PLACE AND DATE
The 7th Kick Off 2 Gathering World Cup (aka WC) will be held in Rome, Italy, the 10th (aka Day1, Saturday) and 11th (aka Day2, Sunday) November. Players may qualify to Day2 matches ONLY attending Day1. On contrary, it is possible to partecipate on Day1 and withdraw from games on Day2.

CONFIRMED PLAYERS ATTENDING THE WC:
TOTAL PLAYERS CONFIRMED: 11

ITALY
1 - Gianluca T - “Foxsoft” - confirmed 24/05/07 - Rank: 1
2 - Marco S - “Stox” - confirmed 24/05/07 - Rank: 92
3 - Filippo D - “filippodb” - confirmed 25/05/07 - Rank: 47
4 - Giacomo T - ?? - confirmed 25/05/07 - Rank: 35
5 - Franco C - ?? - confirmed 25/05/07 - Rank: 77
6 - Fabio A - ?? - confirmed 25/05/07 - Rank: 106
7 - Francesco L - ?? - confirmed 25/05/07 - Rank: newbie
8 - Lorenzo L - ?? - confirmed 25/05/07 - Rank: newbie
9 - Daniele B - ?? - confirmed 31/05/07 - Rank: newbie

NORWAY
1 - Jorn F - “Freshmaker” - confirmed 24/05/07 - Rank: 33

GREECE
1 - Alkis P - “Alkis21″ - confirmed 25/05/07 - Rank: 4

TO BE CONFIRMED PLAYERS:
1- Mark B - “Bounty Bob” - ENG - Rank: 40 (trying to buy tickets…)
2- Rollo T - ITA - Rank: newbie (as reported by filippodb)
3- Francesco D - ITA - Rank: 50 (as reported by filippodb)

Ranks are indicated at the date of registration.

GAMING ROOM AND SCHEDULE
Address of the venue and schedule of Day1 and Day2 will be posted ASAP

FLIGHTS AND HOW TO REACH THE CITY / THE VENUE
Rome is very well connected especially by air.

www.ryanair.com
www.easyjet.com

A detailed map of the venue location and how to reach it from the airport and/or train station will be prepared soon.

HOTELS
Two hotels of different class/price will be proposed ASAP near the venue or connected to the venue by quick subway trips.

TOURNAMENT RULES
These settings will be used in every game, with no exceptions:

- NO WIND
- PBD MIX
- NO RANDOM PITCH
- NO LINE UP CHANGES AT START
- RANDOM REFEREE
- AFTERTOUCH

Please refer to the forum for details on these keywords.

TOURNAMENT FORMAT
Seeding and group forming:
Seeding will be done as usually by the “seeding experts” on the KOA forums. Groups will be formed by the seeding results and extraction on Friday evening, at the Day0 dinner. Location will be posted ASAP.

Day 1 Format:
Groups depends mainly of the total number of players, but the target is to create groups of 8 players. The format will be TEAM A = TEAM B, 2×5 MIN, 1 LEG.
Each player should have the same amount of TEAM A and TEAM B matches.

Day 2:
This match day is charachterized by three parallel competitions, all TEAM A > TEAM B, 2×5 MIN, 2 LEG knockout matches. Both playoff and playout will be fully played until each player will have its unique ranking position (like Koeln05 and London06).

The TOP16 players will have access to the WORLD CUP.
The MID16 players will have access to the KOA CUP.
The other will access to the FUN CUP.
Qualifiying mode depends of group of day1. Generally, the same qualifying rules as London06 will be used. Organizers will post the final format for discussion after the preregistration.

In case of tie matches, extra times will be played. In this case, a coin will be tossed to decide Team A. The extra times are played in TEAM A = TEAM B mode, 2×5 MIN EXTRA TIME, PENALTY SHOOTOUT.

These games will be displayed on screen:
- SEMI FINALS WC
- FINALS WC (both 1st/2nd and 3rd/4th place)
- FINAL KOACUP
- FINAL FUN CUP
- GAME OF SHAME (1 leg TEAM A = TEAM B match, organizzers will decide the conditions, camber-windy game possible )

PRIZES
The prizes are:
1st WORLD CHAMPION the shield and a golden COLOSSEUM CUP
2nd RUNNER UP CHAMP a silver COLOSSEUM CUP
3rd a bronze COLOSSEUM CUP
4th a smaller bronze COLOSSEUM CUP

KOA CUP WINNER a small golden COLOSSEUM CUP
RUNNER UP a small silver COLOSSEUM CUP

FUN CUP WINNER a even smaller golden COLOSSEUM CUP
RUNNER UP a even smaller silver COLOSSEUM CUP

There will be THE GAME OF SHAME with prizes (Tshirts).

Obviously some special prices for best attack and defense too… and a special price to the 3 best ranked NEWBIES (definition of newbie: rome2007 should be your first WC attendance).

PS: gold, silver and bronze mean that the cups are painted not that they are made of 24k gold, pure silver or acient bronze

Registration
Each person can preregister at website. No fee payment is required. We’ll setup a website form to handle all the registrations.
Registered players can vote for the introduction of

- EXTRA TACTICS

This is the ONLY ONE RULE that can and will be polled. The rule will be voted by preregistered users.The poll starts on 10 July and ends on 10 October.
Please register also in this post so that I can keep the player list updated by posting: KO2 name - KOA forum name (if available) - nation - KOA rank (if available)

WebSite
http://kickoff2worldcup.org

Main reference to the Worldcup with this post.

Fees
Calculations in progress. They will be not that high, no need to frighten up for this…

Vote one of the best soccer games ever created. All of this game from 80s and 90s are still updated and supported by active communities!

Here you can take part of the poll:  Vote the best soccer game of all time for Coin OP, Commodore 64, Amiga and MS-DOS

Mexico 86 (Kick n run)
www.kickoffworld.net/wiki/index.php?title=Mexico_86

Technorati Tags: Kick Off 2, Player Manager, Sensible World of Soccer, Goal!, Dino Dini Soccer, Emlyn Hughes International Soccer, Microprose Soccer, The Manager, Tehkan World Cup, Mexico 86, Kick n run, MAME, Arcade, Amiga, MS-DOS, soccer game, football game

This is an updated version of Player Manager 1.1 with Kick Off 2 graphics and european players with their real names. It’s made by a brazilan fan, Le Cusi and he already made the brazilian version of PM!! , enjoy:

DOWNLOAD Player Manager 2006/07

Technorati Tags: Player Manager, Kick Off 2, Dino Dini, Amiga, Champions League, update, 2006, 2007

Related Link: Champions League Wetten (German for “Betting on the Champions League”) can be done online at good odds for ManU, Chelsea or Real Madrid all over the internet.

Amiga SWOS 2006-07 update includes:

Updated Teams:
Austria - Stephen Smith
Belgium - Stephen Smith
Denmark - Poul Olsen
England - Stephen Smith
France - Ben
Germany - Stephen Smith
Greece - Whiteulver
CUSTOM - Stephen Smith
Holland - Rob Groot
Japan - Ben
Portugal - Pedro Antunes
Russia - Stephen Smith
Scotland Pre- Stephen Smith
Serbia - Yossarian
Spain - Stephen Smith
Switzerland - Stephen Smith
Turkey - Cem Turan
MLS USA - Luis Antonio Soto Cedillo

The first 4 groups of Champions League 2006-07 Competition

Updated graphics:

Installation and Usage
-Download
-Unzip
-Run Installer and extract the contents to a folder.
-Run winuae.exe and select from configurations tab Sensible World Of Soccer 2006-07
-Press ok for 16bit GPU test(if prompt)

Technorati Tags: Sensible World of SOccer, SWOS, Amiga, update, WinUAE

Related Link: Free Movies Free Movies

The annual Kick Off 2 World tournament ended this year with the victory of the Athens Champion Spyros! 50 players came from all over Europe to attend at the most important retrosoccer event of the year! Game of Shame as always was the game between the 2 players with the worst performance on tournament but this year it was played by a girl for the first time.

Here we have available the full matches of the 2006 event. Thanks to Steve Camber for the hard work. Enjoy it!

SemiFinals

• Part1 Gianni vs Spyros
• Part2 Spyros vs Gianni

• Part1 Mario vs Marco
• Part2 Marco vs Mario

Game of Shame

• Shame

Finals

• 3/4 place Part1 Gianni vs Marco.wmv
• 3/4 place Part2 Marco vs Gianni.wmv

• Final Part1 Spyros vs Mario.wmv
• Final Part2 Mario vs Spyros.wmv

KOA WC2006 Awards

Technorati Tags: Kick Off 2, 2006 World Cup, soccer, Amiga

Video game pioneers know it - the COMPETITION PRO for Commodore 64 (C64) and Amiga systems won the hearts of the gaming community in the eighties and soon became the most successful joystick of all times. It’s extreme durability and the characteristic clicking of the microswitches ensured its brand recognition.It’s back now! In cooperation with Individual Computers, SPEED-LINK now re-creates the joystick in its classic form: The Competition Pro with a plug for Commodore, Amiga, Atari, Amstrad/Schneider CPC and MSX Systems.

When the Competition Pro was re-released for normal PCs in 2004, the main target was to be true to the original. The design was 100% adopted and characteristics like microswitches, metal stick and the choice of colours are identical. All these details paid off: The SPEED-LINK Competition Pro USB was a huge success.

“As a result of the attention that the re-release of the SPEED-LINK Competition Pro USB has attracted, we received many requests for the original version with a plug for the systems of the eighties. We learned that there are many people who still own the old systems like the Commodore 64.” says Michael Eisenblätter, CEO of Jöllenbeck GmbH. “This led to the idea of reviving the old Competition Pro. The final impulse for putting the project into practice was given by the cooperation with Individual Computers. They have a lot of experience in the field of retro-computing and were of great help in realizing this project.”

Jens Schönfeld of Individual Computers comments: “My personal reason for pushing this project forward is that there’s hardly any supply of used Competition Pro joysticks for the C64. Even the best joysticks have to be replaced after 20 years of hard use. Owners of a working Competition Pro would not part with it. More and more people are digging out their C64s and start the old games that - despite block-graphics - have at least the same fun-factor as today’s photo-realistic PC games. As a direct result, prices on eBay reach outrageous numbers. This is a very good base for a successful re-launch of a high-quality product.”

More details:

• A real classic, an icon of Retro-Gaming
• for connection to retro-systems like Amiga, C64, Amstrad/Schneider CPC, Atari, MSX
• six microswitches, two axles, four firebuttons
• upper firebuttons can be switched off
• cable length of two metres (6 ft.)
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