[Ant590]

Does anyone know who has picked whom in the finals?

[paulg]

Pairings can be seen at

http://thebeercard.blogspot.com/2008/10/wm...16-matches.html

[FrancesHinden]

To my (pleasant) surprise, all five England teams have qualified for their QFs - including finishing above the USA in all except the Seniors.

Let's see if they can keep it up in the KO stages.

edited: sorry, meant the KO stages rather than necessarily the QFs

p.s. what happened to the US junior team???

[Walddk]

FrancesHinden, on Oct 10 2008, 04:11 PM, said:

To my (pleasant) surprise, all five England teams have qualified for their QFs.

They may qualify for the QFs too, but they need to win their matches in the Round of 16 first

Anyway, well done England!

Roland

[rogerclee]

FrancesHinden, on Oct 10 2008, 07:11 AM, said:

p.s. what happened to the US junior team???

U28 missed qualification by one VP.

U26 drew Poland in the round of 8. They are good.

U21 drew France in the round of 8. They are supposed to be good.

[Ant590]

Anyone know the pairings for the Juniors?

[A2003]

Ant590, on Oct 10 2008, 09:48 AM, said:

Anyone know the pairings for the Juniors?

Under 28
1 POLAND 12 - 0 CHINESE TAIPEI
2 FRANCE 12 - 0 ENGLAND
3 BELGIUM 11 - 0 NORWAY
4 CHINA 3 - 0 ISRAEL

Under 26
1 POLAND 12 - 0 USA
2 AUSTRALIA 6 - 0 CHINESE TAIPEI
3 DENMARK 12 - 0 CANADA
4 NETHERLANDS 0 - 8.66 NORWAY

Under 21
1 NETHERLANDS 0 - 12 ENGLAND
2 USA 0 - 12 FRANCE
3 CHINESE TAIPEI 0 - 7 BULGARIA
4 CHINA 0 - 12 NORWAY

[jikl]

I am glad that wasn't your 10,000th post. Needs to much more momentous than that

Sean

[rogerclee]

rogerclee, on Oct 10 2008, 07:30 AM, said:

U26 drew Poland in the round of 8. They are good.

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[Mbodell]

Yes, unfortunately the U26 USA team beat Poland by 3 IMPs in the quarterfinal match, but were facing the full 12 IMP carry over so lost by 9 once you add in the carry over.

[han]

Poland looks like the strongest team, so this is a very good performance by the US U26 team. Of course they couldn't care less.

[Walddk]

Our congratulations to Norway (U-28), Denmark (U-26) and France (U-21) on winning the gold medal in the youth events. Also well done to the silver medalists: Poland, Poland (again) and England.

Bronze medal: China, Norway and China (again).

The most remarkable come-back for years was achieved by Norway in the U-28 final against Poland. The Scandinavians trailed by 47.3 IMPs going into the last 16 boards, and prevailed in the end by 1.7 IMP!

This was Denmark's second World Championship, exactly 10 years after their win in Hamilton, Canada, in 1998. The small Nordic country also has a silver medal to her name, in Paris 2003 where Italy won.

Roland

[FrancesHinden]

I was pleased to see the England U21s (and the U28s) doing well, as it's been years since we've had a competitive junior team.

Astonishingly, England are the only country to be in the semi-finals of both the Open & Women's series. I wish them well, though I don't think they are favourites in the Open semi (whoever they draw).

[Walddk]

FrancesHinden, on Oct 13 2008, 05:48 PM, said:

Astonishingly, England are the only country to be in the semi-finals of both the Open & Women's series.  I wish them well, though I don't think they are favourites in the Open semi (whoever they draw).

Open against Germany, women against Turkey. I think it's 50-50 in the Open (slight advantage Germany perhaps), and 60-40 to England in the women's.

I don't think I offend England or Germany when I claim that the clash between Italy and Norway would be worthy of a final. They are no doubt the world's two strongest nations at the moment when we look at the open series only.

Roland

[bb79]

WMSG was a successful event for Turkish players, too. Our women team reached semifinals, I think this was the first time our national team reached a semifinal in world championships. Our open team qualified from round robin stage, but couldn't beat Norway in the round of 16. Finally in the youth category, Melih Sen- Mehmet Sakirler won the world junior pairs. Congratulations!

edit: in the last day of the event, Salih Murat Anter won the ‘A’ section to take the World Junior Individual Championship and Gold medal. Congratulations to him, too!