Sunday, February 7, 2016
1st European Winter Games: Results and Bulletins
This new competition was created and added to the EBL calendar to allow all players coming from around the world to participate during the even-numbered years in a team competition different from the one organised in the odd-numbered years at the EBL Open European Championships. The location is prestigious in the Principality of Monaco. In the first three days of play the 51 participating teams finished playing the qualifying stage of the ZIMMERMANN CUP.
These are the 16 teams that qualified for the knockout stage:
Zimmermann Cup KP Stage:
The top 16, that advanced to the knock out rounds, will be playing matchs of 60 boards played in three sets of 20. Teams that fail to qualify for the knock outs can compete in the BAM (FMB BAM TROPHY), as can those who are defeated in the Rounds of 16 and 8.
The BAM will consist of a Qualification stage Monday (32 boards start 14:00) and Tuesday (48 boards start 10:00), followed by Finals A and B on Wednesday and Thursday (starting 10:00 both days). On Tuesday the 8 losing teams from the Round of 16 will be added to the qualification, with a carry-over placing them in a shared 16th position. The top 20 teams, plus the 4 losing teams from the Quarter-finals, will qualify for Final A, the others for Final B. There will be a linear carry-over from the Qualification into the Finals starting at 6 points (out of a maximum obtainable 184) for the 1st placed team down to 0 points for the last. The 4 drop-ins from the Quarter-finals will enter Final A in a shared 3rd position