WJC history and results

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The WJC is an interesting tournament. I don’t think it receives the love it deserves but that could be the extremely high turnover. Most players will only play in one WJC and most GMs appear to only GM for one WJC also. This then means that most people will only pay attention to the one tournament then forget about it. This tied with the players can be made all over the world so there is no real sense of patriotism.

 

Now I am not here to solve the above, I honestly don’t really have any suggestions, but I am here to teach you about the tournament and to try and build some hype for it.

 

The S68 will be the 8^th instalment of this tournament with the season 55, 62-67 having a tournament. Each season the countries are awarded points for their performance and a leader board is kept to compare the different nations/continents/others. The scoring system is Gold = 50 points, Silver = 25 points, Bronze = 10 points, losing the bronze medal match = 5 and winning the wooden spoon = 3. There are also bonus points for the round robin with 2 points for a win 1 point for an overtime loss and ½ a point for a goal scored.

 

Now over the 7 seasons completed so far Canada has won 3 of these, these wins came in 3 consecutive seasons from s62-64. Europe has won the next most with 2 wins one in the inaugural competition, the next in S65. Then in the past two seasons we have had new victors with USA in S66 and World in S67.

 

When you input the point totals for placing it shows that Canada has been the most dominant with 210 points from 3 golds, 2 silvers and 2 fourth place finishes. Followed by Europe with 168 points from 2 Golds, 2 Silvers and finishing once in the remaining three spots. The remaining three teams are a bit of a drop from the top two with World on 108, USA on 86 and Asia on 79.

 

So, positioning wise for just the placement is:

 

1.       Canada

2.       Europe

3.       World

4.       USA

5.       Asia

 

Next, we look at the bonus points and surprise, surprise Canada is winning this also with 188 points not too far behind is Europe on 178.5 points. Now this is where the points don’t match the order from above with USA in third place with 139 points, Asia in 4^th on 135.5 points and World finishing last on 134.5 points.

 

This means the positions of the bonus points is:

 

1.       Canada

2.       Europe

3.       USA

4.       Asia

5.       World

 

So when all these points are put together we get the final leaderboard:

 

1.       Canada (398)

2.       Europe (346.5)

3.       World (242.5)

4.       USA (225)

5.       Asia (214.5)

 

This means that this season the only ones that could topple Canada for top spot are Europe. It seems like it is almost two comps at the moment the A – Grade being Canada and Europe and the B – Grade being Usa, World and Asia.

So, this has been a brief history of the winners and losers in the WJC, what will happen in the s68 WJC, Will Canada stay on top, will Asia win its first cup? You will have to wait and find out when the WJC is simmed.

 

My working and calculations

 

RR - W	Asia			Canada			Europe			USA			World
	Wins	OTL	Goals	Wins	OTL	Goals	Wins	OTL	Goals	Wins	OTL	Goals	Wins	OTL	Goals
S55	1	0	24	6	0	33	7	0	39	2	1	35	4	0	30
S62	5	0	37	7	0	34	3	0	22	3	0	24	2	0	16
S63	4	1	24	6	0	31	5	1	22	3	0	20	2	1	21
S64	2	0	24	6	1	28	6	1	31	3	2	24	3	1	25
S65	1	1	18	6	0	30	5	0	27	4	1	28	4	1	31
S66	4	1	27	4	2	26	4	2	28	6	0	24	2	1	23
S67	3	2	27	3	2	32	7	0	32	2	1	21	5	0	27
Total	20	5	181	38	5	214	37	4	201	23	5	176	22	4	173
Points	40	5	90.5	76	5	107	74	4	100.5	46	5	88	44	4	86.5
Total Points	135.5			188			178.5			139			134.5

 

Positions
	Asia	Canada	Europe	USA	World
S55	5	4	1	3	2
S62	2	1	5	3	4
S63	2	1	3	5	4
S64	5	1	2	4	3
S65	5	2	1	4	3
S66	3	2	4	1	5
S67	3	4	2	5	1

 

Points
	Asia	Canada	Europe	USA	World
Gold	0	3	2	1	1
Silver	2	2	2	0	1
Bronze	2	0	1	2	2
First Loser	0	2	1	2	2
Second Loser	3	0	1	2	1
Position Points	79	210	168	86	108
Round Robin Points	135.5	188	178.5	139	134.5
Total	214.5	398	346.5	225	242.5

 

@Banackock feel free to use my working to update the WJC topics.