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Revision as of 14:42, 14 July 2007
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The NationStates World Cup is NationStates' longest-running recurring sporting event, dating back to the first half of 2003. Nations from around the NS world at all sorts of different technology levels play football (also known as 'soccer' or 'Association football') for the ultimate glory of becoming World Champions. For a direct FAQ on the World Cup, see the World Cup FAQs article.
Contents
Procedure
Qualifying
Each World Cup since the third has begun with a qualifying stage including anywhere from approximately fifty to one hundred nations, with eighty being the customary number. These nations are typically divided into eight to fifteen qualifying groups of six to ten nations, depending on the exact number entered. Each nation in a qualifying group plays each other nation in that group once at home and once away (the exception to this rule was World Cup 5, where nations in the qualifiers played each other only once). After all matches have been played, thirty qualifiers are determined based on placement in their groups. The first criterion for placement is the number of points earned (three for a win, one for a draw, and zero for a loss). If this results in a tie, the first tiebreaker is goal difference (the number of goals conceded subtracted from the number of goals scored). The next tiebreaker is the number of goals scored. In almost all situations, this is enough to resolve any tie. (If it is not, the results of matches between the tied teams would act as a tiebreaker, and a playoff match would occur if the teams are still tied. This has never been required in the qualifying, although it has been required haphazardly in the group phase, first occurring in World Cup 12 when Timway beat Liverpool England 2-1.)
World Cup
The thirty qualifiers in addition to the two host nations advance to play in the World Cup proper. The first round (or the group stage, as it is also known) is made up of eight groups of four nations. Routinely, four of these groups play in one host nation, while the other four groups compete in the second. Each nation in a group plays each other nation in that group once. The top two nations in each group advance to the second round, using the same rules as with qualifying. Beginning with the second round (also known as the round of sixteen), a single-elimination format is used. The exception to this is in the semifinals, as the two losing nations in the semifinals still move on to face off in the third-place playoff.
Scorinating
Results are determined by using a scorinator of some sort. Excel spreadsheets are the most common method, but the Java program Leagion has been used more often since World Cup 14. The early versions were created in the time of WC14 by World Cup 13 co-host Rejistania. However, World Cup 13 was not scorinated with Leagion but by another Java-coded scorinator called wc13.java. The primary influence on the results is the rank of each nation, though roleplay bonus can also have a moderate effect (the exact influence of each depends on the formula used and hence varies between World Cups). Another popular scorinator gaining notoriety and use is Bedistan's NSFootySim, currently in its 2.0.1 incarnation, and uses XML as its input language.
History
Upon its institution by Ariddia, there was no qualifying stage and no ranking system, in the World Cup, and match results were determined merely by rolls of the dice. Minor alterations were made to the dice-rolling formula for the second World Cup in Alasdair I Frosticus. Total n Utter Insanity initiated the move away from dice in World Cup 3, and match results were now generated by Excel spreadsheets with, moreover, a qualifying stage appended to the system. This supplementation enabled more nations to participate at any given time, though to this day only thirty-two attain entrance to the World Cup proper. After qualifiers were introduced, the host(s) of the Cup, in addition to the few highest-ranked nations, automatically participated without need of qualification. Ensuing World Cup 7, this too was modified, and thus only the inherent qualification of the host nation(s) prevailed.
In World Cup 9, the RP-bonus was introduced.
Related Tournaments: Baptism of Fire Cup, Cup of Harmony, Under-21 World Cup, Eagle's Cup
Hosting
The World Cup Committee
The World Cup Committee (WCC) elect the hosts of each World Cup, as well as nominate potential (E)WCC Presidents. So, following reforms proposed by Spaam and passed by the old World Cup Committee (now the Emergency World Cup Committee), all nations who have posted a squad (thereby demonstrating active interest in the Cup) in the two previous Cups earn a place on the WCC. Thus membership of the WCC needs to be 'earned' by a roster/team sheet and must be 'renewed' each cup by signing-up to the Cup and posting a squad for their nation.
For full information on the WCC, including Spaam's proposals, see the WCC article.
The WCC President
Current President: Bazalonia
Vice-President: Ariddia
The WCC President acts as something of a figurehead for the World Cup Committee, and is elected from a list of nominees nominated by the WCC. The President calls for and collects the votes for World Cup Host, Cup of Harmony Host and WCC President votes. The President is usually a pillar of the World Cup community and is currently Bazalonia. ICly, the WCC President is former Bazalonian national FA President James Gaines. The Vice-President is former Ariddian coach Evgheny Melenciuc.
WCC Presidents are elected every three cups. Both Bazalonia and Ariddia were reelected in an election scheduled to follow World Cup 36, but held after World Cup 35.
For further information, see the President section of the WCC article.
The Emergency World Cup Committee
For a full list of the EWCC including inactive and ex-nation members, see the EWCC section of the WCC article.
The Emergency World Cup Committee (EWCC) is made up of representatives from all still-existing nations that have hosted a World Cup at some point in the past. As a lot of these experienced nations hang around in #sport, they provide most of the discussion and ideas for World Cup reform. As such they are consulted in 'Emergency' situations when fast decisions are needed. They also constitute the old 'Host Selection Committee' to decide the host of the Cup of Harmony. The nations are:
- Alasdair I Frosticus (WC2, WC34)
- The Archregimancy (WC28)
- Ariddia (WC1, WC34)
- Audioslavia (WC7, WC25)
- Az-cz (WC33)
- Bedistan (WC8, WC18, WC27)
- Casari (WC29)
- Commerce Heights (WC26)
- Eauz (WC15, WC18, WC23)
- Fmjphoenix (WC27)
- Geisenfried (WC32)
- Giant Zucchini (WC10)
- Kaze Progressa (WC12, WC17, WC25)
- Krytenia (WC24, WC29)
- Legalese (WC22)
- Lethislavania (WC21)
- Liverpool England (WC22)
- The Lowland Clans (WC31)
- Milchama (WC32)
- New Montreal States (WC28)
- Oglethorpia (WC8, WC14)
- Oliverry (WC26)
- One Red Dot (WC10)
- Quakmybush (WC33)
- The Islands of Qutar (WC30)
- Rejistania (WC13, WC16, WC23)
- Schiavonia (WC30)
- Spaam (WC6)
- Starblaydia (WC20)
- Tanah Burung (WC5)
- Total n Utter Insanity (WC3, WC11)
- Turori (WC19)
- Vilita (WC17, WC22, WC31)
Hosts for upcoming World Cup (36)
Unified Capitalizt States and Cafundéu
Past winners
Summary by Edition
Summary by Nation
Team | Titles | Winning Editions | Runner-up |
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Bedistan | 4 | 21, 26, 27, 30 | 8, 16, 28 |
Rejistania | 4 | 12, 17, 18, 23 | 14, 25 |
Liverpool England | 2 | 8, 24 | 26, 27 |
Europa Brittania | 2 | 9, 11 | 1 |
Starblaydia | 2 | 25, 28 | 30 |
Ariddia | 2 | 32, 34 | 35 |
Brazillico | 2 | 5, 6 |