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2013 World Baseball Classic – Qualifier 2
Qualifier 2 of the 2013 World Baseball Classic – Qualification, Qualifying Round of the 2013 World Baseball Classic was held at Armin-Wolf-Arena, Regensburg, Germany from September 20 to 24, 2012. Qualifier 2 was a Double-elimination tournament, modified double-elimination tournament. The winners for the first games matched up in the second game, while the losers faced each other in an elimination game. The winners of the elimination game then played the losers of the non-elimination game in another elimination game. The remaining two teams then played each other to determine the winners of the Qualifier 2. Bracket Results *All times are Central European Summer Time (UTC+02:00). Canada 11, Great Britain 1 Germany 16, Czech Republic 1 Great Britain 12, Czech Republic 5 Canada 16, Germany 7 Germany 16, Great Britain 1 Canada 11, Germany 1 External linksOfficial website {{DEFAULTSORT:2013 World Baseball Classic - Qualifier 2 2013 World Baseball Classic – Qualifi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2013 World Baseball Classic – Qualification
The Qualifying Round of the 2013 World Baseball Classic was held from September 19 to November 19, 2012. Although the 2006 and 2009 editions of the World Baseball Classic were contested by the same pre-selected field of 16 teams, for the 2013 tournament only the 12 teams that won at least one game in 2009 were guaranteed a berth in the main tournament. The other four (Canada, Chinese Taipei, Panama, and South Africa) contested the qualifying round along with 12 additional teams invited by the International Baseball Federation (IBAF). The qualifiers were organized as four independent modified double-elimination tournaments featuring four teams each. The final game was winner-take-all, even if won by the team emerging from the loser's bracket. That is, the team emerging from the winner's bracket might be eliminated despite losing only one game (as, in fact, happened to Israel in Qualifier 1). Canada and Chinese Taipei dominated in Qualifiers 2 and 4 to advance easily. In Qualif ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |