Pachabo qualification
Hi all
Is the qualification process determined by the EBU or the county organisations?
This year my local county only had 6 teams enter a knock-out competition, from which the winning team will represent the county in the Pachabo cup and the runners up will enter a regional competition.
This is normally completed via a knock-out event, with any missing gaps filled with buys. The draw has been published, the competition started and the first round completed, however, it has since been suggested that a repercharge take place instead - with those losing teams competing against each other with the top 2 re-entering the competition.
Do we think that it would be appropriate to change the format at this stage?
It is far from ideal that the competition be so poorly supported and things will surely need to improve the legitimacy of it, but should this change be implemented now?
Comments
I think the time to change the format was when the entries were known, before any matches were played.
We're having the same problem with our county knock-out cup. We introduced a repercharge this year (with the agreement of all teams) but are probably going to try some form of double-elimination format next year.
We have a Multiple Teams Qualifier, with Plate and Final Multiple Teams on the same day
Then we play a KO for the semi-finals and finals
Seemed to put our numbers up to 14 or so teams
Peter Bushby Suffolk
In Gloucerstershire we have been running for many years now with a multiple teams qualifying and then knock-out. We've been commonly 10-12 teams although we did drop to eight teams a few times. The ranking in the qualifying round sorts out the seeding for the KO draw for us.