Men's Handball IHF World Championship 2023

[thepharoah 2,413]

 

USA finishes historic WCH with a victory over Belgium 

[LDOG 2,472]

Take that Qatar, nobody beats us 7 times in a row.

[dcro 10,210]

We don't want QF actually. 10th place would be perfect, but 9th is fine too.

[prso1000 728]

1 minute ago, dcro said:

We don't want QF actually. 10th place would be perfect, but 9th is fine too.

We will be unfortunately 9th or 13th. Actually 10th would be ideal, lucky Slovenia 

[Vektor 3,326]

52 minutes ago, prso1000 said:

We will be unfortunately 9th or 13th. Actually 10th would be ideal, lucky Slovenia 

10th can be very lucky, but it's also very risky. There are a number of ways this can go wrong for the 10th placed team. Like Egypt winning the World Championships or playing the final against France. Or a team taking the European quota that isn't among the OQT nations. Or Egypt having a terrible day at the African qualification tournament and losing the African quota against Cape Verde. I know that these aren't the most likely outcomes, but you can never know how this will go. 

Edited January 23, 2023 by Vektor

[Vektor 3,326]

Anyway, with the way that matches are going, if Croatia draws against Bahrein, they would be 10th. It would be really funny if they would deliberately do that just so they could get the easier road to Paris. 5D chess to qualify. 

[LDOG 2,472]

Why are you all talking like the OQT draw is done? I know there always was a serpentine system distribution for the teams that take a place there through WCh but what about the rest? If it's done where I can see it? There is nothing on Wikipedia.

[MHSN 3,783]

11 minutes ago, LDOG said:

Why are you all talking like the OQT draw is done? I know there always was a serpentine system distribution for the teams that take a place there through WCh but what about the rest? If it's done where I can see it? There is nothing on Wikipedia.

1st and 6th WCH teams (I mean among non-qualified teams) will get Asia 2nd and America 2nd which is a very easy group for those 2 European teams, at least comparing to other 2 groups with 1 more European team

Edited January 23, 2023 by MHSN

[LDOG 2,472]

11 minutes ago, MHSN said:

1st and 6th WCH teams (I mean among non-qualified teams) will get Asia 2nd and America 2nd which is a very easy group for those 2 European teams, at least comparing to other 2 groups with 1 more European team

That was the same draw of the previous cycle with Korea and Chile.  

Do they just re-use the same always? When was this confirmed?

Edited January 23, 2023 by LDOG

[prso1000 728]

32 minutes ago, Vektor said:

10th can be very lucky, but it's also very risky. There are a number of ways this can go wrong for the 10th placed team. Like Egypt winning the World Championships or playing the final against France. Or a team taking the European quota that isn't among the OQT nations. Or Egypt having a terrible day at the African qualification tournament and losing the African quota against Cape Verde. I know that these aren't the most likely outcomes, but you can never know how this will go. 

Do you really believe Iceland, Serbia or Netherlands can take a medal at ECH? Or Egypt not winning Africa champs considering they are hosting it? Most likely is really Egypt winning here but not really realistic.