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(Any nations not in the region of Lancre, please ignore. Our forums are having problems at the moment...)

The draw for Lancre Cup X took place earlier today. Here are the results:

Heat One
Venue: Chcot

Utter Complete Idiots vs. GNY Embassy
Tonca vs. –Arynth-
LostLotheria vs. Hockey Canada
Andrewmania versus Bongostan

Heat Two
Venue: Heerbee Jurraginz

Jamiezomonia vs. Vtorbetin
Zamboni Island vs. The Hartlot of Babylon
Bestiville vs. Sirocco
Gandhi Followers vs. Earth 2

Heat Three
Venue: Sil-y-Bugghirs

DTAS LAND vs. Rachels Insanity
Umgullia vs. Dregruk
Jothopolis vs. SAF
Aamericaa vs. Extreme Dictators

Heat Four
Venue: Menda City

Yesnono vs. Fatheaded Edward
Hoge vs. Docere
Troon vs. Hippie Dudes
Blu-Tac vs. Sliponia

Please use this thread to RP and post your team lists (the previous RP and discussion thread wasn’t posted soon enough, so I’ve decided to start a team list thread earlier this time).

The Bestiville team:

GK: Robert Merridian
DF: Pielza Larello
DF: Nicholas Garda
DF: Tim Wallace
MF: Paul Drekkian
MF: David Daoid
MF: Christian Urgull
MF: Vienna Massa
FW: Nathan Marcus
FW: Aaron Parkin
FW: Edward James (now back from injury)

Substitutes:

GK: Carl Rell
GK: Jack Kelly
DF: Lauren Hapigoth
DF: Edgar Taanamai
DF: Peter Kersopp
DF: John Manga
MF: Theodore King
MF: Matt Black
MF: Reece Applay
FW: Oliver Keth

Recent interviews regarding World Cup XXII

Bestiville manager Opia Brookbanks speaks to the 'BS times' today, and receives heavy critisism about his team's performance.

Interviewer: Mr Brookbanks, Bestiville is currently last in their group and have not yet scored a goal. Why do you think this is?

Opia: Well, this is our first World Cup. You can't expect us to do well in the first one that we're in, do you?

Interviewer: We expect you to at least score a goal...

Opia: At the time of our first match we were still jetlagged from our flight from Sliponia (hosts of Lancre Cup IX). We got to the Semi-finals in that cup and we think that we used up most of our energy to get there.

Interviewer: What do you want to say about young Aaron Parkin, Bestiville's most shining new player?

Opia: Parkin is playing well. This is his first major non-club tornament, and in the match against Bettia in the BoF kept it a draw with an awesome penalty at 5min (underrated by the Bettia article on the match). So yes, he is playing well.

Interviewer: Can you express your worries about James' injury which he sustained from the BLF final, Womynchester United versus Kidneypool?

Opia: Of course we're worried. I believe that your interview with Parkin earlier in the tornament says it all. James kept our team motivated, and I believe that an aspect of our performance can be put down to his absense.

Interviewer: How would you rate your managerial skills?

Opia: What kind of question is that? I think that I'm helping Bestiville to do the best they can, and got Newfort United to the BLF Semi-finals. I'm the best manager Bestiville could have hoped for.

Interviewer: Thank you for your time Mr Brookbanks.

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The full interview with Aaron Parkin and Nathan Marcus, listed in parts previously

Interviewer: Mr Parkin, Mr Marcus, thank you for joining the BS times for this interview.

Marcus: The pleasure is ours.

Parkin: It is good to be here.

Interviewer: First off, Parkin, you are the youngest player ever seen in a Bestiville team (the previous record holder was Paul Drekkian, Bestiville captain, who joined at 17) at the tender age of 16. Does this pressure you at all?

Parkin: Not really. Opia (Bestiville manager) is confident in my ability, and that is all that matters to me. I know that I'm a talented player so I never really worry about the occasional bad game, everyone has them.

Interviewer: Mr Marcus, are you at all pressured to perform?

Marcus: I've never felt pressured, that's one of my more humourous character traits I suppose.

Interviewer: What do you feel about Bestiville's performance in the cup so far?

Parkin: It was the worst start we could have hoped for. Due to our most acclaimed player being injured (James) we haven't been on top form. Our team are just not motivated.

Marcus: Yes, James was the heart of our team. We just can't do our best without him.

Interviewer: When he's back in the next world cup do you think that you'll do better?

Parkin: Almost certainly!

Marcus: Definately!

Interviewer: Finally, who are you best friends with on the Bestiville side.

Parkin: Well of course each other (*playfully nudges Marcus*) but I'd say that the whole Bestiville team are a big family. We all look out for each other. Outside the locker room I do go out drinking with Nathan (Marcus), Theodore (King) and David (Daoid) though.

Marcus: We do get on well. I go out to the gym with Tim (Wallace) every Monday and will regularly go and play poker in Las Vaguely with Pielza (Larello) and Oliver (Keth). Us being such good friends outside the locker room must help our Teamwork.

Interviewer: Aaron, Nathan, thanks again.

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Keep a look out on the 14th because as part of the opening ceremony there will be a ‘History of The Lancre Cup’. It should be good.

Good luck,

Emperor Besty the Majestic (Grand supreme ruler of Bestiville and Delegate of the region of Lancre)

The new-and-improved Siroccan team is as follows:

A. Pugh, B. Pugh, Barney, Mick, Grew, Couth, Berte, Dibbs, Bull, Grubb, and Trimptun.

They're all eager and willing to play, except Grew who's a whining git.

The Blu-Tac team.

Bob Jones
Bob Jones II
Steve
That guy from the pub.
Peter
Simon
Garry
John
A gun-totting hick
James
My pet frog.

These are the 11 best players we've got...
oh no we're going out in the first round.

I might replace That guy from the pub with Dave... but i'm not sure.

This season will see a brand new Dregruk team, who will be in no way physically altered by chemicals. We don't have names yet, just vat numbers.

...draw your own conclusions.

Yesnono's goal for this cup is to improve over last time. This could include actually scoring, or at least not being tied to trees.

As for a team, apathy is running high. Everyone asked to volunteer so far has asked, "Why should I?" Several of our greatest athletes injured themselves laughing after they got the reply of "National pride..."

The organizing committee remains confident they will find a team in time…

we're gonna win it all!

we're actually serious

Team:

Bob
Doug
Dan
Bill
Hank
Gord
Fat Guy #1
Jack
Fat Guy #1
Homer

BUMP

The forums still aren't working, for Yesnono and for me.

Anyone know why? And woohoo on my promotion to Delegacy! Go me!

woo on your deligate stautus, Besty. I was going to tell on the regional board, but, no such luck.


The Committee still has yet to find a team. They are getting really good at pretending not to be worried.

The Toncan team has been greatly boosted by young new recruits and the line up consists of:

Emily Lightfoot
Lucas Roary
Elsbeth Fleet
Maximillian Tigress
Alexandra Liona
Nathaniel Brown
Kristal Phoenix
Isabel Felina
Brittany Emerald
Marcus Quick
Rocco Gardenia

The citizens of Tonca are choosing to optimistically ignore the fact that their blistering win in the first round of Lancre Cup IX (Tonca's first Lancre Cup) only came about because the other team lay down, and that the Toncan team failed to score a goal in their second match. Tonca's citizen's look forward to much success in this competition.

Unfortunately, senior officials are aware that the Toncan team may face sabotage in this round due to Queen Katriana's recent decline of a marriage proposal from Emperor Besty. Despite assurances that this was purely for diplomatic reasons (don't want to upset all those other nations that have only ceased agressive action against Tonca because of the Queen's feminine charms) and not because Emperor Besty isn't viewed as an extremely attractive and suitable partner, it is feared that this has offended.

OOC: Someone really needs to teach me how to shorten my sentences to manageable sizes that don't need to be re-read multiple times (skipping the bracketed content) to get the meaning! Would you believe that my English teachers in high school always wrote "very succinct" on my work?!

Sadly during a exhibition match yesterday, Tonca's Marcus Quick was injured in a sickening accident. He and Thomas Green, a former Toncan star playing in the Legends side, came at the ball from opposite sides and smacked their legs mid shin. Much of the crowd failed to keep their lunches down after witnessing both players with floppy joints where legs usually don't bend.

Quick has been replaced in the Lancre Cup team by Gretchen Glider who recently sprung to fame after kicking the winning goal in the final of the TFL.

{pokes the thread to see if it is still alive}


The Yesnono Lancre Cup Committee has decided to sent the winners of the most recent tournament as our team. This tournament was for players age 12 and under. Yesnono is therefore proud to send the team from Yesnono City Elementary School # 14.

The Committee said of this decision "They may be small, but they are wily. Also, they were willing to do it for free once we told them they got to ride there and back in a plane."

Most of the population of Yesnono didn't care, as usual. Those passer-bys who noticed the press conference approved of the Committee's logic.