With great pride, the organisers of the Cuppet would like to formally welcome applications to enter their fifth instalment, and with thanks to the FPIFA for their support in getting the tournament up and running, would now like to continue bringing the Cuppet roadshow to another nation/sub-national region, and are therefore welcoming host bids. Yes, rather embarrassingly, after postponing the fifth edition with the intention of hosting it myself, I now find myself about to move flat, and won't have anything like the time to devote to hosting for the next month or so. So, host bids are welcome. See last cycle's excellent hosting from Wight as an example.
The Cuppet is intended as a competition for puppets, sub-national regions, and lesser footballing nations. Taking the VIVA World Cup as its inspiration, the main entry requirement being that the nation is not affiliated with the WCC or a part of the KPB rankings. Realistically, this could restrict entry from a number of teams, so rules have been adjusted below accordingly.
HOST BIDS:
The tournament is open to host bids this cycle, and bids will be voted on by those already signed up. I will close host bids and open the voting process at an appropriate time. However, this is still my tournament, and so there is one condition to me accepting your bid - All candidates for hosting must have been an active participant (a roster and at least one RP) in a previous Cuppet. Which nation this was posted with doesn't matter, so long as it was under control of the same user the bidding nation is. The host nation doesn't have to be a participant itself, so User A could take part with nations B and C in the last Cuppet, and enter them again this Cuppet but bid with their master nation D if they wish. I don't see that that would necessarily break the spirit of the tournament and would be perfectly acceptable. What matters is the user has shown me that they get what the event is about by participating in one before. Other than that, the usual kind of bids please, scorination and RP bonus and format etc are left up to you, and participants will vote for what/who they want. Bids with two hosts working together will only be considered in the event that BOTH nations are ICly close to each other. The whole idea of a nice, fun community football tournament would be lost ICly if the teams were placed in two entirely different locations. If this is the case, then both potential co-hosts must fit all the other criteria for a single host.
If no suitable bids are forthcoming, I will relax the restrictions on having taken part in the past. But, for the time being, let's keep things strict - thanks.
HOST BIDS SO FAR:
None yet.
ENTRY:
Each individual user may enter up to two entrants into the Cuppet, please not that that is down from three in the previous editions, as long as each obeys the following rules:
- FOR ALL ENTRIES, any KPB rank that team may have must be <2.00 on the latest KPB rankings available to me.
- FOR ALL ENTRIES, any team entering cannot be either signed up for the next WCC-cycle, or have been a participant in any currently ongoing or recently finished WCC-cycle.
- FOR SUB-NATIONAL ENTRIES, in the spirit of VIVA competitions that see sub-national entries like Provence and Catalunya play each other, sub-national entries are encouraged to enter the Cuppet as well. These sub-national entries would ideally need to have an IC reason to justify their entry into the Cuppet, but it isn't mandatory for the user behind the 'master'-nation to create a new account for the sub-nation - provided their RPing as the sub-national entry was made explicitly clear during the sign-ups and rostering.
- FOR SUB-NATIONAL ENTRIES, your team roster must contain no more than ten players who have caps for the full national team of which your sub-nation is a part of. Please also note that your side will be playing teams of amateurs from around the world with enforced similar ranks, so a team crammed with national team-ers getting beaten by a team of fifth tier footballers from Bjarnarey could be intensely embarrassing for your nation.
Please Note:
This tournament is not affiliated with the WCC events at all, and only uses KPB ranks as a guide for entry. Your team's performance in the Cuppet neither affects, or is affected by, KPB rank. If a new nation/puppet goes from entering this to entering the Baptism of Fire, it will gain you no advantage and may stop you entering the Cuppet in the future. A lot of this tournament will run on the honour system, and trusting users not to mess things around or try to manipulate the system. So be nice, please.
RANKS:
I am not using KPB ranks for this event, instead using my own ranks, generated only to maintain a little bit of continuity between editions. Please also not that a nation appearing in the rankings doesn't necessarily mean it is eligible to take part this edition.
Puppet entries should be made by the puppet and confirmed by the user, or vice-versa I suppose. Sub-national entries can be made in either post.
For those interested, the first edition was held in Polar Islandstates and won by Inis na Dún, and can be found HERE.
For those still interested, the second edition was held in Polar Islandstates and won by Zenega, and can be found HERE.
For those who are still not bored, the third was held in Inis na Dún and won by Rigerata, and can be found HERE.
And for those especially keen, the fourth was held in Wight and won by Earent, and can be found HERE.
