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Middle Eastern Nations Cup Results Saudi Arabia - 22 points United Arab Emirates - 40 points Syria - 94 points Jordan did not compete. Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates will advance to the Nations Cup Final.

vs. for the final of the Hamilton Sevens while will face off for third. Still four more legs remaining, but it looks like these may be our four Olympic qualifiers unless someone else steps up.

Semifinal for Hamilton v v Looks like the fourth leg will have a fourth winner.

Jumping Abu Dhabi (Grand Prix) CSIO5* Results The following have achieved 2/3 MER result Billy Twomey (Chat Botte E.D.) Gerfried Puck (Equitron Naxcel V) Abdurakhmon Abdullaev (Valour) Bianca Babanitz (Caipidor) The following have achieved 1/3 MER result Emanuele Gaudiano (Chalou) David Will (My Prins van Dorperheide) Kristaps Neretnieks (Quintair) Amre Hamcho (Vagabon des Forets) Abdel Said (Arpege du Ru( William Funnell (Equine America Billy Picador) Ioli Mytilineou (Levis de Muze) Katharina Rhomberg (Cuma) Abdulrahman Bader Alrajhi (Bravour) Rodrigo Giesteira Almeida (Imposant van de Renger) Decided to show the qualifiers from the Grand Prix event prior to the Nations Cup event. Some athletes have obtained their second MER result after getting one last week while other athletes decided to compete on a different horse. The Austrian pair will have an opportunity to be the first athlete to complete the MER at the Nations Cup tomorrow. Austria still needs to qualify a quota if it wants to compete at the Olympics.

Going into the final set of matches of the main round let's look at the Olympics qualification implications. While it is still possible for Brazil to reach the quarterfinals, it would require not only for them to defeat Iceland, but for Sweden to beat Portugal (good chance, even if they rest some players) and Cape Verde to defeat Hungary (less likely) and for Brazil to make up a 24 goal deficit against Portugal. Assuming that doesn't happen then Africa and Europe will be the top two continents and at their respective continental qualifiers two nations will advance to the final qualification tournament while for Asia and Pan America only one nation will advance. Should Egypt (assuming they don't win the World Championship quota) or one of the European nations in the quarterfinals win their continent qualifier then the 9th place team will advance to the final Olympic qualifier. Should both scenarios happen then the 10th place will also join them. There are no 9th-12th ranking matches. The third place teams from each group will be ranked based on their group performance. Let's look at the chances for each nation to finish 9th or 10th. Group I Should the final matches go as expected, will most likely finish 10th. The nation has a great goal differential (+17) and faces Montenegro where they are favoured to win. Assuming they win, they will only have to watch Serbia to hope they don't win by 6 more goals than they did against Montenegro. While a draw for Slovenia won't completely kill their chances they will have to hope for a bunch of results to go their way. Slovenia could finish 9th, but would require Croatia to draw or lose their final match. While is able to finish third in their group it is mathematically impossible for them to finish 9th or 10th. Group II This is the most complicated group as four teams have an opportunity to finish third. has the least chance at finishing 10th as they would have to defeat Iceland by 22 goals AND then hope results in the other groups go their way. is in a similar boat in the event they finish third (though actually finishing third would take specific scenarios, they are much more likely to finish second or fourth) due to their horrible goal differential where they would either need to completely demolish Cape Verde or hope for draws in the other groups. has the goal differential (+7) to not have to rely on crazy results, but probably needs to hope Slovenia fails to defeat Montenegro. Netherlands defeating or drawing Serbia would be a huge help too. actually has a good goal differential (+15), but really needs a draw against Sweden so they can have 6 points, but would still require a bunch of results to go their way. Group III is the nation on the outside looking in. They technically have control over their destiny and have the added bonus of knowing how many goals they need to win by in order to finish in the top 10. The downside is the Netherlands likely won't go down that easily and Serbia probably needs to win by double digits to surpass Slovenia. Of course, Slovenia could just not win their match and things become a lot easier. not only needs to defeat Serbia, but probably requires Slovenia to not win as they likely won't make up that goal differential. Even if Slovenia chokes they need to hope Portugal doesn't end up in third and if it's Iceland they would have to outscore them against Serbia. Group IV could still finish third in the group, but that would require them to loss a 22 goal differential advantage over Croatia. In the event that does happen they are guaranteed to finish 9th. is most likely to finish 9th out of all the teams. They have arguable the easiest opponent among the teams discussed here and any victory guarantees them 9th or better. Even if they end with a draw, they are in a good position to finish in the top 10, but they would have to look at the other results and hope for no blowouts from Serbia or Iceland. In the event pulls off one of the largest upsets in this tournament, their goal differential is horrible where like Hungary they would need to hope for they other third place teams to fail to get 6 points (or have Hungary as one of the third place teams).

@dcro just want to double check. In the Abu Dhabi event, both the Grand Prix and Nations Cup count towards the MER? Also can an athlete get an MER in both events or is the overarching event counted as a single event? Based on what I've read it should count for two, but maybe I'm reading it wrong.

Dressage West Palm Beach CDI3* Results The following have achieved 1/2 MER result Morgan Barbancon (Deodoro) Susan Dutta (Don Design DC) Anna-Christina Abbelen (Sam Donnerhall) Mikala Munter (Salsa Hit) Morgan Barbancon (Bolero)

The Middle East qualifier is this weekend. Two of will qualify to the final where the final Olympic team quota will be available. Assuming no major upsets in the Olympic Group qualifiers, the Middle East qualifiers could have a decent chance at grabbing the quota (assuming both don't qualify at the Group F qualifiers)

The world series begins today in Hamilton upset 26-21. What a collapse by the nation this season. Forced to combine due to money problems and now losing to non-core teams.

That bottom quarter of the men's bracket has opened up.

The week's ranking and MER eligible events. Dressage West Palm Beach - CDI3* Eventing Quillota - CCI4*-S Jumping Abu Dhabi - CSIO5* Thermal - CSI3* Wellington - CSI3* Eventing gets its first start for ranking points. The west side of the world has the majority of events this week with Wellington hosting its first jumping event of 12 between now and April. However, the biggest event will be in Abu Dhabi.

Here's the link Currently the format has the top six unqualified nations at the World Championships qualifying to one of three tournaments. Since Oceania won't finish in the top 12, the two best performing continents at the World Championships (likely Europe and Africa) will qualify two teams from their respective continental qualifier while the other two continents will only qualify one team.

Week 2 Results Men's Events Event Tour Winner Pts Won Sony Open in Hawaii PGA Tour Si Woo Kim 39.38 Women's Events No events held this week

I'd like to repeat that from an Olympic qualifier point of view, not having an 9-12 ranking matches was a dumb move. The third place team in Group IV has a huge advantage. With teams like Bahrain, Belgium and the United States they are able to run-up the goal differential and finish 9th and be in an excellent position to qualify to the final Olympic qualification event. Of course we could have a third place team in a different group end with a 4W-1L record.

Jumping Abu Dhabi CSI4*-W Results The following have achieved 1/3 MER result Joe Whitaker (Hulahupe Jr) Billy Twomey (Chat Bottle E.D.) Duarte Seabra (Dourados) Jessica Burke (Nikey HH) Tim Gredley (Medoc de Toxandria) Abdel Said (Bonne Amie) Ahmad Saber Hamcho (Frenchy VDS) Moufi Owaida Al Karbi (Baloucenta) Michael Duffy (Cinca) Bianca Babanitz (Caipidor) Shane Breen (Cuick Star Kervec) Omar Abdul Aziz Al Marzooqi (Dalida van de Zuuthoeve) Abdurakhmon Abdullaev (Valour) Trevor Breen (Highland President) Ioli Mytilineou (L'artiste de Toxandra) Abdullah Humaid Al Muhairi (Chacolu) Abdullah Mohd Al Marri (James V.D. Oude Heihoef) Gerfried Puck (Equitron Naxcel V) UAE making their intention to get a Group F team quota known. Syria's attempt on the other hand didn't go so well with only 2020 Olympian Hamcho getting an MER result. Uzbekistan's athlete might be one to watch in the future, he'll be turning 19 this year.

Week 1 Results Men's Events Event Tour Winner Pts Won Sentry Tournament of Champions PGA Tour Jon Rahm 37.68 Women's Events Event Tour Winner Pts Won Hitachi Ladies Classic TLPGA Kokona Sakurai 4.00

Does anyone have any insight on the Cape Verde team? They were non-existent until a couple of years ago and now I'd give them a chance against Brazil. Was there a big investment? Most of the players seem to play in Portugal, did they search for players there with Cape Verde ancestry?

It looked like if Iran was going to go for the upset against Montenegro early in the second half, but Montenegro was able to regain control of the match

Dressage Neustadt Dosse CDI3* Results The following have achieved 1/2 MER result Simone Pearce (Cadeau Noir) Hendrik Lochthowe (Bricco Barone) Nicole Wego-Engelmeyer (Citation 3) Felix Kneese (San Simeon) Dressage Basel CDI-W Results The following have achieved 1/2 MER result Jessica Bredow-Werndl (TSF Dalera BB) Isabell Werth (DSP Quantaz) Dinja Liere (Hartsuijker) Nanna Skodborg Merrald (Blue Hors Zepter) Benjamin Werndl (Daily Mirror 9) Patrik Kittel (Forever Young HRH) Dorothee Schneider (Showtime FRH) Florian Bacher (Fidertraum OLD) Corentin Pottier (Gotilas Du Feuillard) Thamar Zweistra (Hexagon's Double Dutch) Guillaume Lundy CNE (Tempo Ifce) Gilles Ngovan (Zigzag) Jorinde Verwimp (Charmer) Estelle Wettstein (Quarterboy) Dressage Wellington CDI-W Results The following have achieved 1/2 MER result Adrienne Lyle (Salvino) Sarah Tubman (First Apple) Caroline Darcourt (Lord Django) Anna Marek (Fire Fly) Tinne Vilhelmson Silfven (Devanto) Dressage Wellington CDI3* Results The following have achieved 1/2 MER result Frederic Wanders (Hot Hit OLD) Carrie Schopf (Saumur) Codi Harrison (Katholt's Bossco) Michael Klimke (Domino) Megan Lane (Zodiac MW) Chase Shipka (Gladstone Zee T) The first CDI-W event in Europe sees everyone that finished the Grand Prix grab an MER result. Looking at the calendar, I see there are seven weeks with events in Wellington from January to March. This make it a good place to farm ranking points without the stress of traveling and still have enough time to fly over to Europe (or stay and travel here). However, only Schopf (who's American-born) and Venezuela's Patricia Ferrando competed this week. Perhaps more will attend in two weeks.

This weekend's ranking and MER eligible events Dressage Neustadt Dosse - CDI3* Basel - CDI-W Wellington - CDI-W Wellington - CDI3* Jumping Abu Dhabi - CSI4*-W The first Eventing event will be next week.

This is women's rugby sevens, not men's. Samoa is a lot weaker on the women's side.

PNG tends to win that match more often than not.

I agree, now that Olympic quotas are on the line, I imagine the US teams will show up more often in the Pro Tour.

Assuming you believe that modern pentathlon is heading towards a triathlon like format then fencing would have to go

Jumping - Dannevirke CSI1*-W Results The following have achieved 1/3 MER results Phillip Steiner (Cassina Dior) Maurice Beatson (Central Park) Julie Davey (LT Holst Freda) Brooke Edgecombe (LT Holst Andrea) Tegan Fitzsimon (Windermere Cappuccino)