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Maybe team captains got some unpublished info? UK is putting together a team for a league B match with Denmark on Tues 2nd.Jaafar wrote:Is it really going to start next tuesday? No schedule has been published yet.
Looking back at the actual correspondence (from three years ago), I believe I may have misrepresented the resistance. Lorenz and Aldo were very happy to accommodate us, and the resistance was mostly internal - partly because we use club games to keep our ranks up to date, in contrast to the EGD, and partly because we would have been obliged to pick an "accurate" EGD rank for our players, who are mostly slightly overrated by EGD standards. This seemed like a sufficiently contentious issue to make me reluctant to embark on this exercise. In addition, at the the time, there didn't seem to be any real benefit to capturing our tournaments on EGD, given that we had (and have) a perfectly functional rating system already in place.Javaness2 wrote:quantumf wrote:
Our players (well, some of them) are only on the EGD by accident from participation in WAGC/KPMC events, and then, more recently, from PGETC games. Efforts to have our local tournament games captured on EGD met with sufficient resistance for us not to pursue that any further.
Can you explain the resistance? If South Africa is an observer member I do not see why it can't have its tournaments entered into the system. Estonia is not a member, but has its tournaments entered into the system.
I can see that it would be difficult to make a translation. Indeed if the South African system is better, why bother?quantumf wrote: Looking back at the actual correspondence (from three years ago), I believe I may have misrepresented the resistance. Lorenz and Aldo were very happy to accommodate us, and the resistance was mostly internal - partly because we use club games to keep our ranks up to date, in contrast to the EGD, and partly because we would have been obliged to pick an "accurate" EGD rank for our players, who are mostly slightly overrated by EGD standards. This seemed like a sufficiently contentious issue to make me reluctant to embark on this exercise. In addition, at the the time, there didn't seem to be any real benefit to capturing our tournaments on EGD, given that we had (and have) a perfectly functional rating system already in place.
This means League A and top two teams from League B play it out. It isn't clear how many qualify though. Does anyone know the plan?League A and top League B teams will play special season 2019
Qualification tournaments:
14-16 June in Serbia: France, Hungary, Israel, Romania, Serbia, Austria
19-21 June in Czech Republic: Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Czechia, Germany, Italy
https://pandanet-igs.com/communities/euroteamchamps/4 wrote: §14. Finals at the European Go Congress
(1) The matches are played on four real boards without handicap, Japanese rules and the parameters of §11 (5) and (6)
(2) Each of the four teams has to play three games (round robin)
EGF wrote: Here are the details about the new face-to-face tournaments, scheduled for June 2019:
-- Two seperate EGF-tournaments, each with 6 country-teams on four boards, 5 rounds round-robin
-- All teams of league A and the top two (after 9 rounds online games) of league B will be invited
-- Each team gets 1.000 Euro financial support for travelling/accomodation
-- Organizers for these top-tournaments with at least 24 players are welcomed. 15/16, 22/23 or 29/30 June possible
-- Time setting aequivalent to the online games, so three games on Saturday and two games on Sunday would work
-- Per tournament the 6 teams will be defined in the following way:
-- drawing 2 teams out of top 4 of the final chart after 9 online-rounds league A in May 2019
-- drawing 2 teams out of places 5 to 8 of the final chart of league A in May 2019
-- drawing 2 teams out of places 9/10 from league A and 1/2 of league B after online-games in May 2019
-- Teams from top 4 start with 2 points, teams from 5-8 start with 1 point, last 4 start with zero points
-- After 5 rounds round robin, including the different start-points explained in the upper line, in each tournament
-- Top 2 qualify for the finals at EGC2019 in Brussels
-- Top 5 are qualified for league A in the next season
-- The team on 6th place after 5 rounds will play in league B in the season 2019/2020
-- Each of the four teams qualified for the finals in Brussels get € 500 financial support for travelling/accomodation
Ouch. That's really going to hurt the qualification chances of the 3 favourites in that pool.Uberdude wrote:The 2nd qualification league starts today. Russia are missing Ilya, Poland Mateusz and Ukraine Artem as they are playing in the Chinese C league at the moment. Bit of a scheduling fail. Or testing squad depth if you are a glass half full kind of guy.