Representing a country in comp.

[Dene]

I wish I was from Spain, can I represent that country? (And if not, why not, exactly?)

 

[Bryan]

Well, I was born in Australia, but live in the Netherlands for like 12 years now. Can I represent Australia in a competition?

What is your citizenship? It doesn't matter where you where born or where you live.

 

[shelley]

Well, I was born in Australia, but live in the Netherlands for like 12 years now. Can I represent Australia in a competition?

I represent China in an American competiton because I have a Chinese passport. If you want to represent your birthplace, use a birth certificate or a passport.

You can only represent your birthplace if you are still a citizen of that country. Birth certificate doesn't count as it doesn't establish citizenship.

 

[Pedro]

I wish I was from Spain, can I represent that country? (And if not, why not, exactly?)

I don't think so, unless you have a spanish passport...

 

[Dene]

So, I'm forced to represent the country of which I am a citizen? That is silly.

 

[shelley]

Well, yeah. We don't want people representing whatever country they want just so they can claim a bunch of NRs, meaningless as they are.

 

[Dene]

And we aren't allowed to represent no country? How is that fair?

 

[blah]

A random side question (seeing that Dene hates her country so much), is it possible to denounce your citizenship and not belong to any country in the world?

 

[KConny]

You could hope for this to happen: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Terminal

I don't think it's possible, or Stefan would've already done it.

 

[joey]

A random side question (seeing that Dene hates her country so much), is it possible to denounce your citizenship and not belong to any country in the world?

I'm sure Dene does hate 'his' country

 

[Stefan]

is it possible to denounce your citizenship and not belong to any country in the world?

Why not? Simply declare it. You just won't get far. If me employer directly paid me cash and I didn't need a passport for traveling and stuff like that, I might've done so already.

 

[tim]

A random side question (seeing that Dene hates her country so much), is it possible to denounce your citizenship and not belong to any country in the world?

I'm sure Dene does hate 'his' country

I'm not sure if he really hates 'his' country. I think he hates the idea of a country .

 

[blah]

Dene's a guy? I thought I read in an are-there-any-girls thread long ago that (s)he was a girl? Oops, my mistake

I'm pretty sure Dene hates his country though, as evident in many previous posts

 

[Tyson]

Once when a registration form asked me which country I represented, I specifically wrote "None" but it was changed to "Germany". Competition organizers are sneaky.

Yeah, whoever did that should be forced to wear a Stefan Pochmann-Hello Kitty Umbrella t-shirt!

 

[Dene]

Dene's a guy? I thought I read in an are-there-any-girls thread long ago that (s)he was a girl? Oops, my mistake

I'm pretty sure Dene hates his country though, as evident in many previous posts

It was made clear that I'm not a girl >.<
I don't see where the whole "Dene's a girl" thing comes from, seeing as Dene is generally a males name. Is it my Roger Jr. avatar?