2076 Olympics? Options

[Beta]

I saw a passing mention on another forum of the 2076 olympics being in Seattle. Can anyone confirm if that is the case, and what book mentions this? (sounds like a source of run opportunities, so I want to read up on it)

[lokii]

Runner Havens p. 62 "2066--The Seattle Metroplex and the Salish-Shidhe Council win a joint bid to host the 2076 Summer Olympics."

Unfortunately we already have 2077 and don't think this has not been mentioned since.

[TeOdio]

They are in Seattle. At Gen Con they will be running a pack of Missions related to the Games. At some point down the line they may package them and sell the adventures in book form like they have done with others.

[Tymeaus Jalynsfe...]

They are in Seattle. At Gen Con they will be running a pack of Missions related to the Games. At some point down the line they may package them and sell the adventures in book form like they have done with others.

Glad we are in Guangdong... The crowds of the Olympics will be horrible.

[hermit]

Ah, relaxed and stretched-out Guandong, a green and almost rural feeling city. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

[Tymeaus Jalynsfe...]

Ah, relaxed and stretched-out Guandong, a green and almost rural feeling city. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

Indeed... the current triad war is just a small departure from the tranquility of the city. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

[lokii]

I only know of Guangdong Province. Do you mean Guangzhou?

They are in Seattle. At Gen Con they will be running a pack of Missions related to the Games. At some point down the line they may package them and sell the adventures in book form like they have done with others.

Well, good to hear the Seattle Olympics haven't been completely forgotten. I wonder how the lag will be resolved though.

[hermit]

I only know of Guangdong Province. Do you mean Guangzhou?

Well, it's more of a sprawl really. The entire Pearl River delta is one sprawling city with patches of really sad looking agriculture between them. But yeah, Guangzhou officially is the city (and I should have referred to that ^^).

[Tymeaus Jalynsfe...]

Well, it's more of a sprawl really. The entire Pearl River delta is one sprawling city with patches of really sad looking agriculture between them. But yeah, Guangzhou officially is the city (and I should have referred to that ^^).

Indeed... Also my Bad... I have gotten into the habit of calling it Guangdong instead of Guangzhou. Apologies. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

[hermit]

It's worth a visit actually, provided you either know Mandarin or Cantonese (Cantonese will make the locals happier) or know locals. Like all Chinese cities in major conurbations, it's very much the cliché of a cyberpunk city, complete with smog and everything, lit like a firework at night, and very packed. It has a couple intersting museums and an old imperial summer palace too, but the city itself is, imho, the main attraction.

Also, slightly less off-topic, is there anything like a timetable for the Olympics CSM package?

[Beta]

Anyone have either data or suggestions on how the Olympics, 2076, deals with races, cyberwear, and magic? (I could imagine anything from it is only unenhanced humans in the main events, with side ones for other races, to all races but no enhancements, to anything goes....)

[Deckbeard]

Anyone have either data or suggestions on how the Olympics, 2076, deals with races, cyberwear, and magic? (I could imagine anything from it is only unenhanced humans in the main events, with side ones for other races, to all races but no enhancements, to anything goes....)

As far as I remember, and I don't have any books with me at the moment, Olympics are pretty much a free for all. Augmentations, magic and metas are all allowed in the matches but I think they also have exhibition matches for normal, Non-augmented humans (maybe metahumans idk) but the games themselves are kinda a sham now.

[Sendaz]

@ Deckbeard, Actually it's the opposite. Where as Professional sports like Football and Urban Brawl embrace just about anything, the Olympics are all about all thing s purity and amateurish, or at least that's how they defend it.

The Olympics are Amateur Sports, or as Amateur you can get when you are a corp sponsored drone who spends 1 hour a week in the office and the rest of the time working with professional trainers. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif) The corps are big on sponsoring for this and having their teams bring home the gold is great PR.

Going as far back as Shadowbeat pg 63, Magic is O-U-T with the only mages allowed being those overseeing things to make sure nobody is using any magic, including any type of adepts.

Likewise the whole 'Purity of Essence' means even having a simple datajack can disqualify you from participating.

While it sounds silly, there is some merit behind it as watching 6 cyborgs/uber adepts racing almost faster than the eye can follow is not nearly as exciting as watching the unenhanced giving their all. Gotta remember again it supposed to be about 'natural' talent and training, and things like magic and cyber are just not that in the committee's eyes. Maybe in a time when everyone is an adept that would be changed, but until then unawakened/uncybered is the baseline to play.

Pharmaceutical boosting is pretty much allowed, not because they really condone it, but it is nearly impossible to catch all the possible chemical cocktails that are out there.

Most Metatypes are pretty much allowed, provided they fit within the limits above-any metavariant that is naturally an adept would be out, though some teams only have a token meta to toe that line, and there was some dustup back when the time Japan was hosting the even they were not going to allow metas to participate at the same time but in separate exhibitions....

[hermit]

I could imagine the Paralympics having become the Augmented Olympics, though - there never has been anything about them, I think. Well, maybe there is in the Olympics CSM package.

[Beta]

That makes sense to me, Sendaz. Purity of Essence is easy enough for astral perception to verify. Some metatypes will tend to dominate certain sports, although even that could be controlled by bringing in weight classes in some of them (i.e. weight lifting could use weight divisions akin to what combat sports do, or something like that). I’d guess sprints would be dominated by orcs (right combination of power and leg length) while distance running would probably be dominated by elves, but there should be some events there is more variety (i.e. dwarves might do fine at cycling, using higher gear ratios).

From what you wrote, I think you were saying that the teams are now Corp based, rather than nation based? Would this be just the big ten, or could any A+ rated corp potentially field athletes (in at least some events, I’d imagine that the big ten would certainly dominate overall from simply having more resources to support their programs).

[Sendaz]

Multinational corporations were allowed to submit their own teams in a 2044 ruling.

I assume this primarily means AA and AAA corps since these are clearly multinational organizations while an A ranked corp is usually just beginning to have a multinational presence, which is the threshold set by the ruling.
That said, it may be possible for an A ranked corp with an established multinational presence, and thus meeting the ruling requirement, to field a team.

But this does not mean that the regular nations are no longer participating.
Many nations are still having their own teams as the corps typically pull down only about one-fifth of the medals, the rest are therefore still being won by nation-based teams.

It must make for some interesting team rosters.

Aztechnology after all pretty much runs Aztlan in all but name, but might not they run both a Corp team (Aztechnology) and a National team (Aztlan) to increase their odds of pulling down a medal since they will effectively have twice as many bodies on the field?
Imagine that one gets hotly contested by the other corps.

Unlike the Azzies where Corp and Country go hand in hand, imagine being a UCAS citizen who is also an Olympic hopeful on the Ares team.
Now imagine the UCAS comes knocking to see if maybe you want to play for their team instead, waving the flag of patriotism in your face.
Sure you could turn them down, secure in the warm glow that you are sticking with your team mates and that sweet, sweet corporate sponsorship...
Then your folks get audited by the IRS while your cousin going through West Point is getting an unusual amount of hazing because they are related to someone who obviously doesn't love their country.....

On a semi-related note: Hopes that Chicago might be fielding their own team, on the premise that when they were walled up they were their own little fiefdom and the mentality kind of hung around after they reopened and are rumoured to have only got the nod because Ares backed the request, were dashed recently when the entire team were shown to be Masking Bugs/True Forms and some kind of hybrids who almost made it past the astral scans, better luck next time boys.....

My money would have been on that Grasshopper Hybrid for the Hurdles

[Deckbeard]

Aztechnology after all pretty much runs Aztlan in all but name, but might not they run both a Corp team (Aztechnology) and a National team (Aztlan) to increase their odds of pulling down a medal since they will effectively have twice as many bodies on the field?
Imagine that one gets hotly contested by the other corps.

I imagine literally everything Aztechnology does is contested by they other corps.
As an aside, I wonder him much influence the participants actually have on the games. Like, have the Azies gotten handball into the games? Has there ever been a full list of events as it where?

[Sendaz]

In Shadowbeat they mention how the Olymplcs still run Summer and Winter Games, and only
a few of the events have changed in the last fifty years. The Winter Games haven't changed at all apparantely.
Rhythm gymnastics, synchronized swimming, and yacht­ing were cut from the Summer Games and
replaced by kendo (added for the 2056 Tokyo Games, so this is still up in the air), karate/tae kwon do, Jal alal, and lacrosse.

Attitude lists League Games, but those are professional sports, not Olympic events. There has not been a lot of chatter on the Olympics in recent editions.

Courtball, as the Azzies like to call their handball game, has a professional league with more than a few countries involved so while it may not be an Olympic sport it does have it's own following on the international circuit.

[pbangarth]

I could imagine the Paralympics having become the Augmented Olympics, though - there never has been anything about them, I think. Well, maybe there is in the Olympics CSM package.

There could be a whole new meaning for Paralympics, too. Sasquatches, for example, already have the Athletics Skill Group.

[Sendaz]

There could be a whole new meaning for Paralympics, too. Sasquatches, for example, already have the Athletics Skill Group.

Dryad Beach Volleyball


Just saying....