Tourney round: Aptolympics: Paris 2024: Sign-up round

	Stu Harkness As ex-president Donald Trump once said... "China"
	Fi Thorne Hi Dave, will it be mainly against robots?
	Dave Robjohns Mostly yep! There will be a few events against people but only one where you’ll have more than one opponent at a time and I’ll give a whole month for that round. Also gave the option last time of only signing up for bot events. One other thing to mention, nobody will actually be playing 100 events, the most around 60
	Mike Lee This tourney only happens every 4 years and I joined Apto just before the last one. It’s the best tourney for variety and fun and Dave’s imagination to theme events around Apto variants is amazing. I encourage everyone to give this tourney a try. CHINA!!!!!!!
	Fi Thorne You've sold it to me Mike! :-)
	Dan Spinks I was just thinking that it couldn't possibly be 4 years since the mighty China last competed in this then realised that the 2020 olympics were in 2021. what a weird world we used to live in
	Dave Robjohns Presenting the 100 events of the 2024 Aptolympiad: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_7LILrEOFh2Uv5h1NhEpGVeP1Q4oXlroPXGfaHgVwk8/edit#gid=87073445 All subject to change (especially the obnoxious colour scheme), dates to be added in soon. Teams will be decided on 23rd, I will try and retain most nationalities as I know some teams built up strong loyalty - but obviously some balancing and merging may be needed depending on numbers, plus Russia won't be competing in Paris Suggestions also welcomed as some of you will know certain sports better than I do and have great ideas for relevant events - Sam's climbing event a good example (although they've only gone and changed the actual olympic event so it doesn't fit anymore!! - keeping it anyway)
	Dave Robjohns Have started a few events early as I realised the previous times I ran this I was an unemployed student in summer and barely allowed to leave the house (covid times). So will be a chunk of pre-scheduling if I can! Still 3 and a bit days left to sign up and have a crack at winning a few medals :) Good numbers already, looking forward to it!
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	Dave Robjohns Deadline to sign-up: 3pm TODAY! I'm not around at midnight so will be doing work on the games on Saturday afternoon.
	Dave Robjohns NATIONALITIES We ended on 44 entries, including 2 only playing bot rounds. These 2 have been re-assigned to their countries, leaving 42 players split into 14 teams of 3. Russia will not be attending the games, the other 14 countries from 2021 will be. Then separated the 42 into 3 pools of 14 by rating, and have assigned 1 from each pool to each country, retaining nationality where possible. There were only 3 instances where this wasn’t possible - Dan, Dave K and Anthony the trio that have emigrated since the last Olympics. We end up with 14 (hopefully) reasonably balanced countries! AUSTRALIA 🇦🇺 John Beresford Jason Turner Anthony Endsor CHINA 🇨🇳 Stu Harkness Mike Lee Dan Spinks SPAIN 🇪🇸 Jonny D Jon Stitcher Adam Peel FRANCE 🇫🇷 Tom Cappleman Ian Volante Mark O’Regan GREAT BRITAIN 🇬🇧 Fi Thorne Wesley Barton Matt OC GERMANY 🇩🇪 Matthew Brockwell John Aziz Jon Pinyan HUNGARY 🇭🇺 Sam Cappleman-
	Dave Robjohns HUNGARY 🇭🇺 Sam Cappleman-Lynes Andy SC Colin Thompson ITALY 🇮🇹 Hazel Drury Kieran Bray Elwin Carlos JAMAICA 🇯🇲 Adam Latchford Maria Chandler Ben Bazzard JAPAN 🇯🇵 Dan Byrom Fiona T Stephen Elsley Damian McEvoy SOUTH KOREA 🇰🇷 Florence C-L Dave Robjohns Roger Peak NETHERLANDS 🇳🇱 Chris Hare David Holmes Sam Shepherd UKRAINE 🇺🇦 Dave Kempshall Thomas Carey Steven Oldham UNITED STATES 🇺🇸 Stephen R Matthew Tassier Martin Thomas Ian Wray I’ll be in touch with all teams tomorrow, with some decisions to come in terms of your selections for upcoming events!
	Stu Harkness We got our group chat from three years ago up and running again today. Beautiful. We forgot about our beef with Jamaica!
	Dan Spinks I hope Ben has been suitably briefed about the China-Jamaica rivalry

Tourney round: Aptolympics: Paris 2024: Sign-up round

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Notes from the organizer: Aptolympics is back for a third edition! This time we're off to Paris (& Tahiti), where the 33rd edition of the world's largest sports event will be taking place in July & August, with equal numbers of male and female athletes for the first time competing across 329 events.

Aptolympics will as ever feature every one of those sports (with 2 bonus paralympic sports!), with 100 imaginary shiny gold medals up for grabs this time round, with opportunities across all variants.

Over two editions we've seen 90 players now battle it out over 150 events with team France, led by Tom Cappleman's 14 individual golds, coming out on top in 2021.

2024 will feature 4 sports split into rating categories and at least 8 where players can choose which format/variant to enter, giving everyone plenty of chances to challenge for medals and play tactically. I also intend to run 7 of the events "live", so look out for those! Will definitely be something for everyone and plenty of team play.

The tournament will run for 7 weeks from 23rd June, culminating on 11th August in parallel with the Olympics.

The obligatory massive spreadsheet is currently being finalised... I'll aim to publish that at some point in the next week.

Please feel free to wing me any questions & whack your sign-ups in here!

Ran from: 6 – 22 June 2024. Format: 15 Rounder. Matches: One-off. Approved.

Signed up: Jon Stitcher, Ian Volante, Tom Cappleman, Matthew Tassier, Jason Turner, Stephen R, Chris Hare, Thomas Carey, Matt OC, John Aziz, Kieran Bray, Mike Lee, Matthew Brockwell, John Beresford, Sam Cappleman-Lynes, Anthony Endsor, Ian Wray, Andy SC, Hazel Drury, Dan Byrom, Steven Oldham, Jonny D, Martin Thomas, Sam Shepherd, Fiona T, Dave Robjohns, Elwin Carlos, Maria Chandler, Dave Kempshall, Damian McEvoy, Dan Spinks, Wesley Barton, Stu Harkness, Roger Peak, Adam Latchford, Fi Thorne, Florence C-L, Adam Peel, Mark O'Regan, Stephen Elsley, Colin Thompson, Ben Bazzard, Jon Pinyan, David Holmes.

Fixtures: 0. Completed: 0.

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Tourney round: Aptolympics: Paris 2024: Sign-up round