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NEXT OLYMPIAD CYCLE
Wednesday, October 7, 2015: Announcement
The Final of the 20th Olympiad and the Preliminaries of the 21st Olympiad (both played on ICCF webserver) were planned to start in the 4th Quarter of 2015.
Unfortunately, the Final of the 18th Olympiad and the Preliminaries of the 20th Olympiad are not yet over and the “fight” for the qualifications is still open.
Just one game is running in 20/PR, but it will decide the second qualification from Section 1; now the qualified teams are Bulgaria, Germany, France, USA, The Netherlands, Russia, Austria, Sweden and Estonia.
There are 2 open games in the 18/F: only Germany (second qualification right!) and Slovenia are sure to qualify to the next Final ; the other qualified team is still unknown.
Obviously, the results of the running games will also decide who will be the “best third” team(s) who will get the remaining place(s) in 20/F.
Therefore it is now impossible to start the 20th Olympiad Final and the 21st Olympiad Preliminaries. They will (I hope) start in the 2nd Quarter of 2016.
Gian-Maria Tani
Title Tournaments Commissioner