Men's Baseball WBSC Final Olympic Games Qualification Tournament 2021

[NearPup 2,164]

That’s a pretty decent medal chance for  

[Quaker2001 246]

39 minutes ago, NearPup said:

That’s a pretty decent medal chance for  

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

[dcro 10,182]

7 hours ago, Quaker2001 said:

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

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

[Maxim Fastovsky 124]

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 6,867]

1 hour ago, 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)

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 13,560]

Just now, phelps said:

good luck...

 

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

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 10,182]

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

[phelps 6,867]

Just now, dcro said:

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

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...

[Maxim Fastovsky 124]

35 minutes ago, 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

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

[phelps 6,867]

3 hours ago, Maxim Fastovsky said:

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

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