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Round 1 Summary - No surprises

Authored by: Michael Christiansen
on Monday, August 11 2014 @ 05:26 pm ACST

A large issue is always the uncertainty of who and how many will attend. You can work various competition models, 1 div, 2 or 3 divs. A 3 div structure with promotions and relegations from tournament to tournament but - to do anything with great certainty you then need to be having a properly funded/structured and capped tournament rather than a wishful thinking open to all comers.

Can't help but feel that there's a point shortly where if it continues then there'll be a select few nations who attend each time and others that really will slot into every 2nd tourney at best.

Perhaps too - allow some nations a 'guest pass' of sorts - allow Finland to bring over up to 3 or 4 guys from Norway and Sweden bring 3 or 4 from Iceland or Germany. Allow some of those nations not yet able to attend to get their first few players exposed, boost the squads of the nations who have a smaller pool.

South Pacific wise obviously I look at say Vanuatu - were they able to attend it might be hard for a large enough squad but allow perhaps 3 or 4 from the Solomons.

The main squad is still representative of the 'branded' nation - and after all, if a fellow who grew up in NZ, discovered footy there and then goes to Canada and plays for them is fine (which I believe it is) then it's not such a stretch. Just a thunk.

Round 1 Summary - No surprises

Authored by: Rog
on Monday, August 11 2014 @ 08:47 pm ACST

Who is deciding the format of the comp anyway? Are they consulting with the competing nations? I thought the format for IC11 worked pretty well. I think there should be more "lightning" format matches early to seed the teams. The short format matches would mean the weaker teams don't get completely destroyed and if they are getting flogged they only have to put up with it for 20-30 tough minutes instead of 80. Everyone here could come up with 10 formats better than the one they are using for this tournament, so here's mine.
Play the first 3 rounds of this tournament in 1 day with games played 10-15 minutes halves. That will sort out the top teams from the bottom ones. Split top 10 from bottom 8, which is about right for the division of teams that are some chance against Top 3, like Fiji & Canada, from those that will get destroyed by top teams.
Division 1 Reseed teams Play 3 further normal length games.
(1v4,2v3,5v7,6v8,9v10), (1v6,2v5,3v9,4v10,7v8), (1v9,2v10,3v7,4v8,5v6)
Final Ladder
Grand Final 1 vs 2, and so on playing off for positions 3/4, 5/6, 7/8, 9/10.

Division 2 Two groups of 4. Play the 3 teams in your group normal length games. Then play off top Group A2 vs Top Group B2 for 11/12, and so on 13/14, 15/16, 17/18.

5 days play, everyone starts with a chance of winning the whole thing, quickly seed the teams to make for fairer contests.

Round 1 Summary - No surprises

Authored by: Brett Northey
on Monday, August 11 2014 @ 10:15 pm ACST

I think the beauty of a top 8 Div 1 is the uncertainty is removed. The serious contenders can be scheduled and confident well in advance, the rest you can be flexible for how to do the schedule depending withdrawals etc.---
Brett Northey - Co-founder and Chief Editor of WFN

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Brett Northey - Co-founder and Chief Editor of WFN

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