CHASM World Championships - Qualification
Jun 23, 2017 11:44:43 GMT
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Post by sandbachhatter on Jun 23, 2017 11:44:43 GMT
Good afternoon, one and all, and welcome to the inaugural CHASM World Championships!
Firstly, many thanks to another_ruined_saturday for the idea - hopefully I will do it justice.
Over the course of the last six months or so, we have amassed an impressive collection of 26 teams from around the world, one for each letter of the alphabet. They will now take part, together with two wildcard entries (see below), in a World Cup style tournament, where our members will be able to vote for the winner in a series of group fixtures, before we then turn our attention to the knock-out stages.
The tournament will work as follows:
Once we have our 28 teams, they will be drawn at random into seven groups of four teams. Each team will play the others in their group once, and members will vote on who they want to win each match.
The winners of each group will progress to the knock-out stages, together with the strongest runner-up. In the event of any ties, the number of actual votes cast over the group stage for each team will come into play.
We will then have eight teams left, who will compete in quarter-finals, then semi-finals and lastly the final, as follows:
QF1 Winner A v Winner B
QF2 Winner C v Winner D
QF3 Winner E v Winner F
QF4 Winner G v Best Runner-Up
SF1 Winner QF1 v Winner QF2
SF2 Winner QF3 v Winner QF4
Final - Winner SF1 v Winner SF2
As for the two wildcard entries, I have been back through each week of CHASM, and the three strongest runners-up were as follows:
Aktobe (Week A) - 5 votes
FC Domagnano (Week D) - 6 votes
FC Saturn Romenskoye (Week S) - 5 votes
As a result, FC Domagnano automatically qualify for the Tournament, but the other two will need to firstly play a qualification decider.
Here is a reminder of both clubs:
Currently sitting in a comfortable 7th place in the Kazakhstan Premier League (albeit 25 points away from the runaway leaders), Aktobe are also comparatively new to the world of soccer, being formed slightly earlier than Akhisar, in 1967. They have undergone a few name changes throughout their history, but settled back to Aktobe in 2005.
Their rather-unKazakhstani ‘Central Stadium’ holds 13,500, making it slightly larger than EP, but they are top flight don’t forget. So, to be honest, that’s pretty crap.
Nicknamed ‘The Red and Whites’, Aktobe amazingly play in all orange. No, of course they don’t. In fact, they look like a Kazakhstani Stoke City, which is frankly terrifying prospect. Being huge fans of the colour red (well, they did use to be part of the Soviet Union), their away kit is entirely of this colour, although it fades from a deep maroon to a lighter shade the nearer you get to the player’s nipples.
They have no major players of note, as far as I can see, although they do have a goalkeeper called Pavlov, who presumably struggles to concentrate, every time the referee blows for offside.
They are 187th in UEFA’s club ranking, one place behind Norwegian side Tromso, yet one ahead of Arsenal Kyiv (from the Ukraine).
As their countryman Borat would say, ‘Aktobe is very nice!’, so vote for them!
Based in the Moscow suburb of Ramenskoye and founded in 1946, the club was previously called Krylya Sovetov (1946–1957), Trud (1958–1959) and Saturn-REN TV (February 2002 to January 2004). In 2006 the club beat the record of drawn matches played in the Russian Premier League during one season - 16 times. It has something of a chequered history, in that due to huge debts it was dissolved in January 2011, but was recreated on the base of their former farm club FC Saturn-2 Moscow Region. It returned to the professional level in the Russian Professional Football League in the 2013-14 season. Before the 2015–16 season, the club didn't receive its professional license and moved back to amateur levels. It returned to the third-tier once again for the 2016–17 season.
The club has several nicknames including the Aliens and the Extraterrestrials but the supporters movement tends to go with the Humanoids.
Playing in blue and black striped shirts/black shorts (all white away strip), the current squad is all Russian but over the years they have been represented by internationals from several countries from Europe, Africa and South America. One of their better known players was Russian born Finnish international, Alexei Eremenko, who played over 60 games for Kilmarnock in two spells between 2010 and 2015.
Home games are played at the 14,685 capacity Saturn Stadium.
Somewhat in character with the reputation of Russian supporters, there appears to be a lively discussion about whether or not there should be an official graffiti wall.
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I have set up a poll between the two teams, which will run until midday on Tuesday. Simply vote for your favourite, and the team with the most votes will take the final place in our 28 team tournament.
I will then draw the groups for the tournament to begin.
Get voting!
Firstly, many thanks to another_ruined_saturday for the idea - hopefully I will do it justice.
Over the course of the last six months or so, we have amassed an impressive collection of 26 teams from around the world, one for each letter of the alphabet. They will now take part, together with two wildcard entries (see below), in a World Cup style tournament, where our members will be able to vote for the winner in a series of group fixtures, before we then turn our attention to the knock-out stages.
The tournament will work as follows:
Once we have our 28 teams, they will be drawn at random into seven groups of four teams. Each team will play the others in their group once, and members will vote on who they want to win each match.
The winners of each group will progress to the knock-out stages, together with the strongest runner-up. In the event of any ties, the number of actual votes cast over the group stage for each team will come into play.
We will then have eight teams left, who will compete in quarter-finals, then semi-finals and lastly the final, as follows:
QF1 Winner A v Winner B
QF2 Winner C v Winner D
QF3 Winner E v Winner F
QF4 Winner G v Best Runner-Up
SF1 Winner QF1 v Winner QF2
SF2 Winner QF3 v Winner QF4
Final - Winner SF1 v Winner SF2
As for the two wildcard entries, I have been back through each week of CHASM, and the three strongest runners-up were as follows:
Aktobe (Week A) - 5 votes
FC Domagnano (Week D) - 6 votes
FC Saturn Romenskoye (Week S) - 5 votes
As a result, FC Domagnano automatically qualify for the Tournament, but the other two will need to firstly play a qualification decider.
Here is a reminder of both clubs:
FC AKTOBE (KAZAKHSTAN)
Currently sitting in a comfortable 7th place in the Kazakhstan Premier League (albeit 25 points away from the runaway leaders), Aktobe are also comparatively new to the world of soccer, being formed slightly earlier than Akhisar, in 1967. They have undergone a few name changes throughout their history, but settled back to Aktobe in 2005.
Their rather-unKazakhstani ‘Central Stadium’ holds 13,500, making it slightly larger than EP, but they are top flight don’t forget. So, to be honest, that’s pretty crap.
Nicknamed ‘The Red and Whites’, Aktobe amazingly play in all orange. No, of course they don’t. In fact, they look like a Kazakhstani Stoke City, which is frankly terrifying prospect. Being huge fans of the colour red (well, they did use to be part of the Soviet Union), their away kit is entirely of this colour, although it fades from a deep maroon to a lighter shade the nearer you get to the player’s nipples.
They have no major players of note, as far as I can see, although they do have a goalkeeper called Pavlov, who presumably struggles to concentrate, every time the referee blows for offside.
They are 187th in UEFA’s club ranking, one place behind Norwegian side Tromso, yet one ahead of Arsenal Kyiv (from the Ukraine).
As their countryman Borat would say, ‘Aktobe is very nice!’, so vote for them!
FC SATURN RAMENSKOYE (RUSSIA)
Based in the Moscow suburb of Ramenskoye and founded in 1946, the club was previously called Krylya Sovetov (1946–1957), Trud (1958–1959) and Saturn-REN TV (February 2002 to January 2004). In 2006 the club beat the record of drawn matches played in the Russian Premier League during one season - 16 times. It has something of a chequered history, in that due to huge debts it was dissolved in January 2011, but was recreated on the base of their former farm club FC Saturn-2 Moscow Region. It returned to the professional level in the Russian Professional Football League in the 2013-14 season. Before the 2015–16 season, the club didn't receive its professional license and moved back to amateur levels. It returned to the third-tier once again for the 2016–17 season.
The club has several nicknames including the Aliens and the Extraterrestrials but the supporters movement tends to go with the Humanoids.
Playing in blue and black striped shirts/black shorts (all white away strip), the current squad is all Russian but over the years they have been represented by internationals from several countries from Europe, Africa and South America. One of their better known players was Russian born Finnish international, Alexei Eremenko, who played over 60 games for Kilmarnock in two spells between 2010 and 2015.
Home games are played at the 14,685 capacity Saturn Stadium.
Somewhat in character with the reputation of Russian supporters, there appears to be a lively discussion about whether or not there should be an official graffiti wall.
***
I have set up a poll between the two teams, which will run until midday on Tuesday. Simply vote for your favourite, and the team with the most votes will take the final place in our 28 team tournament.
I will then draw the groups for the tournament to begin.
Get voting!
