Last year's NWWC Bulgaria has played for Team Russia and Macedonia/Montenegro for Team Ukraine. Since we made an exception for Macedonia/Montenegro to chose between Ukraine (they've played for us last year) and Romania/Serbia (even though Romania could get a team, they've got 8 players before allowed merge happens in Steam Group at least). I've decided to leave a chance to Bulgarians as the last year to chose, for which nation they would like to play (as you remember properly, last year they weren't playing for any Balkan team simply because they didn't want to). Nations in a poll were Ukraine and Russia, both of those nations speak Russian and so Bulgarians do.
So it was like forcing them to play for Serbia/Romania team for which they wouldn't play. Or leave them a chance to decide between Russia (for which they've played last year) and Ukraine (also Russian speaking team). I'm not really up for any kind of merging like those two, cause last year Serbia, Romania, Hungary and even Croatia had their own teams of 14 players. But if there's no other opportunity to do and those changes would help to include more players playing in this, I will keep it like that.
About Alex123. The man still can play for Team Ukraine but probably won't tho, due of his lack of skill this year. First he was signed-up for Ukrainian team 2 years ago and was allowed to play by other organisers year by year, even though that wasn't a secret that he's Russian, same situation with Max. Both of them this year has a chance to swap their nation, since both of them are clearly Russians and we don't see any problem if they will play for their own nation. Max already did, he was signed-up as team captain of Russian national team, Alex just simply doesn't want to and I can't force him, since it's not breaking any kind of rules which were made far ago before me.