hi everyone,
just a few hours until lift off for WJUC 2016 in Wroclaw, Poland. 49 U20 teams
from around the world comete in 2 division, U20 women and men.
Wroclaw
(for the english speakers: pronounced Vrots-Love; if you are able to roll the r
mediterranean style, you got it!)
is already quite known in the European Ultimate scene: hosts to EYUC 2011 and
EUCF 2015, and of course the worlg games 2017.It is a city of some 700.000
people, a city league with 8 teams playing, the most prominent is FLOW, who
participated in EUCF mixed 2014 and also will in 2016.The town was founded by
Bohemian kings, then was Polish through most of history, then German for some
200 years under the name of Breslau, and again Polish since 1946. Now very
vibrant, a hub of the Polish economic boom.
Today at 17:00h we see the opening match of the home team, Poland U17 Men, vs.
New Zealand. That should be exciting, there is no clear favorite. It is already
the most important match of the week for both, as the only other team in group
is the European powerhouse Germany, who are expected to win the pool. Only one
more team goes up.
In the 8 pools at stage 1, CAN, USA, GER, ITA and COL are expected to win their
pools. Pools F, G and H seem a little less clear. But with only 3 or 4 teams
per pool played mon and early tue, the tournament will move to stage 2, so
power pools and placement pools very early.
Other battles for 2nd pool place may include AUS vs BEL and CZE vs RUS.
In U20 women, 4 pools of 5 teams, and even more excitement as 3 teams in each
go up. In pools A-C, USA, CAN and COL are expected to win. In pool A we expect
Russia and New Zealand to do well, but FIN and SVK (Slovakia) certainly have a
chance.
In pool B GER is the 2nd seed but may be surpassed by AUS. But again, CZE and
IRL may play a significant role. In pool C, JPN, GBR, SUI and hosts POL battle
it out.The real killer is pool D. 100% European, but assembling the elite: AUT,
ITA and FRA finished in 1st, 2nd and 3rd at the EYUC 2015. NED has mainly those
players who won gold in the past 2 years in U17. So we will see hot action
here! 5th seed in this pool are the newcomers from SLO (Slovenia), who are
rumored to have prepared intensely.
The full schedule, pools and format can be found at
Schedule - WFDF 2016 World Junior Ultimate Championships
I have not yet found a link to live scores, but I am confident that WFDF will
set this up in time, if they have not done this already.I myself will only go
to Wroclaw thu-fri so I also depend on score reporting. If any one wants to go
spontaneously: accomodation is easy. There are plenty of hostels, but by far
the easiest is the public campsite right right next to pitches 1-12. You can
watch the matches from your tent or rent a little bungalow. Cheap, but
unrenovated in the past 50 years ;-)
Cheers,
ChrisEUF
| |
| | | | | | | |
| Schedule - WFDF 2016 World Junior Ultimate Champion...Close FLASH_MESSAGE
Ultimate Central Events 1 Events |
| |
| Auf wjuc2016.ultim... anzeigen | Vorschau nach Yahoo |
| |
| |
Christoph Dehnhardt chdehnha...@yahoo.de +49 - 163 - 7596 - 764
_______________________________________________
Wurfpost mailing list
Wurfpost@list.uni-koblenz.de
https://list.uni-koblenz.de/mailman/listinfo/wurfpost
