it's a tournament held every four years with teams from different nations competing in Diplomacy... i'm not sure who is bidding to host the next one, but webdiplomacy doesn't currently have the kind of support for tournaments which the DNWC may consider important...
'1.1 Idea
In most sports, the highest form of competitive play is
the International, (e.g. the Test Match or the World Cup),
in which national teams compete to see which nation is
the best in the world at their chosen sport. These events
are often epic encounters which stir the best, and
sometimes the worst emotions.
In Diplomacy there are tournaments, both face to face,
and via the Internet in which players from many nations
compete. There have been tournaments in which players
are geographically chosen. However, there is no truly
national team competition akin to a World Cup. There is
no tournament in which, for example, France, England,
America, Brazil, Sweden, Australia and Italy compete
against each other for the honor of being called the best
nation in the world.
The World Cup of soccer, rugby or cricket is played in
the real world, but at great expense. The chief
advantage of the Internet is that events can be staged at
little or no expense, and can potentially involve large
numbers of competitors from across the globe. Since
Diplomacy is a game, some would argue a sport, which
can easily be played over the Internet, it seems strange
that no World Cup of Diplomacy has ever been
attempted before.
1.2 A bit of history
At the end of 2005 a discussion started on DipWorld as
to whether such a tournament was a good idea. Opinion
was somewhat divided and the idea failed to catch on.
This discussion was staged on a few other forums as
well, with the general opinion seeming to be that such an
idea was worthy but difficult, even foolhardy to achieve.
Consequently the discussion was taken to a separate
forum This forum met to discuss and amend the World
Cup Charter For the better half of 2006 there was a
heated debate on the many issues raised by this Charter
such as how on earth to select a Team America, or how
nationality might be determined, what scoring system
would be best, and what interface would best suit a
competition of this nature.
A call for bids was made in the end of 2007 and the bid
from site www.stabbeurfou.org was selected, to host the
first event (site was translated from French to English for
the event) after several more discussions on how to set
the event.
Edition one took place for September 2007 to May 2009.
Round one had teams (finally ranked in this order) from
France (3), Argentina, Russia, Australia (2), Italy, China,
Germany (2), Romania, USA (6), Sweden, Canada,
Turkey, Brazil, Austria, UK, Ireland, South Africa. Round
two had the seven finalist ranked in this order : France,
Italy, Argentina, Germany, Australia, China and Russia.
Team France was led by Captain Gwenn Maggi.'
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