World Club Championship

information for participants

Thank you for your participation at the World Club Championship at table hockey held on 1st May 2010 at Tipsport arena, , . This document should bring you all necessary information about this special event. Information can be found also at tournament’s web page www.stigaliberec.cz.

Schedule of the WCC – 1st May 2010

7:30 doors opening

7:45 – 8:30 registration of clubs

9:00 opening ceremony

9:20 – 12:40 basic groups – 1st part

12:40 – 14:10 lunch break

14:10 – 15:30 basic groups – 2nd part

15:50 – 17:50 final groups

18:10 – 21:00 play-off

21:15 closing ceremony, awarding of winners

List of Registered Clubs

Up to 28th April, sorted by seeding coefficient

# Seed 16. HC Benátky 745 Coef 17. E.T.H.L. Milovice 751 1. BJC Laimite 17 18. Fremad Eagles 941 2. RTHF UT 43 19. BSE České Budějovice 1050 3. THC Stiga Elites 68 20. SHC Cheb 1114 4. Incukalns THC 105 21. KAMAX Kamenný Újezdec 1232 5. Umea HSS 148 22. THC Stiga Svitavy 93 „B“ 1447 6. Gladiators Plzeň 191 23. Stiga HC Benátky „B“ 1565 7. Stiga Big Band Praha 262 24. THC Javorové Listy Teplýšovice 2550 8. THC Lisovi Haschi 270 25. KPH Bufet Bratislava 4210 9. THC Stiga Svitavy 93 300 26. KAMAX Kamenný Újezdec „B“ - 10. Quick Bee stiga hokej Třinec 317 27. Veterans Český Dub - 11. THC Blue Dragon Košice 329 28. 12. Absolut Desperation 331 29. 13. HSC Žabka Praha 340 30. 14. Orczy-Bazis Klub 421 31. 15. SHK Kit Zagreb 463 32. Another clubs can register to the WCC until there is 32 participants. Therefore seeding of clubs can be changed!

Registration fee is 1 000 CZK (40 Euro) per club and it must be paid on the day of tournament during the registration. Every club must also confirm during the registration that nothing changed at registered squad list!

Squad Lists of Registered Clubs

BJC Laimite (, )

Squad List: Edgars Caics (4.), Atis Silis (6.), Yanis Galuzo (7.), Raivis Pukinskis (18.), Arturs Vercins (88.)

Seeding Coefficient: 17

Seeding: 1

RTHF UT (, )

Squad List: Ivan Zaharov (5.), Alexey Zaharov (9.), Alexey Titov (29.), Dmitriy Petrov (38.) Seeding Coefficient: 43

Seeding: 2

THC Stiga Elites (Liberec, Czech Republic)

Squad List: Petr Tměj (3.), Michal Hviţď (13.), Jakub Sládek (52.) Ladislav Tměj (72.), Miloš Ševr (127.), Jan Suchý (372.), Antonín Šrajer (934.)

Seeding Coefficient: 68

Seeding: 3

Incukalns THC (Incukalns, Latvia)

Squad List: Edgars Saulitis (19.), Matiss Saulitis (41.), Karlis Balodis (45.), Mikus Saulitis (53.)

Seeding Coefficient: 105

Seeding: 4

Umea HSS (Umea, )

Squad List: Pontus Eriksson (20.), Peter Ostlund (49.), Lars-Erik Svensson (79.), Herman Steen (83.), Niclas Hansen (-)

Seeding Coefficient: 148

Seeding: 5

Gladiators Plzeň (Plzeň, Czech Republic)

Squad List: Bjarne Axelsen (40.), Pavel Plešák (66.), Václav Pikl (85.), Martin Ţeníšek (137.), Jan Kubernát (365.), Hynek Nechutný (430.), Lukáš Jílek (540.), Václav Hebr (1659.)

Seeding Coefficient: 191

Seeding: 6

Stiga Big Band Praha (Praha, Czech Republic)

Squad List: Jan Dryák (24.), Kryštof Lebl (107.), Antonín Šurýn (131.), Dušan Krása (178.), Adam Zielinský (216.), Stanislav Suchý (262.), Petr Šurýn (805.)

Seeding Coefficient: 262

Seeding: 7

THC Lisovi Haschi (Kyiv, )

Squad List: Yevhen Levdansky (31.), Mykhaylo Spivakovskyy (58.), Viktor Levdansky (181.), Yevhen Rykun (183.), Oleksandr Martynenko (401.)

Seeding Coefficient: 270

Seeding: 8

THC Stiga Svitavy 93 (Svitavy, Czech Republic)

Squad List: David Šmíd (36.), Michal Zunka (102.), Karel Konečný (162.), David Brdíček (210.), Robert Jeţ (265.)

Seeding Coefficient: 300

Seeding: 9

Quick Bee stiga hokej Třinec (Třinec, Czech Republic)

Squad List: Lukáš Turoň (12.), Petr Turoň (93.), David Cibulka (212.), Tomáš Waclawek (275.), Jan Cienciala (342.) Seeding Coefficient: 317

Seeding: 10

THC Blue Dragon Košice (Košice, )

Squad List: Imrich Blaško (89.), Tomáš Hudec (117.), Tomáš Zamutovský (123.), Jaroslav Petrek (188.), Michal Pancák (362.), Daniel Mitro (481.), Lukáš Sabač (634.)

Seeding Coefficient: 329

Seeding: 11

Absolut Desperation (Pardubice, Czech Republic)

Squad List: Stanislav Kraus (82.), Matěj Leţík (121.), Marek Lisý (128.), Tomáš Lahučký (151.), Vladimír Kraus (185.), Zbyněk Pilař (197.), Radek Matouš (334.)

Seeding Coefficient: 331

Seeding: 12

HSC Žabka Praha (Praha, Czech Republic)

Squad List: Zdeněk Matoušek ml. (30.), Daniel Matýsek (138.), Miroslav Černoch (172.), Zdeněk Matoušek st. (224.), Filip Hamáček (244.), Luděk Příhoda (315.), Aleš Fiala (339.), Josef Jelínek (382.)

Seeding Coefficient: 340

Seeding: 13

Orczy-Bazis Klub (, )

Squad List: Gergely Regula (92.), Magor Papp (154.), Zoltan Cserhati (175.), Barnabas Parkanszki (186.), Laszlo Altmann (235.), Balint Nagy (257.), Tamas Molnar (332.)

Seeding Coefficient: 421

Seeding: 14

SHK Kit Zagreb (Zagreb, Croatia)

Squad List: Kristijan Curkovic (55.), Bernard Rjavec (110.), Vjekoslav Kufrin (298.), Marko Curkovic (309.), Tomislav Jelicic (1733.)

Seeding Coefficient: 463

Seeding: 15

Stiga HC Benátky (Litomyšl, Czech Republic)

Squad List: Patrik Petr (156.), Zdeněk Lopaur (200), Michal Boštík (389.), Kryštof Herold (519.) Seeding Coefficient: 745

Seeding: 16

E.T.H.L. Milovice (Milovice, Czech Republic)

Squad List: Aleš Kraus (218.), Libor Grabec (233.), Josef Kraus (300.), Tereza Krausová (446.), Jan Baščan (-), Pavel Baščan (-)

Seeding Coefficient: 751

Seeding: 17

Fremad Eagles (Bronderslev, )

Squad List: Kirill Storchak (253.), Anette Engel (270.), Michael Toft Nielsen (418.), Rolf Locher (451.), Claudio Brandellero (558.)

Seeding Coefficient: 941

Seeding: 18

BSE České Budějovice (České Budějovice, Czech Republic)

Squad List: Marie Vargová (247.), Lukáš Paclík (337.), Aneta Jackowská (466.), Aneţka Vargová (542.), Martin Kouba (567.), František Marek (607.)

Seeding Coefficient: 1050

Seeding: 19

SHC Cheb (Cheb, Czech Republic)

Squad List: Miloslav Kubica (219.), Jiří Vácha (269.), Iva Mašková (626.), Daniel Hrachovec (949.), Lukáš Toman (1083.)

Seeding Coefficient: 1114

Seeding: 20

KAMAX Kamenný Újezdec (Kamenný Újezdec, Czech Republic)

Squad List: Tomáš Behr (214.), Šimon Janoušek (437.), Josef Veselý (581.), Matěj Štědronský (845.), Adam Vejvoda (916.)

Seeding Coefficient: 1232

Seeding: 21

THC Stiga Svitavy 93 „B“ (Svitavy, Czech Republic)

Squad List: Radim Nevrlík (312.), Jakub Bauer (523.), Daniel Elisek (612.), David Šmíd ml. (3203.)

Seeding Coefficient: 1447

Seeding: 22

Stiga HC Benátky „B“ (Litomyšl, Czech Republic)

Squad List: Tomáš Halama (461.), Ivan Halama (487.), Jindřich Petr (617.), Kamil Vyroubal (1141.), Milan Zeman (1163.)

Seeding Coefficient: 1565

Seeding: 23

THC Javorové Listy Teplýšovice (Teplýšovice, Czech Republic)

Squad List: Pavel Pohořalý (420.), Tomáš Kamenský (1051.), Vojtěch Goby (1079.), Daniel Síbrt (1116.), Vlasta Gobyová (1214.), Pavel Goby (1561.)

Seeding Coefficient: 2550

Seeding: 24

KPH Bufet Bratislava (Bratislava, Slovakia)

Squad List: Štefan Ivan (729.), Iveta Okálová (1567.), Miroslav Mokroš (1914.), Zuzana Hrušovská (2311.)

Seeding Coefficient: 4210

Seeding: 25

KAMAX Kamenný Újezdec „B“ (Kamenný Újezdec, Czech Republic)

Squad List: Lucie Vokounová (1474.), Tomáš Pešek (-), Václav Bělohlávek (-), Martin Kulhavý (-) Seeding Coefficient: -

Seeding: 26

Veterans Český Dub (Český Dub, Czech Republic)

Squad List: Martin Drapák (-), Roman Tvrzník (-), Dušan Novosád (-), Jan Goll (-), Jan Havlík (- ), Ladislav Havlík (-)

Seeding Coefficient: -

Seeding: 27

Behind every name there is a player’s world rank valid up to 1st March 2010. Seeding coefficient of club is a sum of world rank of three best players from the squad list.

Tournament Rules

Seeding of clubs is set by seeding coefficient, which is a sum of world rank (valid on 1st March) of three best players from the team’s squad list. If several clubs have the same seeding coefficient then it is decided about their seeding by world ranking of the best player from the team’s squad list. Clubs are distributed into four basic groups by a „snake system“ as it is shown at following tables.

Group A Group B Group C Group D T1 T2 T3 T4 T8 T7 T6 T5 T9 T10 T11 T12 T16 T15 T14 T13 T17 T18 T19 T20 T24 T23 T22 T21 T25 T26 T27 T28 T32 T31 T30 T29

If there is any change of registered squad lists, distribution of clubs into basic groups will be done again. No club can change its squad list after the end of registration in the morning before the tournament. Four players are nominated into every game from each club. They play against all four opponent’s team members once – it means that 16 matches are played during each team match. Any nominated player can be substituted by any substitues during a team match. Only one thing is forbidden – any player cannot play against the same opponent more than once during the same team match. Particular matches can end with a tie, there are no overtimes even in play-off matches. In case of overall tie in the end of some play-off match, additional captain’s match will be held. If there is a tie in the end of the captain‘s match, overtime will be held. If there are only three members of a club prepared for some round of a team match, the fourth match will be lost by forfeit. If there are only two or less members of a club prepared to play, all four matches will be lost by forfeit. If organizers do not select tables, where should be any team match held, selection of games can be done by „home team“. „Away team“ can always select side where all its players will play all four matches. Players from the „home team“ do not change games during the whole team match. Selection of players who will play next round of a team match is done by „home team“ first. Nomination of home team’s players cannot be changed after away team’s line-up is written on the match protocol. Selection of „home“ and „away“ teams during group stage is done by the organizers – all teams should be marked as „home“ and „away“ the same (if possible) number of times. Placement in the final group is used to select „home“ team for play-off and placement matches. If placement in the final group is the same, than seeding into the tournament is used instead - better placed, or seeded team is called „home“. One point is awarded for a win, no point is awarded for a draw to team score from particular team match. Overall team match win is awarded by two points and draw by one point to the group table. Distribution of Registered Clubs into Basic Groups

Basic groups can be changed (for example if any squad list will be changed…)!

Group A Group B BJC Laimite RTHF UT THC Lisovi Haschi Stiga Big Band Praha THC Stiga Svitavy 93 Quick Bee stiga hokej Třinec Stiga HC Benátky SHK Kit Zagreb E.T.H.L. Milovice Fremad Eagles THC Javorové Listy Teplýšovice Stiga HC Benátky „B“ KPH Bufet Bratislava KAMAX Kamenný Újezdec „B“ T32 T31

Group C Group D THC Stiga Elites Incukalns THC Gladiators Plzeň Umea HSS THC Blue Dragon Košice Absolut Desperation Orczy-Bazis Klub HSC Ţabka Praha BSE České Budějovice SHC Cheb THC Stiga Svitavy 93 „B“ KAMAX Kamenný Újezdec Veterans Český Dub T28 T30 T29

Playing System

Clubs will play each other once in basic groups A, B, C and D. The best three clubs from each basic group will promote to two final groups E and F. Group E will consist of three best clubs from basic groups A and D and in group F there will be the best three clubs from groups C and B. Results of mutual matches held in basic groups will be counted also to the final groups - therefore every club will play only three more matches in final group.

Clubs which will be placed on fourth and lower places in basic groups will play in placement groups - in one group there will be all fourth placed clubs, in another all fifth placed clubs etc. The lowest group will contain at least 3 and at max 6 clubs.

Basic Groups

Promotion Rank Group A Group D Group B Group C 1. Final groups 2. 3. Group for 13th place 4. Group for 17th place 5. Group for 21st place 6. Group for 25th place 7. Group for 29th place 8.

Final Groups

Promotion Rank Group E (A + D) Group F (B + C) Final play-off 1. 2. 3. 4. Match for 9th place 5. Match for 11th place 6.

Best four clubs from each final group will qualify to the quarterfinal which will be played by system shown at the following schema. Clubs which will be eliminated in the quartefinal will not play for their final placement – it will be decided by placement at final groups (teams with the same placement will be ordered first by number of points, second by score from the final group; if it cannot be decided by this way than seeding to the tournament will be used). There will be a bronze medal game for teams eliminated in the semifinal.

Final Play-off

E1 F1

F4 E4

E3 F3

F2 E2

Teams which will finish at final group at fifth (sixth) place will play placement match for 9th (11th) place against the same placed team from the second final group.

Committee of Referees for the World Club Championship Vladimír Kraus (Czech Republic) Bjarne Axelsen (Denmark) Magor Papp (Hungary) Substitutes Rolf Locher () Miloslav Kubica (Czech Republic)

All registered clubs will be informed if anything described at this document have to be changed.

Czech Table Hockey Federation together with all organizers wish you a good luck and pleasant stay at Liberec!

Tournament webpage: www.stigaliberec.cz Czech TH Federation: www.stolnihokej.cz International TH Federation: www.ithf.info