Men's Baseball WBSC Final Olympic Games Qualification Tournament 2021

[NearPup 3,170]

That’s a pretty decent medal chance for  

[Quaker2001 251]

  On 6/26/2021 at 10:01 PM, NearPup said:

That’s a pretty decent medal chance for  

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Technically it's 50/50 since there's only 6 teams and 3 get medals

[dcro 10,210]

  On 6/26/2021 at 10:41 PM, Quaker2001 said:

Technically it's 50/50 since there's only 6 teams and 3 get medals

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To be fair, a baseball tournament is not a lottery...

[AmericanHero40 216]

Any word of how the groups will work? first time i have actual investment in a team tournament (hard to be invested in american teams when there are so many of them)

[phelps 7,797]

  On 6/27/2021 at 6:23 AM, Maxim Fastovsky said:

Any word of how the groups will work? first time i have actual investment in a team tournament (hard to be invested in american teams when there are so many of them)

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good luck (if the Surfing World Games format was complicated, this is even worse )...

 

https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/static.wbsc.org/upload/a1fcfd30-458b-c126-56f2-c7f0453fd9fa.pdf

[heywoodu 15,333]

  On 6/27/2021 at 7:52 AM, phelps said:

good luck...

 

https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/static.wbsc.org/upload/a1fcfd30-458b-c126-56f2-c7f0453fd9fa.pdf

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Which means you have to be 1st, 2nd or 3rd in your group (of 3) to have a chance of gold after the group stage  

 

Lose everything as a warmup and still win gold  

[dcro 10,210]

Well, I love this format. Something quite unique, and honestly, more than fair.

[phelps 7,797]

  On 6/27/2021 at 7:56 AM, dcro said:

Well, I love this format. Something quite unique, and honestly, more than fair.

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I don't think it's fair when you're still in for the gold medal after losing all of your preliminary stage games...

 

they could at least have kept the 3rd ranked teams in the group stage only in the hunt for bronze and not putting them back in the race for gold...

 

ps not to mention the fact that a 6-team tournament is a shame...

[AmericanHero40 216]

  On 6/27/2021 at 7:52 AM, phelps said:

good luck (if the Surfing World Games format was complicated, this is even worse )...

 

https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/static.wbsc.org/upload/a1fcfd30-458b-c126-56f2-c7f0453fd9fa.pdf

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I meant about how the 2 groups will be decided.   Draw or ranking based 

[phelps 7,797]

  On 6/27/2021 at 8:28 AM, Maxim Fastovsky said:

I meant about how the 2 groups will be decided.   Draw or ranking based 

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ranking based, I think...but I didn't find any official document about that...