NationStates Jolt Archive

Groupings
Group A
Chao master
Audioslavia
Scaraba
The Belmore Family
Zinkoland

Group B
Liverpool England
Halfassedstates
Nastic
Lapse
Aust

Group C
Australian Marsupials
Uniginia II
_Taiwan
Timway
Sphube

Group D
Katoa
Virgin Atlantic
Cockbill Street
Vozvyshennost
Glossopian

Matchday 1
2v1
3v4
5 RESTS

Matchday 2
1v3
5v4
2 RESTS

Matchday 3
4v1
5v2
3 RESTS

Matchday 4
1v5
2v3
4 RESTS

Matchday 5
3v5
4v2
1 RESTS

Matchday 6
Q1:Runner Up Group D Vs Winner Group B
Q2:Winner Group A Vs Runner Up Group C

Q3:Winner Group D Vs Runner Up Group B
Q4:Runner Up Group A Vs Winner Group C

Matchday 7
S1:Winner Q1 Vs Winner Q2
S2:Winner Q3 Vs Winner Q4

Matchday 8
3 P/O:Looser S1 Vs Looser S2

Matchday 8
F:Winner S1 Vs Winner S2

Group A (Alan City) stadia
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Group B(Sarah City)
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Group C(Susan City)
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Group D(Ian City)
Images will be up later

Vozvyshennost Shirts and Squad Released

Vozvyshennost Home Shirt
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Vozvyshennost Away Shirt
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Squad

[code:1:67cd514ea4]1. Zakhar Abramov (Prop)
2. Benedikt Komoltsev (Hooker)
3. Mecheslav Zhilkin (Prop)
4. Mecheslav Rezin (Second Row)
5. Dmitriy Golovko (Second Row)
6. Petr Rezin (Flanker)
7. Mstyslav Tkachenko (Flanker)
8. Nison Ozerov (#8)
9. Ruslan Tsyplakov (Scrum-Half)
10. Alexander Konko (Fly-Half)
11. Andrey Laidinen (Winger)
12. Andrey Kim (Centre)
13. Miron Karkach (Centre)
14. Yakov Gordeev (Winger)
15. Evgeniy Bekishev (Fullback)
16. Nerijus Rimkus (Prop)
17. Ðarûnas Šlekys (Winger)
18. Vladas Šluota (Flanker)
19. Nazariy Kuznetsov (Second Row)
20. Vadim Borisov (#8)
21. Ruben Alexeev (Fly-Half)
22. Ivan Zakharov (Fullback)
23. Vytis Veikutis (Centre)
24. Alexander Ivanenko (Centre)
25. Evaldas Kaušpedas (Winger)
26. Jotautas Miškinis (Prop)
27. Sergey Sokolov (Hooker)
28. Andrey Ignatiev (Scrum-Half)
29. Aras Kanapienis (Flanker)
30. Romas Ugnianskis (Second Row)[/code:1:67cd514ea4]

The Taiwanese Rugby team have put in a spirited game, but were still defeated by Timway 28-20.

Coach Christian Cullen commended his team, saying "They're new to the game, and the pressure of World events sometimes gets to them. But they can only go up from here."

Taiwan will play the Australian Marsupial team in the next match.

Scaraba's 29-23 victory over The Belmore Family has Dalaam (Scaraba's capital city) in a state of emergency. The Kneecappers drinking game (wherein all Kneecappers fans do a shot everytime a point is scored) was the prelude to rioting and looting of chain stores citywide. The actual team did participate in this chaos once they returned home, and all the members now have new stereos.

Rugby Team Defveated by 20 points, Lose to Halfassedstates 22-42
The national rugby team got off to an unbelievable start, losing by 20 points to a much stronger-than-expected Halassed team. Jack Lowell managed a try for the team early on into the first half but Michael Humvey missed the conversion, going slightly wide. LE 5-0 Halfassedstates. However, the Ha;fassed team came back strongly with a try and three penalties, to put the halftime score at 14-5 (anyone reminded of England/Australia? ;)) It was a mess in the second half, with both teams scoring two more tries each within seven minutes of the restart, putting the score at 24-17, the conversion made by Humvey, Halfassedstates. A mistake in a scrum led to another Halfassed penalty, which put them up further at 27-17, a 10-point lead. But, within seconds of the restart, good play by the LE team led to another penalty, this time for the LE team, which Dave Furrell converted to lower the deficit, but poor defending allowed the Halfassedstates team to go further ahead, and with seven minutes on the clock, Halfassedstates were ahead, 42-17. A late try salvaged pride for the team, but at the final whistle, Halfassedstates won by a comfortable margin.

Cockbill Street 30-29 Vozvyshennost

Vozvyshennost put up an excellent fight against Cockbill Street but ended up losing by just the one point. Cockbill Street had the better first-half and ended up leading 23-13 at half-time with Vozvyshennost's points coming from a converted try and two penalties. The match looked certain about 10 minutes after half-time when Cockbill scored a try to go 30-13 up. However, Cockbill relaxed and this allowed Vozvyshennost to get back into the match and they fought back to 30-22. Andrey Laidinen then intercepted a pass in their own half and ran all the way to the other end to get the score back to 30-29. However, it was too late and Cockbill hung on to win by the single point.

Vozvyshennost Points Scorers

Tries

Ðarûnas Šlekys
Andrey Laidinen

Conversions

Alexander Konko (2)

Penalties

Alexander Konko (4)

D-Goals

Alexander Konko

The Ankh-Morpork C-mail
Cockbill Street Department

Seagulls See Off Unpronouncable Nation
Commentator Broke His Tongue After Thirty Minutes

What a game by the rugby team. After putting up such a poor performance in the football, no one would expect the national rugby players to do any better. But that's exactly what they did, and after a splendid performance, the rugby team came out on top.

The front-rowers, Markham, Foul Ole Ron and Cryolite, were especially good, and controlled the scrums and rucks against the Vozvyshennost players. Abramov, Komoltsev and Zhilkin tried their best, but never really managed to grab hold of the ball, and was repeatedly forced back. It didn't help that Robin Harmison had an excellent day as number 8, repeatedly gaining the ball from seemingly impossible situations. And the wingers of course, Yobbo Quirke and Burleigh, had a field day as they ran in three tries between them - two of them marvellous 40-yard-runs. That resulted in a 30-13 lead 10 minutes into the second half, and manager Ironfoundersson then substituted half the squad to give Vozvyshennost the chance. Three penalties gave Vozvyshennost 22-30 with 8 minutes to go, and Andrey Laidinen sent Ironfoundersson worrying with his excellent try. Cockbill Street's props and locks brought the game into control, however, as they controlled the many scrums that were awarded due to rough play in the final minutes, and Cockbill Street pulled off winners with 30-29.

The C-mail ratings: Robertson 6, Burleigh 7 (off 57 Giles), Hammerhock 5, Hill 6, Quirke 6 (off 61 Evans), Vimes Jr. 5, Stronginthearm 5, Markham 7, Ron 6, Cryolite 6, Bull 4 (off 55 Leigh), Chrysoprase 5 (off 59 Cuprous), Detritus 5 (off 51 Porous), Peterson 4 (off 56 Golddevourer), Harmison 6 (off 57 Hoggard).

Final score:

Cockbill Street 30
Vozvyshennost 29

Cockbill Street points: 5-0 Quirke 8 (try), 7-0 Vimes Jr. 8 (conversion), 12-6 Burleigh 27 (try), 14-6 Vimes Jr. 28 (conversion), 17-6 Vimes Jr. 32 (penalty), 20-6 Vimes Jr. 33 (penalty), 23-13 Vimes Jr. 38 (penalty), 28-13 Quirke 50 (try), 30-13 Vimes Jr. 51 (conversion).

HSMG News

Halfassed Rugby team off to a flyer.

The Halfassedstates national rugby side played its first international rugby match for a number of years to-day.
The side came up against a tough looking Liverpool England side in Sarah City in the opening game of Group B in the Rugby WC.
In a stadium much the same size as our own Murruy Park, the Halfassed side seemed quite at home and after conceeding an early try, they settled into the match. Leading 14-5 at half-time, the Halfassed side refused to be pegged back by the LE team and eventually ran-out 42-22 winners.
A slightly flattering score, but one which has got the side off to the perfect start in the tournament.

Halfassed have a rest day next, before taking on Aust on matchday 3.

Results Matchday 1

Chao master 30 - 25 Audioslavia
Scaraba 29 - 23 The Belmore Family
Liverpool England 22 - 42 Halfassedstates
Nastic 43 - 30 Lapse
Australian Marsupials 30 - 27 Uniginia II
_Taiwan 20 - 28 Timway
Katoa 28 - 20 Virgin Atlantic
Cockbill Street 30 - 29 Vozvyshennost

Table to come soon!

When do we play?

Heartbreak for Taiwan
Taiwan 25 - 28 Australian Marsupials

With Taiwan's coach Christian Cullen emphasising that "this was a tough game", the Taiwanese team managed to be ahead 12-8 at half-time, due to two tries by Winger Chang Chin Kip.

However, the Australian fitness soon kicked in as the Taiwanese team became exhausted. The turning point in the match was when Number 9 Li Wong was trampled in a tackle and had to leave on a stretcher. It was the end of the Taiwanese dream from there.

Heartbreak for Taiwan
Taiwan 25 - 28 Australian Marsupials

With Taiwan's coach Christian Cullen emphasising that "this was a tough game", the Taiwanese team managed to be ahead 12-8 at half-time, due to two tries by Winger Chang Chin Kip.

However, the Australian fitness soon kicked in as the Taiwanese team became exhausted. The turning point in the match was when Number 9 Li Wong was trampled in a tackle and had to leave on a stretcher. It was the end of the Taiwanese dream from there.

Heartbreak for Taiwan
Taiwan 25 - 28 Australian Marsupials

With Taiwan's coach Christian Cullen emphasising that "this was a tough game", the Taiwanese team managed to be ahead 12-8 at half-time, due to two tries by Winger Chang Chin Kip.

However, the Australian fitness soon kicked in as the Taiwanese team became exhausted. The turning point in the match was when Number 9 Li Wong was trampled in a tackle and had to leave on a stretcher. It was the end of the Taiwanese dream from there.

Stupid stupid forums and their stupid double posts...

Ankh-Morpork C-mail
Cockbill Street Department

Rugby Team Lose Out To Katoa's Fly-Half
Six tries not enough to win the game

Same procedure as last time, just a bit unlucky, and Cockbill Street lose by three points to Katoa. The game started out very poorly, when Katoa's fly-half was allowed to kick three easy drop goals and give Katoa 9-0 up. The Seagulls fought back bravely, but Hill and Yobbo repeatedly failed to tackle the Katoa fly-half whenever he came inside 40 yards, and he obliged by kicking drop goals at will. A couple of tries as well saw the Katoans lead by 29 points to 19 at half time, our three tries being scored by Robertson, Stronginthearm and Peterson.

In the second half, the Katoa fly-half incredibly missed a conversion, due to some very strong winds. Still, two penalties gave them 40 points in total, and despite a further three tries from the Seagulls, one of them a spectacular jumping run by Hill as he skittled past four Katoa defenders, it was all down to young Sam Vimes Jr. as he got a difficult penalty some 45 yards out with a minute to spare. Instead of going for the try and a certain loss, he tried for two points, but the ball hit the upright and sailed wide to the dismay of the crowd. The delight for Cockbill Street was the scrum-play, which was rough and gave away penalties, but more often than not resulted in the ball ending up at Stronginthearm's hands, who could then flick it on for some excellent long runs. The Seagulls have many a good day in front of them, it seems.

Final score:

Cockbill Street 37
Katoa 40.

The C-mail ratings: Robertson 5, Burleigh 6 (off 62 Giles), Hammerhock 4, Hill 5 (off 71 Evans), Quirke 7, Vimes Jr. 4, Stronginthearm 6, Markham 7, Ron 7, Cryolite 4, Bull 5 (off 41 Leigh 6), Chrysoprase 6 (off 44 Cuprous 7), Detritus 6 (off 59 Porous), Peterson 3 (off 66 Golddevourer), Harmison 5 (off 71 Hoggard).

Cockbill Street points: 5-9 Robertson 15 (try), 7-9 Vimes Jr. 17 (conversion) 12-12 Stronginthearm 28 (try), 14-12 Vimes Jr. 29 (conversion), 19-26 Peterson 36 (try), 24-29 Hill 48 (try), 29-35 Quirke 55 (try), 34-40 Hammerhock 70 (try), 37-40 Vimes Jr. 74 (penalty).

Liverpool England 18 Nastic 7 - Three Tries and Drop Goal Seal LE's First Win

LE Scoring:
5-7 Jason Lowell (try/14th minute), 10-7 Michael Humvey (try/48th), 15-7 Dave Furell (try/75th), 18-7 Jack Lowell (drop goal/80th)
The team went down to an early try and conversion from Nastic in Susan City yesterday, within two minutes Nastic led 7-0 after a mistake from Humvey assured Nastic the ball just mere inches from the line, and Nastic were up. However, within twelve minutes LE had scored a try. Jason Lowell managed a try after good play by brother Jack ensured the Nastic defence could not catch up. Humvey's conversion went slightly wide, hitting the post on the way. It remained 5-7 at the break after tight defending, but a slip up ensured another try, this time Humvey getting to a good pass by Dave Furrell. Humvey's subsequent conversion went wide again, making him one of the worst conversion-converters in LE history of the sport. But, he missed a third conversion after Furrell's five-minutes from time try, and a last minute scrum led to a slight mess from Nastic, giving Jack the chance at a drop goal which he converted. Full Time, Nastic 7 LE 18.

Koalas See Off Taiwan

AM Koalas 28 - 25 Taiwan

The Koalas celebrated in the best possible style last night, beating Taiwan 28 - 25 to go top of their group.

The Koalas deserved to win, playing the more enterprising style and scoring three tries to two.

Taiwan's winger crossed for his second try to take Taiwan into the lead over half-time (8 - 12), ensuring a dramatic second half but the Koalas ground out a win after the break.

The willingness of both sides to keep the ball in hand defied the greasy, showery conditions, with the Koalas particularly adept at counter-attacking from deep, while the Taiwanese were at their most effective when stringing together quick phases of play.

It was a brave effort from the visitors. Although outplayed for much of the match, they stayed within sight of the Koalas throughout, leading into the break.

The arrival of rain threatened to ruin the spectacle but it had the opposite affect on the Koalas, who played some of their most enterprising rugby in the 15 minutes after halftime.

Scrum-half Li Wong was carried off at that point after falling awkwardly in a tackle, giving replacement half-back Ly In Dog his first test appearance for more than a year.

Prop Tunno Brix scored from close range following a well-worked line-out move mid-way through the first half, whilst the remaining two Koala's tries went to centre Mal Dunnie in the second half. Fly-half Jim Shoelace contributed the remaining 13 points with his boot, missing only one conversion from the left touchline.

Seamus O'Hack
Wombat News

Glossopian 17 - 10 Vozvyshennost

Vozvyshennost still failed to get their first points of the tournament by losing 17-10 to Glossopian. Vozvyshennost players will admit that Glossopian were the better side, and have promised a haigher work rate to win at least one game. The first half was pretty equal, with the score at 9-7 to Glossopian at half-time. However, the second half was dominated by Glossopian who scored one try and one penalty to win the mathc.

Vozvyshennost Points Scorers

Tries

Vladas Šluota

Conversions

Alexander Konko

Penalties

Alexander Konko

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Results Matchday 1

Katoa 28 - 20 Virgin Atlantic

Table to come soon!

Following the results of the game, which was dominated by dozens of missed tackles and penalties, the team was bussed to a secret rural location for "training".

What happened to this?

What happened to this?
My computer with the workings has broken down, should commence before Christmas though.

Shame...well, good that you intend to keep it up :)

umm.. are we gonna play?

Maybe a BUMP?

I seem to have lost the files for M/D 2-Here are the results I know

AM Koalas 28 - 25 Taiwan
Cockbill Street 37 - Katoa 40
Liverpool England 18 - Nastic 7
Glossopian 17 - 10 Vozvyshennost

Options
1. The Whole of Matchday 2 is replayed
2. I telegram all the people playing in M/D 2 asking for results
3. I replay the results I don't know