World Cup, Season 2, Match Final: Italy vs USA

[sortile9io]

[monty]

Congrats, sorti, your planning was impeccable.

Also, a big hand to everyone who has taken part in this edition of the Cup.
And of course, last but not least, here's to Joachim for making the magic happen.

[zhangalan]

Congrat, Sorti🎊🎉👏

Also brilliant as the only manager who is able to enter the finale in both seasons.

[brokenface]

Congrats to the winner!

[monty]

My only gripe is that I'd have loved to see more recent Italian cinema being picked but I guess that would have been too risky a venture. Better safe than sorry, right?

[Angel Glez]

Great job everyone, with special mention to the host.

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iCM 2 - Fejös 0
That hurts!

[tommy_leazaq]

Congrats Sorti..

[klaus78]

Congratulations, sortile9io!

[monty]

Waiting for the thank-you-ladies-and-gentlemen-of-the-jury speech...

[Mario Gaborović]

Let's make it official, then:

Una giornata particolare - Lonesome: 25 - 18

Italy wins the cup.

[sortile9io]

Well, I'm veeery happy! It was great to have such an excellent contender in the final, it makes victory even more valuable. So big thanks to all who supported me with their votes. Thanks for the compliments too. And to joachimt and Mario for their essential dedication. Hopefully I've contributed to increase love for Italian cinema, discover a few gems and made this competition more gratifying. See you next season?

:happy:

[joachimt]

Let's make it official, then:

Una giornata particolare - Lonesome: 25 - 18

Italy wins the cup.

Same count here. Congrats to Italy and of course its manager! Well played.

Thank you all for participating:

22 people with 31/31 participation

Angel Glez
Armoreska
beavis
brokenface
Carmel98
clemmetarey
Cocoa
HVM
joachimt
jvv
klaus78
Lonewolf2003
Mario Gaborović
metaller
mjf314
Smoover
sortile9io
tommy_leazaq
toro913
weirdboy
zhangalan
zuma

Some more honorable mentions

Ettinauer226XL (30/31)
Lilarcor (29/31)
monty (29/31)
Mochard (28/31)
Fergenaprido (26/31)
Gershwin (26/31)
PeacefulAnarchy (26/31)
tarr (22/31)

Occasional voters (or people who only joined recently

mightysparks (15/31)
sacmersault (15/31)
kingink (14/31)
bjornam (13/31)
RBG (13/31)
blocho (10/31)
cayado-coro (10/31)
Melvelet (9/31)
perceval (9/31)
treadwaynathan (9/31)
BijitaQ (7/31)
Daviddoes (7/31)
connordenney (5/31)
funkybusiness (5/31)
lillyjabry (5/31)
allisoncm (4/31)
frbrown (4/31)
musikurt (4/31)
Straka (4/31)
3rd (3/31)
sebby (2/31)
Cynical Cinephile (1/31)
Dolwphin (1/31)
FazilFaleel (1/31)
Hunziker (1/31)
insomnius (1/31)
jdidaco (1/31)
jonas2k (1/31)
Nathan_Treadway (1/31)
pitn (1/31)
RogerTheMovieManiac88 (1/31)
SkilledLunatic (1/31)
Tasselfoot (1/31)
wasabi (1/31)

[Armoreska]

Did we beat WC1-A1 participation?

[joachimt]

Did we beat WC1-A1 participation?

WC1:



WC2:

[Armoreska]

Damn that was a high watermark, but the average must have risen by 10.

[Nathan Treadway]

10 rounds. I'll have perfect attendance next round. (We are doing this again, right?)

[Mario Gaborović]

So far 60 countries participated, and Spain performed best in average: 10 wins and 2 losses.
I'm interested which one would sortile9io pick next time. In his place, I'd change.

[joachimt]

10 rounds. I'll have perfect attendance next round. (We are doing this again, right?)

Probably will. But after we finish the 3rd place match, let's take a break for a while. Maybe after summer......

[monty]

10 rounds. I'll have perfect attendance next round. (We are doing this again, right?)

Probably will. But after we finish the 3rd place match, let's take a break for a while. Maybe after summer......

Meanwhile we could do a single-genre cup, like a sex comedy one?

[joachimt]

10 rounds. I'll have perfect attendance next round. (We are doing this again, right?)

Probably will. But after we finish the 3rd place match, let's take a break for a while. Maybe after summer......

Meanwhile we could do a single-genre cup, like a sex comedy one?

Well, you can start one and see how many participate. I won't host it.

[monty]

Probably will. But after we finish the 3rd place match, let's take a break for a while. Maybe after summer......

Meanwhile we could do a single-genre cup, like a sex comedy one?

Well, you can start one and see how many participate. I won't host it.

So what are you saying, that you won't host a single genre cup or is it just a sex comedy cup you're against?

[joachimt]

Meanwhile we could do a single-genre cup, like a sex comedy one?

Well, you can start one and see how many participate. I won't host it.

So what are you saying, that you won't host a single genre cup or is it just a sex comedy cup you're against?

I won't host a genre cup, because I don't support a cup movies from only one genre.

But would you host it?

[monty]

First things first, how about a poll to find out if there's sufficient interest?

[Armoreska]

First things first, how about a poll to find out if there's sufficient interest?

But maybe do a poll if there should be a poll first. People should be as ready as possible for these big happenings.

[sortile9io]

I'm interested which one would sortile9io pick next time. In his place, I'd change.

I will change. That's all I know for now.

[monty]

I'm interested which one would sortile9io pick next time. In his place, I'd change.

I will change. That's all I know for now.

Here's hoping you go with a South American country.

[PeacefulAnarchy]

If it's just a comedy cup and it's smaller in scope (16-24 countries) I'd be interested. If it's Sex Comedies then that's too specific a genre and I wouldn't participate. A genre cup that lasts a year would also not be of interest to me.

[tommy_leazaq]

I have maintained 100% participation across the two cups but I definitely need a break now. Can't again go watch a obscure movie a week for more than a year from 2-3 months again. Lots of great classics to catch up and this cup hinders that . So I'd appreciate if we have a longer break this time. In the meantime we can have smaller tournament based on genres or regions like.

This WC started in Jan-16 and ended in Mar-17.. I guess we can follow the same time line hereafter, like the next cup from Jan-18 to Mar-19 and so on..

[Mario Gaborović]

I'm in for a comedy cup but no country-related one. Just film against film.

I'd love to see another 48 films in the WC even if that requires a little break, with all genres included.

[jvv]

I have maintained 100% participation across the two cups but I definitely need a break now.

^
This.

[joachimt]

I'm in for a comedy cup but no country-related one. Just film against film.

Don't know how this will work. If it's not country-related, how do we select movies? And who proceeds to the next round if it's not a country? Just a manager?

[PeacefulAnarchy]

I'm in for a comedy cup but no country-related one. Just film against film.

Don't know how this will work. If it's not country-related, how do we select movies? And who proceeds to the next round if it's not a country? Just a manager?

The movie proceeds to the next round. Would make subsequent rounds go quicker.

[sortile9io]

I'm also a bit tired. As a matter of fact I was considering resigning from management for the next cup if it was to start right away. I hope the next edition is shorter. And I don't think I would be very interested in that small in-between genre tournament (that you could name appropriately enough Spring Break Cup) either.

[Lonewolf2003]

Congrats sorti! A most deserved victory it was. Like I said before every movie you chosen I favorited


I'm also for a break and not starting again till after the summer. I'm also for a genre cup; meaning that every round is a different pre-estabilished genre, not the whole cup one genre only. I'm totally against non-country cup, then it's just random movies agains each other. We could after the 3rd place match start a preperations topic to discuss this all, and a sign-up topic so managers have some months to prepare for the next Cup.

[brokenface]

I'm all for a break.

Personally, if we did a smaller competition, i'd rather something like a single continent than single genre:

e.g. S.America. You could have 12 countries (Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Peru, Chile, Bolivia, Venezuela, Paraguay, Uruguay, Ecuador + Mexico & Cuba). 4 groups of 3, winners go through to semi-finals + final. would be an 18 film tournament so not quite so daunting.

or Asia, maybe a 16 country tournament with straight KOs (16+8+4+2 = 30 films total)

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or another idea I had for next full world cup would be to limit to 21st century films. That would even out some of the advantage that countries with loads of established canon classics have..

[metaller]

I agree to the notion of a bit of a break until the next edition. Both seasons were fun, but I have a big backlog and a huge watchlist that also cries for attention and is jeaulous of the world cup films.

In general I like the idea of smaller region specific or genre cups, but also not right now. For myself, I want a bit of downtime and no "scheduled" films that I have to watch to certain deadlines for a while.


Also, congratulations to the victor, and thanks a lot to Joachim for doing most of the work and putting in so much effort to make this all happen. It is really appreciated.

[monty]

Don't forget the 3rd place match, guys.

[Lonewolf2003]

I'm all for a break.

Personally, if we did a smaller competition, i'd rather something like a single continent than single genre:

e.g. S.America. You could have 12 countries (Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Peru, Chile, Bolivia, Venezuela, Paraguay, Uruguay, Ecuador + Mexico & Cuba). 4 groups of 3, winners go through to semi-finals + final. would be an 18 film tournament so not quite so daunting.

or Asia, maybe a 16 country tournament with straight KOs (16+8+4+2 = 30 films total)

--

or another idea I had for next full world cup would be to limit to 21st century films. That would even out some of the advantage that countries with loads of established canon classics have..

I like the idea for a smaller Cup with a region, especially with just KO matches. I also like the idea for a limit to 21st century films, maybe we could set this limit for one round. Since on the other hand part of the appeal of the WC is to discover hidden gems from yesteryears.

I do mean I like to do this in a few months time or after the summer, not straight away.

[monty]

Yeah, let's have a break after the 3rd place match is decided.

[Lonewolf2003]

I'm all for a break.

Personally, if we did a smaller competition, i'd rather something like a single continent than single genre:

e.g. S.America. You could have 12 countries (Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Peru, Chile, Bolivia, Venezuela, Paraguay, Uruguay, Ecuador + Mexico & Cuba). 4 groups of 3, winners go through to semi-finals + final. would be an 18 film tournament so not quite so daunting.

or Asia, maybe a 16 country tournament with straight KOs (16+8+4+2 = 30 films total)

--

or another idea I had for next full world cup would be to limit to 21st century films. That would even out some of the advantage that countries with loads of established canon classics have..

I like the idea for a smaller Cup with a region, especially with just KO matches. I also like the idea for a limit to 21st century films, maybe we could set this limit for one round. Since on the other hand part of the appeal of the WC is to discover hidden gems from yesteryears.

I do mean I like to do this in a few months time or after the summer, not straight away.

What about something like this:
An Asia Cup, 16 countries, only knock-out matches with fixed "genres".
First round = 21st century
Quarter Finals = comedy
Semi Finals = crime
Finals = drama