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Football: 3rd World Cup (OOC Only)
Topic Started: Aug 9 2017, 11:22 PM (161 Views)
Porcu
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"Work is the curse of the drinking classes."

Ok, so to start things off I think we should settle on a host for the tournament. Ghaselja nominated the African Federation. Is there someone else who would like to possibly host the World Cup? Other nominations?

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Edited by Porcu, Aug 16 2017, 09:48 PM.
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Ghaselja
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Well, if it's possible to nominate more than one host country (and partly based on what NRE said in the other thread), I'd also nominate Austria as I think it's somewhat important to have the host be a big-enough country to have interesting match cities as well as a player who is around often enough. I would otherwise nominate Porcu but, given the interesting RPs brewing, I don't want to overload Porcu or distract therefrom/affect the football RP.
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Porcu
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"Work is the curse of the drinking classes."

As long as the nominees are OK with hosting the tournament, then there's no issue. :lol:
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Porcu
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"Work is the curse of the drinking classes."

Are there any other players who would like to host the Cup?

Otherwise, NRE, are you alright with hosting the World Cup in the Federation?
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If there is no one else, I have no problem at all with it :) The Federation, in particular, has plenty of descent cities to hold tournament matches in. Of course traveling between them could be costly for the fans with its not kept more localized :lol:
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Porcu
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"Work is the curse of the drinking classes."

This is the current, unofficial list copied from the larger discussion thread. NRE, how do you want the Caucasus states represented?

Also, we've gotten two new players: Langstadt as the Union of Britain and Esneria as Germania. I thought I'd add them in.

1. Federation of United African Nations
2. United Transitional Libyan Republic (i.e., Libyan States)
3. Brazilian Empire
4. Ghaselja
5. Eastern Islamic Empire - - - Possibly replace with United Republic of Georgia
6. Russian Empire
7. Kingdom of France
8. Porcu
9. Austrian Empire
10. Order of Teutonic Knights
11. Quaon
12. The Baltic State
13. Paradise
14. Transcaucasia - - - Possibly replace with Democratic Republic of Armenia
15. United Libyan Arab Republic
16. Al-Asiri - - - Possibly replace with Military Republic of Azerbaijan
17. Gaedic Caliphate United
18. Union of Britain
19. Germania


We can keep 20 teams or we can narrow it down to 16. Comments/suggestions welcome!
Edited by Porcu, Sep 8 2017, 10:11 PM.
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NRE
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Map Tsar and Southern Gentleman

Let's for now simply have the Kingdom of Georgia entered for the Transcaucus region. I will split it into at least two in the future but for this tournament I think just Georgia
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Porcu
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"Work is the curse of the drinking classes."

As I see it now, the list of teams (which is unofficial) would be:

1. Federation of United African Nations
2. United Transitional Libyan Republic (i.e., Libyan States)
3. Brazilian Empire
4. Ghaselja
5. Russian Empire
6. Kingdom of France
7. Porcu
8. Austrian Empire
9. Order of Teutonic Knights
10. Quaon
11. The Baltic State
12. Paradise
13. Georgia
14. United Libyan Arab Republic
15. Nasara?
16. Gaedic Caliphate United
17. Union of Britain
18. Germania

Am I missing anyone?
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Porcu
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"Work is the curse of the drinking classes."

I want to deeply apologize for putting this off for so long. I'm determined to see this through.

I had originally considered having a random "Free State" host the event, but then saw that NRE's African Federation was already scheduled to host the tournament. I'll attempt at creating a poster for the World Cup, but won't guarantee one since I want to focus on simulating the event in its entirety and providing the results here.

I want to reiterate that I'll be using my copy of FIFA17 to run friendlies and tournaments. Regarding team assignments, I want to be totally transparent, so I'm happy to answer further questions but basically I'll randomize teams from FIFA17 to a finalized list using Excel and then use FIFA17 to run auto-simulations of the matches. I went ahead and trimmed down the list of teams to 16, better reflecting the current number of players on the forum and making it easier to run the simulation.

I also went ahead and made a subjective valuation of each team's "star rating" since we are basically starting fresh so that I could properly assign club teams from the game to each nation. My rational for giving different ratings reflects overall forum participation and tried to reflect our understanding of balancing fairness with providing an "advantage" to veteran players. For example, Russia has been a long-standing and powerful nation and so gets the maximum star rating, while I dropped Porcu's rating to 4.0 to reflect the Civil War - normally Porcu would be rated higher, especially as it is the defending world champion. I also tried to balance the distribution of teams from each region but (not unexpectedly) Europe has the largest share. We can discuss whether we'd like to keep ratings as a continuous, running score or to reset the ratings after each World Cup (or another similarly major tournament).

Nation - (Star Rating) - FIFA17 Team Assignment
1. Russian Empire - (5.0) - Juventus
2. Porcu - (4.0) - Ajax
3. Kingdom of France - (3.5) - RB Leipzig
4. Austrian Empire - (4.5) - Benfica
5. Baltic State - (3.0) - Kaizer Chiefs
6. Ghaselja - (3.0) - FC Seoul
7. Bulgarian Empire - (3.5) - FC Kobenhaven
8. Federation of United African Nations - (4.5) - OL Lyon
9. United Transitional Libyan Republic - (3.0) - Sao Paulo
10. Georgia - (3.5) - Celtic
11. United Libyan Arab Republic - (4.0) - FC Krasnodar
12. United Amirati Emirates - (4.0) - Real Sociedad
13. Krosana - (3.5) - Al Ahli
14. Chirondom - (3.5) - LA Galaxy
15. Pacific Native Tribes - (3.5) - Atl. Nacional
16. Osage Republic - (3.5) - Burnley

+ + + + +

GROUP A
Pacific Native Tribes
Osage Republic
United Amirati Emirates
Russian Empire

GROUP B
Krosana
Porcu
Georgia
Chirondom

GROUP C
United African Nations
Baltic State
Transitional Libyan Republic
Libyan Arab Republic

GROUP D
Austrian Empire
Ghaselja
France
Bulgarian Empire
Edited by Porcu, Jun 24 2018, 12:01 PM.
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Auf geht’s Österreich!! So excited to see it back and running!
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sweet this should be fun! Also when I get the chance I'll see if I can come up with a poster Porcu since the Federation will be hosting :)
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Porcu
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"Work is the curse of the drinking classes."

Does anyone by chance have saved the flag Q used for Chirondom? It's bothering me that Chirondom's the only nation for which I don't have a flag. :lol:
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