NationStates

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Introduction

This is the official signup thread for the Campionato Esportiva 31, Esportiva's longest running and biggest sports tournament. This football tournament has produced 15 different winners, with Nephara/New Sideburn and Brenecia holding the record for the most Campionato titles with five, and Apox having three titles to their name. The most recent winner of the tournament held in The Licentian Isles was Nova Anglicana (AZE), winning their second consecutive Campionato Esportiva trophy after winning against Gergary in the final.

Signup Instructions

Nations intending to signup for the tournament should be in Esportiva at the time of the creation of the thread. Nations returning from CTE and have participated in previous editions may enter at the discretion of the elected hosts or the organizers of the tournament. In extraordinary cases, the first requirement may be waived to make up numbers, but it is more of an exception than the norm and should be only invoked as a last resort.

Users are entitled to enter two nations, with one on puppet status which should be declared and confirmed by both nations. Kindly note that puppet signups may be purged from the entry list as per hosts' discretion, and normally the first puppets to be dropped are the ones signed up the latest. Nations entering with a different in-character (IC) name should include this in boldface in their signup to be recognized.

Hosting

Signed-up nations who intend to host the tournament should post their bids in this thread to be considered for voting. There is no prescribed number of users to host, though usually solo or joint host bids from two distinct users have been the norm for these kinds of tournaments. Bids posted should have the following information: How the tournament will be run (format), how the scores will be generated (scorination tool and parameters), and why should participants entrust you to run the tournament (OOC information and experience). The previous successful bid for the tournament is posted in the header for reference.

Bids will be opened by the time signups are open and will remain open within two weeks from opening the signup thread. Once the first bid is posted, other nations are given 5 days to submit competing bids in which 2 days will be allotted thereafter for participants to lodge queries on the bids.

In case no bids are posted within two weeks, the CE committee may put up an emergency bid within the week succeeding the two-week period, which may be withdrawn once a proper bid is posted.

Other Information

This thread may be used in lieu of the regional message board (RMB) for CE31-related discussions, and will serve as the discussion thread upon closure of signups.

The organizers of this tournament reserves the right to make adjustments to the admin side of the tournament in case needed. Should you have any queries, don't hesitate to ask either Filindostan, Zeta Reka and Hugeltaldom, South Newlandia, or Sylestone via the usual channels (TG, RMB, and the NS Sports Discord channel).

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Registered Nations (26)
User name in brackets if not same as IC name. Master nation in parentheses if puppet nation, and may be excluded depending on host preference.

1. Tumbra
2. South Newlandia
3. Castlelobruxo
4. The Licentian Isles
5. Kaldtfjell (puppet of TLI)
6. Esportivan Darmen
7. Nova Anglicana [Nova Anglican Admin Zone of Esportiva]
8. Xanneria
9. Sangti
10. Gergary (puppet of SGT)
11. Gouvanarch
12. Robostania
13. Montego [Montego-] (puppet of TMB)
14. The Hannasean Federation [Hannasea]
15. Ha'Yarok [Har Yarok] (puppet of HAN)
16. Polkopia
17. Le Choix
18. Zeta Reka and Hugeltaldom
19. Brenecia
20. Ceyne Isles (puppet of BRE)
21. Damukuni
22. Drehda
23. Bongo Johnson
24. Fhulghamous Peninsula
25. Copper Cuprum
26. Oduduwa Repulblic
27. A Random Place (puppet of SNL)
28. The Hinodejin Empire [Kita-Hinode]
29. Burgburgh
30. Natanians and Nosts
31. Ethane
32. Cheetahs and reptiles Coalison (puppet of NTN)
33. Ancherion
34. East Murbley (puppet of BGJ)

Host Bids

1. South Newlandia

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yes please. Random Number puppet maybe.

In

Three?

(Pre-confirming Kaldtfjell)

Ja.

Esportivan Darmen is in.

Back to back champs will return

EDIT: In for baseball, ice hockey, and basketball as well. If you need us to make up the numbers for gridiron too, that's fine.

In

Signing up.
Puppet of Sangti.

As per this post, OPT-IN to Ice Hockey.

Gergary wrote:Signing up.
Puppet of Sangti.

Confirmed. Signing up as well.
As per this post, OPT-IN for baseball and basketball as well.

In, ability to RP much somewhat in question, though.

We are back!

Tumbra wrote:In

We're here too.

Puppet of Tumbra; don't expect anything more than a roster.

We sign up and Ha'Yarok is our puppet.

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We sign up for soccer; baseball and ice hockey; and gridiron (numbers entry only, exclude if numbers work better without us).

We sign up as puppets of Hannasea; please remove us first if needed for numbers reasons.

Preferred IC name: Ha'Yarok

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In addition to above numbers puppet signup for soccer, we sign up for baseball and basketball; both entries should be treated as numbers puppets and excluded if not needed.

Signing up!

In.

This one time,

Brenecia wrote:This one time,

in band camp,

Did you ever hear the tragedy of Darth Plagueis The Wise? I thought not. It’s not a story the Jedi would tell you. It’s a Sith legend. Darth Plagueis was a Dark Lord of the Sith, so powerful and so wise he could use the Force to influence the midichlorians to create life… He had such a knowledge of the dark side that he could even keep the ones he cared about from dying. The dark side of the Force is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural. He became so powerful… the only thing he was afraid of was losing his power, which eventually, of course, he did. Unfortunately, he taught his apprentice everything he knew, then his apprentice killed him in his sleep. Ironic. He could save others from death, but not himself.

Drehda is in

Bongo Johnson is in for the Campionato

In.

Preconfirming Copper Cuprum.