About FISTF and development

[vincentcop]

Hello, for any question, feel free to ask! I'll try to visit this forum as often as possible!

Vincent Coppenolle

[Hönkki]

Great that the registration succeed !

My first question: what is the future of World Cup ?  Have you plans to change the system, if a lot of new countries will participate ?

[vincentcop]

Ahah, it's difficult to say but there are now discussions between a lot of people because some people want the world cup to be held every two years. it would be a major change if we moved to this system...

Apart from that, we are always trying to find solutions to make a better tournament but it's really not easy to find the best system.

[Hönkki]

Vincent, how does Belgium select their players for the WC ? The players in the best 16 in the FISTF-ranking will be selected for sure, but how it is with the rest ? Is the selection done just by Belgium- or FISTF-ranking or do you have some sort of "team captain" who selects the players ? 

[vincentcop]

Usually players qualify at the national championship. We have a championship for each age category and for the Open category, every season, players are divided in 3 groups according to their abilities.

Players who qualify via the world rankings are selected for the individual event but not always for the team event. Due to some special circumstances, some players who have played very well during the season can be selected as well by our "sports director".

Of course it's very different and much more difficult to select players when you have 200 players affiliated to the association... :-)