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We're playing an elimination game to guess the tournament hosts country. They have given us two hints already with this map
It isn't one of the current NOTW4 competitors
It isn't in the European Union
Asks are open to ask for additional hints. No asking for direct details like the name of the country or leader. Other than that most questions are fair game. Either about the place or the tournament host. One per person off anon. One per ask on anon.
was the country you were born in independent when you were born?
yes and it still is
yes but it isn't anymore
no but it is now
no and it still isn't
I don't know where I was born
it's complicated
do you live in the capital city of your country?
yes
no
I'm not sure
only part of the time
My own country isn't in the main tournament this year which is 0% surprising to me because it never does well and in fact it's become a running joke amongst me and my irl friends who know about this tournament that "lol the hosts own home country never makes it past one round of competition maybe two if we're lucky" and honestly I'm think it's pretty funny too because I flip flop on whether I vote for or against them in a given iteration of the tournament.
interact with this post in some way for me to randomly* assign you a country, territory, autonomous zone, or other region to research and follow current events for in 2024
Some clarifications before we get started
I'm using a random list generator to come up with these assignments so micronations won't be included
Everyone SHOULD be learning what they can about the genocide being inflicted against Palestinians and the Israel vs Palestine conflict more broadly, so for that reason I want everyone to treat Palestine as another country to learn more about in addition to the one I assign
interacting with this post in any way will be treated as an invitation to given you an assignment, this includes interacting exclusively to tell me NOT to do so
There's no set deadlines for turning anything in; if you wanna send new findings each week you're welcome to do that but you can also submit them monthly or even compile them to release at the end of 2024
Multiple interactions via the same blog won't lead to multiple assignments unless you explicitly ask for more
While I'm not going to explicitly require or forbid you to use specific sources I'd encourage you to look at sources both from within your assigned nation as well as from those outside of it, and in general be aware of fact checking and whatnot
*and some clarification: this won't be entirely at random because I'm going to generally try to avoid assigning anybody their own country...but like if you don't have it in your bio I'm not gonna ask what it is I'll just not worry about it when giving you your assignment
Now that the tournament is over I can finally reveal that I voted for Finland in the championship
where is tournament host from final guess
Jamaica
Northern Ireland
United States
We've narrowed it down to these three (3) possibilities. If the final result of this poll is correct I'll confirm the answer if it's wrong I'll tell you it's wrong but won't say which of the other two choices is right
Fun fact: I don't use a queue for this tournament so if you see a freshly posted match it almost always means I'm on here
