LDOG

I'm a bit pissed off that, despite the world champion korean is 18 years old, we only inscribed our two rifle girls of the same age for the junior event. One of our girls even participated in Rio but nope, still we only let you compete in junior. lol Small country small goals, I guess.

One of the brazilian players (n°18) is too muscular, he looks like a mma fighter rather than a volleyball player Yay, another one of these pan am cups we're stocking them lately.

I don't know the exact dates but WL finals are usually mid July and pan am games will be late July. There are one or two weeks between, almost a month for those that don't make the wl finals.

Well, if they didn't care there is nothing to do. The USA roster was a complete joke, I think it can not even be called their D team.

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

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.

Poland and Italy advance to final round. Next step is tournament in Portugal, with Russia and Scotland as favorites (and Gibraltar participation!).

Another GS flop from Zverev.

Following these games got me hyped for pan ams next year. Then I remember we'll probably have even less streaming than this and I get sad again.

Both teams are low level, it's just that Japan is even lower. I still have no idea how India did not win this competition.

A team that lost a game 8-0 ends up winning the tournament. Malaysia squandered a 5-2 lead with 8 minutes to go and a 6-5 in the last minute. I feel their chance for OG is gone with this...

Japan wins, hockey at the asians games was played for NOTHING

Only after the Germany-New Zealand men's QF match in Rio, this is the craziest hockey match I've seen.

lol 6-5 malaysia

ok, this is very crazy

Not true.

2-0 Heung Min Son is saved.

Korea scores in extra time of football final! Still 25 minutes to go.

Malaysia already 4-1 up before half-time. Japan is a low level team, Pakistan really shouldn't have lost to them.

Unfortunately, yes. One team will start the playoffs knowing it's pointless for them.

Because their NOC is only interested in sending world class athletes to the OG and they think that in most sports african qualifiers have insignificant level. It's not that the south african hockey federation rejects them, they actually want to go in any way, it's the NOC that imposes the standard. I don't know how this policy originated but it has more than two decades of being this way, though sometimes they have relaxed it a bit. As for the other question, it varies with each international federation but I think FIH in particular is flexible with them because they don't really want african teams at the OG either, but who knows.

Yeah, last time world qualification took place before continental so it didn't matter, but back in 2012 continental was first, they declined it and then were allowed to participate in world qualification too.

As long as they participate in hockey series and win there, I don't know how they could be denied a place in play-offs regardless of what they do with continental quota.

Although this is confusing to read, I think josh is right... so, no 8th play-off. Just an extra quota for whoever loses the play-offs and is ranked high. Draw stays like I described but if South Africa declines continental then Chile goes a tier down, one team of pot 4 is out and that's it: Pot 1 Pot 2 ( ) Pot 3 Pot 4

Wait, this is even more confusing to me: if you read the section below about host country quota it seems like by "qualification events" they only mean the play-offs (because they say they are "6/7")