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Stares out the window, at love gone with the wind

Well the love was 100% platonic on both sides, but still, I was sad to see him leave.

Soreenium City’s stadium “The Tin” played host to Group D’s opening league matches.

In the first match between Nangka and Sylh Alanor, we witnessed probably the biggest surprise of the tournament so far. One of the favourites going into the tournament the Immortals just never got going in this match against a thoroughly professional outfit. The Zapateros were rewarded with 4 goals for their efforts with only 1 in reply. Congratulations Nangkan!

Nangkan Zapateros 4 - Alanori Immortals 1

In the final opening game neither Lethodus or Lower French Gregballswould give an inch. Both back lines executed their plans perfectly and both keepers enjoyed a clean sheet and a share of the points.

Lethodus Ligers 0 - Lower French Gregballists 0

Group D;

Nangkan Zapateros – pts 3 – GD 3

Lethodus Ligers – pts 1 – GD 0

Lower French Gregballists – pts 1 – GD 0

Alanori Immortals – pts 0 – GD - 3

Not the start the Immortals hoped for but with 2 teams just one point ahead they can turn this round.

Tomorrow we return to Group A with Tovenian Guardians vs The Star Enpire Deep One's and The Micheldo vs The Toadsters. Who will start to run away with the group?

Hell yeah shoemakers let's goooooo

Hi there!

How are you? Welcome to the region :D

Sorry for two posts in a row but its been over 24 hours so hopefully it's ok.

We are back with action from Group B today. The first match of the day pitted the 2 winners from match day 1 against each other with both the Polar Aces and Refuge Isle hoping to take full control of the group. Before kick off it was hard to predict a winner, but an early goal by Refuge Isle seemed to galvanise their belief. They maintained control despite Melenavia’s best efforts and picked up a second goal in the process.

Melenevia Polar Aces 0 – Refuge Isle 2

From 2 teams with momentum, we now to the other side of the table and 2 teams in the Chatulan Steelheads and Felidaes' Field Leopards aiming to get their tournament kick-started. Once again the Steelheads started strong and scored early. Field Leopards fans may have considered turning off then and there, but they were glad if they didn’t. They dug in deep and equalised before half time. In the second half it was all Field Leopards as they netted twice more for their 1st win. Perhaps now they can start to believe.

Chatulan Steelheads 1 – Felidaes’ Field Leopards 3

Group B;

Refuge Isle – pts 6 – GD 5

Melenevian Polar Aces – pts 3 – GD 0

Felidaes' Field Leopards – pts 3 - GD -1

Chatulan Steelheads – pts 0 – GD -4

With 1 game to go any 2 of 3 teams can go through (although Refuge Isle’s GD looks good) with the Steelheads playing for pride only.

Tomorrow will see Vikoland Crowns vs The Ceres Station Asteroids and The Blue Kishkaws of Endmight vs Vraisten Vulpines in Group C.

Our team is not performing on the international stage, it seems. The Chatulan people are greatly disappointed.

In Group C both the Vikoland Crowns and the Ceres Station Asteroids needed a win to get back in contention for the quarter finals and boy did this show. In this four goal thriller, both teams went for it but neither team could edge out the other in the 90 minutes.

Vikoland Crowns 2 - The Ceres Station Asteroids 2

Once again we are treated to the top 2 in the group matching up with The Blue Kishkaws of Endmigt and the Vraisten Vulpines knowing that after the draw earlier, a win would see either team through to the next round. Both teams were solid at the back and it looked like it was destined to end goalless until a stunning team move broke the Vulpines back line and bagged Endmigt the 3 points.

The Blue Kishkaws of Endmigt 1 - Vraisten Vulpines 0

Group C standings;

The Blue Kishkaws of Endmigt – pts 6 – GD 3

Vraisten Vulpines – pts 3 – GD 1

The Ceres Station Asteroids – pts 1 – GD -2

Vikoland Crowns – pts 1 – GD -2

Congratulations to Endmigt who are guaranteed a top 2 finish and are the 2nd team officially into the quarter finals! But all 3 of the other teams can still grab that 2nd spot. Game on!

Tomorrow in Group D we will see Nangkan Zapateros vs Lethodus Ligers and Alanori Immortals try to bounce back against the Lower French Gregballists. Who will win?

Also, I'd really like for us to have more discussion on WA things here. So let's try this one:

Repeal: “Preventing the Execution of Innocents”

This repeal aims to take away what it says is an old, redundant resolution. PtEoI was a resolution made during a time when a full death penalty ban was thought to be impossible. So, in the light of not being able to pass a full death penalty ban because of the bloodthirsty nature of the General Assembly, the author made it nearly impossible to execute people through a series of bureaucratic regulations. Later, of course, the non-military and military death penalty bans were passed, making this one less useful.

On top of not being a fan of the general attitude and rudeness of the resolution, which I understand is an in-character choice and I dislike people having angry and problematic IC personas, I just don't think this is very necessary? I mean, sure there are two interlocking death penalty ban resolutions in place now, but I don't think it's a certainty that they'll always be there. Removing a harmless backup resolution just because it's "redundant" isn't planning for the possible eventuality where the things it's redundant of are themselves repealed.

Furthermore, there's not a limit of how many resolutions are allowed to be in place at one time, so I'm tired of seeing non-stop repeals for no reason other than "well this is kinda outdated but we're not going to replace it". I've voted against.

But what do you all think? Let me know, I'm really interested.

I'm not seeing any argument showing that PtEoI interferes with following resolutions. I'd also agree the tone of the resolution's author is aggressive. I'm planning on following SA's vote against.

It seems the Against vote is getting crushed though.

Friends, I have a question of much importance.

What is the second best ice cream flavor?

Belgian chocolate! :D

Mocha

*nods*

Coconut. Controversial I know, but there it is.

On another note...

It was a scrappy game to kick things off in Group D today as both the Nangkan Zapateros and the Lethodus Ligers hit hard and left nothing on the field. It wasn’t pretty but both defences put on a masterclass as this game ended goalless.

Nangkan Zapateros 0 - Lethodus Ligers 0

In our second match featuring the Alanori Immortals and the Lower French Gregballists, much of the pre-match media focus was on the Immortals bouncing back.... but this story was not to be. They were slow to get going for the second game in a row and this allowed the Lower French Gregballists to seize control, scoring 3 in the 1st half. The Immortals put in a much better performance in the 2nd half scoring a consolation goal but it was too little too late.

Alanori Immortals 1 - The Lower French Gregballists 3

Group D;

Nangkan Zapateros – pts 4 – GD 3

Lower French Gregballists – pts 4 – GD 2

Lethodus Ligers – pts 2 – GD 0

Alanori Immortals – pts 0 – GD -5

With three teams unbeaten this is a group to watch. Will the Immortals restore some pride next time and end the Ligers dreams?

Tomorrow we have the final games in Group A .

May I ask you to test out the seating on this new sun slingshot I'm working on? Just check out how the seats feel real quick...

A contentious issue. I wanna go with coffee.

Don't shoot the...guy who wrote the message.

OOC: Coconut Ice Cream? Never seen that in our local stores. I don't think our local companies produce that (I try to support our local industries). I wonder if I should break my principles to try the Ben & Jerry's version.

BTW, you could shorten my team's name now and then informally to "the Greballists."

IC: Anne-Marie Juliette spoke with Greballist Coach, John Argos Stetknopf, over Zoom Videoconference and warmly congratulated him and his team for their great efforts. Stetknopf said to the Press: "Today we showed the Region what our players are worth, and hope with luck and some more effort to win our next game and ascend to next level."

Patriotism

Coffee. Beaten only by this homemade basil ice cream I had once.

Now the drama begins. It’s the last Group matches of a very open Group A. Both Tovenia and The Toadsters knew that a win would give them an outside chance of qualification to the next round and it really showed in the early kick-off. Both teams through caution to the wind. Tovenia got off to a quick start netting twice but the Toadsters came back strong scoring one of their own before half time. The second half produced loads more chances and the same number of goals again with the Guardians proving to be just that bit more clinical in front of goal.

Tovenian Guardians 4 – The Toadsters 2

Tovenia’s win meant The Micheldo knew they needed a victory themselves against an unbeaten Star Enpire to clinch that 2nd place. As 1st place was already guaranteed, would the Deep One’s take their foot off the gas? The Micheldo dominated possession limiting the Deep One’s to no real chances of note. They also threw everything they had at the Star Enpire’s defence.... but they are top of the league for a reason and remained stoic throughout.

The Micheldo 0 - The Star Enpire Deep One's 0

Group A final standings;

The Star Enpire Deep One's – pts 7 – GD 5

Tovenian Guardians – pts 4 – GD 1

The Micheldo – pts 3 – GD 0

The Toadsters – pts 1 – GD -6

So it’s heart break for Michelland after such a valiant effort. Somehow they are leaving the competition without losing a game! We also say goodbye to The Toadstool Kingdom (sorry the dice weren't kinder). They picked up a point which is no mean feat for the competitions smallest nation. The Star Enpire and Tovenia are through!

yay map

President of Allokyus here, i have great news today. Yesterday, our radio telescope detected a faint radio signal at the Proxima Centauri system. The signal didn't look like any natural emission detected so far, and it was clearly made by an artificial source. This is a great achievement for both Allokyus and Refugia. Our scientists have already deciphered the first words, and it sounds like a greeting. Here's a partial translation of the signal:

<<Hello ......ty .. .o.. .. .ea..>>

Coach Stetknopf of the Lower French Gregballists offers his heartflet condolences to the Mecheldo team. Better luck next time!

Hello!!

Hi!

*bangs pots and pans together again* I don't want to sound annoying but it is Melenavenian not Melenevian btw!

We're happy to have you here ^-^ and it's nice to see you in the server as well!

Once you've been a WA member for seven days you'll become a member state, and be able to be on our regional map, as well as vote in the elections that are coming up next month :D

Not annoying just correct. My apologies, consider it changed. I blame my minister for foreign languages. :)

Now Group C

With Endmigt unbeaten and already through, attention in Group C was for “the battle for 2nd”. The 2 most likely – Vikoland and Ariane faced off in a tense match. A win should be enough for either side and The Crowns knew this and took the lead 3 times, but the Vulpines would not be deterred levelling the score a third time and then stealing a winner with the last kick of the game. What a match! The new game of the season?

Vikoland Crowns 3 - Vraisten Vulpines 4

That result unfortunately meant the end of the tournament for the Asteroids, but coming up against The Blue Kishkaws of Endmigt they would always have been in for an uphill battle. Endmigt continued to stamp their dominance on this tournament keeping their 3rd clean sheet and taking the win.

The Blue Kishkaws of Endmigt 2 - The Ceres Station Asteroids 0

Group C final standings;

The Blue Kishkaws of Endmigt – pts 9 – GD 5

Vraisten Vulpines pts 6 – GD 2

Vikoland Crowns – pts 1 – GD -3

The Ceres Station Asteroids pts 1 – GD -4

So it’s a fond farewell to Vikoland and Inaros Opa, it was great to see you both in action, but a huge congratulations to Araine and the unstoppable Endmigt! Can anyone score against them?

Mission failed we'll get em next time. Also, there hasn't been any discuss of low-gravity sports like 3d Soccer, Astroball and unassisted low-g Quidditch. Would any countries like to participate in the Beltalowda Sports Tournament? We don't normally allow inners to participate, but y'all seem nicer than average.

Oh god Argo I'm so sorry.

Lovely weather

What's up with it?!

I wouldn't know....

Do any Refugi have a lore written for their nation that involves a violent struggle for independence?

Mine does kind of. It's more of a violent creation of a nation really.

SCREECHES

So I see that I'm being outvoted on the SC resolution at vote, Commend Suvmia.

This boils down to two things in my opinion. First off, it's horrendously written, and we care about writing quality here. Look at this paragraph and tell me what it means and how it got through drafting:

Secondly, there's not much here, and what's there isn't particularly commendable. Gibraltarica said the following in the forum:

She's done a lot in the same spaces as Suvmia and I would trust her judgement on this higher than I would most other people involved. Especially anyone from Refugia.

Anyway, I think this is a bad resolution and I think it's passing by a mixture of people not actually reading it and some quality political wrangling by the author and the URA.

Here's a little story for y'all.

So a frog goes to the bank and he walks up to the teller and sees that her name is Patricia Whack. He gets to the counter and he says "Hello Miss Whack, I'd like a loan for $50,000 for a vacation."

She looks at him confused, and the frog tells her "It's okay, my name is Kermit Jagger, and my father is Mick Jagger, he knows the bank manager."

Patricia, still in disbelief explains to the frog that he'll need some sort of collateral, and without hesitation, the frog replies "No problem, this should cover it," and reaches into his back pocket and pulls out a small porcelain elephant and sets it on the counter.

Patricia, at this point has had about enough of this, and excuses herself to talk to her bank manager. When she returns, she's explaining that this frog showed up and is wanting a loan, and he says his dad is Mick Jagger, and he has this tiny little elephant, what even is that anyway?

And the bank manager looks at her and he says "It's a knick knack, Patty Whack, give the frog a loan. His old man's a Rolling Stone."

Welcome United Socialist Sates Of Eruop, Yamoahein, Kingdom Of Varnolha, Mountainkingdom, Chukiang, Communist Of France, Owarstat, Eleland, Eutthanasia, Pomena, S0M3Wh3Re, Dartmoora, Cind Erelia, and Renegelle! We've gotten so many new people in the last few days, this is great. I'm so happy you're all here ^-^

Refugia is a mostly community-focused region, happier to just vibe with one another than get involved in a lot of heavy, drama-related site issues. If you have any questions about how NationStates or regional stuff or anything else works, please feel comfortable asking questions. Everyone's very nice and we have a lot of highly proficient people around who have deep knowledge of various site activities.

If you haven't already, please consider joining the World Assembly and endorsing some of your regionmates. Every endorsement generates more Refugia-exclusive Influence, which is a magical site function that can only be made here. It also increases our voting power at the World Assembly (more information on that is in the WA link I provided). If you don't feel up to it or don't want to, that's also entirely fine.

We have an off-site forum (https://calref.cc/) and discord server (https://calref.network/chat/) connected to our larger community Calamity Refuge, of which NationStates is only one thing we do. If you want a friendly place to just be yourself and hang out, I can absolutely recommend checking out those community links at the top of the region page. In fact, right now we have a big site event going on on the forum, the Battle of All Things! If you register on the forum, you can vote to determine the outcome of different character battle scenarios. We also run weekly movie nights in our discord server.

I know that's a lot, and I'm sorry if things feel a bit overwhelming. Just know that we're all here and want to be friends, so take things as quickly or slowly as you like, and we'll all be here for the ride. Thanks for joining us.

If you're interested in learning more about the region, Refuge Isle has put together a master dispatch that explains a lot of the different things going on in Refugia: https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1449847

Maybe a solarpunk one.

What is solarpunk, if you don't mind me asking?

Sylh Alanor, for what it's worth (not a lot because I haven't written as much as I hope to) is a solar punk nation with high magic involvement.

Sounds like exactly what I'm going for. I love all of those things.

Welcome to all the new people! I'll put up a more involved welcome message for all of you soon, but I wanted to let you know while you're coming into the region that if you have any questions about Refugia or NationStates, feel free to ask here in the RMB. We're friendly and there are people in the region who are very knowledgeable about different aspects of the site.

It’s Semi-finals day! Only four teams left;

The Star Enpire Deep One’s vs Nangkan Zapateros

Refuge Isle vs Vraisten Vulpines

With all four teams knowing that they are so close to the final, who will dig deep and grab their opportunity?

In our 1st Semi-final it was one way traffic in the 1st half with the Deep One’s scoring twice with no reply. After such an impressive last round against Endmigt, the Zapateros will have surely believed they could get back into this match in the 2nd half…. But it wasn’t to be. Try as they might the Zapateros failed to score and once they weathered the storm the Deep ones managed to score one more before the final whistle.

The Star Enpire Deep One’s 3 – Nangkan Zapateros 0

Such a shame for Nankan after some amazing results, they just seemed to run out of steam.

In the 2nd Semi-final the game was fast and frantic with the Vulpines just edging out Refuge Isle in the 1st half going in 2 – 1 up. Refuge Isle were no stranger to a come back having done it so successfully in their quarter final, and they would need to do it again to reach the final. This time however, the task proved just too great. The Vulpines defence did their job and once again the team used their pace to catch Refuge Isle on the break adding on more goal late on.

Refuge Isle 1 – Vraisten Vulpines 3

A great tournament from our founders but no final this year I'm afraid.

So we have our finalists! Well done The Star Enpire and Araine

Tomorrow the finalists will rest up whilst we find out who will take 3rd place.

Awesomesauce, accepted.

Hello!

Hello.

Welcome! :)

Hi all, just trying to find my way around for now :)