Jedi Nations Cup

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The Jedi Nations Cup or Jedi Nations Championship (JNC) is a sporadic recurring international tournament in Jedi Academy, in which teams of different nations compete against each other.
So far there were four of these tournaments: In 2006, 2009, 2013 and 2020. Another one was hosted between 2007 and 2008 but never finished. The tournaments were hosted by the Electronic Sports League (ESL), except for the JNC 2020, which was hosted by the Epic Saber League, a community-driven league for Jedi Academy, due to the closing of the Jedi Academy ESL section in 2019.
While the national teams used to be very exclusive, the decreasing playerbase made it increasingly difficult to find enough players to form the teams. As a consequence of that, nations with a lot of individual players were allowed to form multiple teams in the last two JNCs. Nations with a very small playerbase on the other hand were allowed to combine their teams, which resulted in teams like Scandinavia or Europe.
Team Alpen (Alps), which is a combination of Austria and Switzerland, is an exception and existed since the first Nations Cup in 2006, due to the very small playerbase in Switzerland.

Every team had one captain, a role which players of each nation could sign up for. The ESL admin squad then decided on the captains based on their written applications and their reputation and achievements in the community. The duty of the captain then was to recruit the rest of the players and to manage his team during the tournament.

Jedi Nations Cup 2006

Participants

Team Captain
Alpen zentur1o
Belgium S3cht
Benelux ToasteR
Bulgaria The Dragon
Croatia Minneyar
Czech Republic Palo
Finland FeadeR
France Korwin
Germany divinity
Greece ney0
Poland Cube
Portugal dan
Slovakia Nutshell
Spain Rhodium
Sweden PinGu
United Kingdom DarK

Results

  • First Place: United Kingdom
  • Second Place: Germany
  • Third Place: Poland

Jedi Nations Cup 2007/2008

Participants

Alpen Belgium Benelux
Bulgaria Canada Croatia
Czech Republic France Germany
Hungary Poland Spain
Sweden Turkey United Kingdom
USA

Results

This tournament was never finished due to problems with activity and organisation.

Jedi Nations Cup 2009

Participants

Alpen Benelux Bulgaria
Canada Croatia Czech Republic
Finland France Germany
Greece Hungary Poland
Romania Slovakia Spain
Sweden Turkey United Kingdom
USA

Results

  • First Place: Germany
  • Second Place: Alpen
  • Third Place: Poland

Jedi Nations Cup 2013

Participants

Alpen Czech Republic France
Germany Hungary #1 Hungary #2
Poland #1 Poland #2 Romania
Russia Serbia Slovakia
Spain Turkey United Kingdom
USA

Results

  • First Place: United Kingdom
  • Second Place: Romania
  • Third Place: Hungary #2

Jedi Nations Cup 2020

Participants

Czech Republic Europe Germany
Hungary #1 Hungary #2 Poland
Romania Russia #1 Russia #2
Scandinavia Ukraine United Kingdom #1
United Kingdom #2 Yugoslavia

Results

  • First Place: United Kingdom #1
  • Second Place: Hungary #1
  • Third Place: Scandinavia