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| 10 Jan 2017 10:40 AM |
| Sadly, this is not a joke. |
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| 10 Jan 2017 10:41 AM |
Lmao.
Where did you get this from? |
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| 10 Jan 2017 10:43 AM |
| https://twitter.com/fifamedia/status/818753191449948160 |
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| 10 Jan 2017 10:43 AM |
just look up fifa and it shows up for at least 3 sites its news within the last few hours |
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| 10 Jan 2017 10:47 AM |
And knockouts are Round of 32.
Great job FIFA at making the group stage completely and utterly meaningless! |
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| 10 Jan 2017 10:48 AM |
| ### ## are they gonna do this? 2 games total doesn't seem enough for one team, so are they gonna have 4 games? Or something more weird. Also, there will be less competition in the group stages because 2 out of the 3 qualify. But it sounds like an interesting idea nonetheless. |
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| 10 Jan 2017 10:49 AM |
| *how are they going to do this? |
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| 10 Jan 2017 10:50 AM |
It's probably not as bad as it sounds tbh
Champions Hockey League had this and I thought it was okay. |
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| 10 Jan 2017 10:53 AM |
| a team could go 0-1-1 and make the knockout |
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| 10 Jan 2017 10:54 AM |
i think they also did it to not lengthen the tournament before you played a minimum of 3 games and could play a max of 7, soon you play a minimum of 2 and could play a max of 7 |
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| 10 Jan 2017 10:56 AM |
"Champions Hockey League had this and I thought it was okay."
Champions Hockey League group stage is home-and-away though so it's 4 games played for each team.
I don't see how it's good in the first place though. The group stage is 100% meaningless when only 3 teams are in any group because you often need only 1 win to get through.
That actually happened in the CHL this year in Group D and Group G. In the former, Lukko only won a single game in the groups out of 4 but advanced anyway. Same goes for Group G but for HIFK. |
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| 10 Jan 2017 11:02 AM |
The fact that Lukko actually won a game in continental competition in 2016-17...
rofl |
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| 10 Jan 2017 11:05 AM |
DISGRACE OF GIJON 2.0 HYPE
RIP Koolboy123, Oct. 1, 1992-Apr. 27, 2016 ʕ •ᴥ•ʔ |
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| 10 Jan 2017 11:06 AM |
Horrible decision to expand the World Cup
Makes the qualifying process very meaningless |
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| 10 Jan 2017 11:28 AM |
"Makes the qualifying process very meaningless"
and the entire group stage is meaningless because two thirds of the teams in the tournament will go to knockouts. |
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| 10 Jan 2017 11:31 AM |
| DISGRACE OF GIJON 2.0 HYPE x2 |
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