mattadders

Really strange it’s not on CBC Gem. I was looking forward to watching it but it’s not worth a $13/mo subscription

Should Alena Sharp, not be qualified too?

Canada get the job done and sweep France 3-0. A tricky final set going 31-29.

Yep. I believe any of: One set won over , or one set won over , or even a match win over , would be the moments it’s clinched

Hold on folks. I’ve just made some corrections to my calculations. And I can confirm. The media are right. It’s not official. If Canada sweep France, then somehow South Korea sweep the Netherlands, Canada would win the quota by 0.27 points. Edit: I believe it would also require that Italy beat South Korea later today. As a Korean upset in that match would raise their ranking enough to cause the unlikely 3-0 win over the Netherlands to not drop their ranking by as much.

By my math is official. But the commentators and the Dutch team are acting like it’s not confirmed.

I couldn’t help but make an extensive spreadsheet to attempt to make sense of their convoluted formula. By my math, as we already know, any win tonight then any win in that team’s final game would clinch the berth. (Even though it seems either team would actually lose a couple points even if they win in 5 against /). But either team loses a lot of points if they manage to lose their final game because they’re so much higher ranked, so a lot could change.

Using the formulas on the FIVB website, I’ve got tonight’s game giving about 10 points to a 3-0 winner (and taking 10 away from the loser), then can get at best around 4 points for a 3-0 win over France, putting us around 284pts. lose at most about 18 points if they somehow lose to South Korea, putting them around 285. My exact numbers have leading us by at least 0.24 after all the games. But my math has been a couple decimal places off for previous results so I may be misunderstanding part of the formula.

[hide] *"Double-the-points" distributed as follow: Each user will have 5 during the Group stage. Each user will have to mark their matches with "Double-the-points" with an "*". Group Stage June 14th - June 26th, 2024 24 Nations, 6 Groups, the 1st-and 2-placed Nations from each Group + the four best 3rd-placed Nations from all the Groups will qualify for the Round of 16. Group A Date & Time (GMT +2) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 June 14th 2024, h. 21:00 Germany 1* 1 Scotland June 15th 2024, h. 15:00 Hungary 2 1 Switzerland June 19th 2024, h. 18:00 Germany 3 1 Hungary June 19th 2024, h. 21:00 Scotland 3 2 Switzerland June 23rd 2024, h. 21:00 Switzerland 2 3 Germany June 23rd 2024, h. 21:00 Scotland 3 0 Hungary Group B Date & Time (GMT +2) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 June 15th 2024, h. 18:00 Spain 3 0 Croatia June 15th 2024, h. 21:00 Italy 0 0 Albania June 19th 2024, h. 15:00 Croatia 1 3 Albania June 20th 2024, h. 21:00 Spain 3 2 Italy June 24th 2024, h. 21:00 Albania 0 4 Spain June 24th 2024, h. 21:00 Croatia 1 1 Italy Group C Date & Time (GMT +2) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 June 16th 2024, h. 18:00 Slovenia 0 4 Denmark June 16th 2024, h. 21:00 Serbia 0 5 England June 20th 2024, h. 15:00 Slovenia 2 2 Serbia June 20th 2024, h. 18:00 Denmark 1 2 England June 25th 2024, h. 21:00 England 4* 0 Slovenia June 25th 2024, h. 21:00 Denmark 3 1 Serbia Group D Date & Time (GMT +2) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 June 16th 2024, h. 15:00 Poland 0 3 Netherlands June 17th 2024, h. 21:00 Austria 1 3 France June 21st 2024, h. 18:00 Poland 0 0 Austria June 21st 2024, h. 21:00 Netherlands 1 3 France June 25th 2024, h. 18:00 Netherlands 1* 1 Austria June 25th 2024, h. 18:00 France 2 1 Poland Group E Date & Time (GMT +2) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 June 17th 2024, h. 15:00 Romania 0 0 Ukraine June 17th 2024, h. 18:00 Belgium 3 1 Slovakia June 21st 2024, h. 15:00 Slovakia 1 1 Ukraine June 21st 2024, h. 21:00 Belgium 3 1 Romania June 26th 2024, h. 18:00 Slovakia 3 2 Romania June 26th 2024, h. 18:00 Ukraine 2 3 Belgium Group F Date & Time (GMT +2) Nation 1 T1 T2 Nation 2 June 18th 2024, h. 18:00 Turkey 3 0 Georgia June 18th 2024, h. 21:00 Portugal 1 1 Czechia June 22nd 2024, h. 15:00 Georgia 0 3 Czechia June 22nd 2024, h. 18:00 Turkey 1 1 Portugal June 26th 2024, h. 21:00 Georgia 0* 6 Portugal June 26th 2024, h. 21:00 Czechia 1 1 Turkey Finalists Place 1st 2nd Nation England France [/hide]

By my math (which could well be wrong), should win 3-0 against , they clinch qualification, no matter what happens in the other games.

Does anyone know how many ranking points are on offer from this? Are any athletes, such as those from // mathematically guaranteed to qualify from rankings, even if they don’t podium at the World Championships? (I’m specifically looking at the men’s side as a GB fan)

USA sweep . Now if can manage a set or two against Japan in the morning, things get very interesting…

Why lose hope? By my calculations, even if we lose to Japan and beat France, and the Netherlands beat Serbia and Korea but lose to the USA, it would still likely go down to that Canada vs Netherlands match.