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Greetings! My name is SecretAgentMan, and every time the Summer Games or Winter Games comes around, I run a sim tied to that. Given that the 2020 Summer Games in Japan start next week....well, that means it's time! This year, I am jointly running it between both SimNation and GMGames. (In the past, I've just been at SimNation) We will be using Going for Gold, a game that I am developing, as the method for simming this event. The game is still in what I would call an alpha state, though unlike in the past, I do have a functional career mode. There's also a Winter Games mode, which will be relevant in about 6 months, but for right now, we'll be using Summer Games mode. The way Summer Games mode works is that you pick one of 65 countries, each of which have different strengths/weaknesses based as best we can on real-life historical results. A world will be populated with athletes to represent each of those countries (so, not the real athletes of the 2020 Summer Games). As the head of that country's national athletics committee, you get 200 training points that you can spread amongst your athletes (with a max of 10 per athlete per event) to give them a boost and help push them towards the medal stand. Then, as the 2020 Summer Games occur in real life, we will sim along-side them. Deadline to join is Friday, July 23rd, the date of the Opening Ceremonies of the 2020 Summer Games. The alpha version of the program will start being sent out by e-mail early next week, and the sim will begin on Saturday, July 24th How do you join? Please provide the following information: Your forum handle OR a name you'd like to be called: Your e-mail address: 1st Choice of Country (see below): 2nd Choice of Country (see below): IF you have a particular connection to a country (such as being a citizen, having ancestors from that country, etc.), please also state that in your application. I will be assigning by first choice when possible, but accounting for personal connections when there is a conflict between multiple people wanting the same country. (Which may not always be obvious, since there are people from 2 different forums participating) Please allow 48 hours for your application to be processed and decisions to be made about which country you'll be given The 65 available countries are as follows: Argentina Australia Austria Azerbaijan Belarus Belgium Brazil Bulgaria Canada Chile China Croatia Cuba Czech_Republic Denmark Estonia Ethiopia Finland France Georgia Germany Great_Britain Greece Hungary Iceland Israel India Indonesia Ireland Iran Israel Italy Jamaica Japan Kazakhstan Kenya Latvia Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Malaysia Mexico Nepal Netherlands New_Zealand Nigeria North_Korea Norway Pakistan Poland Romania Russia Serbia Slovakia Slovenia South_Africa South_Korea Spain Sweden Switzerland Thailand Turkey Ukraine Uruguay USA Zimbabwe How do you tell who will be good? Well, for some context, here are the Top 20 all-time medals lists, in real life, at the Summer Games. No. Nation Games Gold Silver Bronze Total 1 United States (USA) 27 1022 795 705 2522 2 Soviet Union (URS) 10 395 319 296 1010 3 Great Britain (GBR) 28 263 295 293 851 4 China (CHN) 10 224 167 155 546 5 France (FRA) 28 212 241 263 716 6 Italy (ITA) 27 206 178 193 577 7 Germany (GER) 16 191 194 230 615 8 Hungary (HUN) 26 175 147 169 491 9 East Germany (GDR) 5 153 129 127 409 10 Russia (RUS) 6 148 125 153 426 11 Australia (AUS) 26 147 163 187 497 12 Sweden (SWE) 27 145 170 179 494 13 Japan (JPN) 22 142 136 161 439 14 Finland (FIN) 25 101 85 117 303 15 South Korea (KOR) 17 90 87 90 267 16 Romania (ROU) 21 89 95 122 306 17 Netherlands (NED) 26 85 92 108 285 18 Cuba (CUB) 20 78 68 80 226 19 Poland (POL) 21 68 84 132 284 20 Canada (CAN) 26 64 102 136 302 And here are the Top 10 medals results from the 2016 Summer Games in Brazil, and the 2012 Summer Games in England Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total 1 United States (USA) 46 37 38 121 2 Great Britain (GBR) 27 23 17 67 3 China (CHN) 26 18 26 70 4 Russia (RUS) 19 17 20 56 5 Germany (GER) 17 10 15 42 6 Japan (JPN) 12 8 21 41 7 France (FRA) 10 18 14 42 8 South Korea (KOR) 9 3 9 21 9 Italy (ITA) 8 12 8 28 10 Australia (AUS) 8 11 10 29 Rank Nation Gold Silver Bronze Total 1 United States (USA) 46 28 30 104 2 China (CHN) 38 31 22 91 3 Great Britain (GBR) 29 17 19 65 4 Russia (RUS) 20 20 28 68 5 South Korea (KOR) 13 9 8 30 6 Germany (GER) 11 20 13 44 7 France (FRA) 11 11 13 35 8 Australia (AUS) 8 15 12 35 9 Italy (ITA) 8 9 11 28 10 Hungary (HUN) 8 4 6 18 I really hope you consider joining me on this journey as we sim alongside one of the world's biggest sporting events!