CivcraftImport:The civcraft olympic commitee

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= Description =

The Civcraft Olympic Committee (COC) is a Aeonic non-profit, non-governmental organization based in Aeon, Western Empire, created by Comped, on 23 July 2013 with Comped as its first chairman. Today its membership consists of 5 reps, representing well over half of civcraft's population. The IOC organises the Olympic Games, held every four months, in a host city chosen by it's Executive Committee.

= Structure =

The COC is made up of 2 parts: the Executive Committee and the Members. The EC is made up of persons representing 4 of the major cities in the game, 1 from each quadrant. The 4 cities chosen to be permanent (except for cases of dissolving or overwelming national strife). The cities head the effort for the games, choose from the members to host the games, and do all such things that which improve the Olympic spirit or events thereof. Each gets 1 vote in any vote.

The chairman of the COC (and the EC, by default) is an unelected position, held by the organizer of the first Olympic games (or, in this case, the assistant organizer). He leads the COC, and may be assisted by the Vice-Chairman, if he requests and appoints one. Comped is the current chairman, and tambien is the current vice-chairman.

The members are made up of any city which is involved in the games and has a National (or City) Olympic Committee, which is the governing body in that territory for that area's efforts in the games. The NOCs must gather athletes to send to the games, vote in all matters of the COC besides those of the EC, help with the games, and generally show the Olympic Spirit. A NOC which has not competed in the games before must submit a request to the COC, in writing, which expresses their desire to be known as a member, and compete in the games. A simple majority of the full COC is needed to allow them to compete and be known as a member. Each member has 1 vote.

= Bid Process =

To decide a host city, for the games, the EC will firstly, accept bids from each NOC which wishes to host the games. Evidence, such as screenshots or videos, must be provided to the EC, at time of bid. The EC may visit each city that wishes to bid, if time allows. The EC will narrow the choices down to 5 cities. They then determine the following criteria:


 * The city must prove that it is big enough to handle the Olympics. With the games come a huge number of tourists, athletes, journalists, and politicians. They must show that they can host the games in new stadiums and venues, they must house all the people in adequate hotels, and they have to transport everyone from one place to the next with a reliable mass transit system. They also need to show that they can handle the high level of security needed at the games.

* The city needs to convince residents that the expenses of covering the Olympics (which is be covered by raising funds) are worth it in city improvement and new jobs.
 * The city needs to maintain a highly positive media exposure to carry the games. Since the tangible effects of hosting the Olympic games may not prove beneficial if the bid committees do not exercise proper judgment in developing the city to host the Olympics.

Using those factors, the EC chooses 3 cities out of the 5 for the Members to vote upon. A simple majority is needed. Then, the members vote, agains with a simple majority. If there are no Members, then the EC votes.

= History =

The COC was founded by Comped, vice-organizer of the first Olympics(only only, at the time), held in Orion. It was set to be headed by halfinchhero, the organizer, but, after various disagreements between the two, they parted ways. Not much was heard on the Olympic front for many months, until the NL Games, by which Hlafinchhero was long gone. Comped assumed the role of Chairman, and although he, due to time constraints, could not provide assitance to NL, he looked on from afar.

Fast forward to Thursday, January 16th, 2014, when the Isle of Arran unexpectidly &quot;bid&quot; for the games. In fact, Comped had not opened up any such bidding at all. But, he accepted the bid anyway. As it turns out, they did not end up having the Games in Arran, due to a viarity of factors, the bid moving in early March to Haven. Haven, after discussing it with their board of directors, dropped their bid for the games a few days after. However, the LISF commune in Haven, who puts on the olympics, are supossed to be taking the bid privately for May, instead of the goverment itself.