European Championship 2017 Azerbaijan&Georgia

Drawing of Lots ceremony will take place in Baku today. The event will be streamed live on CEV's youtube channel from 15:00 CET.

I'm surprised it won't be broadcasted by laola1.tv According to Polsat Sport News schedule (that channel will broadcast DoL ceremony in Poland) this event will start at 3 PM and end at 5 PM

Quote from Phil

According to Polsat Sport News schedule (that channel will broadcast DoL ceremony in Poland) this event will start at 3 PM and end at 5 PM

Yeah, saw that too. Let me guess ceremony schedule: 15-16:55 - musical/artistic/VIP/whatever "entertainment", 16:56-17:00- DOL

Quote from estranged

15-16:55 - musical/artistic/VIP/whatever "entertainment",

You're probably right. I see it's rather whatever entertainment

Pool A – Baku (Azerbaijan)
Azerbaijan
Germany
Poland
Hungary

Pool B – Tbilisi (Georgia)
Georgia
Italy
Croatia
Belarus

Pool C – Baku (Azerbaijan)
Russia
Turkey
Bulgaria
Ukraine

Pool D - Ganja – Göygöl (Azerbaijan)
Serbia
Netherlands
Belgium
Czech Republic

Pool D is balanced. Pool A is probably the weakest group. I predict Hungary and Georgia will be out. Ukraine might fight but they probably will be eliminated as well.

Pool D will be very tough

Though right now predictions are very difficult because in the post-Olympic year many teams are going through a lot of changes.

Cev announced the schedule and it looks really weird and it is unfair for some teams.

Frauke Dirickx retired from NT or She is still playing ??

If I remember right Frauke has retired from volleyball.

Just copy & paste from the Emil's posts at the Prediction Game thread - to float this dormant thread. Thx Emil fyi

This is NOT a prediction game info, just copy-paste the schedule, pool & roster info please kindly update the tournament info here.

2017 CEV Volleyball European Championship - Women
Official Website: http://www.cev.lu/Competition-…tion.aspx?ID=841&PID=1538

Wki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/…n_Volleyball_Championship

The 2017 Women's European Volleyball Championship will be the 30th edition of the European Volleyball Championship, organised by Europe's governing volleyball body, the Confédération Européenne de Volleyball. The tournament will be co-hosted by Azerbaijan and Georgia, taking place between 22 September and 1 October 2017.

Preliminary round

Day 1

POOL A - Baku (Azerbaijan)

Hungary - Azerbaijan
Poland - Germany

POOL B - Tbilisi (Georgia)

Italy - Georgia
Croatia - Belarus

POOL C - Baku (Azerbaijan)

Ukraine - Russia

POOL D - Ganja (Azerbaijan)

Serbia - Czech Republic
The Netherlands - Belgium

Day 2

POOL A - Baku (Azerbaijan)

Poland - Hungary

POOL B - Tbilisi (Georgia)

Georgia - Croatia
Italy - Belarus

POOL C - Baku (Azerbaijan)

Bulgaria - Ukraine
Turkey - Russia

POOL D - Ganja (Azerbaijan)

Czech Republic - Belgium
The Netherlands - Serbia

Day 3

POOL A - Baku (Azerbaijan)

Azerbaijan - Poland
Germany - Hungary

POOL B - Tbilisi (Georgia)

Georgia - Belarus
Croatia - Italy

POOL C - Baku (Azerbaijan)

Bulgaria - Turkey

POOL D - Ganja (Azerbaijan)

Belgium - Serbia
Czech Republic - The Netherlands

Day 4

POOL A - Baku (Azerbaijan)

Germany - Azerbaijan

POOL B - Tbilisi (Georgia)

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POOL C - Baku (Azerbaijan)

Russia - Bulgaria
Turkey - Ukraine

POOL D - Ganja (Azerbaijan)

Pools composition and the official roster
(Some are not official yet, It shall keep being updated every time each team announces their roster.)

Pool A

Azerbaijan
Hungary
Poland
Germany

Pool B

Italy

S : Orro, Cambi
OPP : Egonu, Sorokaite
MB : Bonifacio, Chirichella, Danesi, Folie
OH : C. Bosetti, L. Bosetti, Loda, Tirozzi
L : De Gennaro, Parrocchiale

Croatia
Georgia
Belarus

Pool C

Russia
Ukraine
Bulgaria
Turkey

Pool D

The Nethelrands
Belgium
Serbia
Czech Republic

Meh...What are you doing? A prediction game thread is divided, it doesn't belong to ECH thread itself.

I don't see any prediction game in his post (despite being copied by the prediction game post, as far as I understand): I see only the schedule and the rosters

German final roster:

S: Denise Hanke, Irina Kemmsies
OPP: Louisa Lippmann, Lena Stigrot (also OH)
OH: Maren Fromm, Jennifer Geerties, Jana Franziska Poll, Tanja Großer
MB: Marie Schölzel, Leonie Schwertmann, Jennifer Pettke, Lisa Gründing
L: Lenka Dürr, Anna Pogany

I guess this German NT can be 5th to 8th place in the competition, any one better or even a medal would surprise me. Despite a lot of injury issues of Serbian team, they are considered as one of the favorites together with Russia, Italy, Netherlands and Turkey.

Turkey final roster:

S: Naz Aydemir Akyol, Gamze Alikaya
OPP: Meryem Boz, Polen Uslupehlivan
OH: Gözde Kırdar Bracceschi, Neriman Özsoy Gençyürek, Güldeniz Önal, Hande Baladın (also OPP)
MB: Eda Erdem Dündar (Captain), Bahar Toksoy Guidetti, Kübra Çalışkan
L: Gizem Örge Güner, Simge Şebnem Aköz, Merve Dalbeler

3 liberos

Quote from Harrison

3 liberos

May be one will be used as second row OH?
I don't know if you can do that if you sign them as libero, though...

Polish roster:


Setters: Wołosz, Pleśnierowicz

Opps: Bociek, Smarzek

MBs: Efimienko, Tokarska, Kąkolewska

OHs: Polak, Grajber, Murek, Twardowska, Brzóska

Libero: Krzos, Witkowska

Quote from Kk15

May be one will be used as second row OH?
I don't know if you can do that if you sign them as libero, though...

You can put Guldeniz when you need someone to be replaced for receiving.

Yea I would have taken another MB since Bahar Toksoy/Guidetti is not in fom and not good enough at the moment and Kübra is not always reliable either. Should have taken best MB of the U23 Beyza. She is maybe not the best in attack but super strong in block and her serve can cause a lot of pressure on a lot of teams. She hit like 8 aces one set v DOM and even in the Turkish league vs VakifBank I remember she turned around a set aftr 24-21 down. All in all she surely better then Bahar and can even replace Kübra at times. I'm happy Hande is in the final roster though.

Simge seems useless to me especially since Güldeniz is already here like Umu11 mentioned.