Elite 16 - Brasilia - May 1st-5th - Men

[acrossthepond]

Early look to the Elite16 field for Brasilia. Entry deadline has passed and the seeding deadline will be April 10th - no major tournaments to happen until then. My assumption is that Mol/Sorum will pull out because of Mol's broken foot. Pedro/Guto and Schalk/Bourne will only be on the reserve list. The Swedes did not sign up. If Vitor Felipe/Renato get the MD Wild Card Brunner/Crabb will get into the Quali pool. Also I am not sure if 1 or 2 Quali Wild Cards will be awarded. Since lots of Brazilian teams are signed up those will surely go to one of the home teams with Pedro/Guto and Arthur/Adrielson the prime candidates with most entry points of the bunch.

Main Draw:
1 Perusic/Schweiner CZE 3560
-- Mol, A./Sørum, C. NOR 3200
2 Boermans/de Groot NED 3160
3 Partain/Benesh USA 2820
4 Ehlers/Wickler GER 2800
5 Cottafava/Nicolai ITA 2660
6 Bryl/Łosiak POL 2480
7 Brouwer/Meeuwsen NED 2400
8 Evandro/Arthur BRA 2360
9 van de Velde/Immers NED 2360
10 Cherif/Ahmed QAT 2280
11 George/Andre BRA 2160
WC - tba

Quali:
Q1 Evans/Budinger USA 1880
Q2 Hörl/Horst AUT 1800
Q3 Bello, Ja./Bello, Jo. ENG 1760
Q4 Luini/Varenhorst NED 1750
Q5 Vitor Felipe/Renato BRA 1700
Q6 Schachter/Dearing CAN 1700
Q7 Seidl, R./Pristauz AUT 1660
Q8 Herrera/Gavira ESP 1660
Q9 Bassereau/Lyneel FRA 1640
Q10 Krou/Gauthier-Rat FRA 1580
Q11 Kantor/Zdybek POL 1580
Q12 Capogrosso N./Capogrosso T. ARG 1560
Q13 Stankevicius/Knasas LTU 1520
Q14 Mol, H./Berntsen NOR 1520
QWC1
QWC2


Reserve:
Res1 Crabb Tr./Brunner USA 1520
Res2 Aravena/Droguett CHI 1500
Res3 Grimalt M./Grimalt E. CHI 1484
Res4 Canet/Rotar FRA 1460
Res5 Arthur/Adrielson BRA 1420
Res6 Pedro Solberg/Guto BRA 1380
Res7 Schalk/Bourne USA 1360
Res8 Grössig/Seiser AUT 1200
Res9 Krattiger/Breer SUI 1160

[dunninla3]

sets up another AUT v. AUT to move forward. Pristauz/Seidl are so close to surpassing the brothers Grimalt for the last Olympic points berth. But Hörl/Horst are not safe either so that should be a very hard fought match.

OT, but ATP would you consider changing your spreadsheet to show Top 10 from Top 9 at this point?

[acrossthepond]

Apr 2, 2024 10:27:24 GMT -5 dunninla3 said:

sets up another AUT v. AUT to move forward. Pristauz/Seidl are so close to surpassing the brothers Grimalt for the last Olympic points berth. But Hörl/Horst are not safe either so that should be a very hard fought match.

OT, but ATP would you consider changing your spreadsheet to show Top 10 from Top 9 at this point?

Have adapted it to Top 8 and Top 10

Edit: Thanks to your input I have adapted my coding a bit, so that I can easily adapt those boundaries from now on without any future coding change - thanks for that :-)

[beachcoach]

Apr 3, 2024 2:26:18 GMT -5 acrossthepond said:

Apr 2, 2024 10:27:24 GMT -5 dunninla3 said:

sets up another AUT v. AUT to move forward. Pristauz/Seidl are so close to surpassing the brothers Grimalt for the last Olympic points berth. But Hörl/Horst are not safe either so that should be a very hard fought match.

OT, but ATP would you consider changing your spreadsheet to show Top 10 from Top 9 at this point?

Have adapted it to Top 8 and Top 10

Edit: Thanks to your input I have adapted my coding a bit, so that I can easily adapt those boundaries from now on without any future coding change - thanks for that :-)

Tepci Mexico so could change your wild card predictions.

[acrossthepond]

Mol/Sorum didn't pull out yet(?), so the Main Draw Wild Card had to be used from the Brazilian federation for George/Andre. Only one QWC was used for Arthur/Adrielson. Pedro/Guto remained on the reserve list -> this means that they will not have a chance to pull a miracle and somehow qualify as BRA2 for Paris.

If (When?) Mol/Sorum pull out Budinger/Evans will replace them in the Main Draw.

The Grimalts and Schalk/Bourne are also only on the reserve list.

[guest2]

Apr 10, 2024 3:20:44 GMT -5 acrossthepond said:

Mol/Sorum didn't pull out yet(?), so the Main Draw Wild Card had to be used from the Brazilian federation for George/Andre. Only one QWC was used for Arthur/Adrielson. Pedro/Guto remained on the reserve list -> this means that they will not have a chance to pull a miracle and somehow qualify as BRA2 for Paris.

If (When?) Mol/Sorum pull out Budinger/Evans will replace them in the Main Draw.

The Grimalts and Schalk/Bourne are also only on the reserve list.

Dont the Vikings still need a finish? Is it possible they are just planning to forfeit out, take their 12th finish and confirm their Olympic berth?

[acrossthepond]

Apr 10, 2024 4:43:14 GMT -5 guest2 said:

Apr 10, 2024 3:20:44 GMT -5 acrossthepond said:

Mol/Sorum didn't pull out yet(?), so the Main Draw Wild Card had to be used from the Brazilian federation for George/Andre. Only one QWC was used for Arthur/Adrielson. Pedro/Guto remained on the reserve list -> this means that they will not have a chance to pull a miracle and somehow qualify as BRA2 for Paris.

If (When?) Mol/Sorum pull out Budinger/Evans will replace them in the Main Draw.

The Grimalts and Schalk/Bourne are also only on the reserve list.

Dont the Vikings still need a finish? Is it possible they are just planning to forfeit out, take their 12th finish and confirm their Olympic berth?

Theoretically yes. But they would need to travel to Mexico and be present at the technical meeting. They would rather do that in Espinho or Ostrava if it was needed due to lower travel costs. Also, they already have enough participations. 10 counting tournaments + 2 World Tour finals with 0 points which do count as a finish though.