Fictional leagues of a fictional country

[CNGL-Leudimin]

Creating a country is a hard process, as it involves creating a landscape with rivers, coastlines, mountains and other natural features, then creating its cities and the infrastructure (the roads and freeways we love, I'm also planning a good network of railways), and imagining its people and their culture. For example if this was based there, the most controversial proposal ever made in the Threads you'll never see in AARoads.com thread could actually happen (after all, it's a fictional country with a fictional culture). And of course, it has its fictional leagues. There is an association football ("soccer") league like in all countries, but the most popular sports are those in the "Big Four", which in this case is based off Mario Sports Mix. These four sports are basketball, hockey, volleyball and, surprise, dodgeball!

Each league has 32 teams, grouped into two conferences further subdivided into two divisions of 8 teams each (Since I haven't finished mapping the country I haven't decided where to place them, I only have placed some dodgeball teams). They operate in a similar fashion to the American Big Four, but promotion and relegation with the minor leagues also happen, and as result it can happen a town could have a major league team while a large market doesn't. Each major league awards a colored crystal cup to its champion: The Red Crystal Cup is presented to the basketball champion, the Blue Crystal Cup to the hockey one, the Green Crystal Cup to the volleyball one, and the Yellow Crystal Cup to the dodgeball one (again, inspired by Mario Sports Mix)

Volleyball is played with the international rules, and so does basketball with the only change of the quarter length which is the NBA one (12 minutes instead of 10). The kind of hockey played in the country is roller inline hockey, much like ice hockey but without ice. As for dodgeball, since there is no professional league anywhere, I had to make up some rules: up to five sets of up to 20 minutes each one (unless one side knocks out all opponents), and teams are composed of seven players, one of them starting in the knock-out area. Since all four sports are played indoors, there could be only one arena for all four, but to avoid scheduling troubles usually two arenas are built in a given city, and not all cities have teams in all major leagues, for example the city I named Ariza (after a real-life Spanish town) only has basketball and dodgeball teams in them.

And of course crazy things can happen. A few years ago the Ariza dodgeball team went from being practically swept out from the championship (to the point of having no players left in the third set of the fourth game) to clinch the Yellow Crystal Cup in seven games. Now that is a comeback.

Any thoughts? Like in my fictional highways I'm open to suggestions.

[NE2]

What.

[Alps]

I vote to reinstate Ethanman to hear his perspective.

[Max Rockatansky]

Does this include the fictional yet not Alanland Combat Basketball Association (the ACBA?). 

[hotdogPi]

roller inline hockey, much like ice hockey but without hockey

What does this mean?

[Rothman]

roller inline hockey, much like ice hockey but without hockey

What does this mean?

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[Scott5114]

roller inline hockey, much like ice hockey but without hockey

What does this mean?

It's just a block of ice.

[CNGL-Leudimin]

Ahem, I had a brain fart. I meant to write 'without ice'.

[kurumi]

Basketball courts have boards (as in hockey rinks) so out-of-bounds is less common, throw-ins are replaced by face-offs errr jump balls, and fouls in the 4th quarter result in only a possession change and 5 seconds burned off the clock.

Volleyball is played on 3-sided courts, which meet at a net the shape of the interior of the Mercedes logo, with 120 degree interior angles. The last team to give up 25 points wins the game. Matches have 3 teams, so the tournament structure starts with 81 teams, then progresses to 27, 9, and then 3.

The other surprisingly popular sports-like competitions are rock band performance (original songs only), calculus, beer brewing, and dabbing.

[hotdogPi]

City name ideas:

Lobcester (pronounced "lobster", similarly to Worcester, Gloucester, etc.)
Vermouth (pronounced similarly to Plymouth, Dartmouth, etc.)
Anville, Eaville, Deville, Adville (anvil, evil, devil, Advil)

Website domain country code: .rd (can't use .aa (Alanland), .ar (Argentina), or .ro (Romania))
Currency: De jure: [country name] dollar, on par with US dollar. De facto: Sports cards, featuring players from the sports in the original post. A typical unopened pack of 8 cards is considered to be the basic unit of currency, and (for example) Chuck Norris is worth 9.5 packs, Mario is worth 20 packs, most cards are worth 0.05 packs, etc. Payment can be done in either packs or individual cards.

[corco]

I think all but one of the cities should have all the sports to encourage athleticism, good health, and stop people from having casual sex and doing drugs. The other city should not have sports so we can be constantly reminded about how important sports are and so that the owners of the sports teams always have somewhere to threaten to relocate.

There should also be an interstate right by every stadium that can be converted into a parking lot when the sports are being played.

[CNGL-Leudimin]

City name ideas:

Lobcester (pronounced "lobster", similarly to Worcester, Gloucester, etc.)
Vermouth (pronounced similarly to Plymouth, Dartmouth, etc.)
Anville, Eaville, Deville, Adville (anvil, evil, devil, Advil)

Website domain country code: .rd (can't use .aa (Alanland), .ar (Argentina), or .ro (Romania))
Currency: De jure: [country name] dollar, on par with US dollar. De facto: Sports cards, featuring players from the sports in the original post. A typical unopened pack of 8 cards is considered to be the basic unit of currency, and (for example) Chuck Norris is worth 9.5 packs, Mario is worth 20 packs, most cards are worth 0.05 packs, etc. Payment can be done in either packs or individual cards.

City names are in Spanish, as this is a Spanish-speaking country. Also, I don't plan this to be an Alanland-like dystopia.

[corco]

I think you mean utopia - the Perkins Union and the logo sign hell that Pink Jazz dreams about are dystopian.

[freebrickproductions]

Does this include the fictional yet not Alanland Combat Basketball Association (the ACBA?). 

What sports teams & leagues does Alanland have? And I thought CalvinAlanball was the only official sport?

[Alps]

City name ideas:

Lobcester (pronounced "lobster", similarly to Worcester, Gloucester, etc.)
Vermouth (pronounced similarly to Plymouth, Dartmouth, etc.)
Anville, Eaville, Deville, Adville (anvil, evil, devil, Advil)

Website domain country code: .rd (can't use .aa (Alanland), .ar (Argentina), or .ro (Romania))
Currency: De jure: [country name] dollar, on par with US dollar. De facto: Sports cards, featuring players from the sports in the original post. A typical unopened pack of 8 cards is considered to be the basic unit of currency, and (for example) Chuck Norris is worth 9.5 packs, Mario is worth 20 packs, most cards are worth 0.05 packs, etc. Payment can be done in either packs or individual cards.

City names are in Spanish, as this is a Spanish-speaking country. Also, I don't plan this to be an Alanland-like dystopia.

However, states are still referred to as Oblasts just because.

[Max Rockatansky]

Does this include the fictional yet not Alanland Combat Basketball Association (the ACBA?). 

What sports teams & leagues does Alanland have? And I thought CalvinAlanball was the only official sport?

Yes that was true but the ACBA agreed to have "Alan" somewhere in the name of all 32 teams and a goat as every team mascot.

City name ideas:

Lobcester (pronounced "lobster", similarly to Worcester, Gloucester, etc.)
Vermouth (pronounced similarly to Plymouth, Dartmouth, etc.)
Anville, Eaville, Deville, Adville (anvil, evil, devil, Advil)

Website domain country code: .rd (can't use .aa (Alanland), .ar (Argentina), or .ro (Romania))
Currency: De jure: [country name] dollar, on par with US dollar. De facto: Sports cards, featuring players from the sports in the original post. A typical unopened pack of 8 cards is considered to be the basic unit of currency, and (for example) Chuck Norris is worth 9.5 packs, Mario is worth 20 packs, most cards are worth 0.05 packs, etc. Payment can be done in either packs or individual cards.

City names are in Spanish, as this is a Spanish-speaking country. Also, I don't plan this to be an Alanland-like dystopia.

But it WILL be a dystopia right?  We're long overdue for something like OCP and the Delta City Project would dream up. 

[CNGL-Leudimin]

However, states are still referred to as Oblasts just because.

Nope, I've already settled on regions and provinces. Seriously, I'm thinking of withdrawing this thread due to yours messing with my creations.

[Alps]

However, states are still referred to as Oblasts just because.

Nope, I've already settled on regions and provinces. Seriously, I'm thinking of withdrawing this thread due to yours messing with my creations.

Probably a good idea, since you said you're "open to suggestions" but you're clearly not.

[CNGL-Leudimin]

Well, I'm open to suggestions for the leagues' rules, not the whole country itself. I'm actually considering what kurumi said... not without a laugh.