International Challenge - Discussion

[Gonzap]

If you have any relation with a country and you want to play for it you do. It's not world cup okay we don't need a copy of the passport, we trust everybody will be telling the truth.

[Slov]

Tank, you were playing with me, Titan and noob13 for refugees last time

[Titanoboa]

Tank there might be a Nordic team this time (Sweden and Finland I guess, since I've never seen any danish or norwegian forters) and I 100% expect you to be on it!

[Tank Program]

Slov, I knew it was something like that... I just couldn't remember it exactly. And yes Titan, I will be there. (Well, as long as I can physically make the date...)

[matchbox53]

so should i play with the same team i played with last year ? like hungarians and romanians etc

[Phytotron]

Not deliberately trying to throw another log into the flames (although we are actually getting some good valid points here so far), but what is the general consensus on allowing players who reside/were born in one country to play for another....

Olympians have the choice between playing for their country of origin or of residence; I don't see why kids in a video game shouldn't have the same choice. (Obviously, it's the individual's personal birthplace or established residence we're talking about here, not their ancestry. Actually going by what Mkay said would be silly and ultimately pointless. At what generation would be the cut-off? Go back far enough and we're all East Africans.)


As for potential USA splits, you guys could make it easy by just splitting it geographically into East and West teams (delineated by the Mississippi or something). If you need more, you could add a Central (like the old East/Central/West NFL divisions) and/or further break it into Never Eat Shredded Wheat regions.

Like so many of these tourney-related debates you guys have, there's plenty of real-world precedence for these kinds of things. See, for example: the All-American Bowl, East-West Shrine Game*, or the Senior Bowl. There are countless other examples involving, shoot, probably most sports.

On the other side of it, it also seems perfectly sensible and obvious to me that any nations unable to field a full team can consolidate into a (regional, where appropriate) multinational team. Why should anyone object to that?


* What happened?

[Mkay1]

I was making a joke. I really like how you consolidated different views and made good solutions. I agree with him completely. It *might* be hard for Amerixans to get east/west, but it would also be hard to make north/south. If I'm not mistaken, the majority of fort players are from the north east.

Before any decision is made, there should be an evaluation I'd data of Anerican Fort players to decide how to split teams. I think (blindly) that it will end up as *roughly* northeast and rest of US.

iPhone post, may be a little choppy.

[INW]

I like the idea of East and West American players.

TBH, I don't think most of the players are from the North East.
I think the majority are from the East.
I am in North Carolina so that wouldn't qualify as "north".

[Desolate]

We were going to do the same thing last time, but it's just too hard to work out, no one really agreed on what regions to actually choose.

[syllabear]

We'll see soon enough from the sign up statistics what demograph we have.

[ElmosWorld]

I didn't play last time, but it is unfair for the US to have more the one team. The players from the US should just decide whether to play for the US or play for the country where their ancestors came from.

[LucK]

I didn't play last time, but it is unfair for the US to have more the one team. The players from the US should just decide whether to play for the US or play for the country where their ancestors came from.

How is it unfair? US has like way more players than any other country. You could take one region from the US and it would more than likely still have more players than most of the other countries.

[ElmosWorld]

Hold on, let me call the the Olympic committee and see if US can have more than one team next Olympics because we have more players.

Edit: Maybe China is a better example. But w/e you see my point.

[INW]

This isn't the Olympics.
It is a video game.

[LucK]

Hold on, let me call the the Olympic committee and see if US can have more than one team next Olympics because we have more players.

Edit: Maybe China is a better example. But w/e you see my point.

China cheats anyway...