ESWC Using Group Stages?

Posted by Protex at 09:44 13/5/2003.

It would appear that the ESWC organisers are going for a European Football approach using an initial group stage instead of the standard double elimination for the Finals in France later this year. The example structure they have released can be seen here.

If this is the case, we could end up seeing one of the favourites get a bad draw and go out early and lesser teams having an easier ride into the play-offs.

A press release from ESWC organisers states that:

"The official competitions will use a tournament structure based on two group stages, followed by single-elimination playoffs.This system has already been successfully adopted by UEFA for its Champions League.
This method represents the best combination of our two main goals: general sporting equity for gamers and e-sport show for spectators. Sporting equity will be all the more assured by 3 steps of selection (first series of group, second series of group and playoffs). Electronic sports show will be enhanced by the high stake of the single-elimination matches played on-stage."

We will have to wait and see how this will affect the tournament as a whole.

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	Myers Saviour of UKT UKTerrorist 11:28 13/5/2003	look out for news about our own eswc qualifiers within the next week or 2 [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Rude^ Jay Bee Eye! 11:30 13/5/2003	"The official competitions will use a tournament structure based on two group stages, followed by single-elimination playoffs.This system has already been successfully adopted by UEFA for its Champions League. uefa have just abolished that system for the champions league, in favour of a single group stage followed by single elimination... [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	rbZ^ 11:41 13/5/2003	This method represents the best combination of our two main goals: general sporting equity for gamers and e-sport show for spectators. There argument on grounds of equity is pointless when France gets 6 qualification spots and better gaming countries such as Sweden only get 3?! [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Myers Saviour of UKT UKTerrorist 11:54 13/5/2003	it's france's tournament, thus more french teams would be able to attend. It's unlikely that there are that many more countries that could afford to send a team to france. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	iron 11:58 13/5/2003	Read what he was actually saying myers.. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Myers Saviour of UKT UKTerrorist 11:59 13/5/2003	i did :) [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Anisty 12:01 13/5/2003	so bloody what? limit every country to one team or unlimited teams. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Myers Saviour of UKT UKTerrorist 12:02 13/5/2003	just saying, there aren't that many countries that have the financial ability to send the winners to eswc. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Anisty 12:02 13/5/2003	and let's face it... i didnt vote anywhere to say that this was our world cup... because it blatantly aint. Its the french open. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Myers Saviour of UKT UKTerrorist 12:09 13/5/2003	the esworldcup is just a name for the tournament, not really reflective of the whole world. However they have to work around what they've got, and some countries can't afford to send a team to paris. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Myers Saviour of UKT UKTerrorist 12:10 13/5/2003	also anisty why do u need to vote?..u ever vote for the fifa world cup?!? [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Anisty 12:34 13/5/2003	go look up how the fifa board comes to be you nit [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	SunShip 12:36 13/5/2003	weird approach but stranger things happen [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	nicklearse Missing In Action 12:39 13/5/2003	stop over complicating things ... they wish to be in france for longer than absolutely nescessary ... who wants to spend time with pondlife when you've got such wonderful towns in UK ? :P [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	SunShip 12:40 13/5/2003	france have nice carp [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Del` Sniper's Alley 12:42 13/5/2003	uefa have just abolished that system for the champions league, in favour of a single group stage followed by single elimination... I don't see how that's relevant, as it's being done to reduce the number of games played by each team, not because the current system is flawed. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Rude^ Jay Bee Eye! 12:44 13/5/2003	was referring to the fact they're using uefa's 'successful system' which is having to be replaced [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	ElTiozo 12:51 13/5/2003	"If this is the case, we could end up seeing one of the favourites get a bad draw and go out early and lesser teams having an easier ride into the play-offs." It is the contrary. well the Champion's League system "help" the big teams imo, in football at least. You got to be very consistent to go through the 2 poules stages. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	rbZ^ 13:20 13/5/2003	Yer, if there are 20 seeds for instance there will be 10 groups with 2 seeds in each. ie Group A : Seed 1 + 20 etc. Im not sure about the actual system and how easy it will be implement during the competition but lets face it, we need new things to try because anything big, unrelated to CPL (with the exception of UKT lans) are flopping big styleee at the moment with most using the double elim system. As for the name, ESWC, it really should be changed in my opinion! [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Dev theb0g 13:59 13/5/2003	sounds good, more games can only be good (so long as they are run on time :D). Cannie wait! [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Marc 14:06 13/5/2003	http://www.sogamed.com/member.php?id=27342 [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Weebull 15:58 13/5/2003	If this is the case, we could end up seeing one of the favourites get a bad draw and go out early and lesser teams having an easier ride into the play-offs. lol guess which system you favour? [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Weebull 15:59 13/5/2003	I quite like group stages, they give you more games to watch/play. [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]
	Del` Sniper's Alley 01:43 14/5/2003	was referring to the fact they're using uefa's 'successful system' which is having to be replaced Yes, and I was pointing out that that's not relevant [ Comment: Report \| IP: Logged ]

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