NationStates Jolt Archive

Old time hockey, now in its seventh incarnation. and much more active than the real NHL, damn their eyes.

You know the drill- sign up to play. If you want to host, say the word.

TGS will be involved again.

Usual stance: We'll host if nobody else wants to.

Castillanos would love to join again, and I promise to RP this time! Anyways, I would also like to place a hosting bid for Cherry Cup 7. The official bid will be posted soon...

Iansisle will, against its better judgement, sign up again*.

*assume regal bearing*

After all, we cannot rest until the Greenlarders have been even MORE thoroughly crushed beneath our iron heel.

* - some sources, including the Star-Tribune, report that this decision may acutually be WITH Iansisle's better judgment. Further reports as developments warrent.

Liverpool England signs up, again. Hosting bid is a distant possibility, but for now, no.

The Allied States will send their national team, the newly renamed Navies, to the Cherry Cup for another try at it.

The Progressans will be in there again.

Starblaydia will once more send their Rayzors, now that we know an improbable title-defence is now out of the realms of wonder and into the frosty pits of elimination and impossibility from the 6th Cherry Cup.

The Cassowaries will be there with bells on.

The Cassowaries will be there with bells on.

Won't that hurt their aerodynamics?

Yeah, I know. Everyone hates a literalist. :P

http://www.blackbrookzoologicalpark.co.uk/images/factsheet/cassowary.jpg

Does the cassowary look aerodynamic? ;)

Put anything on ice - a cassowary, emu, dodo bird, or rhinoceros - and bang! It's aerodynamic!

Unless you put bells on it.

The nation of Hisam would like a go at this strange sport called "ice hockey"

Expect the Hisam Penguins to put up meek resistance :P

The Sarzonia Blizzards will make their Cherry Cup debut this time around.

Esth will send once again the military squad who played the last Cherry Cup.

7JM Sign-up and will send the Basketball squad :p :gundge:

Signed up:

The Gulf States
Castillanos*
Iansisle
Liverpool England
The Lowland Clans
Kaze Progressa
Starblaydia
Tanah Burung
Hisam
Sarzonia
Esth
7JM
Kalaallit Nunaat

* potential hosts

Squornshelous signs up.

We'll officially submit a hosting bid.

Lovisa join too

I'm already going through severe Cherry Cup withdrawls. So YOU - that's right, you reading this! - need to sign up NOW!

Would you really want my death on your hands? I didn't think so.

EDIT: Unless you're one of the ones who has already signed up. In that case, may the blessings of Don Cherry be with you, my son.

We'll give it a go. Count the CISR National Team for sure.

Heck, why not. Couple of trolls should bash the opposition. (if only I can be bothered to invent a roster with four rows of mineral names...)

Cockbill Street signs up.

My influx of Dwarves will bite their kneecaps off! Rayzors all the way, baby!

Schismstan will send its first ever national team in a sport of any kind.

(yes...we are a half-puppet of Melmond of Nation States World Cup fame..I am sharing this nation with a Canadian..so this is the hockey nation)

Signed up:

The Gulf States
Castillanos*
Iansisle
Liverpool England*
The Lowland Clans
Kaze Progressa
Starblaydia
Tanah Burung
Hisam
Sarzonia
Esth
7JM
Kalaallit Nunaat
Squornshellous
Lovisa
Soviet Haaregrad
Cockbill Street
Schismstan

* potential hosts

18 signed up

The Krytenia Aces sign up again.

We forget why, after the spankings of CC6.

As above, correct nation this time!

:headbang: :headbang: :headbang: :headbang: :headbang:

Current Cup seeding (based on cumulative performance over all Cups, points awarded for top-four finishes. if someone wants to do a more sophisticated system, then go for it. the former world number one team, soviet haaregrad, is now back but has been overtaken by three sides that did well last time out. i have the top rank, but dont worry, i always finish second.)

1. Kalaallit Nunaat
2. Tanah Burung
3. The Gulf States
4. Soviet Haaregrad
5. Kaze Progressa
6. The Belmore Family
7. Iansisle
8. Starblaydia
9. Liverpool England
10. all other returning teams
11. all rookie teams

Vilita Jungle Cats Returning!

7. Iansisle
8. Starblaydia

Things continue to be the way they should. *rubs hands together and cackles*

OOC Note: For future reference we're now known as the Confederacy of Independent Socialist Republics, or the CISR, just a heads up. ;)

Things continue to be the way they should. *rubs hands together and cackles*

Yes. I screwed up in CC5. God, shut the hell up about it. It's getting old.

Yes. I screwed up in CC5. God, shut the hell up about it. It's getting old.

I don't know why, but I have a certain affinity for Cherry Cup 5.

*turns around and sees the 5th Cherry Cup in a trophy cabinet on a plinth made of glued-together dice*

Oh, right. :cool:

Yes. I screwed up in CC5. God, shut the hell up about it. It's getting old.

To be sure, you were the one who brought up Cherry Cup V. Iansisle has a rivalry with Starblaydia - ergo, I mentioned that "things are the way they should be" because Iansisle was higher ranked than their adversary.

So really. Stop harping on about Cherry Cup V or assuming that everything I say is a direct allusion to it. God, just shut the hell up. It's getting old.

works for me

Slaytaniccans are generally too lazy for professional sports. However, a group of our finest ice hockey players, calling themselves the "Slaytanic Dodgems", wish to enter and we will endorse and recognise them as our national team, if you accept their entry.

Current Cup seeding (based on cumulative performance over all Cups, points awarded for top-four finishes. if someone wants to do a more sophisticated system, then go for it. the former world number one team, soviet haaregrad, is now back but has been overtaken by three sides that did well last time out. i have the top rank, but dont worry, i always finish second.)

1. Kalaallit Nunaat
2. Tanah Burung
3. The Gulf States
4. Soviet Haaregrad
5. Kaze Progressa
6. The Belmore Family
7. Iansisle
8. Starblaydia
9. Liverpool England
10. all other returning teams
11. all rookie teams

Your system looks pretty good, however, I would like to make one suggestion.

Instead of ranking returning teams 10th and rookie teams 11th like this:
10. all other returning teams
11. all rookie teams

Rank returning teams 10th and give rookie teams a rank equal to the amount of signed up nations. For example, if 20 nations sign up:
10. all other returning teams
20. all rookie teams

That will help prevent freak upsets of top 10 teams by newcomers, and make the cup more realistic.

Is this tourney going to happen or not?

William Shatner is, in fact, the Greatest Canadian. Don Cherry wishes he was William Shatner's toenail clipping.

Is this tourney going to happen or not?

Pretty soon we'll be barely more active than the RL NHL.

Let's get r' done.

Did/ Can we sign up

Korinthos also wishes to sign up for the Cherry Cup.

If this does happen, Sliponia will enter it's top club team, the Blue Springs Wildcats. They debuted internationally in Cherry Cup V, I believe. Either way, Sliponia will be making it's return to international hockey!

If nothing happens pretty soon, I may just take the reigns. I'll actually get something going, whether it's CC7 or "CC7a". And I'll do it Cup format, not repeat the disaster of CC5.

Y'know, I DID bid to host.

The Federation of Oliverry will send an all-star team from the OPHL into this tourney since hockey is THE sport in the nation

Y'know, I DID bid to host.

OK, then you can do it.

I was just volunteering to do something if something doesn't happen soon.

24 teams signed up.

4 groups of 6, 10 Matchdays

Top two from each group advances.

Signed up:
Kalaalit Nunaat
The Gulf States
Castillanos
Iansisle
Liverpool England
The Lowland Clans
Kaze Progressa
Starblaydia
Tanah Burung
Hisam
Sarzonia
Esth
7JM
Squornshelous
Lovisa
Soviet Haaregrad
Cockbill Street
Schismstan
Krytenia
Vilita
Slaytanicca
Korinthos
Sliponia
Oliverry

Best to at least telegram KN before starting something yourself. I'll go poke him and see if he has anything in mind for the next installment.