Men's Field Hockey Qualification to Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympic Games

[De_Gambassi 1,225]

  On 7/29/2018 at 2:12 PM, Dunadan said:

You have to consider that 2 more teams qualify to the OQT by ranking, and they will most likely be Pro League teams. 

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All right, I've missed that. It still should left one Pro League team home though.

[Dunadan 1,103]

  On 7/29/2018 at 2:15 PM, De_Gambassi said:

 

All right, I've missed that. It still should left one Pro League team home though.

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Yes, unless the Africans (South Africa) give up their continental quota like in 2016.

[EselTheDonkey 825]

  On 7/29/2018 at 1:46 PM, De_Gambassi said:

If I get it right (and assuming that only Australia and one of the european Pro League teams will qualifie from their respective contintental championship), three teams from the Pro League will no take part in the OQT ? If so, it's a blessing for second tier countries like France, but also very iodiotic.

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Yeah, but at least in the Women's Competition it's highly likely that either Argentina or USA will win the Pan American Championships, and both are Pro League Team. With the men I suppose you have Canada as a second option to Argentina, but it isn't that likely.

[AlFHg 330]

Considering what happened to Asian Games for both men's and women's tournaments, I think FIH should absolutely make CEO the one who foreseen Japan winning both tournaments at Asian Games 

[rybak 3,239]

Poland and Italy joined to United States, Mexico, Singapore, Thailand, Austria, Wales, Vanuatu and Fiji and qualified to Hockey Series Open Finals which means that we still are in conncetion about qualify to Olympics 

[LDOG 2,418]

  On 9/2/2018 at 7:57 PM, rybak said:

Poland and Italy joined to United States, Mexico, Singapore, Thailand, Austria, Wales, Vanuatu and Fiji and qualified to Hockey Series Open Finals which means that we still are in conncetion about qualify to Olympics 

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Fiji is out, only one team from Oceania advances. 

 

Anyway, Vanuatu will probably withdraw later due to lack of funds, as is tradition of pacific islands in hockey. 

[rybak 3,239]

  On 9/2/2018 at 8:22 PM, LDOG said:

 

Fiji is out, only one team from Oceania advances. 

 

Anyway, Vanuatu will probably withdraw later due to lack of funds, as is tradition of pacific islands in hockey. 

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That's pretty bad, which team eventually could replace Vanuatu? 

[LDOG 2,418]

  On 9/2/2018 at 8:25 PM, rybak said:

That's pretty bad, which team eventually could replace Vanuatu? 

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Highest ranked team that finished 3rd in one of the tournaments. Likely an european team.

[LDOG 2,418]

FIH released new men's world ranking after world cup:

 

1-  2-  3-  4-  5-  6-  7- / 8-  9-  10-  11-  12-  13-  14-  15-  16-  17-  18-  19-  20-   

 

Remember the ranking is important for the seeding of OQ play-offs. There will be 7 play-off matches (14 teams total).

 

Let's make a simulation of what would it look like if Australia, Argentina and Belgium win their continental ch. Japan doesn't participate ofc, and I will also

assume South Africa will reject the african quota but still participate in the play-offs.

 

Olympic play-offs draw simulation

 

Upper seeding (three matches)

 

Possible match-ups.... (seeds 1-3)    vs (seeds 12-14)     

 

Lower seeding (four matches)   

 

Possible match-ups.... (seeds 4-7)      vs (seeds 8-11)     

[LDOG 2,418]

IMPORTANT

 

-Remember that still some of these teams could fail to reach the play-offs. Especially those that have to qualify through world hockey series.

 

-As you can see the biggest loser in the ranking is France, since they are forced to play bigger teams. After their great performance in WC I thought they would reach a higher ranking but I was wrong. Still, the difference with the next ranked team (China) is only 4 points. The good news for France is that China esentially won't have any opportunity to win ranking points other than the hockey series. Meanwhile France will play both hockey series and European division II championship. If they perform well in these competitions they will surpass China for sure (and remember, there is still the possibility that China fails to qualify for the play-offs at the hockey series).