Team Challenge
The theme for this years team challenge will be counties in the UK. For equal representation, I have selected at least 1 county for each of the 4 main countries that make up the UK. The 7 selected counties where drawn into each of the 7 teams.
The draw result:
Here is a little factfile on each of the 7 counties:
Team Merseyside
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Merseyside is an English county located in the North West region of the UK. It's biggest settlements include Liverpool, Southport St Helens and Birkenhead. Merseyside is know for it's music and sport, with bands like The Beatles and The Coral and clubs like Everton and Liverpool all coming from the county.
Team Challenge
For this years team challenge every country will be split up into 7 groups of 5. Now if don't have to be withdrawn then every team members points will count, but if they do then only the top 4 team members results. After 10 votes the team with the least amount of points is eliminated, after that a team will be eliminated after every 5 votes.
The teams were drawn automatically using a random draw generator. All the countries were split into 5 different pots based off the all time ranking medals list followed by the participations list.
Pot 1
Pot 2
Pot 3
Pot 4
Pot 5
France
New Zealand
China
Argentina
Albania
Canada
Czech Republic
Hungary
Bulgaria
Chile
Great Britain
Denmark
Malta
Tunisia
Guatemala
Ireland
Lithuania
Mexico
Greece
Indonesia
Italy
Serbia
Brazil
India
Turkey
Netherlands
Spain
Romania
Poland
Moldova
Sweden
United States
Slovenia
Slovenia
Portugal
The Draw Results: