ooc OOC: 2022 UENA Wurld Cup

[Prymont]

Football's coming home, and that's reminded me that we're coming up on the 2022 Wurld Cup. Last time out, the victors were the Sunset Sea Islands. Since they can't host the tournament for obvious reasons, I figure we can open it up for applications like they do IRL. Additionally, we can replicate the continental tournaments as qualifiers - or, if there aren't enough nations, it can be a sort of warm-up tournament. 

By my reading of the map, Argis is the only continent with enough active players to host a tournament - the rest of you lot would have to group up. Yuck. I'm happy to take the lead on Argis, and I understand @Oyus has an interest in handling things too, so between the both of us we can figure out the qualifiers stage and prepare for the 2022 Wurld Cup.

I suppose this post is just putting the feelers out - seeing who's interested and who would participate. We can use a match generator for the fixtures, we have lineup builders, and kit designers. 

 

Calendar:

• Now - July 18: gauging interest, menial behind-the-scenes planning
• July 19 - end of July: tournament planning & buildup
• August: tournaments start & finish

 

For now, we can see where we're at with active participants so we can see which continents need grouping together to have enough teams. Let's get ready for a summer of football!

[Orioni]

I love that you're taking the lead on this. My only reservation is being absent in August when the tournament starts. These are the regional qualification games, yes? And the actual world cup will take place next year in 2022?

[Cashar]

Oooooh! I'd love to throw Cashar into an Alharun team (I think that's what you're saying? That we'd have to have an Alharun team instead of individual teams because there isn't enough players otherwise?)

[Prymont]

1 hour ago, Orioni said:

I love that you're taking the lead on this. My only reservation is being absent in August when the tournament starts. These are the regional qualification games, yes? And the actual wurld cup will take place next year in 2022?

Correct, the regional tournaments are for August, the Wurld Cup will be next year.

1 hour ago, Cashar said:

Oooooh! I'd love to throw Cashar into an Alharun team (I think that's what you're saying? That we'd have to have an Alharun team instead of individual teams because there isn't enough players otherwise?)

Not quite. Each nation would have their own team, but typically there's one continent per tournament - see the Euros IRL, they include European teams exclusively. Since our continents are not full, we may have to group continents together, so Cashar may be playing against Alharun and Aurelian teams for example.

[Ateenia]

Ateenia will come and take the W

Be ready to lose.

[Rhava]

Fun! Rhava will participate.

[Stedoria]

Stedoria would be interested in participating.

[Kolhar]

Volta would be interested in participating as well!

[Tagmatium Rules]

I'd be down.

[Gallambria]

Count me in.

[Xio]

Metztlitlaca and Sitallo would be interested to play, although I'd imagine Sitallo might be a bit... preoccupied for its team to play well in the Wurld Cup, so if a starting looser is required...

Metztlitlaca's National Team won the 2019 Aurelian Cup, so how hard could a couple of frozen northerners really be 😛?

[Struma]

Mokhavia would like to participate!

[Utogo]

Utogo will obliterate the competition.

[Esonice]

Absolutely, count Esonice in! We're ready!

[Tagmatium Rules]

Actually, I'm off doing something in the darkest reaches of Scotland for two weeks at the end of July/start of August.

Does that mess with things?

[Prymont]

33 minutes ago, Tagmatium Rules said:

Actually, I'm off doing something in the darkest reaches of Scotland for two weeks at the end of July/start of August.

Does that mess with things?

It would do, but since yourself and Orioni are due to be busy in August, perhaps the Europan tournament can be set back to September.

[Tagmatium Rules]

21 minutes ago, Prymont said:

It would do, but since yourself and Orioni are due to be busy in August, perhaps the Europan tournament can be set back to September.

If it unf*cks things, I can always drop out.

[Orioni]

@Prymont — I've setup a match report from a previous friendly match against my nearest neighbour. It was a good practice. This also makes it clear which players I want to keep or replace.

@All — One question that remains open is who I'll have as a coach. I'm open to having another foreigner train the team. If you have a fictional coach you'd like to volunteer for this role, feel free to reply with a brief 3-sentence bio. Thanks.

[Orioni]

@Prymont Unless you already planned something, I will post our match report on Friday or during the weekend. Is that alright? Would you like to include something else besides a brief description and game report?

Meanwhile I spent so time updating my players and their teams. It’s not fully finished yet but the dryer is available here: https://iiwiki.us/wiki/Orioni_Orcas

@All: Still searching for a coach. I’d never body shows up I’m tempted to borrow Ted Lasso’s coaching clone Ed Salvo. Edit: I gladly accept @Rhava's offer as coach.

[Ahrana]

I would be up for this as well.

[Salvia]

Man I'm late. Salvia would be in. Similar to @Metztlitlaca, my NPC neighbor Alvernia may also participate if needed, and likewise can be an early loser.

Edited July 31, 2021 by Salvia (see edit history)

[Cristina]

Cristina in.

[Aurora]

is it too late to join for a new country?

[Orioni]

@FinaSure, you can still join.

@PrymontShall we do this in 2022 before/during the actual world cup?

[Gotneska]

Could Gotneska also join? If it’s to late we understand but hope we can be included.

 

thank you.