SOLE

SOLE was Liverpool England & South Osettia's World Cup 22 Bid to host, which they successfully won.

SOLE stands for South Osettia and Liverpool England, for those not noticing the acronym.

A few words

As many of you know, I'm a perennial bidder. I won't be the first to deny that... perhaps you might want to know the reason behind that. Well, as I've told TBF and CS, it has to do with the wierd fact that I claim to have 'invented' the NS World Cup; a claim which I cannot back up due to te original threads having been purged. In Feburary 2003, I started a 'NationStates FIFA World Cup'. After two matchdays were done, I had RPed an internal civil war, and left the running of it to Iesus Christi... this never seemed to happen, and I left the forums for three months in March. Apparently, in April 2003, Arridia (sic) came and started the 'NS World Cup', and when 32 nations signed up, he started what we now know to be the longest running recurring RP ever in NS' history. While this may seem a bit stretched, a few people (TnUI? Ogle? Bedi?) might remember the WC6 [my first 'NS World Cup'] Signup, where I claimed to have started it (Ogle then found the link to my original thread.)

Anyhow, that's the story, and regardless of whether you believe it, here's the SOLE Take II bid for WC22.

Stadia

Liverpool England stadia

• Grover's Park
  • Orean
  • 99750 all-seater
  • Orean's first major sports stadium. Many like it have started springing up. It has been revamped recntly after the successful Cup of Harmony, and the seating has been increased by 5%.
  • Built: Circa World Cup 14

• Memorial Stadium
  • City Centre
  • 104000 all-seater expandable to 106000 (2000 standing)
  • Built to remember the bloody civil war of 1200 in Liverpool England. Originally used as a National Stadium, but that has since changed.
  • Built: Circa World Cup 8

• Kilamantari Stadium
  • Folenisa
  • 65000 (2410 standing)
  • This is the first stadium ever built in the desert areas, after the stadium proved successful the F1 track in Orean popped up.
  • Built: Circa World Cup 10

• Colonial Stadium
  • City Centre
  • 55000 all-seater
  • Built: Circa World Cup 10

• National Stadium
  • City Centre
  • 106000 all-seater, expandable to 130000 (4100 standing)
  • Terraced, Dome stadium, retractable roof
  • Built: Circa World Cup 15

South Osettian Stadia

• The Ts’khinvali Stadium, Capacity: 84,547

• The Dinamo Ring, Capacity: 79,291

• The Ashtarak Track, Capacity: 63,193

• The Gori Circle, Capacity: 62,482

Scorination

We'll be using the amazing java program created by Rejistania known as Leagion.

Ranks

Full KPB post-WC21 ranks will be used.

RP bonus

We'll be trying a minimal RP bonus. Me and SO actually wanted to duplicate our CoH bid and not use RP bonuses, however we agreed it was too risky so we've come up with this.

Any RPs with under 100 words will not be considered.

Each considered RP will receive a rank boost of 0.001 per word (IE the minimum boost you could get would be 0.1 ranks). If the RP is deemed to be excellent (think Lemmitania), an extra boost of 0.1 per word will be awarded.

Number of Teams

82 - 10 groups of 8, top 3 progress 102 - 10 groups of 10, top 3 progress 107 - 15 groups of 7, top 2 progress

Conclusion

That's the end of our presentation, we sincerely hope the WCC will consider our bid.