RoughRiders99 Posted June 21, 2012 Share Posted June 21, 2012 A Historical Rundown of the Solar League BaseballIn 2090, a small team of astronauts and scientists from Earth brought their baseball equipment to challenge a small group of athletes from the Moon colony in a small, friendly pick up game of baseball. The game became a popular tradition that the citizens of the Moon and Earth would pay to go and watch the unofficial pick up games. In 2102, both Earth and the Moon invited the team from Mars to participate in their weekend, round-robin Moonfest Baseball during the Moon?s yearly festival during the weekend of July 21st. The teams wore simple NASA-issued colored t-shirts and pants/shorts of the players? choosing. The concept is somewhat similar to a ?beer league? uniform. The tournament became so popular that it continued for four years before the United Nations of Space (UNS) decided to make it more official by hiring professional umpires and placing the renamed Space Baseball Tournament in the newly constructed stadium, the Lunar Dome. Seven years later in 2113, the team from Venus joined the tournament, making it a weeklong event. The four teams competed in a double-round robin format, with the top two teams facing each other in the Championship. Again, the teams wore their team-issued t-shirts from NASA.In 2130, Mercury has just joined the Space Program, officially kicking off the newly formed Terrain League Baseball, a league with five teams: Earth Voyagers, Luna Apollos, Mars Legion, Venus Storm and Mercury Wings. This is the first year where each team had their identity, uniform set, professional athletes and home stadiums. In the previous years, the players just wore simple cheap team t-shirts/jerseys and whatever pants/shorts of their choosing. In the inaugural season, the Voyagers had the best record with 26-6, but the Luna Apollos upset the Voyagers in a best 3-of-5 series inside the LunarDome to win the inaugural Space Baseball Trophy. By 2140, with new development, space travel has been easier and quicker than before, which allowed Jupiter and its four main moons to start their own baseball league, the Jupiter League of Baseball. Just like the SLB,JLB also has five teams: Jupiter Kings, Io Volcanoes, Europa Avalanche, Ganymede Giants and the Callisto Bears. Both leagues also expanded their season to 48 games.In 2145, after the JLB has proven itself to be a worthy competition to the SLB, UNS decided to combine both leagues to be under one name, the Solar League of Baseball. There was an All-Star Game between the two leagues and an Universal Series, Major League?s equivalent to the World Series. Twenty years later in 2165, after SLB?s sustained success and the UNS?s expansion to the outer planets and moons, the league nearly doubled its size to 18 teams with 4 divisions: Terrain, Jupiter, Rings and Outer. The league also expanded to 68-game season, along with an 4-team playoff system.In 2170, the league added two teams to the league, placing the Titania Spirits in the Rings Division, along with the youngest team, Planet X, in the Outer Division. The Planet X team is located on Eris, a dwarf planet beyond Pluto. Timeline: 2090 ? 2101: Annual Earth vs. Moon pick-up games.2102 ? 2105: Annual Earth-Moon-Mars weekend tournaments at the LunarFest. 2106 ? 2113: Tournaments becomes professional, hosted by the moon inside the LunarDome.2114: Team Venus joins the tournament. 2130: Formation of Terrain League Baseball with the addition of Mercury. 2140: Jupiter League Baseball begins with five teams. 2145: TLB and JLB combines to become Solar League Baseball, SLB, with headquarters based on the moon. 2165: Expanded league to 18 teams with teams in the Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto regions.2170: Titania Sprits and Planet X joins the league. Current League Structure:20 teams4 Divisions of 5 teams eachTerrain Division: Earth Voyagers, Luna Apollos, Mars Legion, Mercury Wings, Venus StormJupiter Division: Callisto Bears, Europa Avalanche, Ganymede Giants, Io Volcanoes, Jupiter KingsRings Division: Rhea Lions, Titan Lakers, Titania Spirits, Saturn Angels, Uranus BluesOuter Division: Charon Guardians, Neptune Mariners, Triton Retros, Planet X, Pluto Demons Regular SeasonRegular season is 21 weeks long, with the post season being 2 weeks long. 12 games versus the divisional members (6 home, 6 away) = 48 games4 games versus 5 teams from another division (divisions rotate on yearly basis. 2 home, 2 away. All 4 games will be at one location. Teams will alternate home/away basis. For example, Earth will be the ?home team? playing against Jupiter AT Jupiter for two games. This is to reduce travel time/costs) = 20 gamesTotal 68 games. Postseason StructureDivision Tournament- 5-team double elimination. Regular Season Division Winner get host the tournament and get full home field advantage. Winner advances to the Universal Series. Universal Series (at the LunarDome)- Format TBAAuthor's NoteMost of the concepts that will be posted early in this thread will be pretty much similar to the concepts that I posted in the previous thread, but a few teams will have a some modifications, but nothing major that I know of. And also, as I post the concepts, I will be running a season simulation of the league to see who will be crowned the champions of the Universal Series. How I will running the simulation will be explained in a later postI would like to send out a thank you to one of my best friends, who is not a member of CCSLC but knows about this project, for helping me on this project. Also, special kudos goes out to fellow CCSLCer to OfficialBailey for his contributions to the projects. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OfficialBailey7 Posted June 21, 2012 Share Posted June 21, 2012 So are you going with a 68 game season/5 team tourney or 162 game season/8 team tourney? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoughRiders99 Posted June 21, 2012 Author Share Posted June 21, 2012 So are you going with a 68 game season/5 team tourney or 162 game season/8 team tourney?68 games. I believe I mentioned it in the first post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OfficialBailey7 Posted June 21, 2012 Share Posted June 21, 2012 So are you going with a 68 game season/5 team tourney or 162 game season/8 team tourney?68 games. I believe I mentioned it in the first post.yeah I saw but above the timeline you said it would be a 162 game season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoughRiders99 Posted June 21, 2012 Author Share Posted June 21, 2012 Whoops. Thanks for the catch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GriffinM6 Posted June 21, 2012 Share Posted June 21, 2012 I can tell already that this is going to be great. I'm really looking forward to this series. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoughRiders99 Posted June 21, 2012 Author Share Posted June 21, 2012 One, maybe two more teams should come up later tonight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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RoughRiders99 Posted June 22, 2012 Author Share Posted June 22, 2012 Venus Storm coming up shortly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoughRiders99 Posted June 22, 2012 Author Share Posted June 22, 2012 In the previous thread, several posters and my friend have said that the Venus Storm's logos/uniforms wasn't the best and they looked like a cheap wal-mart sporting merchandise that you could buy for 20 dollars. I decided that the Venus Storm needed an overhaul. I tried to keep the same identify as close as I can, because I believe I had the right idea, I just didn't execute it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roldy54 Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 Holy cow, that's a good looking set right there. Digging the LA logo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OfficialBailey7 Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 Thanks for bringing back the golds for the Legion! BTW I love the storms pants stripe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cohenj21 Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 Wow, everything looks great as usual. Mars is definitely my favorite. My one problem is with the Venus set, because I feel like the home jersey says "our color is orange" and the road set says "our color is blue.". I think you should choose one and have both jerseys with the same main color. Other than that, fantastic job. "Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
henburg Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 Venus looks great! The striping looks awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Golden One Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 Do you have the cover story/main logo for Mars?I agree with cohen about are they orange or blue feeling with Venus home and away. But it's looking good, look forward to following this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoughRiders99 Posted June 22, 2012 Author Share Posted June 22, 2012 Updated Venus Storm Road UniformAnd as for The Golden One: Most of the stories/logos should be the same in my previous thread, but now with the Terrain Division being posted, I'll start working on the Jupiter Division and begin the simulation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cohenj21 Posted June 22, 2012 Share Posted June 22, 2012 Venus is definitely better now. Can't wait to see the rest! "Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rayman Posted June 23, 2012 Share Posted June 23, 2012 For the moon I have a question on their main logo.. If I was from the moon I would have a problem in having my "rivial" 's logo in my own logo (being Earth) Though I do understand why it's there, since they are really close to each other. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raymie Posted June 23, 2012 Share Posted June 23, 2012 Did you recycle Cologne's Centurions for Mars? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoughRiders99 Posted June 23, 2012 Author Share Posted June 23, 2012 Did you recycle Cologne's Centurions for Mars?Yes I did. I mentioned this in the previous thread, but I should've mentioned it in this thread also. This was what I posted in the previous thread immediately before I posted the Mars Legion concept: I just want to give you a word of warning before I post it (so I don't upset anybody or anything), but I "borrowed" a logo from a college team for the Mars Legion. I've been away from the program of Illustrator for a while so I'm using this project as a way to hone and bring back my skills [and to practice my pen tool ability]. Just wanted to let you know before I post it. Basically, what I did was I "copied" the logo into Illustrator and then traced it around, and made a few slight modifications (probably not noticeable to you guys). Hope you guys don't get upset over this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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