World Cup 2024

[NextLevel]

Let's see what Kirill can do today. WCQ has opened the Pandora box of illegal serves.

In case you haven't seen the highlights:

 

[zeio]

KAN Yo/HAN Yang is fat like a pig.

 

[kindof99]

LJH's end game sucks.

 

[kindof99]

ITTF should have introduced sudden death rule in the last round when one player in the group has advanced. IT is awful to play the dead games.

 

[NextLevel]

Kallberg pleasantly disappoints by beating a fellow disappointer!

 

[zeio]

ITTF should have introduced sudden death rule in the last round when one player in the group has advanced. IT is awful to play the dead games.

Samara: I'll introduce my sudden death rule - injury withdrawal.

 

[NextLevel]

Hari on the brink already - Groth doing well.

 

[kindof99]

HT needs to win the next two games with big margins

 

[zeio]

Harimoto vs Groth
5 in a row for Groth after that net and edge ball at 6:3 with Groth being down in G1 hurt a lot but Dong Qiwen didn't seem too concerned.

 

[turbozed]

HT mathematically out of this already even if he wins the 4th game?

Great match for Groth

 

[turbozed]

Wait, what the hell? Harimoto celebrated like he had gotten through the knockout round?

But commentators were sure he'd been knocked out already saying he needed to win 11-1 at least. Now they are unsure?

What's going on?

Edit: ah okay Harimoto thought he got through but then his coach had to break the bad news. Rough. When games won are equal they go to a tiebreaker bases on point win/loss ratio.

 

[OvrChkn]

Groth goes through

 

[kindof99]

Not easy to figure out until the end

 

[gordonluvsu]

What a terrible tournament Format...

So sad to see this happening to our Sport, and no hope for the future that it will get any better.

 

[turbozed]

Moregard now on the brink of elimination after blowing 3 game points in game 1. Needs to sweep next 3 games.

 

[gordonluvsu]

Assar only needs to win 1 more Set to win right?

Regarding Harimoto:

On the standings it says that He is first in the group, despite his worse point w/l stat.
At least on my Phone it Looks like it.

 

[gordonluvsu]

Well, There goes Truls.

 

[turbozed]

Assad and Moregard just going through the motions this last game. This format showing its major weaknesses today.

 

[driversbeat]

I personally find this format quite interesting because it puts pressure on the player for dropping a single game, even more so than BO5. It's the lack of incentives (i.e. ranking points) that hurt the players' motivation.

 

[zeio]

World Cup 2024 teaches you how to play safe series:
3-1 and 3-1 is much safer than 4-0 and 2-2.