Copa Rushmori XLII - Sign-Up Thread (ONLY Rushmore)

[Rushmore]

[OOC: This thread is intended to be used exclusively by nations in Rushmore, so if you are not a nation in Rushmore or a moderator performing their duties, please refrain from posting here.]

Another World Cup cycle is about to end, and this means it's time for a new Copa Rushmori edition, the forty-second one! With Græntfjall claiming victory in the forty-first and most recent Copa Rushmori, held in Ceni and The Isles of Avon, now we move on to a new edition in which a new winner could potentially claim a piece of silverware and inscribe its name in the Roll of Honour, and that winner could be YOU!

Sign up in this thread, and if you wish to submit a host bid, you can do so here as well.

IMPORTANT:

• Regulars returning from CTE status after the moment this thread was posted may join, provided that they have competed in at least two (back-to-back) of the previous 41 Copa editions.
• Only one puppet will be allowed per user (who must declare it as such when entering it) and their final inclusion into the tournament will be entirely up to host discretion.

* Consider this post as a sign-up from Valladares

Nations signed up (30/?):

1. Valladares
2. Græntfjall
3. Nephara
4. Oberour Ar Moro
5. Darmen
6. Pasarga
7. Tikariot
8. Ceni
9. Yuezhou
10. República Guanacasteca
11. Isle Noire
12. Captina Island
13. Gatchingerrak Union
14. Soutwest Eastnorth
15. Pridnestrovia
16. Mytanija
17. Gnejs
18. Cabo Azure
19. Cassadaigua
20. Astograth
21. San Isidro Labrador
22. Poais
23. Xinhua
24. Firinsymnia
25. Eastfield Lodge
26. Rea San Vegas
27. Eura
28. Sargossa
29. Kirungabi
30. Nyowani Kitara

Puppet nations signed up (Conditional sign-up, master nation in brackets) (7/?):

1. The Askari Union [Nephara]
2. Schutzenphalia and West Ruhntuhnkuhnland [Græntfjall]
3. Norrhem [Tikariot]
4. New Gelderland [Ceni]
5. Austroslovakia [Eura]
6. Ketiou [Mytanija]
7. Olastor [Eastfield Lodge]

Host bids (1):

Mytanija

[Valladares]

Confirming the above.

[Graintfjall]

We sign up & SWR are our puppet.

[Nephara]

woooo and we have a puppeeeet

[Oberour Ar Moro]

Oberour Ar Moro signs up.

[The Askari Union]

woooo and we have a puppeeeet

but only for the purposes of numbeeeeers because we only have a rosterrrrr

[Darmen]

Woo!

[Pasarga]

Hello.

[Schutzenphalia and West Ruhntuhnkuhnland]

Puppet of Græntfjall can be excluded for numbers and usually are

[Tikariot]

The Snowed In Owls shall be in attendance!

Edith says that there's a puppet somewhere around, too.

[Norrhem]

The Snowed In Owls shall be in attendance!

Edith says that there's a puppet somewhere around, too.

And correct you are!

Oh yeah, also disclaimer for puppets, to be cut if needed and yadda yadda dingdong.

[Ceni]

Ceni signs up; preconfirming New Gelderland.

[New Gelderland]

Ceni signs up; preconfirming New Gelderland.

Yup. Standard disclaimer about excludability for numbers purposes, etc.

[Yue Zhou]

yee

[Guanacasteca]

bacon Pigs are in

[Isle Noire]

Filler. Cut as needed for numbers - will roster/rp if admitted, no harm if cut

[Captina Island]

back for a third time, looking for our first win (or tie)

[Gatchingerrak Union]

Yes. (have competed in last two CRs, brought back from CTE).

[Southwest Eastnorth]

you know we're in

[Trans-Dniesters]

Two-time finalists will return for yet another probably impossible if Margaret has anything to say about it shot at the title.

[Mytanija]

On goes the Sisyphean struggle to win a second one of these things.

[Gnejs]

Yes please.

Will the Gnejs team advance from the group stage for the first time? Will the Gnejs user remember to RP more than once? Are the two connected? A definite «maybe» on all three counts.

[Cabo Azure]

In

[Cassadaigua]

We're in!

[Astograth]

Yes