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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Total
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0
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0
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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 Now if don't have to be withdrawn then every team members points will count, but if they do then only the top 4 team members results.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:
In terms of the first table, there were 2 clubs missing that are/could be apart of the Professional/Semi Professional English League system.
The first are the Wigan Warriors (club logo above), they play in Super League (1st Division) and are the defending back to back Super League champions. Not quite sure how I forgot to add them, but somehow I did.
The second are the Bedford Tigers (club logo above). They originally weren't set to join the system from non league but there are strong rumours that they are now set to join League 1 (3rd Division), replacing the aforementioned Cornwall.
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
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2
3
4
5
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
1
15
11
23
19
26
23
32
2
18
22
27
8
14
5
24
3
31
3
33
34
17
7
28
4
21
9
4
1
10
35
13
5
16
30
12
6
25
29
2
A4 are the London Broncos, D4 is Barnet, E2 is Workington Town, E5 is Forest Green Rovers, G4 is St Helens, A1 is Maidenhead United, D2 is Whitehaven, E3 is Tamworth, F1 are the Barrow Raiders, F4 is Southend United, G1 is Cornwall and D1 is Brackley Town.
London Broncos play in the Championship (2nd Division) and Barent (National League - 5th Division) lost to Exeter City (League 1 - 3rd Division) in the 1st round.
Workington Town play in League 1 (3rd Division) and Fores Green Rovers (National League - 5th Division) lost to Stockport County (League 1 - 3rd Division) in the 1st round.
St Helens play in Super League (1st Division) and Maidenhead United (National League - 5th Division) lost to Crawley Town (League 1 - 3rd Division) in the 1st round.
Whitehaven play in League 1 (3rd Division) and Tamworth (National League - 5th Division) beat former Premier League team Huddersfield Town (League 1 - 3rd Division) to progress to the 2nd round.
Barrow Raiders play in the Championship (2nd Division) and Southend United (National League - 5th Division) lost to former Premier League team Charlton Athletic (League 1 - 3rd Division) in the 1st round.
Cornwall play in League 1 (3rd Division) and Brackley Town (National League North - 6th Division) beat Braintree Town (National League - 5th Divison) to progress to the 2nd round.
And that's it, the draw is complete. A big thanks to @Belle and @Henry_Leon for helping out. The provisional schedule will be up in due course as well as the results of the team comp draw.