Alright, I can officially confirm that the draft will be held on Sunday, August 6th, at 8PM EST. This was the time that worked for the most people. My apologies if you are unable to make this time.

Last edited by QCS (8/05/2023 8:51 am)

Today, I'm happy to announce the unveiling of the brand new, state of the art, Old Corporate Bank Park.   Why is the new stadium called Old?  Mostly for character.  Since we are called Berlin 1871, we wanted to invoke a feeling of nostalgia, as though Old Corporate Bank Park has been there for generations.   Granted, absolutely nothing in the stadium itself is old fashioned, everything is state of the art.   Being able to seat an impressive 75,522 screaming fans, Berlin 1871 will be among the loudest on the planet (no really, we made sure of it.   It'd bore you to listen to me prattle on how exactly we did it, but our architecture was put together to make screaming fans' voices echo. making the stadium even louder than it already is).   

Oh, and don't mind the controversy about how the stadium was funded, or about the working conditions.  Fact is, state of the art stadiums are expensive and require significant resources.  There's only so much that an honest little company like Corporate Bank can contribute.  But, you'll all be happy to know that the classic Revolve a Field technology that other stadiums with the Corporate Bank (the most successful bank on the planet, mind you!) name have is back!   When we're not using the field for soccer, we're using it for American Football (we'd love to have the AltFL bring a game or two internationally to grow the sport's popularity in Germany!), Basketball (AltBA, perhaps?) and even Chess Boxing!  So the city will be getting it's money's worth for sure!   

What?  You really want to know about the approximate 4,500 lawsuits from those whining workers, that claim they were put through extreme and abusive working conditions?   Oh c'mon, you know how it goes.  We couldn't get enough German people to work on Old Corporate Bank Park and they wanted too much money anyway.   So we did what any other responsible corporation does, which was hire international workers from less fortunate countries for significantly less to no pay!  Who were we to not look after less fortunate friends worldwide, they deserve a chance to work for a succesful company too!   Sure, they were under a REALLY tight schedule and had to work really quickly, we may have been a bit Laissez Faire with safety regulations (hey, it's the worker's fault if they fall to their doom from high up!  They knew there were no safety rails on those high platforms!), and it's a mystery to us too that every single one of them lost their passports, making it impossible for them to go home.   All we know is that we generously allowed all these people a chance to work for a good living.   Oh, and while on the topic, no, we did NOT hiring a bunch of children to build this thing, that's absurd.   All of the approximate 4,500 workers just happened to be really short, I'm guessing we just coincidently hired people from countries where people are all much tinier than usual.  Weird, I know, but we're an equal opportunity company after all!  

So relax, sit back with a nice warm German beer, if you're old enough of course,  (Also, why do Germans like their beer warm?  That's very strange to me) and enjoy watching the Berlin Bears Claw and Gnaw their way to victory!   Just ignore the squeaking and cranking sounds you'll hear.  It's nothing to worry about at all, remember that Old Corporate Bank Park was built with the best of German engineering!  What's that?  We didn't actually hire any actual German engineers to put this stadium together?  Well, I know that!  It's just an expression to inspire confidence, that's all!

Last edited by Stickman (8/09/2023 6:08 am)

Just a reminder, your clash kit design briefs are due tonight! We've got 14 out of 16 so we're almost there. If you haven't yet, please submit one!

extremely looking forward to seeing how everyone interprets these design briefs! a few questions:

1. are we designing kits for the teams that didn't get selected also, or just the ones that are actually in the league?
2. would it be possible to get a repository of numbers and nobs (either fonts or vectors) so that we can stay consisten with the existing kits?
3. will we be allowed to submit explanations of our kit designs? I'm thinking in particular about andes and crayola colors, but I think it would be useful in a more general case as well

thanks for putting all of this together!

Hey folks! I got a question about this earlier today so I'm posting it on the board to clarify. Regarding how the clash kit must actually clash with the primary kit, only the shirt must clash. In real life, every element of the kit (shirts, shorts, socks) would clash, but because we don't have alternate shorts and socks, we're only focusing on making sure the primary shirt and the clash shirt contrast sufficiently. Hopefully this clarifies some things. Happy designing!