmeier MSC.
Located in the northwestern state of Ballat, Kynythin is one of the oldest cities in Quintessence of Dust. Its population is overwhelmingly of Finnish ancestry, and double vowels and consonants abound in the many famous names to have hailed from the city. High in the Quintessential Alps, the temperature is above zero at this time of year, but there is still plenty of snow.
People from Kynythin tended to be extremely bitter, because they felt the country's political elite generally sided with the Quintessential-Swedish groups to their east. This changed when Natalia Kivistö, a Quin-Finn, was elected President. Reelected four times, she has led Quintessence of Dust through a golden age of "neoliberalism with Quodite characteristics".
Industry is dominated by forestry. Kynythin is not a highpoint of Quodite culture, and visitors may also get a bit tired of the unswervingly stodgy cuisine: be prepared to be backed up for weeks afterwards. You see, a responsible host even provides information about bowel movements.
Games will be played at Motor Hall, the largest ice hockey arena in the country.
Highmark City
The nation's capital is, to tell the truth, not all that big on ice hockey, as it has a very large Quintessential-Chinese population who disdain the sport for football and rugby. The Romantics are the MN Smith of Quodite hockey: almost always getting relegated, but always managing to stay up, just. Certainly, they've boasted no stars or national team players bar the occasional third line goon in recent years.
Highmark City has a population of a little over a million - puny by international standards, of course, but the major population centre of the nation. The home of most leading industries, the federal government, and the opera, arts and theatre scenes, Highmark City also has a huge Chinatown district boasting unique dishes such as Whale Chow Mein, Whale Chop Suey, Barbecue Whale Ribs, and Kung Po Whale. Dipping in the itty satay sauce dishes can be tricky, though.
Games will be played at the National Stadium of Sports, which only has a medium-sized ice hockey section. Few Highmarkers will attend, but fans from Toonmar and further afield might well make the trip in.
New Cleethorpes
Probably Quintessence of Dust's most famous city, New Cleethorpes is located in West Sponson in the west of the country. It is considerably warmer than any of the other venues at this time of year, and will also be warmer in a different way: much more welcoming of foreign teams and visitors. This is because everyone in New Cleethorpes unreservedly hates everyone else in Quintessence of Dust.
The home of the nation's Liberal community, New Cleethorpes's aversion to taxes and government has led to two civil wars and numerous political tumults, but the city has produced more Presidents than any other. Ice hockey is actually not all that popular - rugby, baseball and football are preferred - but the Quintessential-Icelandic community has its home there, with Sporting Með Blódnasir home to the HHL side Impressionists, as well as producing the country's best women players.
New Cleethorpes is a great place to experience live music and what little nightlife Quintessence of Dust has to offer, and also boasts a more varied cuisine than most other cities: some restaurants even serve vegetables. The people themselves are quite reserved, but positively outspoken compared to most Quodites.
Sporting Með Blódnasir lacks a purpose-built arena, so games will be played in the austere concrete setting of New Cleethorpes Municipal Sporting Ground Rinks #1 and #2.
Group 3
Greschmeier
The oldest and most prestigious sports club in Quintessence of Dust, Greschmeier MSC (HHL: Forks) has produced many notable athletes in a variety of sports, including many famous hockey clubs. They once enjoyed a bitterly one sided rivalry with Vanorian club Therathor, who remain popular among local fans - many of whom wear fake "elf ears" to games.
Greschmeier has a majority Quintessential-Swedish populace, and is located in the northern state of Frendry. It is closely affiliated to Klein & Klein, the noted fashion house, who design many of Greschmeier's ultra-svelte outfits. Greschmeier is also among the most progressive in the nation in terms of women players, so will be more open to teams with female squad members.
Greschmeier's cultural high points include the Klein & Klein Museum of Anorexia, The Pool of Nothing (home of Quodite atheism), and sweeping views of the (thankfully nun-free) Quintessential Alps.
Games will be played at the Northern Astrodome, an underground, ultra-modern, environmentally friendly multisport arena.
Toonmar
The prosperous, northern suburb of Highmark City, Toonmar's HHL team (Brackets) are cheered on by a mixed bag of fans, who are ethnically diverse, unusual among the fairly stratified Quodite society.
Toonmar is almost exclusively a commuter belt sprawl, with little to say for itself but safer and cleaner living space than Highmark City. It has also been historically resistant to integration, even after its antiquated laws prohibiting persons of Chinese descent living there were invalidated, but otherwise is much more ethnically amorphous than most other parts of Quintessence of Dust.
The only thing "to do" Toonmar is get yourself onto a high-speed train into Highmark, unless you fancy paying down a mortgage on a clean little two-up/two-down with a Scandinavian who drinks alone at night.
Games will be played at Bracket Park, a very ancient arena where players might be afraid to play too hard for fear of busting through increasingly rickety walls.
Dareb
Dareb is by far the most remote location to host a group. In the south of the country, it is the home of the main Spaceport that connects Terran Quintessence of Dust with the Moon via the regular "Silver Needle" rocket express, not to mention launching Mars flights and deep space missions.
Tourists are strongly advised not to visit Dareb unless they are Olympic standard cross country skiers, as simply leaving the hotel to get a bottle of milk from the shops can turn into an expedition. And when that happens, Eddie Vedder doensn't play a haunting soundtrack and you don't dream of Kristen Stewart: you just die, alone, in the cold. Idiot.
That said, the teams will find Dareb a welcoming community as the spaceport workers love their hockey, and the locals are real fanatics. Those interested will also find the soundstage used in filming the exciting final of popular reality TV showing Strictly Come Ironing.
Games will be played in the ice hockey arena underneath the Eli F. Baker Memorial Arena: by far the smallest being used, it still might sell out, given the difficulties of getting to the location.
MD1 is Tue 16 May @ 04:15 UTC (Groups 2&3) to 08:15 UTC (Groups 1&4)!
(OOC: Thank you Azhaar!)
Lamau-Dartha Hunters
Launott Polar Bears
Serevne Northerners
West Coast Blizzards
Noordrug Bi-state
South Aevanna Storm
Arboren Vortex
Aevanna Explorers-Mariners
Straudum Ice
Aevanna Plains Wanderers
Aevanna Scouts
Egevea Islanders
