Abbreviations in sports roleplaying

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Sports tournaments

WC: World Cup

CoH: Cup of Harmony

U21WC: Under-21 World Cup

BoF: Baptism of Fire

EC: The Eagle's Cup, a friendly tournament started and hosted by The Eagles Nest.

FHWC: Field Hockey World Cup

CC: Cherry Cup

BWC: Basketball World Cup

TLC: The Lancre Cup

NSCL or just CL: NationStates Champions League

NSFA: The NSFA Cup, which means NationStates Football Association Cup

WCC: World Cup Committee

EWCC: World Cup Committee#The Emergency World Cup Committee

TdQ The TOUR de QAZOX

Stages of the World Cup

WCQ: World Cup qualifiers (the process of reducing all entrants to the 32 Finalists)

MD: Matchday

GS: Group stage

2R: Second Round, also called Ro16: Round of 16

QF: Quarter-final

SF: Semi-final

3PPO: Third place playoff


Game terms

Football (Soccer)

FT: Full Time - a standard 90-minute football match

AET: After Extra Time - a 120-minute match scoreline, similar to American 'Overtime'

APK: After Penalty Kicks - a 'sudden death' penalty shootout as a result of a tie in Extra Time

OG: Own goal - Goal scored in one's own net

FA: Football Association - The governing body of a nation's Football leagues and teams.


Terms somehow related to sports roleplaying

FSS: For Slani's Sake

TIY: Totally Inflated Yen, the currency used in Insane Inflation which loses value so rapidly that by the time you have counted your TIY, it is worth less than when you started. Often used for bribes, especially aimed at Margaret or the host nations, since it is easy to get trillions of them for the price of a few pennies.

WTSH?: What the Slani hell?