2020 Dominion Team World Cup

2020 Dominion Team World Cup

Tournament details
Forum thread	Results thread
Dates	14 January 2020 - 7 March 2020
Players	16 teams
Organizer	alibby1152, amoffett11, Cave-o-sapien, truffles
Final positions
Champion	Germany A (1st title)
Runner-up	Canada A
Third place	United States B
Fourth place	Japan

The 2020 Dominion Team World Cup was an online team tournament. It was the third installment of the Dominion Team World Cup. The tournament, run by amoffett11, began on the 14th of January 2020 and finished on 7 March 2020. The United States was the defending title holders. 16 teams entered the competition. The final was played between Germany A and Canada, with Germany winning 2.5-1.5

Format

The 12 participating teams are divided into 4 groups of 3 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 best-of-5 match.

Sign-ups

The sign-ups had players sign up with their respective country. A player could sign up for their country of origin or their country of residence. Once a country had at least four players, that country was eligible to compete in the main tournaments. Extra players could be used as reserves, and with enough extra players split into a B team for that country. In some cases, countries without enough players to form a full team were merged into regional teams, as was the case for Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Scandinavia, and Oceania.

Israel and Greece competed in the World Cup for the first time. Japan returned to the World Cup after being absent for the 2018 World Cup. The Netherlands failed to field a team for the first time.

List of qualified teams

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

Germany A United States A Canada A United States B Japan United Kingdom France Eastern Europe

Greece Germany B Canada B Oceania Israel Western Europe Russia Scandinavia

Results

In the following tables: MP = Match Points GW = Games Won

Group Stage

The games in the group stage were played from January 22nd until February 11th. The teams were ranked based on their match points (one point per match won by individual players). In case of a tie, the number of game points (one point per game won by individual players) was used as tiebreaker.

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

Group A

Rank	Team	MP	GW
1	United States A	9.5	46.5
2	France	8	44.5
3	Israel	4	28
4	Germany B	2.5	23

Group B

Rank	Team	MP	GW
1	United States B	9.5	50
2	Japan	9	50
3	Greece	3	22.5
4	Western Europe	2.5	21.5

Group C

Rank	Team	MP	GW
1	Canada A	10	51
2	Eastern Europe	8	44
3	Oceania	4.5	31
4	Scandinavia	1.5	18

Group D

Rank	Team	MP	GW
1	Germany A	10.5	56
2	United Kingdom	6	36
3	Russia	5	32
3	Canada B	2.5	20

Play-Off Stage

Quarter-Finals

United States A 0.5-2.5 Japan nasmith99 3-3 sillypotter Mic Qsenoch 2-4 cha-shu Bryan 0-0* yudai214 elementmario222 2-4 kazumaru0828

Canada A 3-0 United Kingdom kaplane 4-2 Rabid xyrix 5-1 heth truffles 0-0* pppppppppp amoffett11 4-2 Gazbag

United States B 2-2 France aku chi 4-2 Marin Lemonspawn 2-4 gamesou rsilverstein12 3-3 bouchon La-Ya 3-3 Emeric Tiebreaker Match aku chi 3-1 Marin

Germany A 2.5-0.5 Eastern Europe Freaky 0-0* markus RTT 3-3 Jean-Michel E.Honda 6-0 awaclus Sicomatic 6-0 Magyi

Semi-Finals

Canada A 2.5-0.5 Japan kaplane 0-0* sillypotter xyrix 4-2 cha-shu truffles 4-2 yudai214 amoffett11 3-3 kazumaru0828

Germany A 2-2 United States B Freaky 1-5 aku chi RTT 5-1 Lemonspawn E.Honda 5-1 rsilverstein12 Sicomatic 2-4 La-Ya

Consolation Final

Japan 1.5-2.5 United States B pop180 3-3 aku chi cha-shu 5-1 Lemonspawn yudai214 2.5-3.5 La-Ya kazumaru0828 2-4 bluey_the_bear Finals Germany A 2.5-1.5 Canada A RTT 6-0 kaplane E.Honda 3-3 xyrix Sicomatic 2-4 truffles drsteelhammer 5-1 amoffet11