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The NHL Don Cherry Cup -- the rockingest sockingest game on ice!

Cherry Cup 1 winners - SterlingIce
Cherry Cup 2 winners - Soviet Haaregrad
Cherry Cup 3 winners - it could be you!

Sign up here, and also say if you are interested in hosting.

KP will enter, and could host as well. :)

In once again.

Team Futility will make another effort.

Come on, a cup without us dominating? Of course we'll be back. :D

Hockey is our most popular sport after all...

we almost made the playoffs! count us in

Liverpool England would like to sign up.

From page 1D of the Ianapalis Star-Tribune:

Gulls Try Again!
Steve Martinson's side will take another crack at the Cup; St. Amour to hang up his skates

IANAPALIS, Iansisle -- In a news conference that swung from the highest points of cheer to the lowest valleys of misery to fond memories of happier times, head coach and general manager Steve Martinson announced that his side, far and away the greatest in the Commonwealth after slaughtering the Fort Dawes Miners 4-0 in the Vessinghampton Cup, will be after the Don Cherry Cup for the third straight year.

The Gulls found themselves taken out of competition early in their first campaign and dropped into the 'B' cup, where they promptly dominated the field.

Replaced into the main competition, the Gulls swept into the race, confident with their seventh-place ranking and eager for revenge. However, they faltered early, falling 3-2 to Caer Pugitia. A surprising win over Kalaallit Nunaat provided them with a renewed sense of hubris. A 4-2 romp over hapless Trevorland saw the Gulls sitting atop their division, with only two unranked teams between them and the Cup.

There, it fell apart. An unranked team whose name everyone was embarrassed to try and pronounce shocked the Gulls 5-0, but all was not over. They needed only beat Quebec Nouveau by three or more goals, and dominated their way to a third-period 1-0 lead. Alas, the puck slid into an empty net late, sending Sherbrooke to the playoffs and leaving the Commonwealth with a collective bitter taste in their mouth.

"We're eager for revenge," said Martinson. "There's a lot of pent up aggression here, and I plan to release it all the way to the cup!" The announcement was met with cheers from the crowd.

However, the good mood was tempered by the news that aging winger Martin St. Amour, the longest tenured member of the team and often considered to be the best player in the history of Iansislean hockey, would make this his last campaign.

"I've had a wonderful time with the Gulls," announced St. Amour, choking back tears, "and I hope to be allowed to return in a coaching function, but for now, my body is getting older." At that point, the typically stoic forward succumbed to his emotions and had to turn away from the microphone.

Team captain B.J. MacPherson, present at the press conference, stood and raised his clenched fist to the air. "For Martin, we'll win the Cup this year!" He raised his voice over the ensuing cheer.

"This is the year of the Gulls!"

After an adequate regime change, we happy to announce we are forming our own hockey team from the finest players that Kryozerkia has to offer. We look forward to the next season.

(Excerpts from the) Empire Service-

"...of course, the Walmington Red Bears shall be back, riding high atop unlikely confirmation of their status as 'not the world's worst hockey team'!"

"The Red Bears put much faith in young Regie Whiteside -now a cult hero in Norbray, and voted the nation's greatest ever ice hockey player- who is said to be improving by leaps and bounds now that Norbray has its own (rather basic) rink."

"PM Mainwaring even stepped in to prevent Whiteside's call-up, and has tabled a bill to grant the entire team a stay of duty during the third Cherry Cup."

"Several players have already stated to The Standard their intention to fight rather than to skate should their papers come through, exemption or not."

"Walmington's first domestic hockey season is under-way, with the Red Bears -competing for Norbray- facing sides from Stockshire, Kentonshire, and Southend, as well as a side fielded by Stockley Motors (name of 'The Stockley Motors'), and the nation's first professionals, a team put together by Walmington's richest man, Sir Henry Chaspot Wayne ('The Wayne-easys')."

"All games are presently played in Norbray, though the Kentonshire side is seeking permission to use their county's ice-rink, which generally is reserved for figure skating."

"In the first games of the season, the Red Bears trounced Southend 14-0, and Stockshire took-out Kentonshire 2-1."

"Sir Henry Wayne is reported to have offered Red Bears captain Ernie Mellington W£850 (US$3,400) to play for his Wayne-easys, but was reportedly turned down. Ernie evidently does not want to miss-out on the Cherry Cup."

Scaraba would love to enter their much loved all-female team "The Ice Queens."

The Warner Brothers Loony Tunes would like to sign up for the cup

President Bugs Bunny today annouced that the loony tunes ice hockey team would be applying for a positon in the 3rd Don Cherry Cup, The small nation began to get their best hockey players together for training sessions immedtley

Dennisov would be honoured to be allowed another try for the Don Cherry Cup.

Since some nations managed to perform even worse than we, we are desperantly waiting for a new chance to perform even worse.

Count the Abysmals from Rejis in!

(Please make sure, that the host nation is not banning alcohol and/or other drugs)

Count us in! (maybe we can get rid of Coach McGurk and make the playoffs this time...)
OOC: I do hope someone out there gets the ongoing Coach McGurk joke... :?

Include our benevolent Empire in the quest for the Fruit Cup.

Skaialuk the Insane
New Rivendell Psychiatric Home
Empire of Warnocks Wizards

Sliponia will enter.

The Polkaton Posse will be back and this time they're going to make the playoffs! ...hopefully.

OOC: This time I will actually post something, I was kinda busy during the last cup and didn't have the chance to.

From Trevorland Tonight:

A win in the last game of the round robin of Don Cherry Cup 2 has the Trevorland Porcupines excited and willing to be in the 3rd edition.

After the excited riot that erupted when Trevorland won their first NHL game ever, a ridiculous spurt of minor leagues has been the result. Also, the Porcupine Network has started to appear on Trevorland's airwaves, with Trevorland Tonight being the flagship show. Legendary coach Tommy Douglas is a regular contributor feeding to the frenzy.

You know we're back! Sign us up!

After missing out on the second edition, the Timway side is ripe for a comeback in the third. They have submitted their application to participate.

No way SterlingIce is missing this. The Hippos are in and we're looking for revenge :D

SI

Sherbrooke is back, Now with 50% more Cross-checking!

Quinntonia is of course, in, and is now sporting a new and improved team. Some aggressive recruiting of Soviet Haregaard talent and the total restructuring of the team to a new, younger team, with the notable exception of Bill Espisitoe, who was promoted to Captain and announcing our new coach, Deacon Vanessa Mohr, the first Quinntonian woman coach to head a team at this level.
GO QUINNTONIAN SAINTS!!!
WWJD
Amen.

Darkness Forever CEO and Chairman of the board BANE II has announced his intention to enter his personal hockey team, The Bloodletters, into the Don Cherry Cup. He is excited about this opprotunity to milk a few more bucks... I mean... give his people a diversion to get excited about.
BANE II LIVES!!

Our wonderful and prosperous kindom will enter. The Paladins will play to glory.
King Wingert I of The Village of Farrah.

The Nessaful Lands will enter their rough and tumble team, The Butterflies.
Nessa

Possible hosts
Kaze Progressa

Participants
Kalaallit Nunaat
Kaze Progressa
Tranquillitis
Tanah Burung
Soviet Haaregrad
Zinkoland
Liverpool England
Iansisle
Kryozerkia
Walmington on Sea
Scaraba
Warner Brothers
Dennisov
Rejistania
Daistallia
Warnocks Wizards
Sliponia
Polkaton
Trevorland
Quebec Nouveau
Timway
SterlingIce
Quinntonia
Darkness Forever
The Esten Lands
The Nessaful Lands

26 teams in. Can we reach 32?

Are puppet nations allowed? If so, count Jaurania, Kaze Progressa's puppet, in.

If not, my suggestion is to have one division of six and one of seven in each conference, with the top eight from each conference to go through. That would work.

The Hillbilly Warriors are honoured to accept the invitation. The Icemen cometh! Bring on the beer, lets play some puck!

We would love to participate, as our original nation was nuked and all our hockey players killed (although they werent all that good) we want to start again, as

UNIGINIA II

Ooooh, me like :) That would be 29 then:

Kalaallit Nunaat
Kaze Progressa
Tranquillitis
Tanah Burung
Soviet Haaregrad
Zinkoland
Liverpool England
Iansisle
Kryozerkia
Walmington on Sea
Scaraba
Warner Brothers
Dennisov
Rejistania
Daistallia
Warnocks Wizards
Sliponia
Polkaton
Trevorland
Quebec Nouveau
Timway
SterlingIce
Quinntonia
Darkness Forever
The Esten Lands
The Nessaful Lands
Jaurania (puppet of KP)
Uniginia II
Hillbilly Warriors
(29 down, 3 to go)

Check! I mean, er, bump!

After careful consideration of all the competing bids (ha ha, the one competing bid more like), the host of Cherry Cup 3 will be Kaze Progressa. (I assume all is clear on how i've been doing scores etc, but telegram me if not. I wonder if we might consider best two-of-three playoffs?)

I see no reason to ban puppets as long as it's done within reason. So let Jaurania in, sure.

Plinkaville would like to enter.

The Ice Paladins will play to the greater glory of Frog's regime.

Welcome to the mad world of Cherry Cup hockey for the following:

Kalaallit Nunaat
Kaze Progressa
Tranquillitis
Tanah Burung
Soviet Haaregrad
Zinkoland
Liverpool England
Iansisle
Kryozerkia
Walmington on Sea
Scaraba
Warner Brothers
Dennisov
Rejistania
Daistallia
Warnocks Wizards
Sliponia
Polkaton
Trevorland
Quebec Nouveau
Timway
SterlingIce
Quinntonia
Darkness Forever
The Esten Lands
The Nessaful Lands
Jaurania (puppet of KP)
Uniginia II
Hillbilly Warriors
New Montreal States
Plinkaville
(31 down, 1 to go - but if we don't get it by Tuesday, I'll just make one conference smaller.)

I'm going to collate the results of the first two Cherry Cups for rankings for this one, using a modified version of the KP-Bedistan ranking system for soccer. Will do that tomorrow.

Yay, i get to keep my paltry points from the first outing. Maybe the Cassowaries won't be ranked last!

In other news, a compilation CD "Skating Towards Ecstasy" has been released to help pay the Cassowary costs of getting to the Sports-mad Community of Kaze Progressa. Any extra proceeds will go towards buying some really good weed. I mean, charity. Yeah, that's it, charity.

I can offer my puppet Slipouri to fill that last spot, if that's fine with you KP.

(Man, I need to get myself some charity.)

Don't worry, the Cassowaries will be bringing lots of charity to the third Cherry Cup. Um, that is, if it's OK by the Progressan customs officers. If not, then, uh, it's against international law to search diplomatic bags, right? Well, the Cassowaries are all diplomats too. Yeah, that's it. Diplomats.

I have to say that I am pleasantly surprised by the sudden boom of nations volountering to participate in the Don Cherry Cup Tournaments. This thing has really grown from a little out of the way post to a major event. Glad I was there to see it happen. Bonne Chance to all participants!

Sliponia: sure :D

TB: We will follow international law, and are a compassionate nation that more than welcomes charity.

Kalaallit Nunaat
Kaze Progressa
Tranquillitis
Tanah Burung
Soviet Haaregrad
Zinkoland
Liverpool England
Iansisle
Kryozerkia
Walmington on Sea
Scaraba
Warner Brothers
Dennisov
Rejistania
Daistallia
Warnocks Wizards
Sliponia
Polkaton
Trevorland
Quebec Nouveau
Timway
SterlingIce
Quinntonia
Darkness Forever
The Esten Lands
The Nessaful Lands
Jaurania (puppet of KP)
Uniginia II
Hillbilly Warriors
New Montreal States
Plinkaville
Slipouri (puppet of Sliponia)
(32 in - draw to be made by Wednesday!)

What about the ranking system? Are we bringing that back?

I almost hope not - I shudder to think how far the Gulls have slipped in the rankings after that miserable performance!

KP have their new ranking system, taking into account both Cups... and here is the rankings (includes teams not in CC3):

1. Soviet Haaregrad
2. Kalaallit Nunaat
3. Tranquillitis
4. SterlingIce
5. Quebec Nouveau
6. Gulf States
7. Kaze Progressa
8. Quinntonia
9. Iansisle
10.Dennisov
11.Timway
12.Daistallia
12.Athel Nora
12.Oilermania
15.Walmington-on-Sea
15.Warnocks Wizards
17.Zinkoland
17.Sysepho
17.Caer Pugetia
17.Englesreich
17.Polkaton
22.Wildthings Realm
22.Trevorland
24.Tanah Burung
25.Uniginia
25.Rejistania

do we post rosters here or when the tournament starts???

http://www.sabrefans.com/images/toonsonice/toonstmplogolil.jpg
http://us.infogrames.com/media/logos/loony_tunes.gif

the top image is the national hockey leagues logo
the bottom image is our international logo

Nice logo :D And as for rosters, a new thread is coming for them.

Here's how the draw's going to work...


There are two pots of eight teams (containing the top eight and next eight highest-ranked participating sides) and one pot of sixteen (comprising the fifteen - if you count Uniginia II - new nations and bottom-ranked Tanah Burung)
Each division contains two teams from the smaller pots and four from the larger pot.
Random drawing of teams from each pot, using a random number generator, then takes place.
The teams in each pot and their number is as follows:

POT A

1. Soviet Haaregrad
2. Kalaallit Nunaat
3. Tranquillitis
4. SterlingIce
5. Quebec Nouveau
6. Kaze Progressa
7. Quinntonia
8. Iansisle

POT B

1. Dennisov
2. Timway
3. Daistallia
4. Walmington-on-Sea
5. Warnocks Wizards
6. Zinkoland
7. Polkaton
8. Trevorland

POT C

1. Tanah Burung
2. Liverpool England
3. Kryozerkia
4. Scaraba
5. Warner Brothers
6. Rejistania
7. Sliponia
8. Darkness Forever
9. The Esten Lands
10.The Nessaful Lands
11.Jaurania
12.Uniginia II
13.Hillbilly Warriors
14.New Montreal States
15.Plinkaville
16.Slipouri



Good luck teams!

Hey, nice system. *hopes for a weak draw*

Hey, nice system. *hopes for a weak draw*

Nice logo :D And as for rosters, a new thread is coming for them.

Here's how the draw's going to work...


There are two pots of eight teams (containing the top eight and next eight highest-ranked participating sides) and one pot of sixteen (comprising the fifteen - if you count Uniginia II - new nations and bottom-ranked Tanah Burung)
Each division contains two teams from the smaller pots and four from the larger pot.
Random drawing of teams from each pot, using a random number generator, then takes place.
The teams in each pot and their number is as follows:

POT A

1. Soviet Haaregrad
2. Kalaallit Nunaat
3. Tranquillitis
4. SterlingIce
5. Quebec Nouveau
6. Kaze Progressa
7. Quinntonia
8. Iansisle

POT B

1. Dennisov
2. Timway
3. Daistallia
4. Walmington-on-Sea
5. Warnocks Wizards
6. Zinkoland
7. Polkaton
8. Trevorland

POT C

1. Tanah Burung
2. Liverpool England
3. Kryozerkia
4. Scaraba
5. Warner Brothers
6. Rejistania
7. Sliponia
8. Darkness Forever
9. The Esten Lands
10.The Nessaful Lands
11.Jaurania
12.Uniginia II
13.Hillbilly Warriors
14.New Montreal States
15.Plinkaville
16.Slipouri



Good luck teams!

Ohhh i hope i also get a weak draw!, thanks for the comment too

the Warner Brothers Loony Tunes have been praticing latley on shooting and defence also they have been working on power play killing, they will train untill they fly out to Kaze Progressa in the next couple of days/weeks

Nice logo :D And as for rosters, a new thread is coming for them.

Here's how the draw's going to work...


There are two pots of eight teams (containing the top eight and next eight highest-ranked participating sides) and one pot of sixteen (comprising the fifteen - if you count Uniginia II - new nations and bottom-ranked Tanah Burung)
Each division contains two teams from the smaller pots and four from the larger pot.
Random drawing of teams from each pot, using a random number generator, then takes place.
The teams in each pot and their number is as follows:

POT A

1. Soviet Haaregrad
2. Kalaallit Nunaat
3. Tranquillitis
4. SterlingIce
5. Quebec Nouveau
6. Kaze Progressa
7. Quinntonia
8. Iansisle

POT B

1. Dennisov
2. Timway
3. Daistallia
4. Walmington-on-Sea
5. Warnocks Wizards
6. Zinkoland
7. Polkaton
8. Trevorland

POT C

1. Tanah Burung
2. Liverpool England
3. Kryozerkia
4. Scaraba
5. Warner Brothers
6. Rejistania
7. Sliponia
8. Darkness Forever
9. The Esten Lands
10.The Nessaful Lands
11.Jaurania
12.Uniginia II
13.Hillbilly Warriors
14.New Montreal States
15.Plinkaville
16.Slipouri



Good luck teams!

Ohhh i hope i also get a weak draw!, thanks for the comment too

the Warner Brothers Loony Tunes have been praticing latley on shooting and defence also they have been working on power play killing, they will train untill they fly out to Kaze Progressa in the next couple of days/weeks

Good luck to all teams! The Hilbilly Warriors Icemen have been practicing for the upcoming season by doing what they always do, and what they do best: drink beer. The Icemen (as well as all other HW sports teams) have been comissioned by President Billy Jo Bob to go forth into uncharted waters in search of fame, fortune and the ultimate brew. Heres hoping that Kaze Progressa's breweries are up to the invasion! Cheers.

We hope for a strong draw, followed immediately by crushing victories over all teams in our division, and then finally winning this thing ourselves. Always a bridesmaid, never a bride. And Big Bobby doesn't look so good in a brisdesmaid's dress.
--Big Bobby Clobber, Greenland hockey commissioner

Draw is to be made live in the next 15 minutes here. (http://www.freewebs.com/kazeprogressa/cherrycupdraw.htm) Also in channel #cherrycup on the irc.esper.net server (which will listen on port 6667 without a doubt, and probably 5555 too).

it says the drawing will start at 3:00 est, but it is 3:05 now, and nothing has happenned. let me know if im just being paranoid/too punctual.

it says the drawing will start at 3:00 est, but it is 3:05 now, and nothing has happenned. let me know if im just being paranoid/too punctual.

Plinkaville - you're being marginally paranoid, and ignoring the stupidity of my brother who has not come off the PC until now.

Draw is being done - follow it on the link above. Will refresh after each pot is complete.

Draw is complete, check the link above.

Dennisov, SterlingIce - after the smackdown my WCX team recieved at your hands, rest assured that my hockey players are out to get youse - wait, don't rest...

ICE PALADINS no. 1!

Big Bobby Clobber asked for a strong draw, and the Greenlanders sure got one -- their division includes the number 2, 4 and 9 teams.

Lemieux Division

Kalaalit Nunaat
SterlingIce
Dennisov
Trevorland
Jaurania
Plinkaville
New Montreal States
Slipouri

Challenging the Inuit Free State will be Cherry Cup 1 champions SterlingIce, hot Cherry Cup 2 newcomer Dennisov, and promising sides like Trevorland and New Montreal States. But President Aglukark is confident the Greenlanders will smash them all. Old-time style!

Annihilator's Coach, Michael Rivet said, "After reviewing the draw, I feel very confident that our team will do as well this year as they did last year. I remember Big Bobby [Clobber] making a remark last year about our soft Southern ways, so we've changed that. This year, we come in as the new-and-improved Sherbrooke Annihilators!" ALLER ANNIHILATORS! he shouted proudly.

Promising sides like Trevorland?
From: Trevorland Tonight

For that comment, we'd love to invite the head of state for Kalaalit Nunaat for a state dinner in Windsor, the capital of Trevorland. This offer is valid for after the tournament, of course. We'll be bitter enemies for our Lemieux Division battle coming up, but surely the two nations can become trading partners, and unite to fight greater evil in the world.

Big Bobby Clobber asked for a strong draw, and the Greenlanders sure got one -- their division includes the number 2, 4 and 9 teams.

Lemieux Division

Kalaalit Nunaat
SterlingIce
Dennisov
Trevorland
Jaurania
Plinkaville
New Montreal States
Slipouri

Challenging the Inuit Free State will be Cherry Cup 1 champions SterlingIce, hot Cherry Cup 2 newcomer Dennisov, and promising sides like Trevorland and New Montreal States. But President Aglukark is confident the Greenlanders will smash them all. Old-time style!

"Promising" Paladins not taking anything for granted"

(Kaze Progressa) Having seen what happened to the "promising" rookie Ice Paladin WCX Soccer Team (0-7 losing streak to kick off qualifiers), the Ice Paladins plan to fare better in their draw than their soccer counterparts did.

"We have an extremely tough draw out there. Trevorland is new, like us, but our scouts report that they are showing lots of spirit in practice. SterlingIce won the first Cup, and will want some national revenge after what our soccer team did to their qualifying chances. Kalaallit Nunaat is the founder of the whole thing and is certainly to be reckoned with. And the other newcomers have as good a chance as we do. This will be very interesting, certainly, and we hope that we can advance," said coach Patrick Brodeur.

The Cassowaries are not "promising." No, not promising at all. The two-time losers expect to be soundly thrashed in the Gretzky division (oddly mispelled in the host's draw :wink: ) to real hockey teams like the Quinntonia, Iansisle, Timway Tiggers and Zinkoland. But hopes are high that they may manage to lose by smaller margins to The Esten Lands, Rejistania and Darkness Forever.

Tranquillitis Nyheter
Tjänande Anden sedan den är 1955

Moose Coach 'Pleased' With Cherry Cup Draw
-Frederik Johansson

KAZE PROGRESSA - Tranquillitis Moose coach Johan Hedberg is quite pleased with the draw announced last Friday for the third annual Cherry Cup.

"I wanted a stronger division and we certainly got it," Hedberg said. "We're ranked third in the world and still aren't the top seed in the group. Our old friends Soviet Haaregrad are in our group, along with Warnocks Wizards and a strong looking Warner Brothers team. It should be a real treat."

The Moose have made a great run ever since their 4-2 defeat of Soviet Haaregrad in last year's division stage. "Ever since that win, we went on a tear, smashing Quinntonia 5-0 and then getting all the way to the finals, before losing to the Soviets. I think we can carry that momentum through to this year's cup."

The Cherry Cup starts in only a week's time.

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DON CHERRY CONFERENCE
Tretiak Division
(Rank in Brackets where applicable)

(1) Soviet Haaregrad
(3) Tranquillitis
(17) Polkaton
(15) Warnocks Wizards
Warner Brothers
The Nessaful Lands
Kryozerkia
Sliponia
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So is there an official thread for the Cup and I'm missing it or is it here or is it just not up yet? All three are equally likely :)

SI

Don't think it's up yet. KP told me a few days ago that he was starting it the next day (which would have been Friday), maybe he just forgot, as he has posted in many other threads since then.

Don't fret guys... KP are going to have this start today, with results up at 3pm ET/12 noon PT/8pm GMT/11pm Moscow time (couldn't resist that last one :D)

I've been in many other threads as Nikea pointed out, and furthermore am also hosting a cricket international tournament which has been slow to take off for myriad reasons. I'm starting that today as well, so it's a HUGE day for Progressan sport!

"Old time hockey, bar the door, clear the track, it's all out war!"-From "Time to Go" by the Dropkick Murpheys. Check this title out, it's a song entirely about Old-Time Hockey off their Blackout CD.

^^ :D I've only heard one song from them and that only because it was on a computer game soundtrack - Never Alone, I think.

Results time in an hour!

I just know we've lost.... :wink:

New thread:
http://www.nationstates.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=104583

Lynnwoode is SO in! LETS GO FLYERS!