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Creation of The World Games
A resolution to promote funding and the development of education and the arts.


Category: Education and Creativity
Area of Effect: Cultural Heritage
Proposed by: Miskonia (through The Falling Hammer, my regional Delegate)

Description: In the attempt to create world unity and peace, I propose that the creation of a sporting competition between the nations of the world (and in some cases the Galaxy.) Nation attendance is not mandatory, nor mandatory in every event. No nation will be banned due to political opinion(s), war(s), and/or location (other world(s)). Nations may rally a boycott upon the hosting nation due to political opinion(s) and/or war(s). The World Games will be held once every 3 years. Hosting Nations will be elected 9 years in advanced, giving

The Competing Events include:
Archery
Athletics
Badminton
Baseball
Basketball
Beach Volleyball
Boxing
Canoe/Kayak Flatwater
Canoe/Kayak Slalom
Cycling BMX
Cycling Mountain Bike
Cycling Road
Cycling Track
Diving
Equestrian
Fencing
Football
Gymnastics Artistic
Gymnastics Rhythmic
Trampoline
Handball
Hockey
Judo
Modern Pentathlon
Rowing
Sailing
Shooting
Softball
Swimming
Synchronized Swimming
Table Tennis
Taekwondo
Tennis
Triathlon
Volleyball
Water Polo
Weightlifting
Wrestling

The Host Nation must construct facilities that incorporate the activities as well as facilities for the those in the audience. Athletes may not: have specific genetic tampering, have cybernetic implants, be artificially created, and/or use performance enhancing substances. Any breach of these terms will result in the disqualifying of the said athlete from the World Games. As well as the shunning of their nation.

With all due respect,
A WA Member

If any details are hazy or more need added, feel free to post a reply. Please no spamming or ridicule. And yes, I did think of the idea of "World Games" (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=553128&page=29) (a little before that too)

I ask that nations who have done this (international incidents) help in this process.

The World Games will be held twice a year. Starting the first month after the approval of the legislation.


With 18426 members of the WA it's going to take much longer than 6 months to complete the world games. And, if each member were to send just one athlete per sport you mentioned, you've got to find accomodation for 700k+ athletes plus any support crew they have, not to mention all their equipment. And giving people just one month to set up such an accomplishment, it's not going to happen.

Kari Kagrosi
Bloodstonian UN Pirate

What about the winter sports - likewise how would one coordinate games in different hemispheres? (Where the seasons are opposite)

With 18426 members of the WA it's going to take much longer than 6 months to complete the world games. And, if each member were to send just one athlete per sport you mentioned, you've got to find accomodation for 700k+ athletes plus any support crew they have, not to mention all their equipment. And giving people just one month to set up such an accomplishment, it's not going to happen.

Kari Kagrosi
Bloodstonian UN Pirate

We agree it'll take more than just 6 months and such a event would cost billions

What if regions sent athletes, all the nations that are in the WA could compete for their respective region.

Also, 6 months is not enough time, but wouldn't the host be chosen years in advance? Of course, the host would have to apply, then a voting period for all WA members. I think it would be best if regions had a vote for which nation within would apply to be the host, but that isn't a necessary step to put forward, just a mear thought.

There must be some guidelines as to who may apply, a necessary population and/or wealth?

All sports listed above would have to be broken down to insure that most, if not every variation or event is held, so that no sport (large enough) is left out.

As many times as this has been suggested, it's pretty clear that anything as specific as the original post will fail spectacularly. There's really no way to run something as specific as an International Games event without violating either the Metagaming or Game Mechanics sections of the WA rules.

Given the massive size of NS, there's no reason to use the real-world model and have a single host country. Why not hold the shooting in Wooting (http://www.nationstates.net/nation=wooting), kayaking in in Kwaking (http://www.nationstates.net/nation=kwaking), track in Kioraq (http://www.nationstates.net/nation=kioraq), or any other equally silly methodology for picking event hosts. Then anyone who wanted to host any sort of roleplay sporting event could generate adequate WA approval without any need for proposal definitions.

If you really want to do this, you'll set up not the actual Olympics, but rather the International Sports Authority that arranges such things. Build an organization that's sufficiently impartial to handle things diplomatically, big enough to manage the massive demands that our huge nation base brings, and flexible enough to allow non-WA nations to participate. Don't build the mechanics of the thing into a proposal - just build the framework.

"If you build it, they will run."

We could reduce it down to a regional, or multi-regional event for the single or double nation regions.

mmm... I think this idea is great... come on, it's the creation of The World Games!!... sounds good enough.. I don't see how the billions that will cost or how find accomodation for 700k+ athletes (or more) can make this impossible... ?? I mean... this is not the real world... "the massive size of NS"... exactly... this is a huge world.. nations have vast extentions of territory, rich and powerfull nations we are... if this world is big enough to have 18426 members, I don't see why an sporting competiton can't be possible...
(note: "...this limitations are only in your head, wich, by the way, are the proof of your limited minds").
Anyway, if this "it's not going to happen", then I think the idea of making this regional or multi-regional is quite better... I think that's good, also can be good to have more than one single host for the games (good thing)... and the creation of an "organization"... I agree with that... about the time, with the "organization" maybe we could improve our disorganized nations and do it in 6 month!.. or maybe each year, each two years... just please, let's do this, we can give this world a little more fun right? ... yeahh.. we can... we can...


Abbi Gournica, Lucis
Minister Delegate for Regional Affairs
The Democratic Republic of Ager Lekki

People keep bringing up the whole, "6 months isnt enough time thing".

a)The host is chosen in enough time to build everything, so the games can be held as often as we like, but I do think the less often it is, the more intrest there is in it.

b)Different nations hold different events, plenty of building time in that case, also helps with the accomidations for everyone. Seriously, how do you get 50,000 people to watch a tennis match, the people in the back wouldn't be able to see the ball.

And remember, the size of NS is huge, the cost to get there would be enourmous. Nations would have to dump a lot of money into the games, therefore, not as many athletes could make it to the games, reducing the problem of accomidation and all. I feel that there's a possibility that this could happen. There's many things to consider yet, but it is a possibility. It's not like this has to happen tomorrow.

We could reduce it down to a regional, or multi-regional event for the single or double nation regions.

No you can't. Not all members of any given region are in the WA, plus WA resolutions apply to everyone equally. That's why we don't allow metagaming in proposals.

As many times as this has been suggested, it's pretty clear that anything as specific as the original post will fail spectacularly.

Any proposal dealing with this topic will likely fail spectacularly, as it is not something that really falls within the WA's domain. (That's not saying it's a bad idea, just that this isn't the place for it.)

So, we scratch this whole thing and do it personally? Also, not everyone will participate. Such issues as political ideology and war will result in the boycotting of their attendance in the games. deducting about 15-20% of Nations.

http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=562141

I agree.