European Champions league: 2010-2011

petermoo wrote: ttCrawsaive wrote: Jean-Michel Saive - Emmanuel Lebesson http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDxWJuq4QsA Wow! Great match! The power from these two guys and the rich sound and spin from their bats was amazing really. Makes me miss when we could glue up. Petermoo

But Peter, they are using modern "speed glue effect rubbers" that have the sound and spin of speedglue.

/endsarcasm

icontek wrote: petermoo wrote: ttCrawsaive wrote: Jean-Michel Saive - Emmanuel Lebesson http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDxWJuq4QsA Wow! Great match! The power from these two guys and the rich sound and spin from their bats was amazing really. Makes me miss when we could glue up. Petermoo But Peter, they are using modern "speed glue effect rubbers" that have the sound and spin of speedglue. /endsarcasm

Speedplay wrote: I don't like how teams are picked to participate in this event, cause there is no qualification for it, it is all about the rating of the players. I can understand and accept that the winners from strong leagues are directly qualified, but there should be some qualification matches for all champions to get the opportunity to participate.

Second round this week:

AMonteiro wrote: takaaki wrote: DUESSELDORF - ANGERS (gionis, he zhi wen, thiago monteiro), live at laola1.tv at 7 pm CET or 1 pm ET this friday (sept. 24) and PONTOISE - ROSKILDE on "tape-delay" this saturday (sept. 25) after 7 pm CET. Thiago is recovering from wrist surgery. Michel Martinez is gonna play friday for Angers.

Orenburg beated Hennebont. (3-1)

Hennebont played without Ryu, strange he doesn't always shows up for the important matches.

ttCrawsaive wrote: Orenburg beated Hennebont. (3-1) Hennebont played without Ryu, strange he doesn't always shows up for the important matches.

Baum continuing his good form winning again today against Gionis, nice to see he's able to change gears so soon facing attacking players and a defender.

Edited by Jonan - 09/24/2010 at 2:43pm

Charleroi beat Fulda 3-1

UMMC vs. Levallois at 3 pm CET or 9 am ET tomorrow at laola1.tv

levallois = chuang chih-yuan, emmanuel lebesson, igor rubtsov and simon gauzy.

UMMC = ???  dunno who's on their team.  maze is s'posed to be on the team, but he's out due to surgery and chen qi and hao shuai are s'posed to be on the team, but the chinese are notorious for not showing up.  also, primorac is s'posed to be there, too, but i don't see his face in the team picture.  in fact i think the team pic on the ECL site is from last year.

edit:  ok, i found their website (kntummc.ru for those of you who can read russian) and it says that hao and chen are on the team as well as primo, maze (who's out), alexander shibaev, kim jung hoon, and belarus chopper evgeny chtchetinine and, also, the old former russian no. 1, dmitry mazunov.


Edited by takaaki - 09/25/2010 at 7:44pm

JimT wrote: No, Kim Jung Hoon and Robert Gardos played for UMMC in the previous seasons - they are not on the team anymore. Where did you see Chtchetinine? I couldn't find him on their website...

click the first link on the list, "O Klube" or "about [the] club."  they give the player/coach list.  they don't mention robert gardos, but they do say kim jung hoon, which they spell "kim chon khun" in cyrillic.

oddly enough, in the space between the time i checked the website earlier today and now, they have updated it and i don't see his pic in the "floating pix" animation that's there now.  maybe he's not on the team anymore...  who knows??

anyhow, they put up a new pix section that wasn't there earlier today entitled "Komanda Kluba" or "[the] club's team" and it says, primo, vlasov, shibaev, maze, chen and hao.

as for michael maze, i read an article the other day where he said he's looking at a possible comeback in january of next year.


Edited by takaaki - 09/25/2010 at 11:06pm

also, i'm wondering about the correct time.  the UMMC site says 19:00 (11 am ET), but the laola site says 14:55 (8:55 am ET).  which is right??

actually, it's a 2-hour difference between russian time and CET, so that's why it doesn't make sense.

but the event is in russia, so i can't believe they would make a mistake. 

unfortunately, they're saying 7 pm and the ECL and laola sites are saying 3 pm CET.  well, i guess we'll find out soon enough...

Yeah, it's in Asia.

yeah, chen qi is there, so this will be really easy for ummc.