NationStates Jolt Archive

It's back - one of the more anonymous sports competitions of the NationStates world. The first finals are about to be completed, so here is the new edition.

Americans and others, please note - this is Team Handball, a game rather similar to basketball but with football goals in the place of baskets and with a keeper guarding the goal. Not the handball played in America, which I think resembles squash but with hands instead of rackets.

The first instalment had 8 teams, and that was perhaps a bit too few. About 12 teams would be nice, as it would allow for a longer tournament.

Sign-ups:
Cockbill Street
The Allied States of The Lowland Clans
Rejistania
The Belmore Family
White Dwarf
NEWI Cefn Druids
KOR3A
Alex the Tall
Bariloche
Sliponia
Timway
Kromdraai
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RP Thread (http://www.nationstates.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=110812&highlight=)

The Allied States wishes to send it's fine nation team, the Stars, to this tournament.

The Rejistanian handball team is looking forward to defend their title again.

Signups are noted.

(extremely thinly veiled BUMP)

I'll give it a try....

Sounds ok, but how do you decide who wins a game

Sounds ok, but how do you decide who wins a game
Like in all NS sports competitions, it is decided by certain formulas based on
* rank
* RPing (if you RP your matches, you get a bonus)
* random numbers

Look here to see, how matches were RPed before: http://www.nationstates.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=104936

What Rejistania said.

BTW, here is the ranking after NSHC 1:

1st Rejistania
2nd Cockbill Street
3rd Sliponia
4th Kaze Progressa
5th Olympus Coliseum
6th New Montreal States
7th KOR3A
8th Eastern Newfoundland.

New nations will be given rank 9. RP bonus isn't quite incorporated into the spreadsheet yet, but will be before NSHC II.

Bump.

Hmmm...bump again.

Sounds like a good idea, think we might sign up.

Another bump, sponsored by your source of handball news - the Ankh-Morpork C-mail.

Forgot to mention - anyone like to co-host and generate my results? I felt a bit dodgy when I got to the final...even though the fault was not mine, but the RNG's :)

If you want anyone to do your scores, you have good chance if you just go into the channel #wcc (World Cup Commitee, became someow the channel for al NS-sports) on irc.esper.net.


BTW: This BUMP is sponsored by the KaMaRi Update - News that matters!

Well, if we're going to get RP bonus in, then TEAM KOR3A will give it another go.

Well, if we're going to get RP bonus in, then TEAM KOR3A will give it another go.

Noted.

(another thinly veiled bump - sponsored by Cockbill Street Guild of Carpenters & Tailors)

Ok, i will participate...

The Community of Bariloche would be honored to have this international competition as a way to introduce itself to the World.

OCC: How RPing the games will be fairly done?

The Community of Bariloche would be honored to have this international competition as a way to introduce itself to the World.

OCC: How RPing the games will be fairly done? Look a few posts above yours. there is a link to the RP-thread of the previous cup

The Community of Bariloche would be honored to have this international competition as a way to introduce itself to the World.

OCC: How RPing the games will be fairly done?

Results will be generated in a spreadsheet made by me, and they will then be sent out by telegrams.

Sliponia will make a repeat in HWC II.

Noted.

As the tournament is fast approaching (only two spots left now) I'll give a bit more info on the organisation.

Group Stage: 2 groups of 6 teams, best two in each group progress to the knock-out stage.

Knock-outs: Semi-finals, third-place play-off and final. All will be one-off games this year. Group A winner is drawn against runner-up in Group B.

Play-offs: The other teams play-off for ranks. Third placed team in Group A play third-placed in Group B, and so on.

RP bonus: All RPers in the last handball tournament will get a small bonus (roughly +1 rank), and so will those who RP a game here. As in the Football World Cup, you can't get RP bonus for more than half the total games played.

Schedule of group games:

[code:1:698be78e39]Rnd 1 Rnd 2 Rnd 3 Rnd 4 Rnd 5
1 v 2 1 v 3 1 v 4 1 v 5 1 v 6
3 v 4 2 v 5 2 v 6 2 v 4 2 v 3
5 v 6 4 v 6 3 v 5 3 v 6 4 v 5[/code:1:698be78e39]

Ranking system for NSHC III: Teams will be ranked from 1 through 12 given their results in the play-off. If the team that wins the third-place play-off has more points than the team that loses the final, the team that won the third-place play-off is still ranked third in this tournament. Add to this 1/3 of the rank in NSHC I (teams who did not play there gets a rank of 9 for that tournament) to get the final number of ranking points for NSHC III. For NSHC II, ranking is very simple - newcomers ranked at 9, all who come in from the previous edition retain their rank (at the moment, Rejistania, Cockbill Street, Sliponia and KOR3A)

If you want anyone to do your scores, you have good chance if you just go into the channel #wcc (World Cup Commitee, became someow the channel for al NS-sports) on irc.esper.net.

Thanks, will try that!

An RP thread will be opened as soon as we have 12 participants. I will put the link to the RP thread in this thread.

TBF Roster

Starters
1. Joseph Tanner
2. Paul Davies
3. Philip Arnold
4. Oliver Crawshaw
5. Charles Belmore
6. Tanner Haki
7. Keval Patel

Subs
8. William Handley
9. William Tame
10. Thomas Wickersham
11. Paul Irwin
12. Jake Smithe
13. Harry Gore
14. Alex Jones
15. Gareth Belmore

Also:BUMP

Seven on the pitch, preferably seven on the bench.

Short runthrough of other rules:

Played indoors

2 x 30 minutes of play (old football-style - no breaks except for injuries or cleaning the floor, which happens more often than you'd think)

Infinite amount of changes permitted during a match

No one except the keeper can stand inside the D (which is familiar to field-hockey-players - this D is 7 metres from the goal). If the defenders do, a penalty shot is given to the other team. If an attacker does it, and scores a goal, the keeper gets the ball and no goal

Quite a lot of physical contact permitted - as long as you don't start pushing people around.

Ball must not touch the legs

You may only take 3 steps with the ball

That's about it.

NEWI Cefn Druids Team for Handball World Cup II

First choice team:

1. Trevor Johnson (GK, 23 years old)
2. Trevor Lee-Davies (LB, 28 y.o.)
3. Stuart James (CB, 23)
4. Dave Yeats (RB, 29 )
5. Trevor Cannon (LW, 27)
6. Trevor Chapman (RW,16)
7. Rhys Chapman (CR, 19)

Bench:

8. Trevor Jones (RW, 30)
9. Eric Renton (CB, 30)
10. Trevor Ormillton (RB, 27)
11. Robert Thakes (LB, 24)
12. Trevor West (LW, 22)
13. Ryan Langton (GK, 35)
14. Terry Hat (CR, 28.)

Coach:

Trevor Alton (56)

Kits:

First kit: Black and white striped shirts, black shorts, white socks
Change kit: Blue shirts and shorts, white socks

The Rejistanian roster:

Coach:
Juu Junu

Starters:
Lyku Syku
Hikiru Da
Jen Aji~l
Syku Kansu
Tida Ju
Hada Isra
Kada Sulny

Substitutes:
Ha~e Lata~n
Isa Suru
Kamadu Istaru
Iki Jamu
Daru Inru
Radaka Ly
Kiha Ly

(Radaka Ly and Kiha Ly are twins)

First kit: Orange shirts, white shorts, orange socks
Change kit: Blue shirt, orange shorts, blue socks

Timway would like to send its team to participate in this event.

Home Kit: White over Orange
Away Kit: All Black

Are we supposed to post rosters here? Or will there be another post for it?

Just in case Bariloche will present its team now, we are ready to rumble :D

Bariloche National Handball Team

Coach:
Pablo Cano (45)

Starters:

1- Juan Gutiérrez [GK] ( 20 )
2- Martín Roca ( 26 )
3- Javier Sonnet ( 23 )
4- Leandro Gonzáles ( 26 )
5- José Garay ( 23 )
6- Luis Cabrera ( 18 )
7- Ricardo Ascenzi ( 21 )

Bench:

8- Martín Lomas ( 28 )
9- Sergio Alameda ( 29 )
10- Pedro Rossi ( 18 )
11- Nicolás DeMarchi ( 23 )
12- Hernán Walsh ( 19 )
13- Matías Coria ( 29 )
14- Juan Fernández [GK] ( 23 )

Kits:
First kit
Sky-blue and white vertical striped shirt, black shorts, white socks.
Change kit
Dark-blue shirt, white shorts, white socks.

OOC: and a 8) to you too php

Are we supposed to post rosters here? Or will there be another post for it?

Rosters here as everybody seem to be doing it. Besides, it's bumping the thread :D

Timway's submission is noted. Only one spot left now...

EDIT: Squad:

1. Callous
2. Helen Peters
3. Alan Jones
4. Brian Smith
5. Benjamin Ioannou
6. Chris Mariner
7. Andy Healy
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8. Neil Quinn
9. Hreidar Trollfighter
10. Martin Read
11. Andrea Durham
12. Peter Sanders
13. Matt Pollock
14. Silicaceous.

Huge bump...

That's not a huge bump...

...this is a HUGE BUMP!!!

:oops: Or is that a bit too huge? :oops:

And a bit smaller bump ;)

Nah, good that you want to bump it. If nothing happens within Friday at around 5pm forum time, I'll probably add my puppet Gleam Street to get things going.

Third bump in a row...how hard can it be to get a twelfth team?

Apparently, very hard :D

This is a rejistanian puppet. In case no other team signs up, use it.

Ok - ten hours left to seize the chance of bumping Amerikanha

JOHNSON INJURED IN FREAK ACCIDENT

The first-choice goalkeeper of the NEWI Cefn Druids handball team, Trevor Johnson, has sustained a hand injury in the build up to the Handball World Cup.

Johnson, 23, was at home in Trevor City putting up a self-assembly shelving unit when he caught the fingers of his right hand between two of the panels, dislocating joints in his middle and ring fingers.

The injury has lead to Johnson pulling out of the squad. Ryan Langton has been promoted from the substitutes' bench to replace him at the World Cup, whilst yound Trevor Neville takes his place in the squad. The full squad now reads as follows.

13. Ryan Langton ( GK, 35 )
2. Trevor Lee-Davies ( LB, 28 )
3. Stuart James ( CB, 23 )
4. Dave Yeats ( RB, 29 )
5. Trevor Cannon ( LW, 27 )
6. Trevor Chapman ( RW,16 )
7. Rhys Chapman ( CR, 19 )

Substitutes:

8. Trevor Jones ( RW, 30 )
9. Eric Renton ( CB, 30 )
10. Trevor Ormillton ( RB, 27 )
11. Robert Thakes ( LB, 24 )
12. Trevor West ( LW, 22 )
14. Terry Hat ( CR, 28 )
15. Trevor Neville (GK, 15 )

Trevor seems to be a very popular name in NEWI Cefn Druids :)

Make that a bump, too.

kromdraai wants to sign up for the hanball tournament.

Great to have a real participant instead of a puppet to take the last spot.

Welcome kromdraai - good to finally get the 12th team in :)

An RP thread has just been started. (http://www.nationstates.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=2508987#2508987)

Good luck to all teams!