Karate Discussion Thread

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The new season is well underway, and after the beginning of the Youth League and of the second-tier Serie A Series in the past weeks, now it's time for the start of the rejuvenated (becoming a lot worse than before, imho  ) Karate1 Premier League...

 

Stage #1 is going on this weekend in  Fujarah...

 

and this is this year's full K1PL calendar...

 

https://www.wkf.net/karate1-main

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here are some news about the "new" K1PL...

 

New Karate 1 Premier League: Updated registration process gives athletes more chances to shine

 

The season of Karate 1-Premier League begins this month with the first event to be held in Fujairah (UAE) from February 18 to 20.

 

New features are added this year to further increase the prominence of the event and to consolidate the tournaments as truly elite sporting competitions.

 

In order to stimulate the competitiveness of athletes even more, the registration process of the Karate 1-Premier League has now been updated.

 

The main elements of the new registration format are:

 

• Limited number of competitors
• Greater importance of WKF World Ranking
• Priority to top-ranked athletes

 

As it happened in previous editions, the participation in Karate 1-Premier League is limited to a maximum of 32 competitors per category. 

 

To establish the event as a truly elite competition, the tournaments are restricted to the Top 100 athletes in WKF World Ranking.

 

THREE PHASES OF REGISTRATION  

 

Additionally, the registration process has been updated to provide more opportunities for the best karatekas to participate.

 

The new inscription system is divided into three phases:

 

• The first phase is limited to competitors placed in positions 1 to 32 of the WKF World Ranking.
• The second phase is open to athletes ranked in positions 33 to 64.
• The final phase is for competitors in positions 65 to 100.

 

The second and third phases will be available until the maximum of 32 athletes per category is completed.

 

With this update, the top-ranked athletes find now an easier path to register, as they have now priority in the registration of the events.

 

Therefore, the competitive level of the events is now guaranteed.

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and here comes the damage: the new competition format...

 

New Karate 1 Premier League: Round Robin system to take event to new competitive heights

 

The 2022 Karate 1-Premier League is introducing a new competition system.

 

The Round Robin format will now be applied to the elimination rounds to further raise the competitive level of the tournaments.

 

With the introduction of the Round Robin, competitors have now the opportunity to progress even more as athletes.

 

The karatekas taking part in Karate 1-Premier League events will now fight a minimum number of bouts in the first stages of the competition.

 

As the amount of bouts in each event is increased, competitors can now improve their sports performance at Karate’s biggest international tournaments.

 

Moreover, greater fairness to the competition is added as karatekas will have to show their skills in several bouts before reaching the final phases of the competition.

 

ROUND ROBIN EXPLAINED

 

In the Round Robin system, karatekas are divided into pools of three or four competitors each.

 

The participants in each pool will clash all against all in the elimination round.

 

Athletes receive points for their performance in each bout of the pool phase, with two points being awarded for a victory, 1 for a tie, and 0 for a loss.

 

"Hikiwake" or draw is permitted in Round Robin. 

 

The top-ranked competitors in each pool at the end of the elimination round will then qualify for the quarterfinals.

 

The last rounds of the competition (quarterfinals, semi-finals, medal bouts, and repechages) will be done in a knockout format.

[MHSN 3,813]

21 minutes ago, phelps said:

and here comes the damage: the new competition format...

 

New Karate 1 Premier League: Round Robin system to take event to new competitive heights

 

The 2022 Karate 1-Premier League is introducing a new competition system.

 

The Round Robin format will now be applied to the elimination rounds to further raise the competitive level of the tournaments.

 

With the introduction of the Round Robin, competitors have now the opportunity to progress even more as athletes.

 

The karatekas taking part in Karate 1-Premier League events will now fight a minimum number of bouts in the first stages of the competition.

 

As the amount of bouts in each event is increased, competitors can now improve their sports performance at Karate’s biggest international tournaments.

 

Moreover, greater fairness to the competition is added as karatekas will have to show their skills in several bouts before reaching the final phases of the competition.

 

ROUND ROBIN EXPLAINED

 

In the Round Robin system, karatekas are divided into pools of three or four competitors each.

 

The participants in each pool will clash all against all in the elimination round.

 

Athletes receive points for their performance in each bout of the pool phase, with two points being awarded for a victory, 1 for a tie, and 0 for a loss.

 

"Hikiwake" or draw is permitted in Round Robin. 

 

The top-ranked competitors in each pool at the end of the elimination round will then qualify for the quarterfinals.

 

The last rounds of the competition (quarterfinals, semi-finals, medal bouts, and repechages) will be done in a knockout format.

so it's technically a knockout competition without repechage

 

wrestling tried that format from 2000 to 2004. that's terrible. I like the round robin part though (athletes travel a long distance for more than just 1 match) but then with only 1 karateka advancing it's worse than the old format .

 

this is interesting. wrestling is now using the (old) karate format. and Karate wants to use the old wrestling format. that's amazing. isn't it ?

[phelps 8,636]

9 hours ago, MHSN said:

so it's technically a knockout competition without repechage

 

wrestling tried that format from 2000 to 2004. that's terrible. I like the round robin part though (athletes travel a long distance for more than just 1 match) but then with only 1 karateka advancing it's worse than the old format .

 

this is interesting. wrestling is now using the (old) karate format. and Karate wants to use the old wrestling format. that's amazing. isn't it ?

yeah, that was my first tought, too...

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Karate 1 Premier League

 

Stage #1 ( Fujarah) Medallists Recap

 

 

Women's Individual Kata

Gold: Kiyou Shimizu
Silver: Hikaru Ono
Bronze #1: Grace Lau Mo Sheung
Bronze #2: Maho Ono

Men's Individual Kata

Gold: Enes Ozdemir
Silver: Kazumasa Moto
Bronze #1: Sakichi Abe
Bronze #2: Ariel Torres Gutierrez

 

Women's Individual Kumite, -50kg

Gold: Moldir Zhangbyrbay
Silver: Yasmin Elgewily
Bronze #1: Yorgelis Salazar
Bronze #2: Shara Hubrich

Women's Individual Kumite, -55kg

Gold: Anna Chernysheva
Silver: Anzhelika Terliuga
Bronze #1: Ahlam Youssef
Bronze #2: Tuba Yakan

Women's Individual Kumite, -61kg

Gold: Alessandra Mangiacapra
Silver: Anita Serogina
Bronze #1: Assel Kanay
Bronze #2: Diana Shostak

Women's Individual Kumite, -68kg

Gold: Irina Zaretska
Silver: Silvia Semeraro
Bronze #1: Feryal Abdelaziz
Bronze #2: Elena Quirici

Women's Individual Kumite, +68kg

Gold: Nancy Garcia
Silver: Maria Torres Garcia
Bronze #1: Dominika Tatarova
Bronze #2: Titta Keinanen

 

Men's Individual Kumite, -60kg

Gold: Abdallah Hammad
Silver: Iurik Ogannisian
Bronze #1: Abdullah Shaaban
Bronze #2: Yerkinbek Baitureyev

Men's Individual Kumite, -67kg

Gold: Didar Amirali
Silver: Tural Aghalarzade
Bronze #1: Luca Maresca
Bronze #2: Alì Elsawy

Men's Individual Kumite, -75kg

Gold: Abdalla Abdelaziz
Silver: Gabor Harspataki
Bronze #1: Stanislav Horuna
Bronze #2: Hasan Masarweh

Men's Individual Kumite, -84kg

Gold: Youssef Badawy
Silver: Mohamed Ramadan
Bronze #1: Turgut Hasanov
Bronze #2: Mehdi Sriti

Men's Individual Kumite, +84kg

Gold: Hazem Mohamed
Silver: Taha Mahmoud
Bronze #1: Rob Timmermans
Bronze #2: Babacar Seck Sakho

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Karate 1 Premier League

 

Stage #2 ( Matosinhos) Medal Matches lineup

 

 

Women's Individual Kata

Gold Medal Match: Kiyou Shimizu vs Grace Lau Mo Sheung
Bronze Medal Match #1: Maho Ono vs Carola Casale
Bronze Medal Match #2: Natsuki Shimizu vs Hikaru Ono

Men's Individual Kata

Gold Medal Match: Alì Sofuoglu vs Kakeru Nishiyama
Bronze Medal Match #1: Yaroslav Fedorov vs Enes Ozdemir
Bronze Medal Match #2: Damian Hugo Quintero Capdevila vs Ariel Torres Gutierrez

Women's Individual Kumite, -50kg

Gold Medal Match: Yorgelis Salazar vs :Serap Ozcelik Arapoglu
Bronze Medal Match #1: Seden Bugur vs Tsang Yee Ting
Bronze Medal Match #2: Sara Leal vs Irene Kontou

Women's Individual Kumite, -55kg

Gold Medal Match: Anzhelika Terliuga vs Tuba Yakan
Bronze Medal Match #1: Carlota Fernandez Osorio vs Maria Stoli
Bronze Medal Match #2: Veronica Brunori vs Jennifer Warling

Women's Individual Kumite, -61kg

Gold Medal Match: Assel Kanay vs Anita Serogina
Bronze Medal Match #1: Alessandra Mangiacapra vs Diana Shostak
Bronze Medal Match #2: Haya Jumaa vs Alexandra Grande

Women's Individual Kumite, -68kg

Gold Medal Match: Silvia Semeraro vs Irina Zaretska
Bronze Medal Match #1: Alisa Buchinger vs Elena Quirici
Bronze Medal Match #2: Miroslava Kopunova vs Halyna Melnyk

Women's Individual Kumite, +68kg

Gold Medal Match: Meltem Hocaoglu Akyol vs Lucija Lesiak
Bronze Medal Match #1: Marta Pascual Chico vs Ayaka Saito
Bronze Medal Match #2: Fabienne Kaufmann vs Ingrid Creemers

Men's Individual Kumite, -60kg

Gold Medal Match: Angelo Crescenzo vs Christos-Stefanos Xenos
Bronze Medal Match #1: Danilo Greco vs Oussama Edari
Bronze Medal Match #2: Eray Samdan vs Dominik Imrich

Men's Individual Kumite, -67kg

Gold Medal Match: Steven Dacosta vs Abdel Rahman Almasatfa
Bronze Medal Match #1: Noah Pisino vs Said Oubaya
Bronze Medal Match #2: Tural Aghalarzade vs Soichiro Nakano

Men's Individual Kumite, -75kg

Gold Medal Match: Daniele De Vivo vs Farid Aghayev
Bronze Medal Match #1: Thomas Scott vs Tiago Duarte
Bronze Medal Match #2: Lorenzo Pietromarchi vs Andrii Zaplitnyi

Men's Individual Kumite, -84kg

Gold Medal Match: Michele Martina vs Brian Timmermans
Bronze Medal Match #1: Mehdi Sriti vs Mohamed Ramadan
Bronze Medal Match #2: Andrea Minardi vs Faraj Alnashri

Men's Individual Kumite, +84kg

Gold Medal Match: Babacar Seck Sakho vs Rob Timmermans
Bronze Medal Match #1: Asiman Gurbanli vs Andjelo Kvesic
Bronze Medal Match #2: Robin Rettenbacher vs Luca Costa

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what a great couple of days for Italy! 

 

let's hope we can fill the last blanks and come home with a new record of gold medals tomorrow...

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On 2/19/2022 at 4:44 AM, MHSN said:

so it's technically a knockout competition without repechage

 

wrestling tried that format from 2000 to 2004. that's terrible. I like the round robin part though (athletes travel a long distance for more than just 1 match) but then with only 1 karateka advancing it's worse than the old format .

 

this is interesting. wrestling is now using the (old) karate format. and Karate wants to use the old wrestling format. that's amazing. isn't it ?

I'm never a fan of a round robin when only one competitor advances. I thought after wrestling moved away from that format we'd see the end of it, but now badminton (at the Olympics) and karate have adopted it. Bleh.