World Grand Prix 2012

Quote from Joana

It's always a problem with Grand Prix, the pools are extremely imbalanced and even more so when some teams decide to tank or play with weaker squads.
The whole system needs to be thoroughly revised, but knowing FIVB, it's not going to happen.

One idea would be to make drawing of lots for pools according to world ranking. There would be 4 groups according to world ranking:

Best 4: USA, BRA, JPN, ITA,
Next 4: CHN, SRB, GER, DOM
Next 4: CUB, TUR, THA, KOR,
Worst 4: POL, ARG, PUR, TPE

Then, in every pool of WGP would be one team from each of these groups, and there should be a rule that teams can meet each other max. twice during preliminaries. Even though this system wouldn't be perfect either, there would at least be some limitations. For example a pool like we had this year with BRA, USA, ITA, GER would not be possible, and it would be guaranteed that there is some balance and a team like THA could not play 4 times against teams from the worst group. Of course, some countries sending their B teams would cause problems for this system as well, because for example POL would be in the worst group from world ranking but they are definitely better than DOM's current team. But then, there is no perfect system for everything...

Bednarek with 13 blocks... Isn't it new record? Wow...I just can say Wow..

Quote from terry

Believe it or not, it's true, we'll see in the next two days

Yeah, looks like brazilian tv also confirmed would be in Round-Robin!!! but men, If that happen FIVB will be really desorganize, to annouce one thing and chance ust few days of the final phase!

something more about german team i guess they miss angelina grün in wgp too much... especially in the important and hard matches like with usa and brazil , germans couldnt take crucial points so they couldnt win if grün had been there evrything could be more different
u know if germans had taken one match from brazil or usa they would be in finals

Quote from liuhao-CHN

statistics ：

China:

spike:FAN：31/7/4

Hui：42/12/11

Yang：6/3

Zeng：16/4/3

is so bad！

BRA：

spike：

sheilla：29/8/2

Fernandan：19/9/4

Jaqueline：20/10/1

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http://www.fivb.org/vis_web/volley/WGP2012/pdf/P3-066.pdf

Quote from Matthias

One idea would be to make drawing of lots for pools according to world ranking. There would be 4 groups according to world ranking:

Best 4: USA, BRA, JPN, ITA,
Next 4: CHN, SRB, GER, DOM
Next 4: CUB, TUR, THA, KOR,
Worst 4: POL, ARG, PUR, TPE

Then, in every pool of WGP would be one team from each of these groups, and there should be a rule that teams can meet each other max. twice during preliminaries. Even though this system wouldn't be perfect either, there would at least be some limitations. For example a pool like we had this year with BRA, USA, ITA, GER would not be possible, and it would be guaranteed that there is some balance and a team like THA could not play 4 times against teams from the worst group. Of course, some countries sending their B teams would cause problems for this system as well, because for example POL would be in the worst group from world ranking but they are definitely better than DOM's current team. But then, there is no perfect system for everything...

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the drawing for FIVB world grand prix is just ridiculous , nobody knows how to draw the groups, we only know the host of each will not face each other in a week

Well on the FIVB page theres still info about two groups so if it really turns out to be Round robin system its going to be just ridiculous
Though i would prefer Round-Robin - more games

Quote from joanamss

Yeah, looks like brazilian tv also confirmed would be in Round-Robin!!! but men, If that happen FIVB will be really desorganize, to annouce one thing and chance ust few days of the final phase!

I heard the same, at first they said it will be divide into two groups, and then changed ( we don't know why ), until few days ago, some of my friends bought the tickets for final in Ningbo, They said each day has three matches, so everything is clear

Quote from turrican

Well on the FIVB page theres still info about two groups so if it really turns out to be Round robin system its going to be just ridiculous
Though i would prefer Round-Robin - more games

Where ?? Can you give me link ??

I saw on Media Guide in WGP 2012 page , it is said that they will be played in a round-robin format.

I hope both Rondon and Signorile won't be playing in NT anymore. It seems to be a big mistake that I said Italy has a lot of talented setters. Italy simply can't play a balanced volleyball with such setters like them. Only Leo Lo bianco and Francy Ferretti are outstanding, others are not yet. Rondon is just terrible and Poland had a big advantage in block today. It's rather funny Poland lost this match even though Rondon helped Poland a lot...

Quote from Roddick

Where ?? Can you give me link ??

I saw on Media Guide in WGP 2012 page , it is said that they will be played in a round-robin format.

http://www.fivb.org/EN/volleyb…randPrix/2012/formula.asp

http://www.fivb.org/EN/volleyb…2_Media_guide/#/36/zoomed

But here it says that will be round-robin format.
Haha, FIVB is a big mess.

Quote from emil_niklas

I hope both Rondon and Signorile won't be playing in NT anymore. It seems to be a big mistake that I said Italy has a lot of talented setters. Italy simply can't play a balanced volleyball with such setters like them. Only Leo Lo bianco and Francy Ferretti are outstanding, others are not yet. Rondon is just terrible and Poland had a big advantage in block today. It's rather funny Poland lost this match even though Rondon helped Poland a lot...

thanks to camera singnorile and rondon...many teams could improve their block...
however,we also could not blame them,first...terrible reception,second...they are no enough experiences,third...they had little time to play with MB in training.
sooooo relax...

this one is really good
[size=x-small]Italy
coach Marco Bacci: "Congratulations to Poland because they are going to
the WGP finals. It was very difficult to play against Poland in this
match today, but my girls became more determined to win after losing the
first two sets, so finally we won the match."[/size]

[size=x-small]Italy captain Serena Ortolani: "I'm so happy that we could win today, and congratulations to Poland on the WGP finals."[/size]
F6 mystery continues

I won't be suprise if Turkey wins Grand Prix.
I will be suprise if Brazil or China wins.

Quote from turrican

this one is really good
Italy
coach Marco Bacci: "Congratulations to Poland because they are going to
the WGP finals. It was very difficult to play against Poland in this
match today, but my girls became more determined to win after losing the
first two sets, so finally we won the match."

Italy captain Serena Ortolani: "I'm so happy that we could win today, and congratulations to Poland on the WGP finals."
F6 mystery continues

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omg what? are they in finals ?

I think only few top FIVB executives know for sure

Quote from turrican

I think only few top FIVB executives know for sure

so playing well or fighting hard for mathces is not worth.. if u want to be in finals just get on well wth fivb or pay them

Quote from akiyaLai

yeah

update :

Deutschland über Türkei (24.06.12) also.

Quote from turrican

Congratulations to Poland because they are going to
the WGP finals

It doesn't matter, now in Poland We have on every portal amazing new- Divers found an UFO on the Baltic seabed. I'm only curious from what this article want to distract attention, probably from Poland's fall in Euro.