The First North Pacific Winter Olympiad

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Here's how it works.

The United Federation of Hersfold will be "hosting" several events from a number of different types of sports found at the Winter Olympics. These events will (hopefully) include:

Alpine Skiing:
Men's Downhill - Individual
Women's Downhill - Individual

Biathlon:
Men's 20km - Individual
Women's 15km - Individual

Bobsled:
Two-man - Team
Four-man - Team
Women's - Team

Cross-Country Skiing:
Women's 10km Classical - Individual
Men's 15km Classical - Individual
Women's 4x5km Relay - Team
Men's 4x10km Relay - Team

Curling:
Women's - Team
Men's - Team

Figure Skating:
Pairs Free Skate - Team
Men's Free Skate - Individual
Women's Free Skate - Individual

Ice Hockey:
Women's - Team
Men's - Team

Luge:
Men's - Individual
Women's - Individual
Doubles - Team

Nordic Combined:
Individual - Individual
Team - Team

Skeleton:
Women's - Individual
Men's - Individual

Ski Jumping:
Men's Normal Hill - Individual
Men's Large Hill - Individual

Snowboarding:
Men's Halfpipe - Individual
Women's Halfpipe - Individual
Men's Giant Shalom - Individual
Women's Giant Shalom - Individual

Speed Skating:
Men's 5000m - Individual
Women's 3000m - Individual
Men's 500m - Individual
Women's 300m - Individual

To sign up, post below your nation's name, and the events you will be sending athletes/teams for, as well as the athletes' names. Each nation may send up to 10 athletes/teams - what events they will participate in is up to you. A nation may send any number of athletes for individual sports, but only one team per team sport. If an event does not recieve entrants from at least 3 different nations, the event will be cancelled.

I'll figure out how to work the scoring after we get people signed up - it will probably be different for each event, depending on how it works.

Nation: The Federation of Chodean Kal

Alpine Skiing:
Men's Downhill - Frej Emanuel
Women's Downhill - Tea Hildegarde

Curling:
Women's -Team Composition: Lead: Teresia Christin; Second: Sonja Eydís; Third: Tyra Karla; Skip: Kjerstin Carina
Men's - Team Composition: Lead: Pétur Aðalsteinn; Second: Dag Jónas; Third: Valto Sauli; Skip: Eirik Ragnar

Luge:
Men's - Jóhann Halle
Women's - Maja Sanna

Skeleton:
Women's - Cecilia Pernilla
Men's - Jon Otso

Snowboarding:
Men's Giant Shalom - Holger Börje
Women's Giant Shalom - Elisabeth Tuulikki

I'll apply first next () as an example:

Hersfold will be sending:

George O'Malley for Men's Luge
Kia Donnegan for Women's 15km Biathlon
A team for Four-man Bobsled
A team for Women's Bobsled
Michelle Swanson for Women's Free Skate
Taylor Swanson for Women's Free Skate
A team for Men's Ice Hockey
Kris Stevenson for Men's Large Hill Ski Jumping
Kris Stevenson for Men's Normal Hill Ski Jumping
Stacy Traynor for Women's Halfpipe Snowboarding

Edit:
Michelle Swanson was injured in practice and will be replaced by Chris Dvorak in the Men's 20K Biathlon.
The Men's Ice Hockey team apparently lost their luggage at the airport, and replacement gear will not be available until after their first placing. They will not be participating as a result, and their place will be taken by Taylor and Chris Swanson in the Pairs Free Skate.

Ator People will be sending:

• Alpine Skiing, Men's Downhill - William O'Smith
• A Women's Curling Team
• A Men's Curling Team
• A Women's Bobsled Team
• A Four-Person Men's Bobsled Team
• Men's Free Skate - Sir Andrew Hours*
• Women's Free Skate - Annie Jordan
• Ski Jumping Men's Normal Hill - William O'Smith
• Ski Jumping Men's Large Hill - John Philipson
• Speed Skating, Men's 5000m - Matthew Johnson

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* - Sir Andrew Hours is a Knight of The Order of Nadroj

The Tropical Paradise of Blackshear will be sending the following Winter Olympic team:

Men's Downhill Skier William Barker
Women's Downhill Skier Margaret Atwood

Four-Man Bobsled Team
Women's Bobsled Team

Men's Hockey Team
Women's Hockey Team

Men's Halfpipe Snowboarder Roy Brown
Women's Halfpipe Snowboarder Gabrielle Roy

Long Hill Ski Jumper Billy Bishop

Pairs Figure Skaters Alice Munro and Timothy Findley



Perhaps it would be easier if each country were to enter a competitor for each scheduled event rather than limiting participation and eliminating under-subscribed sports. I anticipate having to repick my team because not enough people sign up for the events I'm most interested in.

Blackshear:

Perhaps it would be easier if each country were to enter a competitor for each scheduled event rather than limiting participation and eliminating under-subscribed sports. I anticipate having to repick my team because not enough people sign up for the events I'm most interested in.

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I'm hoping we'll get a few more people signing up... if not, then that's probably what we'll have to end up doing.

I might work with IG to get some PM's running around on this to increase participation.

When will this start? I need to think up some names, and work out which sports they'll be entered in...

I mean pick my teams.

Nova Sardonikker:

When will this start? I need to think up some names, and work out which sports they'll be entered in...

I mean pick my teams.

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Depends how many people we get signing up. I'm going to try to work with Arts & Entertainment to get this advertized a bit, so hopefully we'll be able to start sometime in the middle of next week.

Definitely before the actual Olympics are over.

The nation of Puckton will be sending:

Women's Hockey Team
Men's Hockey Team

(As a nation that prides itself on it's stellar hockey tradition, I believe this is where we will excel)

Women's Cross Country Skiing 10km Classical - Abigail Pearson
Men's CCS 15km Classical - Michael Plonkonian

Women's Curling Team
Men's Curling Team

Men's Alpine Skiing Downhill - Klaus Eggert
Women's AS Downhill - Janice Kleinhofer

Men's Speed Skating 5000m - Damian Lane
Women's SS 3000m - Kaitlyn Buell

Bumpitty

Come on, people, sign up! Everyone has a chance to win!

Hm this is interesting:

Kaleaf will be sending the following --

Women's Downhill -- Corrina Leyshanter, Samantha Elard.
X-Country Skiing -- Mens 4x10 team
Men's Free Skate -- John Davies
Women's Free Skate -- Abigail Nelfein
Ice Hockey -- Women's team
Speed skating, Men's 5000 -- Eric Wang, Conroy Leterer
Speed skating, Women's 3000 -- Annie Hsu, Gail Johnson



EDIT -- I couldn't get anyone crazy enough to do luge/skeleton this year.

-Men's Downhill - Pancrazio Fantoccini
-Women's Downhill - Rachele Ramone

Ice Hockey:
-Women's - Team
-Men's - Team

Luge:
-Men's - Giancarlo Sabatini
-Women's - Francesca Calabria

Snowboarding:
-Men's Halfpipe - Giovanni Scardino
-Women's Halfpipe - Teresa Saviano

Speed Skating:
-Men's 5000m - Vittorio Valente
-Women's 3000m - Carina Giacosa

Deikura will be represented by our Gold medalist winners from the Daiokura Inter-Colonial Games.

Biathlon:
Men's 20km - Uesugi Kenshin
Women's 15km - Takanasu Megumi

Cross-Country Skiing:
Women's 10km Classical - Sato Kinume
Men's 15km Classical - Dankuko Michiba

Ice Hockey:
Women's - Atsuki Rush (Praetor's Cup, Women's 2005)
Men's - Santori Oni (Praetor's Cup, Men's 2005)
(Deikura dominated the Hockey arena in the inter-colonial games this year)

Speed Skating:
Men's 5000m - Mouri Shin
Women's 3000m - Sangana Anemone

No way I'm entering Men's 20K Biathlon now - Kenshin's a badass.

THough I may have to see if Kosaka Masanobu can ski . . .

Apollo-Industria will be represented by the National Champions of the Pre-Olympia Games.

Alpine Skiing:
Men's-Augusta Vandorra
Women's-Cloe Dan Entura

Cross Country Skiing:
Men's-Alexander Van Marcus
Women's-Maria Calzone Van Marcus

Ice Hockey:
Men's-Apollon Elite Team
Women's-Industrian Specialist Team

Snowboarding:
Men's Giant Shalom-Marcus Pine
Women's Giant Shalom-Alicia Vinyard

Speed Skating:
Men's-Alexander Van Marcus
Women's-Maria Calzone Van Marcus

A-I, your application is a bit fudged up - first off, you may only send a total of 10 athletes/teams; secondly, there is no "Freestyle skiing" event, which fortunately takes care of the first problem; and thirdly, I need you to specify which events you are entering the speed skaters in.

This is list showing how many nations have entered in each event. Those in BLUE have the minimum number of applicants (3 nations) and will be held in the Olympics. Those in RED need one more applicant in order to be held. If you're not sure what to sign up for, please consider entering one of these. Any events in black are very short on or do not have any applicants - please sign up for these if possible.

If necessary, I may change my delegation around to accomodate some of the more short-handed events.

Men's Downhill Ski - 6 (6 competitors)
Women's Downhill Ski - 6 (7 competitors)

Men's 20km Biathlon - 3 (3 competitors)
Women's 15km Biathlon - 3 (3 competitors)

Two-man Bobsled - 0
Four-man Bobsled - 3 (3 teams)
Women's Bobsled - 3 (3 teams)

Women's 10km Classical CCS - 3 (3 competitors)
Men's 15km Classical CCS - 3 (3 competitors)
Women's 4x5km Relay CCS - 0
Men's 4x10km Relay CCS - 0

Women's Curling - 4 (4 teams)
Men's Curling - 3 (3 teams)

Pairs Free Skate - 3 (3 teams)
Men's Free Skate - 2 (2 competitors)
Women's Free Skate - 3 (3 competitors)

Women's Ice Hockey - 6 (6 teams)
Men's Ice Hockey - 5 (5 teams)

Men's Luge - 3 (3 competitors)
Women's Luge - 4 (4 competitors)
Doubles Luge - 0

Individual Nordic Combined - 0
Team Nordic Combined - 0

Women's Skeleton - 3 (3 competitors)
Men's Skeleton - 3 (3 competitors)

Men's Normal Hill Ski Jump - 3 (3 competitors)
Men's Large Hill Ski Jump - 3 (3 competitors)

Men's Halfpipe - 4 (4 competitors)
Women's Halfpipe - 3 (3 competitors)
Men's Giant Shalom (Snowboard) - 3 (3 competitors)
Women's Giant Shalom (Snowboard) - 3 (3 competitors)

Men's 5000m Speed Skate - 6 (7 competitors)
Women's 3000m Speed Skate - 5 (6 competitors)
Men's 500m Speed Skate - 0
Women's 300m Speed Skate - 0

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Edited to include Byard and Nova below.

Come on in, everyone! We still need a few more nations to sign up!

Ok, since nobody has posted in here recently, I'm going to PM those nations who looked like they were interested but didn't actually send anyone to try and fill up the last few events.

At the request of the Comissioner, the following Byardkurian citizens will be granted leaves from their responsibilities to the Byardkurian Defense Corporation to participate in various athletic endeavours.

Men's 20K Biathlon - Trevor Wolf

Women's 15K Biathlon - Jill Wierman

Pairs Free Skate - Jesse Smith & Kimmi Boss

Women's Luge - Tara Foxhoven

Women's Skeleton - Holly Stenfors

Men's Skeleton - Ryan Trahan

Men's Normal Hill Ski Jump - Josh Murray

Men's Snowboard Halfpipe - Karl Altebeck

Men's Snowboard Giant Shalom - David Ross

Women's Snowboard Giant Shalom - Jordan Fields

I've added you to the list above. Thanks for the selection - you helped fill up a lot of the events.

Am I too late to add in these guys?

Women's Luge (Helga Sterne)
Women's Skeleton (Andrea Normal)
Men's Skeleton (Arve Henrikson)
Men's Snowboard Halfpipe (Geir Jensson)
Men's Snowboard Giant Shalom (Christian Fenrisson)
Women's Snowboard Giant Shalom (Sigrid Gudrunsdottir)

Cheers.

You can send up to ten people, you know.

Ok, I've added you in. At this point, please do not sign up for any events that do not already have someone participating. I'm going to work out how to run this later today and will probably cut off the applications then. I'll shuffle my team around a bit to make sure everyone is accomodated. Thanks to all who signed up!

Hersfold:

You can send up to ten people, you know.

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It's a small nation...

In fact, his nation only has 6 people in it

Ok, then. *shrugs*

I'm going to try to shift things around to make sure that as many events as possible can be held. If you recieve a PM from me, I might need you to choose another event. Hopefully this will only affect a few people, but we'll see how it turns out.

Ok, sorry to double post, but...

Here's how the events are going to work. It looks like we'll be having a total of 27 events, including:

• Men's Downhill Ski
  -- Frej Emanuel, Chodean Kal
  -- William O'Smith, Ator People
  -- William Barker, Blackshear
  -- Klaus Eggert, Puckton
  -- Pancrazio Fantoccini, Fedele
  -- Augusta Vandorra, Apollo-Industria
• Women's Downhill Ski
  -- Tea Hildegarde, Chodean Kal
  -- Margaret Atwood, Blackshear
  -- Janice Kleinhofer, Puckton
  -- Corrina Leyshanter, Kaleaf
  -- Samantha Elard, Kaleaf
  -- Rachele Ramone, Fedele
  -- Cloe Dan Entura, Apollo-Industria
• Men's 20K Biathlon
  -- Chris Dvorak, Hersfold
  -- Uesagi Kenshin, Deikura
  -- Trevor Wolf, Byardkuria
• Women's 15K Biathlon
  -- Kia Donnegan, Hersfold
  -- Takanasu Megumi, Deikura
  -- Jill Weirman, Byardkuria
• Four-man Bobsled
  -- Hersfold
  -- Ator People
  -- Blackshear
• Women's Bobsled
  -- Hersfold
  -- Ator People
  -- Blackshear
• Women's 10km Classical Cross-Counrty Ski
  -- Abigail Pearson, Puckton
  -- Sato Kinume, Deikura
  -- Maria Calzone Van Marcus, Apollo-Industria
• Men's 15km Classical Cross-Country Ski
  -- Michael Plonkonian, Puckton
  -- Dankuko Michiba, Deikura
  -- Alexander Van Marcus, Apollo-Industria
• Women's Curling
  -- Chodean Kal
  -- Ator People
  -- Puckton
  -- Kaleaf
• Men's Curling
  -- Chodean Kal
  -- Ator People
  -- Puckton
• Pairs Free Skate
  -- Taylor & Chris Swanson, Hersfold
  -- Alice Munro & Timothey Findely, Blackshear
  -- Jesse Smith & Kimmi Boss, Byardkuria
• Men's Free Skate
  -- Sir Andrew Hours, Ator People
  -- John Davies, Kaleaf
  -- Ingeborg Borgstein, Nova Sardonikker
• Women's Free Skate
  -- Taylor Swanson, Hersfold
  -- Annie Jordan, Ator People
  -- Abigail Nelfein, Kaleaf
• Women's Ice Hockey
  -- Blackshear
  -- Puckton
  -- Kaleaf
  -- Fedele
  -- Deikura
  -- Apollo-Industria
• Men's Ice Hockey
  -- Blackshear
  -- Puckton
  -- Fedele
  -- Deikura
  -- Apollo-Industria
  -- Nova Sardonikker
• Men's Luge
  -- Jóhann Halle, Chodean Kal
  -- George O'Malley, Hersfold
  -- Giancarlo Sabatini, Fedele
• Women's Luge
  -- Maja Sanna, Chodean Kal
  -- Francesca Calabria, Fedele
  -- Tara Foxhoven, Byardkuria
  -- Helga Sterne, Nova Sardonikker
• Women's Skeleton
  -- Cecilia Pernilla, Chodean Kal
  -- Holly Stenfors, Byardkuria
  -- Andrea Normal, Nova Sardonikker
• Men's Skeleton
  -- Jon Otso, Chodean Kal
  -- Ryan Trahan, Byardkuria
  -- Arve Henrikson, Nova Sardonikker
• Normal Hill Ski Jump
  -- Kris Stevenson, Hersfold
  -- William O'Smith, Ator People
  -- Josh Murray, Byardkuria
• Large Hill Ski Jump
  -- Kris Stevenson, Hersfold
  -- John Philipson, Ator People
  -- Billy Bishop, Blackshear
• Men's Halfpipe
  -- Roy Brown, Blackshear
  -- Giovanni Scardino, Fedele
  -- Karl Altebeck, Byardkuria
  -- Geir Jensson, Nova Sardonikker
• Women's Halfpipe
  -- Stacy Traynor, Hersfold
  -- Gabrielle Roy, Blackshear
  -- Teresa Saviano, Fedele
• Men's Snowboarding Giant Shalom
  -- Holger Börje, Chodean Kal
  -- David Ross, Byardkuria
  -- Christian Fenrisson, Nova Sardonikker
• Women's Snowboarding Giant Shalom
  -- Elisabeth Tuulikki, Chodean Kal
  -- Jordan Fields, Byardkuria
  -- Sigrid Gudrunsdottir, Nova Sardonikker
• Men's 5K Speed Skate
  -- Matthew Johnson, Ator People
  -- Daiman Lane, Puckton
  -- Eric Wang, Kaleaf
  -- Conroy Leterer, Kaleaf
  -- Vittorio Valente, Fedele
  -- Mouri Shin, Deikura
  -- Alexander Van Marcus, Apollo-Industria
• Women's 3K Speed Skate
  -- Kaitlyn Buell, Puckton
  -- Annie Hsu, Kaleaf
  -- Gail Johnson, Kaleaf
  -- Carina Giacosa, Fedele
  -- Sangana Anemone, Deikura
  -- Maria Calzone Van Marcus, Apollo-Industria

The results of each event will be determined by random number generation. Exactly what numbers get generated will depend greatly on the event. In some cases, it will be scores, others, times.

*Hersfold is posting this now so he has something to look at while he sorts out the logistics of each event.

Sounds fun. Thel or someone else should make some TNP medels

Ok, schedule:

Feburary 18th -
Men's Downhill Ski Qualifying Run
Women's 15K Biathlon FINAL
Men's Curling, Round 1
Women's Ice Hockey, Groups A & B Game 1
Men's Luge FINAL
Women's Halfpipe FINAL

Feburary 19th -
Men's Downhill Ski FINAL
Men's 20K Biathlon FINAL
Women's Curling, Semi-finals
Women's Ice Hockey, Groups A & B Game 2
Women's Luge FINAL
Men's Halfpipe FINAL

Feburary 20th -
Women's Downhill Ski Qualifying Run
Four-man Bobsled FINAL
Men's Curling, Round 2
Women's Ice Hockey, Groups A & B Game 3
Women's 10K Cross-Country Skiing FINAL Rescheduled for Tuesday - only my second mistake...
Pairs Free Skate FINAL

Feburary 21st -
Women's Downhill Ski FINAL
Women's Bobsled FINAL
Women's Curling Bronze Medal Round
Women's Ice Hockey, Gold and Bronze Medal Games FINAL
Men's 15K Cross-Country Skiiing FINAL Accidentally held on Monday.
Men's Free Skate FINAL

Feburary 22nd -
Men's Curling Round 3 FINAL
Men's Ice Hockey, Groups A & B Game 1
Large Hill Ski Jump FINAL
Men's 5K Speed Skating Qualifying Runs

Feburary 23rd -
Women's Curling FINAL
Women's Free Skate FINAL
Men's Ice Hockey, Groups A & B Game 2
Men's Skeleton FINAL
Normal Hill Ski Jump FINAL
Women's 3K Speed Skate Qualifying Runs

Feburary 24th -
Men's Ice Hockey, Groups A & B Game 3
Women's Skeleton FINAL
Men's Snowboarding Giant Shalom FINAL
Men's 5K Speed Skate FINAL

Feburary 25th -
Men's Ice Hockey, Gold and Bronze Medal Games FINAL
Women's Snowboarding Giant Shalom FINAL
Women's 3K Speed Skate FINAL

Explanations of certain events:

Downhill Skiing and Speed Skating:
There are two days for each of the men's and women's events - the first will be for qualifying runs, in which the athletes will race to try and make the top 3. On the second day, those 3 will race for medal placement.

Curling:
There are three days for each of the men's and women's events. In men's, each Round consists of three games between two teams. By the end of the three rounds, all teams will have played each other once, and scores will be tallied up to determine the winners. In women's, there will be a semi-final found where teams will be randomly matched up and play three games. The winners go to the gold medal game, the losers to the bronze medal.

Ice Hockey:
There are four days set aside for each of the men's and women's events. The teams will be divided into two groups of three teams each. (Unfortunately, there are only 5 men's teams at present, but I'm trying to fix that). The groups will play each other, similar to how curling is set up. A win is worth three points, a tie 1, and a loss 0. The teams with the most points from each group will be in the gold medal game, the second most points in the bronze medal game. Ties will be decided by goal differences, then total goals scored.

Everything else: Figure it out for yourself, it shouldn't be that difficult.

Any questions, please let me know. I'm still finalizing the rosters for each event, but they should be settled by the time we need them.

Ator People:

Sounds fun. Thel or someone else should make some TNP medels

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Yeah... medals...

I'm hoping that Thel is willing and able to do that, but if not, our medals will just look very suspiciously like those donuts you see them handing out in Torino.

Or if someone else is willing, please let me know. I'll probably make a stab at it sometime tommorrow or Saturday, but it may not look very good.

As requested teh Men's Hockey Team, and Ingeborg Borgstein the Novan Men's Fress skate champion have just touched down, and have, er..., got their skates on.

*(There's only one plane in the whole of Nova Sardonikker - and yes, it only has 6 seats Puck...)

And with that, the rosters are finalized. The games will begin tommorrow, hopefully without too much of a hitch.

But then these things always seem to go terribly wrong for me, so we'll see what happens.

Somehow I can sense a total computer meltdown which causes the scoring to be completely screwed up and riots occur as a result.

Let's hope not...

Anyway, I didn't have time to call up Thel and have him do one of his fancy jobs with the medals, but hopefully these will do. I pirated the TNP crest out of the post boxes.

OOH! Shiny... Shiny! SHINY! Gimme shiny! *pummels Hersfold* Me want shiny now! NOW! *beats up Thel* *King Kong roar* SHINY!!!

*Hersfold puts A-I in a strait-jacket and ushers his athletes past without allowing them to view the medals.

WE'RE BEING DEPRIVED OF OUR RIGHTS! WE WANNA SEE SHINY! WE'RE TELLING MOMMY! MOMMY! HERSHEY'S BEING MEAN! I WANNA HOLD SHINY! *punches Hersfold in the face and runs; but, unlucky, goes into a state of Narkelepsy*

*Puckton's security forces quietly usher A-I away without further incident*

^ <g> Nice work Hers.

*Turns round to watch the Novan snowboarding team practicing... on the ice rink.*

*Puckton's star center shoots a fast practice goal* 115 on the radar gun....Nice!!