Invictus Games

The Invictus Games (Gaullican: Jeux invictus, Vespasian: Giochi di invictus) refers to a set of major international sporting competitions spanning across a number of sports and events, in which athletes from across the globe participate. The two major set of events are the Summer and Winter games, but there is also the Youth and Paravictus games. The games are held every four years, alternating betwen Summer and Winter every two years.

The modern Invictus Games began when Girolamo Aurelio Fioravanti founded the International Invictus Committee and hosted the first games in Solaria in 1898. The games were based on the Sol Invictus festival held in the late Solarian Republic, which were a celebration of Sol, the patron god of old Solaria. The ancient Solarians competed in a number of sports and shows of physical prowess to prove that they were worthy of Sol's supreme patronage. Additional inspiration was taken from the Solarian triumphs and the similar but distinct Mytikas games which took place in ancient Piraea.

The most recent Winter Games were 2020 Ulan Khol, hosted by Soravia, while the most recent Summer Games were 2022 Verlois, hosted by Gaullica.

History

Inspirations

[sol invictus games, mytikas games, solarian triumphs] [maybe also attempted revivals or other international competititons] [a world fair perhaps?]

Winter, Youth and Paravictus games

[discuss the launch of the winter games, the youth games, and the paravictus games]

Invictus Spirit

[discuss the Invictus Spirit, the ethos of the games]

International Invictus Committee

The International Invictus Committee continues to act as the primary governing body for the Invictus Games, but works with a number of National Invictus Committees which represent participant nations. The IIC and NICs, according to the Invictus Charter, both responsible for ensuring the integrity of the games. On occassion, the IIC has had to ban NICs from participation if they are felt to have put this integrity at risk; the most recent example of this being the 6-year ban of the Champanian NIC following proven allegations of doping.

Bidding process

The privilege of hosting the games is one which has been subject to controversy and is often hard-fought, as it is both considered an honour and has been shown through recent studies to have a positive effect on the host nation's economy. This honour largely went to Euclean nations prior to the Solarian War, with only Adunis - at the time considered part of Gaullica proper - having hosted an Invictus Games outside of Euclea or Asteria Superior before 1950. At this time, the bidding process was largely ad-hoc, with NICs putting their case to the IIC. As the IIC at the time was largely dominated by Euclean sportspeople, most games were hosted in Euclea. The large Euclean colonial empires also meant that there were very few independent nations in the Global South eligible to host.

After the conclusion of the Solarian War, however, the world had changed. Decolonisation was taking place, and the Etrurian empire had collapsed utterly. The IIC changed the bidding process for the Summer Invictus Games to make it more equitable. Instead of bidding for each games individually, countries would bid for a set of three games, with one nation from Euclea, Coius and Asteria being chosen to host a game in each bloc. The first set of games to utilise this system was the 1950, 1954 and 1958 games, hosted by Estmere for Euclea, Eldmark for Asteria and Senria for Coius. This is the system which remains in place to this day for the Summer Games.

Bidding for the Winter Games works differently [how?]

Symbols

The Invictus flag

Sports

The most recently added sport was esports, at the 2022 Summer games in Verlois.

Nations

Host nations and cities

Summer Invictus host cities

Year	No.	Host	Games dates / Opened by	Sports (Disciplines)	Competitors			Events	Nations	Top nation
					Total	Men	Women
1898	I	Solaria	6–15 April 1898 Chief of State Romolo Alessandri							Etruria
1902	II	Adunis	14 May – 28 October 1902 a person
1906	III	s'Holle	1 July – 23 November 1906 a person
1910	IV	Template:Country data Estmere Morwall	27 April – 31 October 1910 King Edward IV
1914	V	Liberty City	6–22 July 1914 a person
1918	VI	Lenovo	14 August – 12 September 1918 Emperor Dragomir II	15 (21)				103
1922	VII	Verlois	14 August – 12 September 1922 a person
1926	VIII	Wiesstadt	14 August – 12 September 1926 King Leopold IV
1930	IX	Awarded to Estmere (Morwall). Cancelled due to the Great War
1934	X	Awarded to Scovern (Rimso). Cancelled due to the Great War
1938	XI	Nouvelle-Rayenne	14 August – 12 September 1938 a person
1942	XII	Tyrrenhus	14 August – 12 September 1942 Co-Leaders Ettore Caviglia and Aldo Tassinari
1946	XIII	Awarded to Senria (Keisi). Cancelled due to the Solarian War
1950	XIV	Template:Country data Estmere St Avelines	14 August – 12 September 1950 President Wolfgar Godfredson
1954	XV	Hammervik	14 August – 12 September 1954 a person
1958	XVI	Keisi	XX September - XX October 1958 Prime Minister Tokiyasu Kitamura
1962	XVII	Remont	14 August – 12 September 1962 a person
1966	XVIII	Patovatra	14 August – 12 September 1966 President Gabriel Tozulyak
1970	XIX	Tosei	XX November - XX December 1970 Prime Minister Takesi Takahata
1974	XX	Los Santos	14 August – 12 September 1974 a person
1978	XXI	Westbrücken	14 August – 12 September 1978 King Otto XI
1982	XXII	Ogbei	14 August – 12 September 1982 a person
1986	XXIII	Saint-Marie	14 August – 12 September 1986 a person
1990	XXIV	Keisi	XX September - XX October 1990 Prime Minister Kiyosi Haruna
1994	XXV	Harimisaareke	14 August – 12 September 1994 a person
1998	XXVI	San Alessandro	14 August – 12 September 1998 President Nicolò Grassi
2002	XXVII	Port Hope	14 August – 12 September 2002 Prime Minister Milo Malan
2006	XXVIII	Crescent Island City	14 August – 12 September 2006 a person
2010	XXIX	Baiqiao	14 August – 12 September 2010 State Chairman Yuan Xiannian
2014	XXX	Gatôn	14 August – 12 September 2014 Premier Martin Allaire
2018	XXXI	Spálgleann	14 August – 12 September 2018 King Kenneth IV
2022	XXXII	Verlois	11 July – 1 August 2022 President Monique Degar-Abdulrashid	28 (36)	TBA	TBA	TBA	301	75	TBA
2026	XXXIV	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA
2030	XXXV	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA	TBA