Seeding of Teams Team seeding has been devised by the Ultimate Committee and takes into consideration the following factors (in order of priority): 1. Past performance of national teams in World Championship tournaments. Results for club team competition and from WUCC 2002 are not taken into consideration. 2. Past performance of national teams in Regional and Continental Championship tournaments. For European teams, the results from the 2003 European Championships override the results from WUGC 2000. 3. The desire to spread countries equitably throughout pool play ensuring a geographic spread and allowing teams an opportunity to play against teams not normally encountered. This principle will only apply if a team has to move one seeded place from the agreed list based on past performance. 4. International and Tyro teams, regardless of their composition, are ranked behind national teams. It is quite a challenge to seed national teams as WUGC happens every four years and only the European teams compete as national teams in other competition. We have devised a schedule that we hope will compensate for any incorrect seedings.
* International Team (As per WFDF rules, may not compete in the semifinal stages) ** Tyro Team (As per WFDF rules, may not compete in the semifinal stages) Rank Open 1 USA 2 Great Britain 3 Canada 4 Sweden 5 Denmark 6 Australia 7 Finland 8 Japan 9 Germany 10 Switzerland 11 Netherlands 12 Italy 13 Ireland 14 Russia 15 South Africa 16 Chinese Taipei 17 Brazil 18 Lithuania Rank Women's 1 Canada 2 Japan 3 Finland 4 USA 5 Great Britain 6 Australia 7 Germany 8 Sweden 9 Netherlands 10 Italy 11 Denmark 12 Ireland 13 Latvia 14 Russia ** Rank Mixed 1 USA 2 Canada 3 Great Britain 4 Germany 5 New Zealand 6 Czech Republic 7 Japan 8 Switzerland 9 Finland 10 France 11 Sweden 12 Australia 13 Austria/ Hungary* 14 Spain** 15 South Africa** 16 Belarus/ Estonia/ Russia/ Latvia* Rank Masters 1 USA 2 Great Britain 3 Canada 4 Germany 5 Japan 6 Finland 7 Australia 8 Sweden 9 Netherlands 10 Russia* Rank Jr. Open 1 Canada 2 Sweden 3 Great Britain 4 Germany 5 Finland 6 USA 7 Japan 8 Switzerland 9 Australia 10 South Africa** 11 Russia* Rank Jr. Women's 1 Canada 2 Sweden 3 Finland 4 USA 5 Great Britain 6 Australia 7 Japan _________________________________________________________________ Notice of Confidentiality This transmission contains information that may be confidential and that may also be privileged. Unless you are the intended recipient of the message (or authorised to receive it for the intended recipient) you may not copy, forward, or otherwise use it, or disclose it or its contents to anyone else. If you have received this transmission in error please notify us immediately and delete it from your system. Tel: +44 1737 241144 Fax: +44 1737 241496 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please contact the sender if you have any problems with this email. Authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority. Member of the General Insurance Standards Council. _________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________ BritDisc mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://zion.ranulf.net/mailman/listinfo/britdisc Staying informed - http://www.ukultimate.com/informed.asp
