Rugby World Cup 2023 sweepstake: rep prizes to be won!

The Rugby World Cup is kicking off in France on 8th September, and it wouldn't be a world cup without a sweepstake!

Check out the main thread for the tournament here!

For anyone unfamiliar with a sweepstake, everyone who enters the competition draws one of the 20 teams in the competition at random, and in our case they get a rep prize if their team wins (or comes close!).

Rep prizes will be awarded as follows:
500 rep for the user(s) with the winning team
300 rep for the user(s) with the runner-up
200 rep for the user(s) with the third-place team
150 rep for the user(s) with the team that concedes the most points in the pool stage

If you want to enter, please post 'I'm in!' below. You don't need to know anything at all about rugby for this one – your sporting knowledge is sadly of no help up against the random draw.

Please sign up before 6pm on Monday 4th September. I've got a very busy week next week so I'll be drawing the sweepstake later that evening. The first 20 will be guaranteed a place, and I'll try and fit everyone who wants to play into the draw somehow!

Sure, I'm in!

Tagging people who may be interested: @CheeseIsVeg @Chronoscope
@Oxford Mum - know any parents here who are fans of rugby?

With the benefit of the Excel random number generator, I can reveal that the draw for the sweepstake is as follows. (If you're not sure why you're here, you've been volunteered )

@_Rusty_: Tonga
@04MR17: Italy
@agent_duck343: Ireland
@Andrew97: England
@CamembertPaws: Samoa
@CatusStarbright: France
@CheeseIsVeg: Chile
@ChrisN: Romania
@Chronoscope: Japan
@Evil Homer: Namibia
@Kallisto: South Africa
@mqb2766: Wales
@penguingirl18: Argentina
@Pwca: Georgia
@random_matt: Portugal
@Saracen's Fez: Australia
@Talkative Toad: Scotland
@taylor2317: New Zealand
@thrivingfrog: Fiji
@user123456324: Uruguay

Prizes are in the OP – good luck cheering on your new second teams!

It's only two hours until the whole thing kicks off now!