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1 hour ago, Bran Astor said:
That wasn't something that came up in our planning sessions, but I'm going to point towards WPBR as precedent. That event, while typically male-only IRL, is co-ed without penalty or modifiers regarding gender in TWP RP. Each nation participating in the WPCAA Football tournament is free to set team rosters as they see fit.
Bran is right. Not all nations on NS even have human citizens. If Wyvern wanted to have a dragon on one of his football teams, that would be totally acceptable, so there's no reason that gender should matter at all. You're free to have players of any gender in any combination, whether that is a more 'realistic' all male line-up, a co-ed team, or something else.
- Bran Astor and Fujai
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Welcome to the first ever edition of WPCAA's West Pacific College Football! This is where the magic happens. In this thread, you will post your rosters, roleplay your teams, and tell the stories of your victories on the gridiron. This got really long, so I’m gonna put a TL;DR right up here:
TL;DR: You can post your RPs in this thread. Find the schedule and a guide to creating a roster below, as well as a little information from me on how I’m organizing things.
This is the RP thread. All posts here (with the exception of WPCAA announcements) should be made IN CHARACTER.
Twenty-eight teams have entered into TWP’s college football league, eager to test their mettle against their neighbors. Those teams have been sorted into four conferences, names for the four continents of TWP: Polaris, Doll Guldur, Aura, and Andolia. Not all teams in each conference come from the continent it is named for, with the exception of the Polarii Conference (Polaris showed up for football, y’all). There are in fact so many Polarii entrants, that they couldn’t all fit into the Polarii Conference. So with that exception, every nation has a team in its continent’s conference. Because I think it will be more interesting to play against teams from different countries, no nation has teams in the same conference. This means you will all be playing against teams from multiple continents, as well as teams from nations not yet on the map.
Below are the conference assignments, with teams ordered arbitrarily.
Polarii
Conference
Doll Guldurian
Conference
Auran
Conference
Andolian
Conference
1. Cascadia A&M University (TCM)
1. Musgrave Landing College (WHT)
1. National University of Velyka Èthnos (VES)
1. Cangham University (OVT)
2. Bandar Sports Institute (CRL)
2. Institut Privé de Genève (RCN)
2. Badgerroot State (BBB)
2. University of Ourican (TCM)
3. Tamaric University of Clarendon (NIU)
3. Garnet A&T (BBB)
3. Universitetet i Keiserholde (FJA)
3. Basric National University (NIU)
4. Universität Zimmerich (RCN)
4. National University of Aurum (OVT)
4. Armed Forces University (DAL)
4. Metchosin University (WHT)
5. Universitetet avf Sundet (FJA)
5. AINPSI (PDM)
5. Eranshia Parliamentary University (CME)
5. University of Earths (ORO)
6. University of Ozorus (CDS)
6. Orca County Tech (ARC)
6. Encrissa Capital University (EWP)
6. The Royal Academy of Eranshia (CME)
7. University of Saint Andreisburg (DAL)
7. Eastern Military Grand School (GDK)
7. Karl Marx University (NWP)
7. North Scootle National Institute (SCL)
SCHEDULE
(Matches against team 8 are byes.)
Polarii Conference Schedule
SpoilerRound 1
Cascadia A&M University (TCM) v 8
Bandar Sports Institute (CRL) v University of Saint Andreisburg (DAL)
Tamaric University of Clarendon (NIU) v University of Ozorus (CDS)
Universität Zimmerich (RCN) v Universitetet avf Sundet (FJA)Round 2
8 v Universitetet avf Sundet (FJA)
University of Ozorus (CDS) v Universität Zimmerich (RCN)
University of Saint Andreisburg (DAL) v Tamaric University of Clarendon (NIU)
Cascadia A&M University (TCM) v Bandar Sports Institute (CRL)Round 3
Bandar Sports Institute (CRL) v 8
Tamaric University of Clarendon (NIU) v Cascadia A&M University (TCM)
Universität Zimmerich (RCN) v University of Saint Andreisburg (DAL)
Universitetet avf Sundet (FJA) v University of Ozorus (CDS)Round 4
8 v University of Ozorus (CDS)
University of Saint Andreisburg (DAL) v Universitetet avf Sundet (FJA)
Cascadia A&M University (TCM) v Universität Zimmerich (RCN)
Bandar Sports Institute (CRL) v Tamaric University of Clarendon (NIU)Round 5
Tamaric University of Clarendon (NIU) v 8
Universität Zimmerich (RCN) v Bandar Sports Institute (CRL)
Universitetet avf Sundet (FJA) v Cascadia A&M University (TCM)
University of Ozorus (CDS) v University of Saint Andreisburg (DAL)Round 6
8 v University of Saint Andreisburg (DAL)
Cascadia A&M University (TCM) v University of Ozorus (CDS)
Bandar Sports Institute (CRL) v Universitetet avf Sundet (FJA)
Tamaric University of Clarendon (NIU) v Universität Zimmerich (RCN)Round 7
Universität Zimmerich (RCN) v 8
Universitetet avf Sundet (FJA) v Tamaric University of Clarendon (NIU)
University of Ozorus (CDS) v Bandar Sports Institute (CRL)
University of Saint Andreisburg (DAL) v Cascadia A&M University (TCM)Second half is mirror of first half.
Doll Guldurian Conference Schedule
SpoilerRound 1
Musgrave Landing College (WHT) v 8
Institut Privé de Genève (RCN) v Eastern Military Grand School (GDK)
Garnet A&T (BBB) v Orca County Tech (ARC)
National University of Aurum (OVT) v AINPSI (PDM)
Round 28 v AINPSI (PDM)
Orca County Tech (ARC) v National University of Aurum (OVT)
Eastern Military Grand School (GDK) v Garnet A&T (BBB)
Musgrave Landing College (WHT) v Institut Privé de Genève (RCN)
Round 3Institut Privé de Genève (RCN) v 8
Garnet A&T (BBB) v Musgrave Landing College (WHT)
National University of Aurum (OVT) v Eastern Military Grand School (GDK)
AINPSI (PDM) v Orca County Tech (ARC)
Round 48 v Orca County Tech (ARC)
Eastern Military Grand School (GDK) v AINPSI (PDM)
Musgrave Landing College (WHT) v National University of Aurum (OVT)
Institut Privé de Genève (RCN) v Garnet A&T (BBB)
Round 5
Garnet A&T (BBB) v 8
National University of Aurum (OVT) v Institut Privé de Genève (RCN)
AINPSI (PDM) v Musgrave Landing College (WHT)
Orca County Tech (ARC) v Eastern Military Grand School (GDK)
Round 68 v Eastern Military Grand School (GDK)
Musgrave Landing College (WHT) v Orca County Tech (ARC)
Institut Privé de Genève (RCN) v AINPSI (PDM)
Garnet A&T (BBB) v National University of Aurum (OVT)
Round 7National University of Aurum (OVT) v 8
AINPSI (PDM) v Garnet A&T (BBB)
Orca County Tech (ARC) v Institut Privé de Genève (RCN)
Eastern Military Grand School (GDK) v Musgrave Landing College (WHT)
Second half is mirror of first half.Auran Conference Schedule
SpoilerRound 1
National University of Velyka Èthnos (VES) v 8
Badgerroot State (BBB) v Karl Marx University (NWP)
Universitetet i Keiserholde (FJA) v Encrissa Capital University (EWP)
Armed Forces University (DAL) v Eranshia Parliamentary University (CME)Round 2
8 v Eranshia Parliamentary University (CME)
Encrissa Capital University (EWP) v Armed Forces University (DAL)
Karl Marx University (NWP) v Universitetet i Keiserholde (FJA)
National University of Velyka Èthnos (VES) v Badgerroot State (BBB)Round 3
Badgerroot State (BBB) v 8
Universitetet i Keiserholde (FJA) v National University of Velyka Èthnos (VES)
Armed Forces University (DAL) v Karl Marx University (NWP)
Eranshia Parliamentary University (CME) v Encrissa Capital University (EWP)Round 4
8 v Encrissa Capital University (EWP)
Karl Marx University (NWP) v Eranshia Parliamentary University (CME)
National University of Velyka Èthnos (VES) v Armed Forces University (DAL)
Badgerroot State (BBB) v Universitetet i Keiserholde (FJA)
Round 5
Universitetet i Keiserholde (FJA) v 8
Armed Forces University (DAL) v Badgerroot State (BBB)
Eranshia Parliamentary University (CME) v National University of Velyka Èthnos (VES)
Encrissa Capital University (EWP) v Karl Marx University (NWP)Round 6
8 v Karl Marx University (NWP)
National University of Velyka Èthnos (VES) v Encrissa Capital University (EWP)
Badgerroot State (BBB) v Eranshia Parliamentary University (CME)
Universitetet i Keiserholde (FJA) v Armed Forces University (DAL)
Round 7Armed Forces University (DAL) v 8
Eranshia Parliamentary University (CME) v Universitetet i Keiserholde (FJA)
Encrissa Capital University (EWP) v Badgerroot State (BBB)
Karl Marx University (NWP) v National University of Velyka Èthnos (VES)
Second half is mirror of first half.Andolian Conference Schedule
SpoilerRound 1
Cangham University (OVT) v 8
University of Ourican (TCM) v North Scootle National Institute (SCL)
Basric National University (NIU) v The Royal Academy of Eranshia (CME)
Metchosin University (WHT) v University of Earths (ORO)Round 2
8 v University of Earths (ORO)
The Royal Academy of Eranshia (CME) v Metchosin University (WHT)
North Scootle National Institute (SCL) v Basric National University (NIU)
Cangham University (OVT) v University of Ourican (TCM)Round 3
University of Ourican (TCM) v 8
Basric National University (NIU) v Cangham University (OVT)
Metchosin University (WHT) v North Scootle National Institute (SCL)
University of Earths (ORO) v The Royal Academy of Eranshia (CME)Round 4
8 v The Royal Academy of Eranshia (CME)
North Scootle National Institute (SCL) v University of Earths (ORO)
Cangham University (OVT) v Metchosin University (WHT)
University of Ourican (TCM) v Basric National University (NIU)Round 5
Basric National University (NIU) v 8
Metchosin University (WHT) v University of Ourican (TCM)
University of Earths (ORO) v Cangham University (OVT)
The Royal Academy of Eranshia (CME) v North Scootle National Institute (SCL)Round 6
8 v North Scootle National Institute (SCL)
Cangham University (OVT) v The Royal Academy of Eranshia (CME)
University of Ourican (TCM) v University of Earths (ORO)
Basric National University (NIU) v Metchosin University (WHT)Round 7
Metchosin University (WHT) v 8
University of Earths (ORO) v Basric National University (NIU)
The Royal Academy of Eranshia (CME) v University of Ourican (TCM)
North Scootle National Institute (SCL) v Cangham University (OVT)Second half is mirror of first half.
Given that there will be fourteen gamedays in the season, I will try to post results three times a week. I will post a cutoff in this thread before I calculate results so that it is clear which RPs are counted when. If things go smoothly, hopefully everything will fall into a regular schedule, but I don’t know everything I’ll be doing this month, so I will not be committing to any times or dates as of yet.
You may now post rosters and RPs in this thread.
The first results cutoff will be Monday, June 3. This will give you all a little extra time to post your rosters, as well as your first RP if you like
and will allow me to be away for a week to be in my friend’s wedding.Rosters
Rosters are an important aspect of sports roleplay, for a couple reasons. If you only make one post the entire season, it should be your roster. Here’s why:
1. Rosters let your opponents know who they’re facing. This makes things more fun for everybody, increases realism and immersion, and lets them RP better.
2. In this competition, a degrading RP bonus is used, but rosters are exempt. That means the more you RP, the more likely you are to perform better, but while older rps won’t count as much towards the bonus, your roster will keep its value throughout the competition. A good roster can give you a sizable bonus that will help you out throughout the whole competition.
3. Rosters are your way of letting us know about you. Teams will be coming to play in your stadiums over the course of the season. You don’t only have to talk about your team in your roster post, you can also describe your country and let visitors know what to expect. Do you have a factbook? Great! Lots of that info might fit well in a roster post.
4. Rosters are where you post your RP permissions. RP permissions are a tool that we use to make sure that roleplay is fair and everybody can get along. More info on these lower down.
So what should you put in your roster? Well, your starting XI, to kick things off. Let people know who they’ll be seeing on the field. Go ahead and tell us about who your players are, if you like. From there, you can build outwards: you can say who your team’s substitutes and reserves are, show off a team or school logo, talk about your school, describe your stadium, or describe the culture and geography of your country. Play style, team formation, tactics, and your team’s managerial staff are also great things to include. The only thing a roster should not be is anything narrative: it is written in a more encyclopedic style.
RP Permissions
So what are RP permissions? They are a set of guidelines you establish to let people know what you are okay with happening in their roleplays. Your players will be featured in other people’s RPs, after all, so if you want to control how people write about your characters, this is how you can do that. By filling out your RP permissions, those with whom you are RPing know what boundaries to adhere to when creating their roleplays. Below is a sample RP permission box. Yours can look a little different, it’s up to you.
RP Permissions
Choose my scorers: Y/N
Choose my scoring events: Y/N
Godmod scoring events: Y/N
RP injuries to my players: Y/N
Godmod Injuries to my players: Y/N
Give Penalties to my players: Y/N
Godmod other events: Y/N
Style Modifier: Y/N
Time to RP!
With the opening of this thread, you can finally start to RP for your teams! Obviously, you won’t have any results to RP about until the first cutoff, but you can write about anything you like until then. RPs don’t have to be written only about your team’s performance on the field—any IC post is fine. I will give bonuses to those who RP, but don’t worry about that: if you don’t want to, you don’t have to, and you should be writing to tell the story you want to tell and most importantly, to have fun. The second, and only other rule, is that you must respect the posted scorelines and your opponents’ RP permissions in your RPs. Other than that, your imagination is the limit!
I can’t wait to see what you all come up with! Good luck to all of you!
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Great! Sign-ups are closed, I'll post the IC thread tonight. We'll continue to use this thread for any OOC discussion. If you have any questions, feel free to ask them here.
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There is space for one more user to sign up, and then I will stop accepting entries. The last entrant can still submit two teams if they are part of the hall of nations, but only one more user will be accepted. This way I can get a good number and not have to kick anybody out or anything.
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UPDATE
I'm please to see what looks like a great crew coming together! We'll be getting things rolling soon. I'm here to bring a little bit more information in the meantime.
Sign-ups will probably be closing early next week. Typically, I'm hoping to get two or three game days in each week so that we can have a bit of a regular schedule once the season starts, but we'll have a slightly longer period--one week--between the closing of sign-ups and the first RP cutoff. This will allow people to work on rosters, etc. I've decided also that the RP bonus you will receive for your roster won't decay the same way other RP bonuses will. This means: write a roster! Even if you're not going to RP, it's nice to at least let other people know who they're playing against. I will post a guide to writing your own roster when I post the RP thread, which I will do when sign-ups close. Also, even if you don't get around to it right away, it means that it'll help you out to write a roster at any point. As they say, better late than never. I will also be giving you extra time before the first cutoff so that if you like, you can write a roster as well as your first RP. I will be giving space for a bonus for both.
Another note on scheduling: I'm hoping to have a nice round number of teams so that organizing you guys into conferences can be nice and symmetrical. I have a little control over the numbers, but I may jump in and cut off sign-ups if I see there's nice round number, which is why I'm not publishing an exact date for the close of sign-ups. That said, all of you who are members of the Hall of Nations are eligible to enter two teams. That means that a few of you can still enter one more team. @Podium, @Craiolia, @Arnic, @ghouldovka, @HankTheTank87, and @ete74, you can all still submit one more entry.
My goal is to have 4 conferences named after the continents on the map; Polaris, Doll Guldur, Aura, and Andolia. Since most of the teams are from Polaris, and some people aren't on the map, the conferences won't actually reflect the geographic location of the teams. It depends on the numbers, of course, but I'm hoping that each team will play every other team in their conference at home and away. The conferences will also be put into pairs and teams will play an inter-conference game with each team in their paired conference. I will try to place teams into conferences so that no one who has two teams will have to play against themselves--what's the point of that?
Anyway, that's the plan, so I hope that this is nice and transparent and gets us all on the same page. Sorry for the wall of text.
You'll hear back from me next week!
- Fujai, Bran Astor and Craiolia
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ARC Arnic
BAS Bran Astor
BBB Big Bad Badger
CDS Crandolus
CRL Craiolia
FJA Fujai
NIU Nieubasria
OVT Overthinkers
PDM Podium
RCN RecuecnHere's my list I'm compiling for TWP football. If I can get a two letter country code, can I have RN? .rn works great as a domain, too
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Nation: Recuecn
Trigram: RCN
School name: Institut Privé de Genève
Team name: Eagles
Style modifier: 3.5
Stadium: Reformation Field (58,350)
School name: Universität Zimmerich
Team name: Climbers
Style modifier: 5
Stadium: Deutch & Pérol Stadium (36,215)
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Teams:
1. Cascadia A&M University Thunderbirds (TCM)
2. University of Ourican Blackfish (TCM)
3. AINPSI Neutrinos (PDM)
4. Bandar Sports Institute Green Bears (CRL)
5. Orca County Tech Sand Dollars (ARC)
6. Tamaric University of Clarendon Crusaders (NIU)
7. Basric National University Bucks (NIU)
8. Institut Privé de Genève Eagles (RCN)
9. Universität Zimmerich Climbers (RCN)
10. Eastern Military Grand School Scorpions (GDK)
11. Garnet A&T Shuckers (BBB)
12. Badgerroot State Skwalas (BBB)
13. Universitetet i Keiserholde Sólrúner (FJA)
14. Universitetet avf Sundet Fjolett (FJA)
15. National University of Aurum Golden Eagles (OVT)
16. Cangham University Wolfpack (OVT)
17. University of Ozorus Ocelots (CDS)
18. University of Earths Groundshakers (ORO)
19. NUOVE Quétzals (VES)
20. Musgrave Landing College Seals (WHT)
21. Metchosin University Panthers (WHT)
22. Eranshia Parliamentary University Gold Drakes (CME)
23. North Scootle National Institute Moon Hawks (SCL)
24. The Royal Academy of Eranshia Crowns (CME)
25. University of Saint Andreisburg White Eagles (DAL)
26. AFU Cannons (DAL)
27. Encrissa Capital University Volunteers (EWP)
28. Karl Marx University Bearded Iguanas (NWP)
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Welcome to The West Pacific’s inaugural college football competition, hosted by WPCAA, the West Pacific Collegiate Athletic Association. Any resident of TWP may participate in this event, over the course of which you will be able to watch your teams play against your region-mates in pursuit of victory and glory! This thread is where you will sign up, and it will also serve to establish the rules, as well as provide a platform for any OOC (out of context) discussion or questions that may arise.
How to Sign Up
Signing up for TWP college football is easy! Just make a post in this thread saying you would like to sign up, and provide the name of your TWP nation, the name of the team you are entering, and the name of the school they represent! That’s it! If you prefer, you can fill out the application form below, which will allow you to provide a little more information. (One thing you might want to give me is a style modifier, a tool I use to simulate your team’s style of play.)
SpoilerNation: (What nation is your team from? Must be a TWP resident.)
Trigram: (three letter code used to identify your nation.)
School name: (What school does your team represent?)
Team name: (What do people call your team? You can provide an additional nickname if you would like.)
Style modifier: (A number from -5 to 5, up to three decimal places. This number describes your team’s style of play. A team with a style mod of negative five is a very defensive team, while a team with a style mod of five is a very aggressive team. Defensive teams, teams with lower style modifiers, will score fewer points, but also prevent opposing teams from scoring. Aggressive teams, teams with higher style modifiers, will score more points, yet also allow more points to be scored against them. A team with a style mod of 0 has a balanced play style. This number does not affect your likelihood of winning.)
Stadium: (Name and capacity.)
Rules & Info
Sign-ups will be open until around the end of the month. Exact date TBD depending on my schedule.
Only Residents of The West Pacific may enter.
Members of TWP’s Hall of Nations may enter 2 teams in the competition, all other nations may enter 1.
Results will be determined through the use of a ‘scorinator,’ a program used to randomly generate scores.
Contestants are encouraged to roleplay; any roleplay will gain for its author a bonus to boost their team’s chances of winning their next game. A roleplay thread will be posted when sign-ups close.
Roleplays, or RPs, can be about anything. They can be written specifically about the team and its past results, or anything else. Users with two teams can roleplay for both. I will split the bonus between the two teams as indicated or as seems appropriate.
A decaying cumulative RP bonus will be used. In other words, recent RPs will count for a larger bonus than older ones, but all RPs will grant at least some bonus. Not all RPs will receive the same bonus.
The teams of any contestant who endorses the guardian will be granted a small bonus.
Nations who do not provide a style modifier will be given a modifier of 0. Nations who don’t provide a trigram will also be given one.
Based on the number of teams who sign-up, the teams will be divided into conferences. Ideally, no player will play against themselves, and some vague correspondence to our TWP map will be maintained. The season schedule will include conference and inter-conference play, and will be determined based on the size and number of the conferences.
The winners of each conference will enter the post-season and have a chance to gain eternal fame by winning TWP’s first Dragon Bowl!
Currently, we hope to post results two or three times a week, according to my personal RL schedule and the conference schedule. The season will start sometime at the beginning of June.
If you have any questions, feel free to ask here!
- Bran Astor, Podium, Arnic and 1 other
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I thought the RMB discussion was really good, and I don't know if it's just me, or if it seems like our RMB is doing a bit better the last couple days. I think talking about this has made me personally more aware of how I interact with it and with the other people on it. Westwind's also definitely right in that it's important to include everyone in these sort of discussions, and it was nice that using the RMB allowed people even from different regions to weigh in. (I didn't mean to be exclusive when I started a topic in the Hall, my bad.)
I don't feel, though, that just talking about it has really resolved the issue. I don't want to monopolize the conversation, or drag this on if people feel it's not worth their time, but I do want this dialogue to move forward and arrive somewhere. Just talking about it and saying "yeah we should do something" might make us individually a bit more mindful for a little bit, but that wears off awfully quickly.
As Dali has said, legislation isn't the answer. We don't need more rules. But I think what's attractive about that is that if we voted on something, the symbolism of a collective agreement would make it more meaningful. So here's another idea from me before I just let this drop.
What if we drafted a statement--not strict guidelines, not rules--just a declaration of the kind of behavior we'd like to see on our RMB. We'd talk about where we've come from as a region, what it is that makes TWP unique, and talk about the RMB culture that that's created and that we'd like it to create. We can put our values--order, respect, merit, snark, second chances--and say something about who we'd like to be.
Then, to make it truly true-to-TWP love of game-side authority, as well as making it more inclusive and representative, we can put it in a dispatch, have a poll on the WFE, and have people sign it through the poll like you might a petition. The names of all the signatories can be added to the dispatch.
This was just one idea I thought of while brainstorming last night. Thoughts?
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As I remember, one of the rules in the WA is that resolutions can't create a committee or organization as their only effect. The resolution needs to accomplish something concrete, and the institution created also needs to have precise goals and duties that require it to exist. I like where this is headed, maybe I can write some more suggestions later. (Is this inspired by the Ethiopian Airlines crash? Maybe a good specific thing the resolution could require is inspections on aircraft, and then give the aviation council power to set safety standards, ground planes when it seems necessary, etc.)
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I thought I was going to get around to creating a full theme entry, but at this point that's not going to happen. Instead, I'll just post what I do have now.
I've attached three flags, all of which use lots of google images I pasted in: 1 for TWPAF and 2 for TWP. The TWPAF flag is alright I thought. (I think there's some untapped potential in putting a space in TWP AF like so.) The TWP flag with the dragon on the sun is pretty shoddy and I think I stole someone's idea even maybe? I forget. I wasn't going to post it if I'd had a complete theme submission, but here you are. The other, with the red stripe, I think looks pretty nice, with the blue meant to represent the pacific ocean and the red meant to represent our tradition (in both aesthetic and meritocracy). But I realize that this flag is a big departure from our look now.
I also thought that maybe April 19 could be our regional holiday, "TWP Day," to celebrate when Max Barry first created the region that is now our home (according to Unibot's best guess in the NS history thread here).
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Edit: spoilered the flags
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There's a lot that's really interesting going on here, and it's really interesting to watch. It seems like Halo could have saved himself a lot of pain in this thread if he'd compromised by letting the theme change be a regional poll--I'm not criticizing you Halo, merely observing. The argument isn't really about what theme would be best any more and the shift in topic could have been avoided but at this point there's not really a compromise anymore because the discussion has really become one of regional political philosophy. (My own two cents are that I agree with WestWind that I think the in-game polls could have handled this better.)
I'm actually only posting because at the close of voting, two themes were tied for second place, so I wanted to know how @Saint Mark chose which ones to send on to the run-off vote. (Here I'm less unbiased: I voted for Japan and it had just as many votes as China did!)
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Welcome Danlina! Looking forward to seeing you around!
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Hi everybody,
I assume this is the correctest place to announce this.
I handed in my resignation to URA yesterday. The reason given for the dissolution of the voice was "inactivity," and I feel mostly responsible for that as FADA. However, I am not resigning out of guilt--rather, it is largely due to RL committments. Just as I have been busy lately and have not had time, I do not see an improvement in my schedule in the near future. Thus the dissmissal of the DAs and the dissolution of the voice, while not things I agree with ICly, came as a welcome break in workload. However, URA has unveiled his plan to put the guardians in control of many of the areas the DAs were before, and thus I would still have the same duties, just under a different title.
In order of decreasing importance, my RL committments, combined with one NS dissmissal and another job-description change, as well as disagreement with URA's new policies and his decision to dissolve the union (although I highly respect him, his opinions, and his decisions), all topped with a growing sense of self-questioning about whether or not TWP is reall the kind of political atmosphere I would like to be active in, have grouped together to cause me to resign. It has been a pleasure working with URA, Medio, Hariko, Elegarth, and Yy, and I'm going to miss being politically involved here.
I would probably join the rebellion BBD's trying to start myself, or try to influence URA, but in the interests of solidarity, and of course, my RL, I won't be.
Best of luck to everyone in the delegate's office as well as the voice.
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Oh look, I can resign here in public!
Done.
Actually, looks like it happened automatically. PD read my mind!
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*Gets on soapbox*
I feel that leadership in the voice was an issue. No sooner were people selected to fill positions, then they were absent. Frequently! For long periods of time without interacting with or leading the voice. It happened frequently and caused a void at a time when we needed guidance. Furthermore, several leaders in abstentia were guardians. So their void was felt on both sides of TWP.
This is true, and I feel especially guilty. My apologies to everyone. Normally, I would be on here arguing that the charter was created entirely independent of Vlagh's role, and that he thus has no authority (nor does the delegate) to dissolve the voice. However, my RL is still busy, and I can't honestly say that I can see my schedule becoming majorly less cluttered in the foreseeable future. So instead I will take the dissolution of the FA department as a welcome lowering of my work load.
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Thanks for the update! Albion's are always so much fun to read.
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Warzone Airspace, please.
My pleasure!
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Welcome to your embassy! The key is under the doormat. See you around!
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Hey everybody,
I'm going on a car trip Sunday and then flying to colorado for a week on the 24th, and probably won't be on much in-between, either. Apologies for my absence.
Hopefully nothing *too* important happens while I'm gone.
TWP College Football [IC/RP Thread]
in Roleplay - How the West Was Won
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The Geneva Eagles, as they are usually called in English, refer to themselves in French (the language most of the school's students speak) as "les Aigles." They represent L’Institut Privé de Genève, a liberal arts university originally founded in the fifteenth century as a religious institution—one might have taken the hint from the name of the team’s stadium, ‘Reformation Field.’ The letters on the book on the school’s seal stand for "Cor meum tibi offero, Domine, prompte et sincere,” which is the school’s motto. On the gridiron, the school has a fairly offensive style of play; most aspiring athletes in the nation would turn to soccer, rather than American football, as their pastime, so those who do wind up in the sport are typically looking for a rough game in the first. Place. The school’s chief rival is the Universität Zimmerich, a school that hails from the Germanophone part of the country. The multi-lingual nature of Reçueçn, which is usually not a cause for strife, is often brought up in a sporting context as a cause for rivalry, and these two schools are no exception. The fact that they are the top two football schools in the nation means that their faceoffs are always bitter.
Key players: Look out for Tom Foulon, the Eagles’ star quarterback. He began starting for Geneva as a sophomore, and has shown much promise. He is well protected by twins Jean and Damien Berthier. Aurélien Morel has also had a meteoric rise, and is starting for the team although only a first-year student.
Universität Zimmerich has an even more aggressive style of play than l’IPG, to the detriment of its defense, at times; the Climbers are likely to go for that risky play that stands to gain them a lot of yards, even if it might mean a turnover. For their first season in WPCAA DI, they’ve been sorted into a different division than the Eagles, which means that they’ll have to work out their rage drubbing someone else instead for a change. Zimmerich’s fans are known to be trouble—tailgates get rowdy and the field at their home stadium, Deutch & Pérol, has been rushed countless times, whether after a win or a loss.
Players to watch: Wide receiver Wolfgang Hahn will give viewers their fair share of entertainment with his sheer athletic prowess alone—not only is he a freshman, but he was recruited by UZ a year before he was supposed to have finished high school, making him the youngest College Football player in Reçueçn. He’s had some beautiful catches in practice, but now it’s time to see if he can do it on the field as well.
RP PERMISSIONS: Go for it. Do whatever you want.