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Authored by: Cam Homes
on Wednesday, April 06 2011 @ 08:34 pm ACST

Thanks Nikko for your comments.

What you say is true if they use it as you have suggested and IC11 is split into 3 divisions.

I suspect that the organisers will split the competition into only two divisions of 12 teams, each division split into two pools of six but the teams in each pool only playing 4 of the other teams as is proposed in the womens competition. If this is the case I think that the point I made earlier is to avoid having teams that have rating gaps of more than 10 or 12 points playing each other is valid. The Ranks do tell us that these matches will more than likely end in thrashings.

eg. use the ranks to make sure #1 ranked team doesn't play #6 ranked team in any particular pool where these teams are seperated by 10 or 12 or more points.

I also believe the IC organisers are pretty well obligated to use the finishing order of the last IC to rank teams. So the new teams are likely to be ranked by looking at who they may have played in the last couple of years.

Cam

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Authored by: Aaron Richard
on Wednesday, April 06 2011 @ 08:45 pm ACST

I got the impression from the AFL's last press release that the first round will be a lightning premiership for seeding matches - so no divisions decided until after the first round in Australia (as Nikko said).

They'll probably sort pretty close to the rankings, but at least newbies would have one shot at taking on a major team.

Worth noting though - China's management already stated that they wanted to be in Div 3 as they would prefer to play other new nations rather than get pounded. Some others like India or Indonesia might see it the same way. Regards who they play against, although China's in the Asia Pacific, they don't at this stage really have the resources to play against other teams outside the IC, so it won't matter too much if they're in with India and Indonesia (or even Japan - though the Samurai have toured to China once, and would probably be in a higher division either way).

That might change in future, but at the moment I don't think it'll bother China/India/Indonesia to be in a division with other sides from the same region.

The European sides, on the other hand, would almost certainly prefer to have a chance at as many non-European teams as possible, as they currently already play quite a bit against the other Euro nations in the EC and EU Cup etc.

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Authored by: Cam Homes
on Thursday, April 07 2011 @ 09:25 am ACST

I seem to recall that the feeling amongst the Finland players was that they weren't too keen on coming to the IC if they though they would go home winless again let alone take floggings from the power teams.

Cam

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