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Lets just say even before WB 18 started which I had won the original host bid it has seemed that a few had their minds made up that I wasn't experienced enough to host it. And after a faulty start many had blown a simple mistake out of proportion into something that after a few days a vote of no confidence was held and I was stripped of the honor to host the World Bowl. (only after I did the more honorable thing to step down as host and have a re-host bid vote to which CC won the host bid(unchallenged))

As the below put it (formerly known as Bulth Corp)
"Franklin Delano Bluth » Fri Jul 13, 2012 9:45 am

Many of those "points," however, have come from people who from the outset have made no secret of their hostility towards someone not part of the World Bowl establishment hosting this event, and appear to have in their minds refused to have given him even a chance of proving themselves but instead started with accusations of dishonesty and willful incompetence at the first opportunity that they found to twist what might have very well been a minor and innocent glitch or accident of randomness into something much bigger than it really was.

Current World Bowl president
"Andossa Se Mitrin Vega » Sun Jul 15, 2012 9:36 pm

Ok. I apologize to everyone for taking a few days of self-imposed away time to recharge. I have to catch up on the situation and will have some official comments coming soon.

First, each and everyone here needs to take a step back and breathe a bit.

I have to say officially and unoficiallly that I am very disappointed in the community as a whole, save one or two. Any reservations about NWG's ability to host should have been, and most were, before the vote had come to a conclusion. Despite those reservations, no other bid was forthcoming even when I had the vote totals messes up and extended the voting. Only one person here had shown any interest at all in hosting this edition of the World Bowl - and that was NWG. Following the voting results, any focus should have been transferred to lending help to a new host when, not if, he/she needed it. I guess that was beyond happening. Some people would rather sit back with an "I told you so" attitude.

Now we have a bigger issue at hand- what to do now that NWG has left this for us to sort out? - an act I do not blame him/her for at this point. We have a bid from CC for the World Bowl and one from ABK on hosting a BoI. As there are enough nations to have a BoI played we must decide if we will include it now that things are getting a restart."

To see the whole event unfold from the very start.
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1) Detailed in my bid.
2) I think that the AOCAF is small enough to just have an Everything thread. It'd be in the NSSport Forum, as it allows for better formatting and is overall easier to use.
3) Detailed in my bid.
4) Already did in my bid.
5) Don't really understand what you mean there. If it serves for anything, I haven't received negative comments in my tournaments, so I can't really tell.
6) Expand on what you mean by "conflict":
7) Because of the amount of good comments I've got from the tournaments I've hosted, not limited to new nations in the U-15WC for example.
8) No, but it could in the future.
9) Yes, there are. The agricultural sctor is big in Farfadillis.

About the U15WC, someone has already offered to bid for it to me through TG, apparently, he's still making the host bid. Even if this person somehow lost the voting against the poor nation of Re-open bids (commiserations ROB, you've been bidding for everything) I think I'd still be able to pull something off, like offering the host rights directly to someone else who'd be up to it. However, if a worst case scenario happens, I can still postpone it until the end of the AOCAF, or even host it at the same time as I'll soon be having lots of free time. I'd prefer the first one, though. However, said worst case scenario sounds highly unlikely.

Hope I've cleared your doubts.

As far as I know, nothing. Any special reason why you ask this?

Ooh, I had forgotten that I stuck my nose in the World Bowl Discussion thread around that time. I'm happy to see that you made it through and stayed active here, I remember being worried for a bit that the ridiculous rhetoric would drive you away. Good luck with this host bid! (and the good luck also carries to Farfadillis, both bids look perfectly respectable )


*edit as I read through more of the thread:

I think Blouman Empire is referencing the fact that in your host bid you called to attention that your U15 tournament was met with a bit of criticism. If I recall correctly, there was concern that the U15 was a redundant tournament made for the primary purpose of awarding people the potential for more titles for lackluster roleplaying, or something along those lines. I thought that Farfadillis had a perfectly reasonable reason for wanting to start the tournament, and from what little I've looked at, it seems to be well-run and fits in rather well with already existing tournaments.

This post has been edited by Kiryu-shi on Nov 27 2012, 02:52 PM

Dumb me, didn't remember that part of my bid.
Anyways, you pretty much summarrized everything. IIRC, Valanora thought it cluttered the calendar, Star was a bit doubtful about it but ended up signing up, Liventia completely disagreed completely and Licentiapacisterra thought it was unnecessary. However, I've got good comments from respectable nations (ie: Wight). I pretty much liked the outcome for a first edition. I even differed from most tournaments by asking other people to host my matches (out of the group stage)- To add a bit more, I'm planning someone else to scorinate my entire group so that there aren't any possibilities to think about corruption, unless that's too out of tradition.

As far as I know, nothing. Any special reason why you ask this?

I asked because you said it was controversial, as I missed the entire discussion on the U15 I wasn't sure what had happened. But as you and Kiryu-Shi pointed it out that there was nothing overly controversial with it.

I didn't see the need for another youth tournament, but decided to sign up in order to see how it went first-hand. I had no complaints with any of the hosting experience, I'm on the list for U15WC2, and have voted for Farf here as his next step along the hosting ladder.

Thank you, it means a lot.