Water Polo at the Aquatics FINA World Championships 2017

[Gianlu33 4,528]

And hungary is out too  What crazy tournament...

[intoronto 5,616]

Well Canada did beat Hungary earlier this year...

[NikolaB 432]

51 minutes ago, Gianlu33 said:

And hungary is out too  What crazy tournament...

Where is German guy to celebrate this historical achievment cause Hungarian fans now can save that 5 € for tickets for semifinal. You know for that money you can buy 100 kilos of cheese in Hungary  

 

I'm joking. Women tournament is really weird

[JoshMartini007 2,533]

Yeah the women's tournament has potentially 10 teams which could fight for a medal in any given tournament, it's one of the reasons why I wanted 12 (or at least 10) teams at the Olympics.

 

Congrats to Canada, we're finally on the right side of an important narrow match

[lapaj 379]

3 from the 4 group winners are out... I hope it won't be the same today.

[DaniSRB 899]

8 hours ago, JoshMartini007 said:

Yeah the women's tournament has potentially 10 teams which could fight for a medal in any given tournament, it's one of the reasons why I wanted 12 (or at least 10) teams at the Olympics.

 

Congrats to Canada, we're finally on the right side of an important narrow match

since Japan (which is also improving) is the host, one of the 10 will miss Olympics again

[Mkbw50 438]

15th place:

4-6

13th place:

9-11

So:

13.

14.

15.

16.

9th place play-offs:

4-19

13-5

So 11th place:

VS

9th place:

VS

Quarter-finals:

8-9

7-5

4-6

(2) 10-10 (4)

So 5th place:

VS

VS

Semi-finals:

VS

VS

[dcro 10,210]

Basketball and football for example have more competitive teams than available quotas, so I don't see a problem with one quality women's water polo team missing the tournament. Otherwise, what's the point of Olympic qualificatoin.

Edited July 25, 2017 by dcro

[Pavlo 139]

Water polo world is very stiff - 9 good women`s team, deacent China - c`mon. Then we have Japan, Brazil, NZ, France and Serbia, maybe Cuba potentially, the same with KAZ.

 

GER, POR, TUR, CRO, SVK, UZB, SAF, MEX, PRT etc are really weak. You can`t compare it to any other sport. In men`s game it`s just a bit better, some 20 competitive teams for 11 quota? Not bad

Edited July 25, 2017 by Pavlo

[Dunadan 1,103]

The problem is not the total number of quotas, but the distribution of continental ones...Australia will get easy quotas as always and South Africa is probably already qualified without playing a match (let's hope they refuse the quotas)