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Committee decision for World Cup team selection - Pixel - 26-Apr-2012
After much discussion and a vote, the following came to be the conclusion of Eric Dunn, Simon Edwards, Sean Lee, Chris Thomas, Laurent Paquin-Marcotte, Julien Beaumier-Ethier and Mario Iannuzzi:
Players interested in joining the 2013 Canadian World Cup team should fill out an application form with relevant information and experience and pay a non-refundable fee of $20. The fee will both ensure seriousness and will help to fund the eventual team.
A committee of 5-7 members, selected by Will Stranks, will be assembled. The restrictions on the committee members are that they should be well-informed citizens of the foosball community, and that they should be appropriately geographically distributed (e.g., one suggestion would be that there should be one from each major foosball area - B.C., Calgary, Edmonton, Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, Quebec City).
From the pooled applications, the committee shall independently form their own lists of 7 member teams (with 2 alternates). Each time an applicant's name is mentioned, they shall receive a point. An alternate mention will receive a half point. Those with the highest number of points shall be named to be the team. Any ties will be solved by a tiebreaking vote from the committee. At this point, a larger deposit (~$200) will be requested from the voted-upon team members to ensure their commitment. This deposit could be used to go towards team uniforms.
If a player decides to withdraw from the team, they will forfeit all paid deposits to the team.
The committee will be announced within one week, if you have a recommendation for a committee member please email will_stranks@hotmail dot com
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RE: Committee decision for World Cup team selection - Jon - 26-Apr-2012
I think it might also be useful to have some more information about the World Cup itself. I don't know if the flyer is out or whatnot but most people would need to know things like approx total player costs, length of tournament (to book off), when its being held, game formats etc. Maybe just a link posted would do the trick I don't know. The costs would be nice to know though for sure, I know that wouldn't be posted anywhere but a simple rundown from former team members would be great!
RE: Committee decision for World Cup team selection - Pixel - 26-Apr-2012
(26-Apr-2012, 05:54 PM)Jon Wrote: I think it might also be useful to have some more information about the World Cup itself. I don't know if the flyer is out or whatnot but most people would need to know things like approx total player costs, length of tournament (to book off), when its being held, game formats etc. Maybe just a link posted would do the trick I don't know. The costs would be nice to know though for sure, I know that wouldn't be posted anywhere but a simple rundown from former team members would be great!
Dates haven't been set yet, but expect early January. If you'd like more of an idea of the format, check out http://canadafoosball.ca , or the ITSF website. The "length" of the tournament depends on whether you're doing National Championships, World Cup, or both. In total, they run about 4 days. I made it into a euro-vacation and went for 7 days.
As for costs, check out my reply to Sheldon in the comments here: http://canadafoosball.wordpress.com/2012/04/26/method-of-selection-for-2013-world-cup-team/#comment-78