2015 Dominion Team World Cup

2015 Dominion Team World Cup

Tournament details
Forum thread	Results thread
Dates	2 January 2015 - 15 March 2015
Players	42 (10 teams)
Organizer	Qvist
Final positions
Champion	Netherlands (2nd title)
Runner-up	Japan B

The 2015 Dominion Team World Cup was a online team tournament. It was the second installment of the Dominion Team World Cup. The tournament, run by Qvist began on the 2nd of January 2015 and finished on 15 March 2015. The Netherlands were the defending title holders. 47 players, divided into 10 teams, entered the competition. The final was played between The Netherlands and Japan B. The Netherlands won the match 3.5 to 0.5.

Format

The 10 participating teams are divided into 2 groups of 5 teams. In each group, every team plays against every other team once. The individual matches are 1-1, 2-2, 3-3 and 4-4. Every match consists of 6 games. To mitigate first player advantage both players have to go first three times. A win is worth 1 point, and a tie 0.5. A loss does not give any points. The player with more points after 6 games wins the match. If both have 3 points, the match is a draw. A win adds 1 point to the team result, a tie 0.5. After every team has played against every other team in its group, the best two teams from both groups will advance to the play-offs. If these play-offs result in a tie, the following tie-breakers will be applied:

1. The team with the most game points from individual matches advances
2. If the match is still tied, the team leaders play a sudden death-match. This match follows the starting pattern A-B-B-A-A, and the first player to 3 games wins.

Sign-ups

The sign-ups had players sign up with their respective country. Once a country had at least four players, that country was eligible to compete in the main tournaments. As both Japan and the United States had a great surplus of players, both received a place for two teams in the tournament.

One nation did not participate in the 2013 edition, Russia. Three countries that did participate did not reach the threshold this year, Australia, Canada and Sweden. Belgium did not compete with France, as France had four players of its own.

List of qualified teams

The following teams, shown in order of seeding, qualified for the tournament:

Japan A The Netherlands United Kingdom Germany Japan B United States A Finland France Russia United States B

Players

This list only includes players who actually played at least one match.

Country Player Isotropish rank JPNA hiroki 5 JPNA Rene Kuroi 12 JPNA yuuna_tu 32 JPNA moharimo 34 NLD Stef 2 NLD SheCantSayNo 21 NLD florrat 31 NLD Victor Savenije 353 NLD Hugovj 1819 GBR DG 4 GBR Rabid 22 GBR qmech 52 GBR Joseph2302 1273 GER Silverspawn 19

Country Player Isotropish rank GER RTT 39 GER Qvist 48 GER Psyduck 80 GER Assemble Meme 292 JPNB yudai 36 JPNB YOSHIBALL 57 JPNB nnn 89 JPNB kassy 132 USAA Mic Qsenoch 1 USAA theblankman 60 USAA AdamH 74 USAA A Drowned Kernel 88 FIN Awaclus 62 FIN Jean-Michel 78

Country Player Isotropish rank FIN Eevee 103 FIN Julle 847 FRA Monsieur X 16 FRA gamesou 68 FRA HarryPeteur 215 FRA Emeric 218 RUS Burning Skull 162 RUS ROGAVKA 867 RUS EgorK 1154 RUS LaLight 1294 USAB Warrior 144 USAB andwilk 168 USAB NickSorbello 2026 USAB Dornith 3333

Results

In the following tables: Pld = Matches played MP = Match Points GPF = Game points scored (points for) GPA = Game points conceded (points against)

Red: Group Stage, Blue: Semi-finals, Silver: Second Place, Gold: Champion

Group Stage

Main article: 2015 Dominion Team World Cup group stage

Key to colours in table
Team progressed to the Play-Off stage

Group A

Rank Team Pld MP GPF GPA 1 United States A 4 14 70.5 25.5 2 Japan A 4 10.5 59.5 36.5 3 Germany 4 6.5 44 52 4 Finland 4 6.5 34.5 61.5 5 Russia 4 2.5 31.5 64.5

Finland — 1.5–2.5 1.5–2.5 3–1 0.5–3.5 Germany 2.5–1.5 — 1.5–2.5 2.5–1.5 0–4 Japan A 2.5–1.5 2.5–1.5 — 4–0 1.5–2.5 Russia 1–3 1.5–2.5 0–4 — 0–4 United States A 3.5–0.5 4–0 2.5–1.5 4–0 —

Group B

Rank Player Pld MP GPF GPA 1 Japan B 4 11 56.5 39.5 2 Netherlands 4 10.5 54.9 41.1 3 United Kingdom 4 9 53.6 42.4 4 United States B 4 5 36 60 5 France 4 4.5 39 57

France — 0–4 1.5–2.5 1.5–2.5 1.5–2.5 Japan B 4–0 — 3–1 2–2 2–2 Netherlands 2.5–1.5 1–3 — 3.5–0.5 3.5–0.5 United Kingdom 2.5–1.5 2–2 0.5–3.5 — 4–0 United States B 2.5–1.5 2–2 0.5–3.5 0–4 —

Play-Off Stage

	Semi-finals				Final
	United States A	1.5
	Netherlands	2.5
					Netherlands	3.5
					Japan B	0.5
	Japan A	2
	Japan B (r)	2

Semi-finals

United States A 1.5–2.5 Netherlands Mic Qsenoch 3–3 Stef Adam Horton 2–4 SheCantSayNo liopoil 2–4 florrat dudeabides 4–2 Victor Savenije

Japan A 2–2 Japan B hiroki 3–3 yudai214 Rene Kuroi 2–4 YOSHIBALL yuuna_tu 3–3 nnn moharimo 4–2 kassy Tiebreaker Replay hiroki 2–3 yudai214

Final

Netherlands	3.5–0.5	Japan B
Stef	4–2	yudai214
SheCantSayNo	3–3	YOSHIBALL
florrat	4–2	nnn
Victor Savenije	3.5–2.5	kassy