F3 2013 - Freestylers Announced

[Adi]

F3 World Tour 2013

Date: April 2013
Location: Dubai

Top 8 from Kuala Lumpur World Championship:
Andrew Henderson (England)
Gautier Fayolle (France)
Michal Rycaj (Poland)
Kotaro Tokuda (Japan)
Lukasz Chwieduk (Poland)
Philip Warren Gertsson (Norway/Sweden)
Szymon Skalski (Poland)
Carlos Iacono (Argentina)

5 players chosen according to F3 point system:
Gunther Celli (Italy)
Daniel Dennehy (Ireland)
Tobias Brandal Busaet (Norway)
Ammar عمار الخضيري (UAE)
Curtis Maher (Australia)

3 wildcards:
Pedro Oliveira (Brazil)
Igor Oleynik (Russia)
Boyka Ortiz (Colombia)

[redsforlife]

Does anyone know exactly how they do the points system? The many worldwide freestyle competitions just seem to individual for it to be a really fair comparison among all freestylers worldwide.

[Adi]

Does anyone know exactly how they do the points system?

More info: http://freestylefootball.org/events/

[redsforlife]

Still doesn't explain much. What competitions are included in this? I could organize a competition here, and claim it's a world open whether anyone other than locals show up or not. I know the competition I won last February wasn't included in these rankings. It was technically a national competition, but no one outside of Georgia participated.

RBSS's qualifying is much better since they do the national competitions for the countries involved. It makes it clear cut and easy to know what's going on. This gives huge advantages to the Europeans as there are just far more competitions there. There aren't really any legit competitions other than Red Bull I know of in North America. All of the ones I've heard of recently are either done by small companies or are just glorified meets. F3 is definitely attempting to make the professionalism better in the competitions, but it's not really there until the world  finals and a few select other competitions.

[Adi]

Yeah, it's not a great system but it's trying to do something for freestyle.  Freestyle is still not very organized so you can only do so much.  As you said, RBSS has the best setup for the way freestyle is structured at this point.

[Zarzi]

I agree that this system is a little strange. Among the competitors were a few people who in my humble opinion, a little exaggerated will go to Dubai.
Again, on the other hand, RBSS system is quite good, but for example, from Poland or Russia could only go one freestyler.

[Adi]

Again, on the other hand, RBSS system is quite good, but for example, from Poland or Russia could only go one freestyler.

That's the biggest problem with RBSS.  Personally, I think they need to add some type of coefficient for the top freestyle nations like Poland and Russia.  It could work like the Champions League.  Some countries get 3 teams, some only 1.

[Zarzi]

This is a great idea. In my opinion it should look like. Then it would be the most fair. Countries where freestyle is at a high level would be happy, and certainly less no disappointed. The more that they would have a chance to jump to the forefront.