Today in sports history: Mexico kicks off the FIFA World Cup against South Africa, and more importantly, the quest to become the strongest PokeNation in the world begins again.
Welcome all to the World Cup of Pokemon V!
Before I move into the details of this years tournament, you may want to check out:
World Cup II
World Cup III
World Cup IV
If you're wondering why I can't link you to the first one, it’s because the threads were deleted because Nintendo couldn't find out that skarm was Canadian, as he was participating in the JAA tournament for American residents only. Heh.
This year’s tournament will be similar to last year’s tournament in terms of format because we feel like we finally found a formula that best mixed individual and team play. The format that will be used for this years tournament can be found here, except there may be a different number of teams.
The rules for this tournament will also be the same as last year, found here.
The full site for this year will be in working order soon, but I thought I would just get the ball rolling with the signups.
Now, onto the good stuff.
Registration
This whole process will work a little bit differently this year so listen up. The main issue is the old process took too long, so let’s speed this up shall we ;)
This year we decided to not have a set list of teams. We will decide a final list of the teams later. However, rest assured that most if not all the teams from last year will be returning, however there might be a few more this time.
Last years teams:
* Asia
* Canada
* Europe
* France
* Germany
* Italy
* Oceania
* Latin America
* UK
* USA Central
* USA East
* USA Metro [NY/NJ area]
* USA South
* USA West
As for how to register, I want everyone to register in this way (and in no other way):
Let me explain this thoroughly, since this is where everyone always complains.
The first field should be self-explanatory, state the country you currently reside in. Important: if you are from the USA I want you to put your state as well. We likely won’t be changing the USA teams but this is for reference (aka so people don’t whine later). If you don’t post your state I will be raged.
The nationality field is for your family’s place of origin. For example, if your family moved from India to the USA, then you would put Indian. If this is the same as your first field or you don’t think it is important, omit it from your signup.
Other eligibility should be a rarity. This is for situations like “I just moved to England but I lived in Canada all my life”. We will review these on a case by case basis, and will only grant them in clear cut situations.
As you can see we are being tighter about this than we have in the past, and it is to preserve the integrity of this tournament. Last year we had an incident and I do NOT want it happening again.
Sign up in the above way or be ignored (I may delete your post).
Captains
Again, this will be slightly different than last year. We will not have two separate threads for registration, but simply just this one. Captains will be announced one week today, June 18, 2010 (which will also include a final list of the participating teams).
If you are relatively new or not known well by me, you probably should avoid signing up for captain. We have given some relatively new players captaincy in the past and it has had some pretty poor results, so we will be sticking to our veterans that we know and trust.
Captains will be responsible for three things: Assembling and submitting their team, submitting to me their flag, and making any necessary adjustments/subs throughout the tournament (and obviously making sure their team gets their battles done!). It is a big responsibility but also a position of honour.
If you are in the position where you captained last year and want to again, feel free to start formulating your potential team as soon as now. If you did not captain last year and want to this year, include that in your post, keeping in mind our criteria. We will obviously need to fill vacancies left by non returning captains.
Team Formation
After captains have been announced, there will be another one week period in which the captains have to hold tryouts/scout users to assemble their team. This will be the time period where the most activity is required from the captain, an ideal candidate would be on IRC every day and getting the opinion of well respected members of their team on potential roster spots.
Final rosters are to be submitted on or before June 25th, 2010. All rosters should include the team name, captain name, starting 8 players and 2 subs. The captain does not have to be on the playing roster at all. I also want flags submitted with the roster.
Flags
Much like last year, each team is to have a flag to represent their nation. It should be creative and effectively depict the culture of your team.
However, this year I want to keep consistency between the flags, in terms of both size and style. For this reason I have hired one artist, Pirika, who has agreed to do all the flags. All captains must contact Pirika with a flag idea, and hopefully he can turn out 14+ flags in a week’s time.
New Teams
Last year we had 2 new teams join us, France and Italy. Both were from international forums and we were glad to have them aboard, as it really added a global touch to the event.
If you are reading this and have a different language forum / an idea for a new team, please PM Jackal and Shiv on the forums with your proposal. We will listen to all proposals and give decisions when I get back from my trip (more on this later).
IRC
I invite everyone to join us at #wcop on irc.synirc.net for 24/7 world cup banter/trash talk. I also invite captains/teams to create team channels for personal use, as we saw Oceania use theirs so effectively last year. If you don’t use irc, I suggest you get it. It is where it’s at.
Conflict with SPL
I know this is running at the same time as SPL, but… too bad. This was the only way. I know it sucks that you will be friends in one tournament and enemies in another, but SPL will have maybe 2 more weeks left when battles start so it’s not that big a deal. I don’t want to hear complaining about this, I am sick of it. It will be spaced out properly next time.
My Situation
I will be out of town with no Internet access from June 13th – June 17th. During this time I encourage everyone to signup as usual and talk on irc (without me :[). I made this post excruciatingly specific so that any questions you may have would probably be answered in this thread. If not, contact Shiv, who should be around.
Whew, long post, please make sure you read it all though.
With that said, I expect this tournament to be as good as, if not better than last year. It is pretty tough to top a husk vs Earthworm final where Asia finally loses, but we will try ;)
So nations around the world, gather round because it is time to
FIGHT
FOR
YOUR
COUNTRY!
Azn > cdn etc but not really
Welcome all to the World Cup of Pokemon V!
Before I move into the details of this years tournament, you may want to check out:
World Cup II
World Cup III
World Cup IV
If you're wondering why I can't link you to the first one, it’s because the threads were deleted because Nintendo couldn't find out that skarm was Canadian, as he was participating in the JAA tournament for American residents only. Heh.
This year’s tournament will be similar to last year’s tournament in terms of format because we feel like we finally found a formula that best mixed individual and team play. The format that will be used for this years tournament can be found here, except there may be a different number of teams.
The rules for this tournament will also be the same as last year, found here.
The full site for this year will be in working order soon, but I thought I would just get the ball rolling with the signups.
Now, onto the good stuff.
Registration
This whole process will work a little bit differently this year so listen up. The main issue is the old process took too long, so let’s speed this up shall we ;)
This year we decided to not have a set list of teams. We will decide a final list of the teams later. However, rest assured that most if not all the teams from last year will be returning, however there might be a few more this time.
Last years teams:
* Asia
* Canada
* Europe
* France
* Germany
* Italy
* Oceania
* Latin America
* UK
* USA Central
* USA East
* USA Metro [NY/NJ area]
* USA South
* USA West
As for how to register, I want everyone to register in this way (and in no other way):
Let me explain this thoroughly, since this is where everyone always complains.
The first field should be self-explanatory, state the country you currently reside in. Important: if you are from the USA I want you to put your state as well. We likely won’t be changing the USA teams but this is for reference (aka so people don’t whine later). If you don’t post your state I will be raged.
The nationality field is for your family’s place of origin. For example, if your family moved from India to the USA, then you would put Indian. If this is the same as your first field or you don’t think it is important, omit it from your signup.
Other eligibility should be a rarity. This is for situations like “I just moved to England but I lived in Canada all my life”. We will review these on a case by case basis, and will only grant them in clear cut situations.
As you can see we are being tighter about this than we have in the past, and it is to preserve the integrity of this tournament. Last year we had an incident and I do NOT want it happening again.
Sign up in the above way or be ignored (I may delete your post).
Captains
Again, this will be slightly different than last year. We will not have two separate threads for registration, but simply just this one. Captains will be announced one week today, June 18, 2010 (which will also include a final list of the participating teams).
If you are relatively new or not known well by me, you probably should avoid signing up for captain. We have given some relatively new players captaincy in the past and it has had some pretty poor results, so we will be sticking to our veterans that we know and trust.
Captains will be responsible for three things: Assembling and submitting their team, submitting to me their flag, and making any necessary adjustments/subs throughout the tournament (and obviously making sure their team gets their battles done!). It is a big responsibility but also a position of honour.
If you are in the position where you captained last year and want to again, feel free to start formulating your potential team as soon as now. If you did not captain last year and want to this year, include that in your post, keeping in mind our criteria. We will obviously need to fill vacancies left by non returning captains.
Team Formation
After captains have been announced, there will be another one week period in which the captains have to hold tryouts/scout users to assemble their team. This will be the time period where the most activity is required from the captain, an ideal candidate would be on IRC every day and getting the opinion of well respected members of their team on potential roster spots.
Final rosters are to be submitted on or before June 25th, 2010. All rosters should include the team name, captain name, starting 8 players and 2 subs. The captain does not have to be on the playing roster at all. I also want flags submitted with the roster.
Flags
Much like last year, each team is to have a flag to represent their nation. It should be creative and effectively depict the culture of your team.
However, this year I want to keep consistency between the flags, in terms of both size and style. For this reason I have hired one artist, Pirika, who has agreed to do all the flags. All captains must contact Pirika with a flag idea, and hopefully he can turn out 14+ flags in a week’s time.
New Teams
Last year we had 2 new teams join us, France and Italy. Both were from international forums and we were glad to have them aboard, as it really added a global touch to the event.
If you are reading this and have a different language forum / an idea for a new team, please PM Jackal and Shiv on the forums with your proposal. We will listen to all proposals and give decisions when I get back from my trip (more on this later).
IRC
I invite everyone to join us at #wcop on irc.synirc.net for 24/7 world cup banter/trash talk. I also invite captains/teams to create team channels for personal use, as we saw Oceania use theirs so effectively last year. If you don’t use irc, I suggest you get it. It is where it’s at.
Conflict with SPL
I know this is running at the same time as SPL, but… too bad. This was the only way. I know it sucks that you will be friends in one tournament and enemies in another, but SPL will have maybe 2 more weeks left when battles start so it’s not that big a deal. I don’t want to hear complaining about this, I am sick of it. It will be spaced out properly next time.
My Situation
I will be out of town with no Internet access from June 13th – June 17th. During this time I encourage everyone to signup as usual and talk on irc (without me :[). I made this post excruciatingly specific so that any questions you may have would probably be answered in this thread. If not, contact Shiv, who should be around.
Whew, long post, please make sure you read it all though.
With that said, I expect this tournament to be as good as, if not better than last year. It is pretty tough to top a husk vs Earthworm final where Asia finally loses, but we will try ;)
So nations around the world, gather round because it is time to
FIGHT
FOR
YOUR
COUNTRY!
Azn > cdn etc but not really
