NationStates Jolt Archive

Baptism of Fire

XXXII

Scorinator to be used:
Qazox' own Oxen Cup scorinator, which has been used in 9 Oxen Cups. The scorinator uses a formula that usually factors in KPB rank, but can be modified for the BoF. The main component of the formula to be used will be based on the style modifiers of the two teams and RP points accrued. A sample simulation will be given, on request, for any number of teams, and any style modifier between -3 and +3.

Previous hosting experience:
As mentioned above, Qazox has hosted 9 editions of a non-KPB cup, the Oxen Cup, will minimal complants about the scorination of the events. Qazox has also hosted 3 editions of the World Baseball Classic (using a similar scorinator to the one to be used in the BoF), a World Cup of Hockey, a World Bowl, two separate Sports Festivals, which were basically mini-Olympics; and the final Women's World Cup. While this would be Qazox' first offical hosting duty involving a BoF, CoH or World Cup-type event, the amount of previous experience hosting similarly large events would be a benefit.

RP bonus:
In the BoF, since all competiting nations have no KPB ranking, RP judging is the main factor in determining the amount of RP bonus applied to each team involved. Qazox will rate each and every RP, each day, by each team as a separate applied bonus to the scorinator formula, with 'Quality' RPing receiving a greater bonus than poor RPing or no RPing at all. There also will be a culmulative RP bonus that factors in the involvement of each team in RPing the BoF. The exact figures cannot be revealed until after the BoF itself, as pre-knowledge might bias the RPing to ensure a greater chance of success. Both quantity and quality will be used, but Quality will have a greater factor overall in the scorination.

Qualifying Structure:
Depending on the final number of sign-ups for the BoF, (currently: 8, no including the most recent signups. The groups will be split as evently as possible (hoping for either 2 groups of at least 6 teams or 3 groups of at least 5 teams) and compete in a single-round robin. The top 8 teams, regardless of the final number fo signups or groupings; will advance to a single-elimination knock-out round to determine the overall BoF Champions. Efforts will be made to avoid any re-matches from the preliminary stage in the 1st round of the elimination rounds.

If the number of BoF eligible teams remains what it currently is: (8 confirmed, 3 unconfirmed and possibly 2 more for a total of 14 teams), then there will be 2 groups of 7 teams, in a single-round robin with the top 4 teams from each group advancing to the knockout rounds.

If you have any further questions, please post them in this thread.

(bumping to ensure more readers)

Your government doesn't object to its people knowing that beings such as sapient Bears or Invisible Wabbits exist, right?

What sort of climate & weather conditions could we expect?

Your government doesn't object to its people knowing that beings such as sapient Bears or Invisible Wabbits exist, right?

What sort of climate & weather conditions could we expect?

Baptismals of Fire are reserved for teams that have never done it before, and/or have not played in the World Cup Qualifiers or Main Stage. Hence the low number of entrants.

Your government doesn't object to its people knowing that beings such as sapient Bears or Invisible Wabbits exist, right?

What sort of climate & weather conditions could we expect?

Our main religion worship an ox that spoke to the son of the founder of the country, after a week long LSD trip {link (http://wikistates.outwardhosting.com/wiki/Qazian_Religion#History_of_the_Qazian_Religion)} and not to mention we believe that wombats are living embodiments of the Devil, so we do belive in the existance of sentient animals, plants and certain fungi. No sentient bacteria will be recognized, however.

As for the weather, Most of the matches will take place either in Lake Porter City (RL weather equivalent: San Francisco) or Lorax City (RL weather equivalent: Atlanta).

UPDATE to Qualifying Structure:
Currently there are 10 teams that are confirmed to be playing in the BoF. If that number stays the same, then there will be just 1 group of 10 teams, with 9 games to be played. The top FOUR teams will the face of in the play-offs (1vs4, 2vs3) with the winners of those games playing for the Title.

There are 6 teams that are BoF eligible, but have not confirmed their particiaption. If any or all of those teams confirm their participation, the group structure will be changed to accomodate that/those team(s).

Baptismals of Fire are reserved for teams that have never done it before, and/or have not played in the World Cup Qualifiers or Main Stage. Hence the low number of entrants.

Oh, I assure you that I already knew that the Bears themselves aren’t eligible to compete in the next BoF, but after certain recent events (during World Cup 44) I felt that establishing potential hosts’ policies on non-human sapients would be advisable on general terms anyway: After all, apart from anything else, some of the Bears might want to attend this contest as spectators… and that would be allowed, right?
Besides which, the Invisible Wabbits (for whom, at least OOC, I’m also responsible…) are eligible to participate in this BoF and in fact have already signed up for it, and they need to know the answers to those questions: Okay, so maybe I should have logged out as the Bears and then logged in as the Wabbits before posting that comment, but I was short on time…

Our main religion worship an ox that spoke to the son of the founder of the country, after a week long LSD trip {link (http://wikistates.outwardhosting.com/wiki/Qazian_Religion#History_of_the_Qazian_Religion)} and not to mention we believe that wombats are living embodiments of the Devil, so we do belive in the existance of sentient animals, plants and certain fungi. No sentient bacteria will be recognized, however.

As for the weather, Most of the matches will take place either in Lake Porter City (RL weather equivalent: San Francisco) or Lorax City (RL weather equivalent: Atlanta).

Thank you.

No sentient bacteria will be recognized, however.

Oh nellie, you just opened a can of worms...

Bumping to ensure voters can re-read the bid.

I lost. But this bid will be the same for the next CoH and the next BoF. I shall return to try to take over the hosting again!