Introduction

With many sporting tournaments being held in the NSverse both Ns-Wide and Region wide the time for a guide to hosting a NS Sport has come. Whether a sport has a real-life counter-part or if it is a fictional sport does not matter all require the same level of detail and dedication to the sport to be able to effectively host a tournament.

Some examples of Sports that have been known to have tournaments run in NationStates include:

• Soccer/Football
• Baseball
• Cycling
• Cricket
• Kleptochase
• And many others...

While Most of these have real-life counter-parts such as World Cup for a number of Sports and Tour de France for Cycling there exist sports such as Kleptochase that only exist in NationStates. And so no matter whether the sport is real or fictional this guide is for you.

Requirements for Hosting a Sporting Tournament

There are a number of things that you need to think of and questions you need to answer before someone should even consider hosting a Sport Event.

Skills

It is well known that some people are just plain better at certain things compared to others, so how are you going to handle this for your tournament? There are 3 possible ways to handle this, these are...

1. Multi-skilled Sporting
2. Generic Sporting Skill
3. Un-skilled Sporting

Whatever method of skilling you use for the tournament your scorinator will have to be able to accomodate the skills and you will require a formula based on the mechanics of the sport to translate the skills into points or times as appropriate for the sport. Please note in edition to skill there needs to be involved a level of randomness involved, You need to determine the balance between the skill(s) and the randomness.

Multi-skilled Sporting

This occurs when a number of factors combine to determine how well some one, or some team, performs in a sporting event compared to other competition. An algorithm is used to combine all these individual skills with a random factor to generate the final result of the match. Some multi-skilled Sporting examples include:

• Tour De Qazox
• Vilitan Surf Tour and...
• Kleptochase - However, despite that each "chaser", or competitor, in Kleptochase has 4 skill categories only one is used depending on the type of chase being completed. And so has elements of both Multi-skilling and Generic Sporting Skill

Generally each competitor in a multi-skilled tournament when they join get to assign various points to each skill. The number of points to assign may be the result of a ranking system and may need to be assigned every tournament or may be continued on from a previous tournament.

Generic Sporting Skill

This occurs when a tournament uses a system of a single number to represent how good or poor a team is, this is generally fairly easy as you only have one skill to combine with a random number to generate the final result. Some examples of Generic Sporting Skill tournaments include:

• World Cup (of soccer/football)
• Cup of Harmony
• AOCAF
• Olympics
• Ylompic

A team or competitor is usually assigned a standard skill level when joining, whether that is 0 or something else. A totally new tournament that has no team that has a skill benefit over the other is classified as a Non-Skilled Sporting tournament

Non-Skilled Sporting

This occurs when there are no pre-existing skill points assigned to any team, this usually happens for a new tournament that is un-related to any other tournament, whether or not there are already tournaments of the same sport. Only randomness is considered when generating the scores for these types of tournaments.

All tournaments at one points started out as un-skilled but in their second iteration become Generic Sporting Skilled, there are very few Multi-skilled sports that have ever been Non-skilled. However there is one Perrenial Non-Skilled Sporting event. It is called the Baptism of Fire. A tournament that is considered in the ranking system used in World Cup Committee (WCC) sanctioned events like the World Cup and Cup of Harmony. Despite being a repeated tournament all participants are unranked. Compared to each other. This Article is un-finished....