EPL Centurio 2007

[{Vika}]

First of all - the dates.
- 24-25 of March - Athens (Greece);
- 28-29 of April - Budapest (Hungary);
- 9-10 of June - Lviv (Ukraine);
- 14-15 of July - Moscow (Russia);
- 18-19 of August - Warsaw (Poland);
- 29-30 of September - Prague (Czech).

Centurio Circuit renounces the marshalling teams and proceeds with the PRO marshalling. So, all the Marshalls will be PRO, no teams allowed.
There will be no Ultimate Marshall on the tournament. There will be the Head Marshalls on the each field and their decisions will be final.

We have increased the entry fees in the Divisions:
- 1st Div - 750 EUR
- 2nd Div - 500 EUR
- 3rd Div - 400 EUR

We will hold the 1st Div in format C4:
- first team to score 4 points wins;
- one period is 15 minutes.
All the games will be held on the one field. Teams of 1st Div will not play with the teams of 2nd Div. We use Millenium rules, the ramping is allowed (format C4 is the time briefed version of the M7 CPL competition system).
The limit on each tournament is 16 teams in 1st Div. The 1st Div will be closed by the results of the season 2007. No format changes in Div 2 and 3.

The minimal level of the money prizes in 1st Div remains, voucher prizes in 2nd and 3rd Div increased in one and a half.

And about the Rating.
In the season 2007 the Centurio Rating takes:
- 4 the best from the series in Div 1;
- 5 the best results from the series in Div 2 and 3.

 

[Baca Loco]

Perhaps it's time to learn more about the Centurio.
If anyone could fill in some details; how many teams played last year, organization, impressions, general quality of competition, etc. it would be appreciated.
While I won't be in a position to attend or participate given the imperious posture of the MS there might be some folks suddenly interested in finding out more about the Centurio.

 

[Fisz]

I'll post some info later in the evening.

 

[mr S]

There was 50 - 80 teams on each tournament.
Some teams from Centurio have played MS. ( BERSERkS, Bullets with Lang and U.,Vienna, Daltons, Chilli, Ton Ton, ........
U could seen there some Pro players as : Lang, Mr.U, Takemoto, Rawenell, Nielsen, Nick T., some Russians, ...

I think Nick or Freddie Brockdorf can tell you more.

 

[{Vika}]

if I can give any useful official information please ask me
Btw, the gallery from Centurio events is on the www.pball.net

 

[Freddie Brockdorff]

I was at 2 EEPL events last year - Warsaw and Thessaloniki (Greece) - the first one was okay, nothing more nothing less. The whole set-up could have been somewhat better - BUT when going to the Greece event you could clearly see they had already learned a LOT from prior mistakes.....

It might not have been situated all that well in regards to the airport, BUT then they had taken care of transportation - was situated right outside a smaller village but it worked fine, though there wasn´t much around besides one taverna and one small store. The set-up was really good with good fields, nice surface (perfect grass!), good players area AND accomodation right there on the site! The schedule worked fine and there was also a bit of entertainment with both beer-drinking contest and "chair-dance"!

Only slight problem last year, at least in my oppinion, was the standard of refs - yeah you´ll claim it´s always like that, BUT there was actually only a handfull of solid refs at each event (MS headrefs btw), which of course made their work a whole lot more difficult. Then add to that, that it would have worked much better if all refs actually spoke english!

When that is said - this is one of the things I believe the EEPL Circuit are claiming to "up" a lot this coming season, right?

So yeah.... It is good events - of course not as big as Millennium, but they are definately growing - the 2 events I attended had 68 and 46 teams. All in all we enjoyed both our trips!

EDIT: And yeah definately good teams playing this - Bullets, Chilli Peppers, Knauf, Vienna United, Ranger (had Takemoto guesting in Greece), Inquisition, Hellwood, Squall and DoW-BDX (playing one leg last year).

 

[Bunka Monky]

is there a website ?

 

[Fisz]

http://www.Centurio-eepl.com

ABout the reffing: This year the centurio will only use proffesional refs, not teams who ref for points. This means the standards will go up.

 

[Tako]

I had so much fun playing in Greece and Slovakia. Definitely fun times, good competition, good people and its less drama.

 

[Fisz]

Ah, yes... I know how you feel... although I don't intend to play either, choosing which one to go to is hard. Fortunately, the job chooses for me...