NationStates Jolt Archive

After the major fail of former NS Bowls, the Oliverrian Football League decided, once again, to invite the best players of the world to a new International meeting of Gridiron Football.

So, what else to say aside from if you want to sign-up, please do. Also tell me if you want to host it

Sign-ups (16):
- Oliverry
- Az-cz
- Qazox
- Bostopia
- Setinland
- Taeshan
- St Samuel
- Milchama
- Yafor 2
- Kura-Pelland
- Ikoville
- Quakmybush
- Vephrall
- Angaor
- Fedorian
- Barkozy

Hosting bids:
None so far

Az-cz signs up. We need more trophies.

YES I wanna join.

Maybe on the hosting end.

Bostooooooooooooopia (we sign up)

Setinland (formerly Setinje) signs up.

Taeshans lightning football team sigfns up (note not same name as other taeshanese sports teams)

St Samuel sign up

Milchama is... in!

<Oliverry> So, there's the guy who has been asking for a Gridiron World Cup, but still doesn't sign-up :P

Okay, I'm signing up, stop complaining.

Bostooooooooooooopia (we sign up)
You are going down. My triple spread option will pwn your soul.

You can count the Kura-Pellandi side in too.

Ikoville would like to sign up

Quakmybush sign up

I may be putting myself at risk of RP workload overflow, but what the hell. I'm in.

i would like to sign up

I'd like to enter this event too.

I may be putting myself at risk of RP workload overflow, but what the hell. I'm in.


I'm well past that point.

Bahkozy is in.

Run and shoot >>> ALL

Time to bumpify this.

I also might be willing to host it, if I can find enough time in the next week or two to build a decent scorinator.

If you need any extra teams, I'm sure we can scrounge up some rugby players for a team. :p

I suppose I can compete as well. Actually RP? ...maybe.

lovisa sign up

Okay, so that brings us to 19 teams. I have two possible formats in mind, one accommodating 20 teams and another that works for 24.

With 20 teams
4 groups of 5, each team plays each other team once (4 games per team)
Top 2 in each group advance to quarterfinals, then single-elimination

With 24 teams
8 groups of 3, each team plays each other team twice (4 games per team)
Top 2 in each group advance to round of 16, then single-elimination

The 20-team format includes 8 total matchdays (including one bye needed in the group stage). The 24-team format includes 10 total matchdays (including two byes needed in the group stage).

I have also successfully completed a scorinator for the event. It's actually more like a full-blown simulator, generating each play during the game, but if I posted the full results of that, well, your RP flexibility would go down the tubes. So instead I'll give you guys two options regarding how you want the scores to be posted:

(a) Broken down by quarter, like so:
1 2 3 4 T
Oliverry 0 10 12 14 36
Vephrall 24 7 7 7 45

(b) Just the final score:
Oliverry 36, Vephrall 45

sign The Orion Islands Werewolves up for this event.

I could go with the quarter by quarter format.

As I said in IRC, final score would be better. If you want to kill creativity, then go by quarters

Van Prooijen University of New Manhattan, sixty-time national collegiate gridiron champions, will enter its “national” team in the tournament. As gridiron isn’t very popular in the Unified Capitalizt States, neither Capitalizt SLANI nor 자스연 (Jasīʼyūn) has interest in assembling a national team (and such a team would consist almost entirely of VPU’s players anyway). VPU will compete under the name Unified Capitalizt States.

I don’t particularly care either way, but I’d prefer only having the final score, rather than the box score.

(a) Broken down by quarter, like so:
1 2 3 4 T
Oliverry 0 10 12 14 36
Vephrall 24 7 7 7 45

vs

(b) Just the final score:
Oliverry 36, Vephrall 45

By Quarters.

just posting the Final Score will lead to too many RP's like this:

Team X 34- Team Y 30
Team X scores 4 TD's in the final 4 minutes to stun Team Y who had lead 30-6 before QB Joe Blow led a furious comeback by....

Qazox: If it does not happen in the World Cup, why would it happen here? And anyway, a time out could be able to shake the players well enough to to score 4 touchdowns in 10 minutes :p

I, President of New Morrisia, hereby sign my country up.

*bump*

We now have 22 entrants. Just two more and I can get this thing started...

Just bumping this up so people get signed up. If we get more than 24 entrants, those who signed up after 24, what should we do with them?

Anyone after 24 will be placed on the waiting list - if any of the signed-up nations should cease to exist before the start of the tournament, the waiting list nations would replace them.

I see. Somebody sign up!

Bump

I got an idea how about 2 groups of eleven teams with everybody playing everyone else. Then the top 8 teams from each group are ranked 1-16 and they playoff like this 1-16 2-15 and then there like brackets in ncaa. Or all the teams are ranked 1-22 after the first round then 11-22 have play offs.

I got an idea how about 2 groups of eleven teams with everybody playing everyone else. Then the top 8 teams from each group are ranked 1-16 and they playoff like this 1-16 2-15 and then there like brackets in ncaa. Or all the teams are ranked 1-22 after the first round then 11-22 have play offs.

Just as long as it starts sometime before the end of the year...

Mallatarsland signs up.

How about that since matarsland signed up why dont we do this 4 groups with six teams and since i dont see a 24 sign up we could just make an international squad with 2 ( or more) Members of competing nations

Signup deadline is now officially set for Sunday at 5pm Eastern (2100 UTC). If we don't have a 24th team by then, the tournament will proceed with three groups of six and one group of five.

23 teams. One more!

East Lithuania signs up!!!

And that will do it! 24 signups.

A new thread will be opened shortly. This thread will be used for team rosters and RP for the tournament.

EDIT: And now the thread (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=541841) is open. Please read the instructions carefully. :)