Participating Teams & National Seeds

Group Draw

• There will be 6 groups. Each group will have 4 teams.
• Each group will have one team from Pot 1, one team from Pot 2 and two teams from Pot 3.
• Pots are based on the rankings of EQC2019 Division 1 & 2.
  1. Ranked teams will be placed in the pots, based on the rankings of EQC2019 D1 & D2.
     • Teams from Emerging Areas will be manually allocated in Pot 3.
  2. If an NGB has teams in D1, and has now received spots in D2 in 2022 that they didn’t receive in 2019, the “unranked” teams will be manually allocated in the pots.
     • There will be a maximum of 1 unranked D2 team per pot, with the exception of Pot 3.
  3. If an unranked team takes over the allocation of the ranked team of that same NGB within the pot, the ranked team will stay in that pot.
     • The unranked team will be allocated to the next available pot.
  4. Ranked teams will be allocated to the next available pot, in case unranked teams need to be manually allocated in that pot.
• No two teams from the same NGB will be in the same group.
  • If a team is drawn to a group where there is already a team from the same NGB, the team will be assigned to the next applicable group.

Pot 1	Pot 2	Pot 3	Pot 3
Oxford Mammoths (UK 1 – ranked)	Werewolves of London Seconds (UK 3 – ranked)	Aarhus Owls Quidditch	Prague Pegasus
Dementores A Coruña (Spain 1 – ranked)	Lumos Compostela (Spain 2 – ranked)	Basel Basilisks	Southampton QC
Southsea Quidditch (UK 2 – ranked)	Turicum Thunderbirds (Switzerland 1 – ranked)	Bizkaia Boggarts	Twentse Thestrals
Kraków Dragons (Poland 1 – ranked)	Rotterdam Ravens (The Netherlands 1 – ranked)	Brno Banshees	Warsaw Mermaids
Bielefelder Basilisken (Germany 1 – D1)	Looping Lux Leipzig (Germany 2 – D1)	Edinburgh Holyrood Hippogriffs	Aemona Argonauts (Emerging Area)
Hinkypunks Bologna Quidditch (Italy 1 – D1)	Bombarda Brixia Quidditch Club (Italy 2 – D1)	Madrid Lynx	Pressburg Phantoms (Emerging Area)

Group Stage

The first phase will have a regular group round-robin, in which teams play against the other teams in their group.

Schedule & Scores

DAY 1
Group games start time 9am – 2pm
Bracket 3:30 & 4:30

DAY 2
Bracket 8:30 & 9:30
Knockouts – 11am until 6pm
(3rd place at 5pm, final at 6pm)

Ranking

The following criteria will be used to determine a team’s ranking in the group stage:

1. Number of matches won
2. Head-to-head
3. Number of games won out of snitch range.
   • Games going into overtime are considered to be within snitch range
4. Total Point Difference, capped at 90 (including snitch catches)
5. Total seeker floor difference, uncapped
   • = point difference at the end of the seeker floor (18 minutes game time)
6. Coin Toss

Flight Stage

Phase 2 will determine the placement of the teams in the bracket.

Each team is going into flights based on their ranking within their group in Phase 1.

Top Flight	Upper Middle Flight	Lower Middle Flight	Bottom Flight
A1	A2	A3	A4
B1	B2	B3	B4
C1	C2	C3	C4
D1	D2	D3	D4
E1	E2	E3	E4
F1	F2	F3	F4

Each team will play 2 rounds, based on ranking within their flight. The games will be as follows:

*The following criteria will be used to determine a team’s ranking in the flight phase:

1. Number of matches won
2. Strength of Schedule
   • Game i > game k, for i < k within each round
   • i.e. Game 1 > Game 2 > Game 3; Game 4 > Game 5 > Game 6
3. Number of games won out of snitch range.
   • Games going into overtime are considered to be within snitch range
4. Total Point Difference, capped at 90 (including snitch catches)
5. Total seeker floor difference, uncapped
   • = point difference at the end of the seeker floor (18 minutes game time)
6. Coin Toss

Ranking

Brackets

There will be 3 separate brackets of 8 teams each:

• Upper Bracket
  • All 6 teams of the Top Flight will automatically proceed into the Upper Bracket
  • The top 2 teams of the Upper Middle Flight will proceed into the Upper Bracket
• Middle Bracket
  • The bottom 4 teams of Upper Middle Flight will proceed into the Middle Bracket
  • The top 4 teams of the Lower Middle Flight will proceed into the Middle Bracket
• Lower Bracket
  • The bottom 2 teams of the Lower Middle Flight will proceed into the Lower Bracket
  • All 6 teams from the Bottom Flight will proceed into the Lower Bracket

Upper Bracket – Road to Championship

				Quarterfinals				Semifinals				Medal Matches
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				UMF2	–
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Upper Bracket – 5-8th Place Play-Off

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Middle Bracket

				Quarterfinals				Semifinals				9-12th
				UMF3	–
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				UMF5	–
				LMF2	–

Middle Bracket – 13-16th Place Play-Off

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Lower Bracket

				Quarterfinals				Semifinals				17-20th
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				BF1	–
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Lower Bracket – 21-24th Place Play-Off

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