[Danothebull]

Nation Domination – Introduction

For the first time in its history, Euro Domination brings you a nation-based competition where players in the community can compete in matches with friends and soon to be new friends whilst representing their nation. The Euro Domination admin team proudly present Nation Domination.

Which country in Europe has the skill, strength and mentality to succeed and rise above all other nations? Who are the true team leaders in the Euro Domination community? This March, each European Nation will have the opportunity to unite and form its very own national team (where possible) for a rare opportunity to earn true bragging rights.

This will be obvious to most – you can only represent your own Nation. For example, if you are Swedish, you can’t participate in the Netherlands National team.


The Set-up

Matches will be played 5vs5. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare will be the battlefield. The Search & Destroy game-type will be used, accompanied by the Original Ruleset.
Where possible, each European Nation will have a squad size consisting of at least eight players but no more than 15 in total. Further information:

- Each squad will have just one leader/captain and one deputy (in the interest of keeping a team in order and maintaining a stable leadership). Furthermore each squad will have no more than 13 other players on their roster (15 in total).
- A squad can have no less than 8 players in the team in total.
- The leader/captains will be decided on an application basis.
- The deputy will be nominated by the leader/captain.
- Only two players - that were registered to Euro Domination after interest checks are opened – are allowed in each Nation’s squad.
- No more than six players – that are in the same clan at the time of interest checks opening – are allowed in each nation’s squad.
- No more than three players – from any one clan – are allowed to play a match (for the same nation) at any one time.

The first stage of the competition will be in a group format. The size of the groups depends on the amount of Nations that are competiting. For this, we will be using the “Road to Victory Tournament” interface and set-up. The second stage of the competition will be single elimination knockout, only the best Nations from the group stage qualify for this phase of the competition.


Where Do I Signup? – Interest Checks

The Interest Checks are now open. You must declare your interest by using the Interest Checker. If you do not sign up to the Interest Checks then you will not be eligible to take part in the competition. The Interest Checks will be used as a database/list of players for each Nation Captain to choose from when picking his/her squad. To sign up for the Cup, you can add yourself to the interest checks by visiting here.


The Captains

Players that wish to captain their Nation will have the chance to apply for this opportunity shortly. Instructions will be posted in a separate News Item within the next couple of days. The Captain has a large responsibility for maintaining organisation and competition within his/her Nation team. Jobs include:

- Nominate a Deputy and War Arranger.
- Picking a squad.
- Organising training/practice sessions (if you deem necessary)
- Organising line ups for each game
- Submitting a short match report to the forums (information will follow later)

Amongst other things which are normally expected of a typical Clan Leader.


The Maps

The maps used are pre-determined and will be the most popular maps (most played) in the Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare Open Ladder since the end of the last League Season (Season 13).


Individual Awards

There are Individual Awards up for grabs in the Nation Domination including the Most Valuable Player award. More information will follow in the coming weeks.


Timeline

Here is a rough Timeline of key dates/events throughout the course of Nation Domination:

Monday 16th February – Sunday 22nd February:
Announcement of the Nations Cup.
Player interest checks are opened.
Captain applications are opened.
Sunday 22nd February:
Captain application is closed.
Wednesday 25th February:
In the event(s) where more than one player has applied for captaincy of a single nation. A vote will commence to decide who will take the captaincy.
The Rules are published.
Sunday 1st March:
Captaincy Votes are closed.
Monday 9th March @ noon:
Captains are announced.
Tasks issued out to each captain.
Eligible National teams are announced.
Player interest checks closed.
Sunday 15th March:
The draw for the groups are made and announced.
Fixtures are created. Teams can start arranging matches.
Week 1 commences on Monday 23rd March (one week after the Road to Victory Tournament finishes)
Explanation of posting results is posted.
Wednesday 17th March:
Deadline for the captaincy tasks.
Monday 23rd March: Week 1
Monday 30th March: Week 2
Monday 6th April: Week 3
Monday 13th April: Semi-Final Week
Monday 20th April: Final Week


Final Notes

A Q&A thread will be opened within the next 24 hours. You can ask any burning questions in the thread.
Other small (but exciting) features for this competition are planned.
The Forums will see a few minor changes within the next couple of months in order to help facilitate this competition.

Don’t forget to sign up for this unique competition once the Interest Checks are opened. Good luck to all that compete, good luck to each and every nation and most importantly of all – have fun.

[Scrpz.]

Sounds cool, n1.

[=8th=Gen.Frecker?]

Interesting

[=8th=Fm.Bulldog]

Cant wait to see what damage this does to alot of communities, how long will i be before some are doing better in this competition and then decide to leave their communities and form their own clan ?

Is this going to happen when the league is completed and no tournaments are running or is it going to run alongside the league and tournament ?

Seems that if it is going for over a month that it will run alongside the league ?

If it runs during leagues - tournaments will that mean that clans will lose the ability to select their best players as they could be playing for their "national team" strange decision by Edom - I will be requesting that our players play for us before any fixture they could be involved in as I have only interest in what we do not some "national team"

How can you possibly have something like this and expect players to join in with National training and all the other features that involve a team captain as you put it when some have positions in their communities ?

I do accept that some can say "we have a national player in our community" but all this is doing is ruining what some are doing - I for one am worried by this

Stinks of elitism and is not and never has been what edom have been about,

[Vipez]

strange decision by Edom

never has been what edom have been about

idd ... seems like desperation tbh and I`m not convinced its a good idea.

Would have been better to keep the WaW players/WaW clans happy and launch their ladder (don`t worry about /record for now) and thats coming from someone who thinks WaW is dire!

Sorry, this aint flame....I appreciate the new idea but I`m not sure if this is the way to go Edom

gl with it anyway and for Edoms sake I hope this succeeds

Edom aint broken so don`t try and fix it

[Gis]

I to have the same reservations as Bulldog & Vipez .

[Eric]

I can understand your points Bulldog and Viper.

However Bulldog I think your fear about them making a new team is nothing to worry about. If someone leaves cuz of that, then he ain't loyal to you, means you're better off lolz... That's how I look at leaving members.

Also if you have admins/deputy admins in those national teams who are loyal to their own team, then you won't see those national teams making their own team. I can't see that happening that a selection will make his own team.

@ Vipez, I think it will give this community a good thing, it will move us more together. And I disagree with your part on CoDWaW... in fact E-Dom staff made a topic stating CoDWaW interest checking among teams here. And I think E-Dom actually has to drop CoDWaW soonish if it was up to me.

And yes E-Dom ain't broken, but E-Dom ain't organising anything, while it can be so easy... to me the last months the E-Dom staff seemed inactive, not organising to do things... to me it began to sound 'dead'. I'm a person who wants to organise things, who wants to get things done, and not in 5 months, but in a few days (if that's possible). That's why I was worried about E-Dom lately.

These things like these can put more activity in E-Dom though, it's what E-Dom needs, if E-Dom needs this exact thing (with the nations) that I do not know, I only know it needs events... frequently...

And to Bulldog, I do not know what E-Dom wants to make of these national things. However I see it different as a national team. I myself have been a member of the Netherlands BHD National Team in Delta Force Black Hawk Down for years, and I was a leading member there. It never conflicted really with matches from teams, we organised them on days we all could and members who had a match with their team would play there first if needed. But then again, those teams were a bit different from this, that was a real national team on the whole game/community.

Anyway one thing I do agree with you Bulldog, about the league matches. This will start after the tournaments I believe. But the leagues will be running then... how will E-Dom avoid conflicting things between this and the leagues? Or will E-Dom pick a standard day in the week where no one can't play league matches so this cup can be played?

If nothing like that happens then I agree with Bulldog that this is a problem.

But the problems about 'this is not edom', 'they will make their own team', 'strange decision' are not getting my support.

I think this move is along the lines on what E-Dom is, it's E-Dom caring about his community. A community which is strong together, which is meant to be friendly to each other. And not all individuals who only care about their own teams. No to me E-Dom means we all have fun together, whether it's my rival or not. This event suits that part.

And about people going to make their own team, with the proper admins on each nation you will never get a thing like this. And if it happens that members leave over this, then they ain't loyal and then you are better off without them imo. But I already said that.

And it's not a strange decision in my opinion if you look at the fact that E-Dom barely organised anything last months (Yes months!!!!). I welcome these new changes, however I also didn't expect this, and I think it needs very good organisation to make this succeed since there are some 'issues' who might turn to be a problem for teams/squads/clans in E-Dom as Bulldog suggested.

That's my point of view

[Velocity]

And I think E-Dom actually has to drop CoDWaW soonish if it was up to me.

Why is that ?

At time of writing this there are more teams signed up to WAW, than cod2 and cod4.
If anything Edom needs to drop cod2 and concentrate on cod4 and codwaw.

Like i said in another post, i think edom made a mistake by not restarting the league before Christmas, and peoples interest has just waned.

[Eric]

And I think E-Dom actually has to drop CoDWaW soonish if it was up to me.

Why is that ?

At time of writing this there are more teams signed up to WAW, than cod2 and cod4.
If anything Edom needs to drop cod2 and concentrate on cod4 and codwaw.

Like i said in another post, i think edom made a mistake by not restarting the league before Christmas, and peoples interest has just waned.

I agree with the fact that the leagues should have started earlier, the codwaw thing is just my opinion. I think it won't become bigger then it is at this point.
Anyway this is about this new event, not about those other things, so let's not get off topic.

[Velocity]

Anyway this is about this new event, not about those other things, so let's not get off topic.

Agreed.


At first i though this was a good idea, but after a bit of though i am starting to think like the above that this itsn't going to be a great idea.

I'm all for making Edom more active but....is it a good idea to encourage team members
to play for other teams, and not encourage teams to play in general ?

I have to agree with what Bulldog says on this...

Which country in Europe has the skill, strength and mentality to succeed and rise above all other nations? Who are the true team leaders in the Euro Domination community?

Stinks of elitism and is not and never has been what edom have been about,

Its going to be like footy in the school playground, where the best players get picked first, and the not so good or unfavoured players get picked last or not atall.

[Vin Diesel]

Cant wait to see what damage this does to alot of communities, how long will i be before some are doing better in this competition and then decide to leave their communities and form their own clan ?

This is some "Fun" And only contains a few matches. This could be said for any cups that run, if i won the dm cup, i could say I'm better then my clan and leave, but I'm loyal to my clan so this isn't a issue. And i think this is said for most the clans in Euro Domination.

If it runs during leagues - tournaments will that mean that clans will lose the ability to select their best players as they could be playing for their "national team" strange decision by Edom - I will be requesting that our players play for us before any fixture they could be involved in as I have only interest in what we do not some "national team"

Of course we wouldn't expect the Nation cup to take priority over league fixtures, maybe this wasn't made clear in the post which dano posted. This is what subs will be for to fill in cases like this.

How can you possibly have something like this and expect players to join in with National training and all the other features that involve a team captain as you put it when some have positions in their communities ?

The National training is only if the team feel the need and if they wish to, There isn't allot todo as a team captain, like i said above there is only going to be a few matches with this. if you do have positions in your communities then its up to them to either deny the role or not. And if they do have alot of positions in the comunity i dont think they would take the roll on.

Stinks of elitism and is not and never has been what edom have been about

I have to disagree with this, Edom is different from other leagues/ladders and as far as i know i haven't seen this idea around. With allot of changes in edom mainly on the staff front of things this is something different and "Fun" yes we was late on the league starting but we had to find are feet with Rude stepping down, To me this idea could bring the community more together and edom by having fun in there "Nations" and mixing with others. Dano has thought about this allot, as you may see by all the detail in his post. This isn't something that was thought up and put together in a couple of days. Everyone has there views and we all know we cant please everyone. All we ask is we try

I hope this clears a few things up

[Eric]

Well said Vinnie

[Danothebull]

Eric and Vin covered most of the points I was going to make, but to add.

For most Nations they may not play any more than 3 matches whilst the nations that do well will play no more than 5/6. It is not a lot of worry and say if your clan was predominantly from the United Kingdom then just try and avoid clashing with UK's matches for example (3-5/6 of them)

[Vipez]

Anyway this is about this new event, not about those other things, so let's not get off topic.

Hypocrisy at its finest

[Eric]

Anyway this is about this new event, not about those other things, so let's not get off topic.

Hypocrisy at its finest

Says you...