Czech Republic - Poland 4-1 (3-1)

Czech Republic - Poland 4-1 (3-1)

*** scarp
** -Walcott-
* wasper

1-0 scarp
1-1 Robert.
2-1 scarp
3-1 scarp
4-1 wasper

Attendance: 30
Shots on goal: 8-4

Czech Republic - Poland

TeamSpeak2

• Server: ts.shellit.org:8000
• Channel: IC2 - SOCCER
• Pass: ic2ball2
  

The poll was right: Netherlands to win the qualify group

About 60 people were watching as the Netherlands have won the 1st round qualify group with victories over Poland and the Czech Republic. This means that Netherlands faces, as a home team, the winner of the match played between the other members of the as a home team. The loser of this remaining match will face United Kingdom in the knock-out round.

In our site poll, we asked who will win this group, and 59% of the voted were given to Netherlands. In the next poll, we ask your opinion about the best player of the tournamet so far.

Netherlands - Czech Republic 3-2 (0-0)

Netherlands - Czech Republic 3-2 (0-0)

Attendance: 60

1-0 Rijmen
1-1 scarp
2-1 Bruno
3-1 Rijmen
3-2 scarp

*** scarp
** Rijmen
* Dakra4

Poland receives a warning

Team Poland receives a warning from IC2 organizers, as the tournament rules clearly inform. The reason for this is the lack of players of Team Poland during the kick-off time of the match Czech Republic - Poland. The rules clearly infrom what to do in this type of situation:

"If a team (one or both of the teams) doesn't have the enough amount of players from their match roster to start the match, a warning is given and the match is re-arranged."

From three warnings, a team is disqualified from the tournament.

Organizers will soon contact the coach and other staff of Team Poland to get a hang of if they are still participating in this tournament and can we probably set a new playing time and date for the match. Until that, the next IC2 match is played on September 5th between the Netherlands and Czech Republic.

Poland - Netherlands 0-12 (0-7)

Poland - Netherlands 0-12 (0-7)

Shots on goal: 1-19
Attendance: 60

0-1 pari
0-2 pari
0-3 Samuel
0-4 Absorbium
0-5 pari
0-6 Rijmen
0-7 Absorbium
0-8 Rijmen
0-9 Rijmen
0-10 Bebeto
0-11 Bebeto
0-12 Bebeto

*** pari
** Rijmen
* Mlody

During the match, Team Netherlands showed a few unsportmanship acts, scoring while the match was played on 7v6 situation and taking their goalkeeper off from the field a few minutes before full-time. Because of this, the organizers have decided to give a warning to Team Netherlands. In case of three warnings given to a team, this particular team will be disqualified from the tournament. Questions about the warning and possible complainments about it can be sended via note to Soccer nick "IC2".

Poland - Netherlands tomorrow!

Tomorrow on 20:00 Central European Time, Poland and the Netherlands will be facing in 1st Qualify Round match. Netherlands are the bronze medalists from the EURO2008 tournament, Poland will be playing their first international tournament match ever.

TeamSpeak2 commentating
Server: "ts.shellit.org:8000"
Channel: "IC2 - SOCCER"
Pass: "ic2ball2"

Soccer-Sanomat speculates the match result on their site:
"Netherlands will be the active side right from the start, but the first goal will probably be scored in the end of the first half. In the second half the dutch players might get a little impatient because of the lack of goals and Poland have will have a chance to take the game. Still, we bet the result will be 3-1 to the Netherlands."

The final schedule of the 1st Qualify Round of International Challenge 2

August 29th Poland - Netherlands (B)
September 2nd Czech Republic - Poland (C)
September 5th Netherlands - Czech Republic (D)

All the matches will start on 20:00 at central european time, which is the time used in all these three countries. In the United Kingdom, the matches will start on 19:00 and in Finland, on 21:00.

The winner of this group will face the runner-up in a single play-off match, and the third of this group will face the United Kingdom in identical match. The winners of these two matches will qualify for the championship tournament with Finland.

We have a new poll here in our sites, which relates to these three matches. Please vote in it.

Finland - United Kingdom 3-0 (1-0)

Finland - United Kingdom 3-0 (1-0)
9' 1-0 Timothy
13' 2-0 Vocal
14' 3-0 Vocal

Attendance: 169 (204 before the match started)

Screenshots of the match can be found here. Don't forget to check the highlights from the video just down there.

Mikus wins the betting contest being the only one with the right result!

The betting contest of 31 bettings ofcourse had its conclusion last night after the match between Finland and United Kingdom succesfully ended 3-0. The only one who had betted this result was Mikus from Union Deportiva Las Palmas, and the grand prize of 5 VIP-Credits was succesfully sended to him just minutes ago.

Congratulations Mikus!

Did you missed Finland - United Kingdom? Here's the highlights!

The official song is Untouched by The Veronicas!

Listen the official song of the International Challenge 2 tournament:

13. The Veronicas - Untouched

+8 Bellini - Samba De Janeiro
+5 Bomfunk MC's - Something Going On
+7 E-Type - Champione
+1 Haddaway - Life
-5 Herbert Groenemeyer - Celebrate The Day
+6 Kristinia DeBarge - Goodbye
-3 Ladytron - Runaway
-4 Planet Funk - Static
+8 Ricky Martin - Cup of Life
-1 Scooter - Fire
-1 Sergio Mendes feat. The Black Eyed Peas - Mas Que Nada
+7 Sunblock - I'll Be Ready
+24 The Veronicas - Untouched
+0 The White Stripes - 7 Nation Army
-4 Waldo's People - Rock The World

Finland - United Kingdom tonight - 19:00 UK-time, 20:00 CET, 21:00 FIN-time!

International Challenge 2 starts tonight with the exciting opening match Finland - United Kingdom. The teams have faced each other three times, all of them ending in a Finland victory (2-0, 7-0, 2-0). The teams battled in the EURO2008 final, and haven't played any international matches after that, so we can talk about some real rivalry and emotional match here.

The match starts around 20:10 of Central European Time. Add an hour if your from Finland, take one off if your from United Kingdom. But there's lots of happening already before the kick-off, so be ready to arrive a bit earlier.

Players are advised to show-up on around 19:30 Central European Time.

Things to remind on today's match:

• The players announcement is about 20-30 minutes before the kick-off. Pay attention, follow the rules given by the organizers and join the announcement.
• In the moment of writing, teams haven't yet published their match rosters. Which leads to, ofcourse, that the players announcement is done based on the tournament rosters. Don't be suprised if some player isn't online or is online but isn't playing.
• The official song of the tournament is announced just before the kick-off.
• We procced to the match with a countdown from 30 -> 0. We'd like to invite you to join this by sending those numbers in the match room's public chat.
• The room is muted when the match starts and voice rights are given.
• The winner of this 2x10 minute match qualifies to the International Challenge 2 Championship Tournament.
• TeamSpeak2 commentating: Server "ts.shellit.org:8000", Channel: "IC2 - SOCCER", Pass "ic2ball2"

Soccer-Sanomat (soccer-sanomat.blogspot.com) writes about the match this way (translated):

"One of the strengths of Team Finland is the wideness in their roster. The team is full of great players to each position, but the biggest question here is the inexperience of the team. Many of the players are having their international debut in this match."

Team England is full of experienced international players. Their biggest problem is propably the new players of the team, who may start to try a bit too much, which may lead to some arguing and other problems."

"Blister has so far scored incredible eight international goals, which is more than anyone else in this game. If everything goes OK, the magic line of ten international goals might be achieved."

"joni may be the one who leads Finland to victory. Has incredible view of the game and can pass some long crosses to the attackers of Finland."

"Källström is a player who works till the end. Has a great ability to save shots even from the goal line"

"Cesc is the international veteran of England who knows how to give some good curling passes. Gets their game forward even in the hardest times."

"Lupoli plays good with anyone and knows the skills of individual play also"

"If all goes OK, Sharp can be the biggest star of the match. On good days he's unstoppable, but there's bad days also..."

New poll!

Question:

How many spectators do you believe will arrive on Finland - United Kingdom?

You can find the poll right there on the sidebar, just scroll down a bit.

People see Finland as the favorite in the opening match

Results from our poll:
15 Finland will win easily
16 Finland wins, but only by a goal or two margin.
10 It will be a draw.
10 United Kingdom wins, but only by a goal or two margin.
4 United Kingdom will win easily.

Betting contest is closed. We got a total number of 31 bettings. The participants with the right result will get their piece of the prize of 5 VIP-Credits.

1-0 plus
1-1 Sutton
1-3 akton
2-0 Baresi
2-0 Toa
2-0 Blister
2-0 Sharp
2-0 CONST
2-1 CONST
2-1 -Walcott-
2-1 Pukki
2-3 Clacier
3-0 Mikus
3-1 Pukki
3-1 Pato
3-1 Toa
3-1 Koivisto
3-2 Blokus
3-2 Mikus
3-2 Super-Mac
4-1 Robben
4-1 Sharp
4-1 Blister
4-1 Clacier
4-1 pari
5-0 Super-Mac
5-7 Teekoo
6-2 Silva
6-3 Gekas
6-4 Milito
7-3 Seedorf

27 participants thinks Finland will win the match. 3 believed that United Kingdom will win and only 1 thinks it will be a draw. Finland - United Kingdom is played on August 5th, 20:00 Central European Time.

Remember to vote for the official tournament song!!!

Please click here to open to voting info and cast your favorites!

Visitor statistics from ic2.urli.net

277 unique visitors have visited our tournament site.
In total, there has been 624 visitings and 1430 siteloads in the history of this site. The most active visiting day was July 16th, when 59 visitings was registered.

Site visits categorized by nation:
1. Finland, 368 visitings.
2. United Kingdom, 132 visitings.
3. Netherlands, 61 visitings.
4. Czech Republic, 27 visitings.
5. Poland, 25 visitings.

Other nations we've had visitors from are United States, Romania, Canada, Australia, Croatia, Norway, Slovakia, Morocco and Israel.

Clinton's Team Finland is here!

Defenders
fooba (Nevarit)
V.ConE (Nevarit)
Källström (Intoxication)
Hab (Intoxication)
joni (Nevarit)
Caceres (Union Deportiva Las Palmas) 

Midfielders
Ibra (-)
Blister (Nevarit)
Mide (Hertha BSC Berlin)
Baros (PSV Eindhoven)
Clinton (Intoxication) 
Väykkä (FC Telkkä)

Attackers
Vocal (Intoxication)
Timothy (Intoxication)
Pure (Nokian Palloseura)

Coach: Clinton, who will be our guest in the TeamSpeak2 studio when the opening match of the tournament is played. We'll have some deeper discussion with him and get some comments on why he picked this particular team.

P.ZeN publishes his United Kingdom to challenge Finland and others

Defenders
Stein
Gago
Bruno
Usko
psycho
Gerrard
Marquez

Midfielders
P.ZeN
Lupoli
Cesc
Sharp
Pirlo
Soriano

Attackers
Kasim
O.Martins
pia
Hunt
Tevez

P.ZenN, you've now selected your team United Kingdom for the upcoming International Challenge 2 tournament. You've chosen 7 defenders, 6 midfielders and 5 attackers. For example, Finland is rumored to choose only 4 midfielders and a few of them are really attacking ones.

The winners really aren't decided in the midfield as same as in real football and the middle section is often crossed very fast. This turns a real question: to what are you needing six midfielders in todays soccer?

- These midfielders can almost play in any position possible, it offers variety to our squad. Also some players have told me there not 100% sure if they can play hense the number of midfielders.

There has been some discussion about disagreements between, for example, you and Gerrard. What made you to choose the safest option and the most excepted team United Kingdom? Were you worried that if you would drop off guys that you maybe would have wanted to, some other players would have been signed off from the team too?

- Not really, I always believe experience will win. Even if players are on form I would like to think an experienced player has played under these circumstances and would know what to do in these situations. I believe the team I chose can battle for the #1 spot.

What is your goal in this tournament: to challenge Finland or to crush the Netherlands and all the other underdogs? If you, as you obvisously will, choose the first option: how realistic do you think it is? The goal differential between Finland and England / United Kingdom is 11 against 0 in three games.

- Our goal is to win the tournament, nothing less. People say it's the taking part that counts but we have been in Finland's shadow long enough it's time to take the title back to UK. I would like to think that every Nation has started from scratch with the new updates, it will be very fun and I am eager to see what the teams will bring to the tournament.

What do you think was the reason for the flop in the United Kingdom coach search? Only one runned for the job (you), and no voting was needed to be arranged. Are the national team matches B class events for british players and is the whole UK community here in IC2 just to have fun, not to win games and titles?

- I think there is a lot of voting apathy amongst the UK players which I don't really like, a win is a win but I was quite disheartend when I seen nobody putting their name forward. Maybe they can't handle the pressure or something but I'm pleased I'm here now.

Finally, what kind of greetings you would like to send to Clinton, the coach of the opponent team in your very important tournament debut against Finland?

- Just to wish him all the best and to hope that he has picked a balanced team, there was a controversial issue stating he has picked nearly every player from PSV Eindhoven. Anyway I'm in no position to question his choices, I wish him all the best.

The easier qualification of EURO2008 finalists divides opinions

The first poll of the IC2 websites left the final opinion undecided, as 9 from 18 voters thought that decision to give Finland and United Kingdom an easier qualification was the right one. 2 voters think the idea is good, but the timing is wrong: the top nations don't need any advantage as they are alredy so good. 7 voters didn't like the way the qualification is organized.

The next poll is now open and will be closed after 2 weeks of voting. We'll ask the result of the opening match of the 1st qualification round played between Finland and United Kingdom. Please cast your opinion.

Vote for the official tournament song!

It's time to raise the fever and select the official song of the International Challenge 2 tournament. In the inaugural national team tournament, EURO2008, the official song was "Superstar" by Shaggy, as it also was one of the official songs of the real EURO2008 tournament. Now it's up to you which song will be connected to this IC2 tournament from now on. Which song you would like to hear after you've scored the decisive extra-time goal in the tournament final?

We've pre-selected fifteen different options, which are listed here in alphabetical order. The songs have also got their voting numbers based on this order. Please select your favorites and send your vote to soccer nick "IC2". You are allowed to give 3, 2 and 1 point(s) to your favorites and an additional -3 point to one song that you don't like at all. Please mark your votes clearly and use the voting numbers too. Those are there to avoid misunderstandings. The song with most points after the voting will be choosen as the official song of International Challenge 2, and will be heard on TeamSpeak2 (tournament's official commentating) just before every single tournament match. It will also be heard here in the tournament sites and it will be used in our tournament videos and so on. It will be the unquestionable IC2 song.

The voting result is published on the opening ceremonies of the tournament, which are held in the 1st Qualify Round match Finland - United Kingdom, played on August 5th. Let's vote!

1. Bellini - Samba De Janeiro

2. Bomfunk MC's - Something Going On

3. E-Type - Champione

4. Haddaway - Life

5. Herbert Groenemeyer - Celebrate The Day

6. Kristinia DeBarge - Goodbye

7. Ladytron - Runaway

8. Planet Funk - Static

9. Ricky Martin - Cup of Life

10. Scooter - Fire

11. Sergio Mendes feat. The Black Eyed Peas - Mas Que Nada

12. Sunblock - I'll Be Ready

13. The Veronicas - Untouched

14. The White Stripes - 7 Nation Army

15. Waldo's People - Rock The World

International Challenge 2 Statistics

Goalscorers
5 Rijmen
5 scarp 
3 pari
3 Bebeto
2 Absorbium
2 Vocal
1 Samuel
1 Timothy
1 Bruno
1 Robert.
1 wasper

Tournament stars
6 scarp
4 Rijmen
3 pari
3 Källström
2 Timothy
2 -Walcott-
1 Mlody
1 Vocal
1 Dakra4
1 wasper

Attendances
169 Finland - United Kingdom
060 Poland - Netherlands
060 Netherlands - Czech Republic
030 Czech Republic - Poland
Average attendance: 79,75

Wins/Draws/Losses - Winning%

• Finland 1/0/0 - 100%
• Netherlands 2/0/0 - 100%
• Czech Republic 1/0/1 - 50%
• United Kingdom 0/0/1 - 0%
• Poland 0/0/2 - 0%
  

Contact us!

Our official game nick is "IC2".
Please use notes in messaging.

Quick questions about the tournament is recommended to be sended at Super-Mac, Blister, CONST or some of the tournament coaches.

International Challenge 2 Tournament Rules

Rules in general

• These rules are written for International Challenge 2 tournament.
• International Challenge 2, as all the other tournaments of the same series, is not an open tournament, teams are invited. However, our goal is to gather all the active and stable nations to our tournaments.
• International Challenge 2 is to find out the best national teams of the game and to bring intresting matches for the whole game community.
• Succesful teams and players might receive some advantage in future matches and tournaments, even if it wouldn't be told beforehand.
• Acting against the game rules or the rules found on this page is strictly prohibited. Tournament organizers are and/or work with the game moderators and are aware of the mutes given to tournament players. Players receiving a big mute (couple of days or more) will be likely to receive a punishment in the tournament also.

Teams

• We will gladly help new nations to reach the tournament level, and even mixed teams (players from many nations in a same team because of the amount of players in a single nations) are possible. All the new teams must show their stableness to tournament organizers in separately organized friendly matches before tournaments. Teams can also organize matches of their own.
  
• Teams are at the same time representing their nation. The success and actions of the team of this tournament will have an effect to further tournaments the nations takes part on, even if the coach and the players would be all different.

Rosters and players

• The tournament roster of 12-20 players must be delivered to the tournament organizers atleast a week before the kick-off of the teams opening match in the tournament.
• One extra player can be added after each qualify round the team has tooked part on.
  
• Each team has a separate match roster to each of their matches. It contains 10-12 players from the tournament roster, who are the ones that can play in the match. Players outside the match roster can't be used, even if they would be in the tournament roster. Match rosters are informed atleast two hours before the kick-off of the match.
• All of the players must have the nationality and the profile flag of the team they are representing. Profile flag must be shown if the tournament organizers request it.
• Team coach must be chosed to rosters separately, if it's wanted that he is eglible to play.
  

Match rules

• Pre-match actions (creation of match room, starting of the match etc.) are always done and lead by the tournament organizers.
  
• Tournament matches are played with duration of 2x10 minutes and 7v7 formation.
• All the matches must always be started and played on 7v7 formation. Matches must be cancelled or delayed if other teams player amount drops under 7 players.
  
• Home team attack from left side of the pitch towards the right side of the pitch.
• All the match actions must be stopped and the elapsing of the match time must be denied by a request of the tournament organizers. This can be done, for example, in lagging accidents.
• Tournament organizers has the right to remove a player from the room, if he acts against the rules of the game or the tournament.
  
• Match winners are awarded with 3 points. In a draw, both teams will earn a point.
• In the matches of the 2nd Qualify Round, in the opening match Finland - United Kingdom and in the Tournament Final, a Golden Goal extra time of 2x3 minutes is played if the match ends in a draw. If the extra time is scoreless, a normal penalty shoot-out competition is arranged to decide the winner.
• Teams and spectators should communicate on team chat (blue text) during matches. Public line is for match and tournament announcements.

1st Qualify Round and Championship Tournament Group Stage

• If two or all three teams are tied in points after the group stage in the 1st Qualify Round or in the Championship Tournament, the following criteria is used to decide the better team(s):

1. Points from all of the matches (not just that group stage) in IC2 tournament played against other teams in tie. If three teams are in tie points and the amount of matches is not the same for all, this option is not used.
2. Goal differential
3. Goals for
4. Normal penalty shoot-out competition. If there are three teams, a group stage is played using shoot-out competitions as matches.

Foul acts and punishing policy

• There are some standard punishments for certain foul acts.

1. If a team (one or both of the teams) doesn't have the enough amount of players from their match roster to start the match, a warning is given and the match is re-arranged.
2. If a team uses a player from outside their match roster, a warning is given and all of their goals from the match will be taken away.
3. If a player is needed to be removed from the match room (see "Match rules"), a warning is given to the players team and the player will receive a ban to the teams next match.

• If a single team receives three warnings inside the tournament, the team will be disqualified.
• The organizers reserve the right to punish players and teams in case of a clear foul act, even it wouldn't be mentioned here.
• After the punishment is given, there's a period of 48 hours to send an official complaint about it to tournament organizers. After this, the case is re-processed and there will be a vote about the decision. The representative of the organizers, one randomly selected coach, one randomly selected tournament player and one randomly selected game user can take part to the vote. The voters can't be from the team that the case is considering, or neither of the players that are part of the case. In a draw, the vote of the tournament organizers is the decisive.
• The deadline is defined from the release time of the official announcement given by the organizers here in the tournament website. Contact us to receive extra info on how to do it.
  

International Challenge 2 Team Poland

Poland
Statistics:

• Wins/Draws/Losses: 2/0/2
• Goal differential: 15-21
• Top Scorer: Bochen13 (4)
• Achievments: -
  

IC2 Matches:

• August 29th | Poland - Netherlands 0-12 (0-7) | 1st Qualify Round
• September 27th | Czech Republic - Poland 4-1 (3-1) | 1st Qualify Round
• October 4th | United Kingdom (2nd Qualify Round)
  

Roster:

• Coach: Stilic
  
• Players: Bochen13, cantonek, Chromczak, Cueto, jankest7, Mlody, Rengifo, shymo, Stilic, Gajowy, Luckyfeer, Tupac, GrzesiX, Valdi, Flash77, Kajor, Robert.

International Challenge 2 Team Czech Republic

Czech Republic
Statistics:

• Wins/Draws/Losses: 1/0/7
• Goal differential: 19-37
• Top Scorer: scarp (5)
• Achievments: -
  

IC2 Matches:

• September 5th | Netherlands - Czech Republic 3-2 (0-0) | 1st Qualify Round
• September 27th | Czech Republic - Poland 4-1 (3-1) | 1st Qualify Round
  
• October 10th | Netherlands (2nd Qualify Round)
  

Roster:

• Coach: S.Vlcek
  Players: -Walcott-, Aykon, D.Silva, Dakra4, eMphatic, Jeslinek, Jumbo, King, Lumcak, M.Kadlec, Mandrage, Mineiro, pajo, penys, S.Vlcek, scarp, Sperlinho, Sverkos, wasper, wosto

International Challenge 2 Team Netherlands

Netherlands
Statistics:

• Wins/Draws/Losses: 5/0/2
• Goal differential: 27-16
• Top Scorer: Rijmen (5)
• Achievments: Bronze medal, EURO 2008
  

IC2 Matches:

• August 29th | Poland - Netherlands 0-12 (0-7) | 1st Qualify Round
• September 5th | Netherlands - Czech Republic 3-2 (0-0) | 1st Qualify Round
• October 10th | Czech Republic (2nd Qualify Round) 
  

Roster:

• Coach: Jaap
  
• Defenders: Absorbium, Jaap, Koeman, Koivu, Minnon
• Midfielders: Afellay, Baresi, Duy, Huntelaar, Pari
  
• Attackers: Bebeto, Ibisevic, Rijmen, Samuel, Seedorf
  

International Challenge 2 Team United Kingdom

United Kingdom
Statistics:

• Wins/Draws/Losses: 2/0/4
• Goal differential: 9-19
• Top Scorer: Lupoli (3)
• Achievments: Silver medal, EURO 2008
  

IC2 Matches:

• August 5th | Finland - United Kingdom 3-0 (1-0) | 1st Qualify Round
• October 4th | Poland (2nd Qualify Round)

Roster:

• Coach: P.ZeN
• Defenders: Bruno, Gago, Gerrard, Marquez, psycho, Stein, Usko
  
• Midfielders: Cesc, Lupoli, Pirlo, P.ZeN, Sharp, Soriano
• Attackers: Busic, Hunt, Kasim, O.Martins, pia, Tevez

International Challenge 2 Team Finland

Finland
Statistics:

• Wins/Draws/Losses: 6/0/0
• Goal Differential: 29-2
• Top Scorer: Blister (8)
• Achievments: Gold medal, EURO 2008

IC2 Matches:

• August 5th | Finland - United Kingdom 3-0 (1-0) | 1st Qualify Round
• November 20th | United Kingdom/Poland | Championship Tournament
• November 22nd | Netherlands/Czech Republic | Championship Tournament

Roster:

• Coach: Clinton
• Defenders: fooba, V.ConE, Källström, Hab, joni, Caceres
  
• Midfielders: Ibra, Blister, Mide, Baros, Clinton, Väykkä
• Attackers: Vocal, Timothy, Pure, Maradona