Coupe de FRANCE- French cup

[Jacques PERMAL]

We will know today the last team which will be in the final four of this competition. First qualified teams are TOULOUSE, NICE and DIJON.
Final four is scheduled in CAEN - Normandy, west of France- beginning of May.

Les quarts de finales de la coupe de France ont déja rendu leurs verdicts en ce qui concernent 3 rencontres. Verdict final ce soir. Les 1/2 finales auront lieu début Mai à Caen en Normandie.

More information ; plus d'info :

http://rouendames.chez.tiscali.fr

Please see all the columns of COUPE DE FRANCE 2003

[Jacques PERMAL]

We know now the 4th team qualified for the final four. Congratulations to DAMIER PARISIEN !!!
Please notice that A. Schwarzman en route to GUADELOUPE for international tournament was in Paris today !! he visited the players !!!


4 eme qualifiée : DAMIER PARISIEN. A noter le passage d' A. Chwarzmane qui était en escale à Paris avant de se rendre en GUADELOUPE dans le cadre du tournoi international !!!

more/plus : http://rouendames.chez.tiscali.fr

[Jacques PERMAL]

Four teams are qualified for the final four scheduled in CAEN first week-end of May. Saturday, there will be two semi-finals established by draws. the two winners will be qualified for final and the the defeated will play for the third seat. Final and third seat match are scheduled Sunday.

Quatres équipes sont qualifiées pour la phase finale début mai. Le samedi, tirage au sort des 1/2 finales. dimanche, finale et match pour la 3eme place.

Program/programme : 3 Mai : 1/2 Finales / semi-finals

4 Mai : Final /finale and/et match 3rd seat/3eme place

[Jacques PERMAL]

Now only a demi-final is available in applets : Toulouse-Nice
The other semi-final between Paris and Dijon soon available !!!

[Jacques PERMAL]

Patrick KOPP displays 1965 France championship games in his site :

http://membres.lycos.fr/dammeur/sommaire/preface.htm

See Championnat de france 1965. Hisard was the winner.

Have you ever heard of him ?

[Jacques PERMAL]

FFJD had contacted Vacqueyras mayor - a village near Avignon, south of France- in order to organize the 2003 France championship.

The city council didn't vote in favor of this proposal.

Now, the question is : Where will FFJD organize this tournament scheduled in August ?

Problems exist in France too !!!

[Jacques PERMAL]

The problem of location of next national championship is now resolved.
It is scheduled from 16th until 24th of August in Hellemmes near LILLE-north of France.
This problem is over.

[A.Presman]

Very good.
And very quick.

By the way Coup de France will be also (sure for the first time) counted for the FMJD rating.

Who was the main arbiter? Probably the FMJD needs the official signed by the arbiter scoretable. Or at least his confirmation that the published on Internet results are correct.

[Jacques PERMAL]

And now, FFJD will be able to release a statement about FMJD crisis next week.
See the topic "FMJD crisis".

[Jacques PERMAL]

Henri Macaux and Maurice Faugier will lead the national championship of France in August.

H. Macaux is national tournament director.
M. Faugier is well-known referee.

Make sure that results will be available in this site :

http://rouendames.chez.tiscali.fr

[A.Presman]

Jacques,
I asked about main arbiter of the passed Coupe de France

[Jacques PERMAL]

Ok!

1°) there is a misunderstanding.

-Coupe de France is a team competition in France. It is knock-out competition like in tennis.

-Championnat de France ( National championship) is the national championship where participants are individuals. It is a Round Robin tournament. This competition will be scheduled from 16th until 24th of August 2003 near Lille-North of France.

So I should have created a new topic " Championnat de France 2003".
Please excuse me !

2°) The main arbiter of last Championnat de France was a comitee of players. We had decided that because of personnal problem of our referee Maurice Faugier.
The guarantor of the results is Henri Macaux-Director of tournaments- however.

3°) So, I think that you would like to have a confirmation of results of last Championnat de France played in Mont-de-Marsan in August 2002, wouldn't you ?

[Nicolas Guibert]

Well the team competitition should not be counted for the rating, especially when no player knew about it before the competition began.

Then if you want to take into account this team competition, please let it know to the players for next year. Then we will discuss in France whether we want the FMJD to count it (the FFJD rating does not take into account the team competition)

But for the FMJD, not this year please in any case.

Thanks.

[A.Presman]

Wow.
I think Jacek expected applause. Me too. [img]images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif[/img]
Of course I will send your remark to him.

Dutch team competition is being counted already.

[Nicolas Guibert]

I know that Dutch team competition is counted.

Couting team competition is both good and bad.

The Dutch competition is with 10-people team.

The French competition is with 4-people team.

So you see that this is a very important difference.

The second difference is that our competition is a cup (direct elimination), not a championship.

Normally I would applause new competitions rated (I did somewhere else in this forum), but in this case, I disagree (at least for this year till France said yes to the FMJD proposal, which is I think the way to do it).

But I am not in the CD of FFJD so I just speak for myself.