ZooChat Cup - Europe

Results from the first segment of eight zoos:

Prague d. Amsterdam
Colchester d. Salzburg
Zlin d. Rostock
Bristol d. Zagreb

Prague will face Colchester and Zlin goes up against Bristol in the second round, with the winners of those matches to face off in the round of 16.
 
There has been only marginal movement in vote totals after the first few days of each poll. Just gauging the thoughts of others - would you like me to reduce the length of polls to, say, four days? I don't think this will have any material impact on the level of engagement with each match, but it will get us to the business end of the competition somewhat faster.
 
Oh, and recent results:

Doue-la-Fontaine d Cotswold
Magdeburg d Munich
Dresden d Barcelona
Vienna d Tallinn

Doue will take on Magdeburg and Dresden faces Vienna in the second round. I was genuinely surprised to see Munich fall at the first hurdle: the first really big casualty, I think.

Note these matches won't take place until the entire first round is complete. But feel free to debate the implications of possible categories for each match in the mean time. :)
 
One half of the draw has been revealed in full! Here's where we are so far:

Prague d Amsterdam
Colchester d Salzburg
Zlin d Rostock
Bristol d Zagreb
Doue-la-Fontaine d Cotswold
Magdeburg d Munich
Dresden d Barcelona
Vienna d Tallinn
Chester d Valencia
Budapest d Jardin des Plantes
Ostrava d Odense
Cologne d Frankfurt
Hamburg v Mulhouse - Hamburg decisively ahead
London v Planckendael - Planckendael decisively ahead
Attica v Whipsnade - too early to call
Copenhagen v Zurich - too early to call

The second round matches will be as follows:

Prague (1) v Colchester
Bristol v Zlin
Doue-la-Fontaine v Magdeburg
Dresden v Vienna (8)
Chester (5) v Budapest
Ostrava v Cologne
Likely - Hamburg v Planckendael
Attica/Whipsnade v Copenhagen/Zurich

One of those zoos is a finalist.
 
The second half of the draw is a little light on, I admit. Both Berlins, Burgers and Plzen are the seeds. Not a lot of depth, unfortunately. Only the likes of Basel, Beauval, Leipzig, Nuremberg, Pairi Daiza, Rotterdam, Stuttgart, Wroclaw and Wuppertal.
 
CGSwans said:
The second half of the draw is a little light on, I admit. Both Berlins, Burgers and Plzen are the seeds. Not a lot of depth, unfortunately. Only the likes of Basel, Beauval, Leipzig, Nuremberg, Pairi Daiza, Rotterdam, Stuttgart, Wroclaw and Wuppertal.
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So it is only 4 of the 5 largest European collections by species numbers, the 2 best zoo-aquariums, two of the fastest rising stars and dangerous underdogs like Nuremberg and Stuttgart. Easy win for Basel!
 
lintworm said:
So it is only 4 of the 5 largest European collections by species numbers, the 2 best zoo-aquariums, two of the fastest rising stars and dangerous underdogs like Nuremberg and Stuttgart. Easy win for Basel!
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And woe betide the zoo that cops Twycross on primates. Wouldn't like to be playing Cabarceno on ungulates or large carnivores, either.
 
This seems like a nice competition. If only there was another one dealing with North American zoos...
 
TheWalrus said:
This seems like a nice competition. If only there was another one dealing with North American zoos...
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Nothing stopping you. :)

The only trouble is getting a critical mass of people who have visited a critical mass of US zoos. While it’s not necessary to have actually visited the zoos in order to vote, the game would struggle if there were many in the field where very few have visited.
 
I don't understand how the seeding system works...

Also, has anyone else been thinking of scenarios in their heads?

Berlin Zoo vs Twycross for Primates
Berlin Tierpark vs Chester for Large Carnivores
Duisburg vs Bristol for Small Mammals

They are some that I have been thinking of.
 
PaleoMatt said:
I don't understand how the seeding system works...

Also, has anyone else been thinking of scenarios in their heads?
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Towards the end of my European travel thread a number of well-travelled European zoo-goers listed their personal top tens. The eight seeds were the top eight ranked zoos based on aggregates of those lists.
 
CGSwans said:
Towards the end of my European travel thread a number of well-travelled European zoo-goers listed their personal top tens. The eight seeds were the top eight ranked zoos based on aggregates of those lists.
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Yes but what does it mean to be seeded.
 
PaleoMatt said:
Yes but what does it mean to be seeded.
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Seeding means they were guaranteed not to play each other until the quarter finals, and then in a defined order (1 v 8, 2 v 7, 3 v 6 and 4 v 5). It's the same way seeding works in tennis tournaments.

If I do a second one of these (something I'm warming to, but let's see in due course), I think I'd expand the seeding list out to 16 but randomise their order (ie, not ranked seeds, just a pool of seeds).
 
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