I will do my best to organise a pairs competition also involving nations from the 4 teams that are eliminated in the first half of the team competition along with the lowest ranked individual nations at the halfway point (end of session 2) to form 8 pairs.
Pairs will be balanced so that the highest ranked nation in the competition will be paired with the lowest ranked nation, second highest with the second lowest and so on. All of that will be based on the individual ranking at the halfway point.
This way every nation will have at least interest in some event until the end of the 3rd session.
I will probably base it closely on @mrv86‘s proposed rules, and have sprints every 3 rounds of votes. The pairs with most medals from those 3 rounds get the points along with an extra bonus for medal and points doubles.
I do only have 1 day to organise this now so I can’t promise anything though.
Thursday January 15th, 2025
Knockout Round
Day 1 Schedule
Quarterfinals
Atlantic Standard Time (GMT -4)
Sweden vs Slovakia
Period-by-Period:
January 15th 2026 h. 10:00, Centre 200, Sydney
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Czechia vs Switzerland
Period-by-Period:
January 15th 2026 h. 13:30, Centre 200, Sydney
I
United States vs Hungary
Period-by-Period:
January 15th 2026 h. 17:00, Centre 200, Sydney
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Canada vs Finland
Period-by-Period:
January 15th 2026 h. 20:30, Centre 200, Sydney
The two-woman quota is based upon the "combined" ranking. The 6 best monobob + 6 best 2-woman results are taken into account at the moment (7 once this week's WC race has been raced).
Weiszewski competed in Europe Cup yesterday in the monobob, finishing 2nd, which gave her 110 points. This was her 7th monobob race, so this result replaced her worst (80 points), helping her leapfrog Cernanska by 8 points. At this point I guess she's in a better spot, as she's got the same room for improvement in the two-woman today, while Cernanska probably won't compete that well in the WC.
Men's Ice Hockey IIHF Under 20 Division II Group B World Championship 2026
Belgrade (SRB) - 18 January 2026 - 24 January 2026
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