International Challenge - Discussion

[syllabear]

Can I request that people initially sign up with their country of residence. After the signup period, there should be a chance for you all to make requests/arguments/etc. for and against being placed in different countries.

Exceptions to this are: For example. I am living in the UK atm. If I decided to take a course for university that means I'll be spending the next 6 months in France, and the tourny is probably going to be held within the next 6 months, I will sign up for UK and not France.

Also, please don't sign up for more than one country... It's annoying sorting.

As for mixing countries: lets wait till we see how many sign up for each country...

Oh, and thanks to everyone so far for their support!

[Titanoboa]

sweden might have enough for a team but slovenia never will

http://gridstats.com/ladle34
http://gridstats.com/ladle35

Sweden only has 1 ladle-playing swede afaik and that's me.
I guess my point is that if you wanna call it a world cup, each country should only be allowed to join with one team. And so what if your country doesn't have enough players - sux for you. You can still play in other tourneys.

Can't think of any sport that lets a country join in with more than one team just because they have more active players.

[Slov]

well we don't have to be that serious it's only a game...

[Tank Program]

Sweden only has 1 ladle-playing swede afaik and that's me.

I could be tempted into playing on a Swedish cup team.

[gawdzilla]

Come on dutchies, sign up. Fortunate for me, all dutch players are very skilled.

Except for olive but we'll take him anyway.

[syllabear]

1) Please just one post per person in the signup topic, and only relevent information in that post

2) Please only put one country (your residential one, unless specified, as explained here

3) Titan, you don't have to play if you don't want to. There's nothing stopping you signing up for Sweden, and finding out if there are non-fort players who are Swedish, who would be willing to train up a bit with you.

4) Organisers will not force any countries to play together. It is an option, and if used, we will consult all affected players.

5) No team appart from the USA has more than 6 players yet! Germany is close with 5 though, and Canada with 4!

[mac&cheese]

Name: Mac&Cheese
Country: USA
State: Massachusettes
Are you interested in being a team manager?: Nah
GID: Mac&cheese@forums
Any other relevant information: nothing i guess

[gawdzilla]

mac and cheese you posted in the wrong topic

also, I'm currently busy making a forum for the World Cup so every team will has its own PRIVATE section to discuss tactics etc

[Titanoboa]

Sweden only has 1 ladle-playing swede afaik and that's me.

I could be tempted into playing on a Swedish cup team.

lol, 'course you'd be welcome.

me you and henke00 could make a killer team
and a few months ago i met a swedish Player 1.
and hm, I think there's a swedish wildcat player around too.

why don't ya sign up ^_^

[Desolate]

mac and cheese you posted in the wrong topic

also, I'm currently busy making a forum for the World Cup so every team will has its own PRIVATE section to discuss tactics etc

Most likely a good idea. Do we even need a separate forum? Can there be a temporary world cup section made when the time comes? Tank?

[gawdzilla]

Deso, then Tank has to assign every single player to their own little private section, assuming he wants to make all of those.

[Slov]

also, I'm currently busy making a forum for the World Cup so every team will has its own PRIVATE section to discuss tactics etc

[-*inS*-]

Hmmm my thoughts on this,

Assuming we could get the same following as a ladle or greater (should be greater!) there could be 4 groups of 4 teams. Each team plays standard best of 3 fight vs other teams in it's group. Then best (best meaning best win-loss record, however +/- point could be used for tiebreakers) 2 teams from each group (8 teams overall) advance to next round where it's sorted like world cup (winner from group A plays 2nd place from group D, etc..).

Then the 8 remaining teams play normal ladle style play with the bracket made from the group stage results.

In the case of less teams, just randomize a bye or two into the group stage.

Food for Thought

Basically USA has like enough players for 3+ teams while other countries don't have enough for one.
- Will we break USA into regions? (If yes, what regions? Timezones wouldn't work well imo)
- Will we combine smaller countries? (If yes, how do we decide who is grouped with who?)

[Slov]

Basically USA has like enough players for 3+ teams while other countries don't have enough for one.
- Will we break USA into regions? (If yes, what regions? Timezones wouldn't work well imo)
- Will we combine smaller countries? (If yes, how do we decide who is grouped with who?)

1. I don't like that but if we really get a lot of usa players I guess 2 USA teams should be ok...
2. Yeah we should do that. Countries that are next to eachother or speak same/similiar language or that had something to do with eachothers in past (like Slovenia+Serbia were in Yugoslawia but since there are only 2 yugos that I know in Tron we will do a slavic team) etc.

[Corn1]

There's about 30 ladle playing US players, so idk how well 2 teams would work.