CWC2025 - The 16 teams of the next round (1/8) are: Adelaide, Almaty, Team Athens, Barcelona, Beograd, Bucharest, Buenos Aires, Dhaka, Kharkiv, Kyiv, Lviv, Prague, Prishtina, Sostka Compania, The Hague, Toulouse. -
15th CWC2025 Preliminary Round
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Jan 5, 2025
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#63
What happened to Sydney. It says they engaged only 15 players but they can do a lot more than that in a match.
Jan 5, 2025
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#65
Aren’t Kiev and Athens lucky their opponents didn’t make the 10 minimum and have matches of 10 or they wouldn’t have gone through.
Jan 30, 2025
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#66
Kookaburrra wrote:
Aren’t Kiev and Athens lucky their opponents didn’t make the 10 minimum and have matches of 10 or they wouldn’t have gone through.
Excuse me?
is it your poor English or just bad manner?
Jan 30, 2025
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#67
Deciding who goes to the next round by how many people joined the match before it started is very bad.
He says he looked at the number in join before matches started. So why has Sydney got 15 still. Are you telling me that exactly 15 joined and no one missed out??? Very unusual.
Both Athens and Kiev went through by forfeit. Sydney WON and didn’t go through. I don’t mean any disrespect to Kiev. Just trying to point out the ludicrous nature of the system here.
Our clubs are all leaving in protest that Sydney won and didn’t go through to the next round. We won’t play here anymore until rules are fair. Whoever won that match Sydney played in neither club had even a chance. Why bother.
Feb 3, 2025
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#68
Rules are disputable but should be clarified before start of the season.. actually I having read them for a while, maybe they have been changed recently but so far there were not such story as winning team didn't go through, that's not fair
Regarding Kyiv I doubt you can name us lucky, it doesn't matter whether our opponents met the minimum of 10 players, you can see here https://www.chess.com/club/matches/1679639/games we had 24 players registered for that match
Feb 3, 2025
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#69
Sydney is in the previous CWC semi finals being played now and it’s a big match of 30+. So 15 in a match is unusually small for Sydney. I’m sure more than 15 was joined before it started but I can’t verify or prove this. And I don’t agree with this method of deciding who goes to the next round.
Feb 3, 2025
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#70
https://www.chess.com/club/matches/team-australia-sydney-nsw/1711493
If Sydney wins that match Sydney club has indicated they won’t play in the final. No result yet so I don’t have to ask for definite decision yet.
Feb 12, 2025
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#71
You can have your tournament to you and your own team who amazingly went through with a forfeit, I would say a forfeit is less than 15 players so on this rule Sydney advance b4 your team
Australia is pulling all teams because of you and your stupid rule and it looks like a lot of other teams aren't going to play because of you
Well done, great job
Canberra vs kyiv
https://www.chess.com/daily-team/seek/2992867
Unfortunately Canberra did not met minimum number of players… just to recheck that this result is recorded accordingly
Those clubs are too small for 10 player matches. Will review our entry into this for the next season.