Thursday, July 31, 2008

Worlds Schedule

There are 15 teams in the women's division - Australia is seeded 6th.

The draw structure is:
- 2 pools of 7/8
- 1 cross over game for top 5 from each pool
- quarter-finals
- semi-finals
- finals

Th seeding for worlds is based on the last World Championships plus any WFDF-sanctioned national events in between (e.g. European's). This means teams like New Zealand who didn't participate in the women's division in 2004 and who have not played in any other WFDF sanctioned events since they end up tacked on the bottom. In a draw like this the seedings should not matter too much .

Australia's schedule is (with team's seedings in brackets):

Day 1
USA (#3)
Ireland (#11)

Day 2
Switzerland (#7)
Italy (#10)

Day 3
NZ (#14)
Finland (#2)

Day 4
Mexico (#15)
cross-over (if in top 5 in pool)

Day 5
Quarters
(and playoffs)

Day 6
Semis
(and playoffs)

Day 7
Finals

The other pool has the following teams:
1. Canada
4. Japan
5. Great Britain
8. Germany
9. Sweden
12. France
13. Colombia

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