France - Italy/ FIVB Men's World Championship - Poland 2014

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Volleyball : FIVB Men's World Championship - Poland 2014
France - Italy
TIME 19.15 GMT+1

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France takes 2-set lead over Italy. 25-20, 25-20.

U.S. may not have had a good start to these championships, but compared to Italy's, I'll take it. Maybe they can come back and take it in 5 sets. France looks tough, just as expected. No breathing room for anyone in this group.

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Website for this championships gets an F so far. Doesn't work half the time and extremely frustrating to navigate when it does work.

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Italy comes back to take 3rd set 25-23.

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If I understand the calculations correctly, these are the possible standings for Pool D after this match is finished:

1) France wins in 4 sets. Earns 3 points. (looking less and less likely) NOT GOING TO HAPPEN. WE ARE GOING TO FIVE.

1 - France 6 points
2 - Iran 5 points
3 - Belgium 4 points
4 - U.S. 3 points
5 - Italy 0 points
6 - Puerto Rico 0 points

2) France wins in 5 sets. Earns 2 points. Italy earns 1 point.  ALSO NOT GOING TO HAPPEN.

1 - France 5 points
2 - Iran 5 points
3 - Belgium 4 points
4 - U.S. 3 points
5 - Italy 1 point
6 - Puerto Rico 0 points

3) Italy wins in 5 sets. Italy earns 2 points. France earns 1 point.  DING, DING, WE HAVE A WINNER!

1 - Iran 5 points
2 - Belgium 4 points  (1.088 points won/lost ratio)
3 - France  4 points (1.000 points won/lost ratio) OOPS. 1ST CALCULATION WRONG. NOW IT'S CORRECT. FRANCE STILL IN 3RD.
4 - U.S. 3 points
5 - Italy 2 points
6 - Puerto Rico 0 points

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Italy up at 1st TT 8-5.

Italy 9-5.

Italy 10-5. Looks like they will earn 2 points after all.

Italy 10-6.

Italy 11-6. (After long review officials call touch against France's blocker)

Italy 11-7.

Italy 11-8.

Italy 12-8.

Italy 13-8.

Italy 13-9.

Italy 13-10.

Italy 13-11. Italy takes timeout.

Italy 14-11. Match point.

Italy 14-12. 2nd match point.

That's it. Italy 15-12. Italy wins in 5 sets (20-25, 20-25, 25-23, 25-13, 15-12) and earns 2 points.

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More interesting video replay decisions in this match. When I was first introduced to this system in World League, I thought it was pretty good, but I think it's got a ways to go.

[bAnthony]

Sept 2, 2014 17:31:29 GMT -5 @zazu said:

More interesting video replay decisions in this match. When I was first introduced to this system in World League, I thought it was pretty good, but I think it's got a ways to go.

One thing to remember is at WL you couldn't challenge for a touch because not every arena had the super slow-mo technology necessary. Adding the touch off the block challenges adds a lot of time to the process.

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Sept 2, 2014 19:45:52 GMT -5 bAnthony said:

Sept 2, 2014 17:31:29 GMT -5 @zazu said:

More interesting video replay decisions in this match. When I was first introduced to this system in World League, I thought it was pretty good, but I think it's got a ways to go.

One thing to remember is at WL you couldn't challenge for a touch because not every arena had the super slow-mo technology necessary. Adding the touch off the block challenges adds a lot of time to the process.

I didn't state that very well. I think the way it was used in World League worked well, but it's this super slow-mo camerawork for touches at the net that needs more tweaking. I don't mind the extra time--that's to be expected--but the camera angles are really not very good for capturing touches on blocks, no matter how fantastic the slow-mo technology. The tv cameras seem to have better angles about half of the time. I know they're still trying to figure that part out. I think Paul Sunderland oversold its virtues when he was describing it during World League and my expectations were too high.