Format of the Argentine Selections Tournament “Gaby Pando”

The Argentine Selections Tournament returns. From next Wednesday, July 2 to Saturday 6, Rosario will be the headquarters From the most prestigious contest in the country, where the selected of each city, province or region participate every year in search of being crowned as the Argentine champion. The tournament will be called “Gaby Pando”in commemoration of the historic former player of Las Leonas, between 1989 and 1998, and team head of the national selected national, between 2014 and 2017.

The championship will be played in five days and will be divided into two tournaments: Tournament Championship and Ascent Tournament (previously called “Argentine Tournament of major selections ascent to”). It will be played on three courts: World Cup stadium, the Jockey Club and the Gymnastics and Fencing Club of Rosario. The group stage will be played from Wednesday 2 to Friday, July 4 and the finals on Sunday 6.

Format of the Argentine Selections Tournament:

Rosario will receive 32 teams (16 ladies and 16 knights). Each tournament (the championship and ascent) will have eight teams, divided into two areas of four each. “The participating teams of the Championship Tournament will compete to be the Argentine champion. Those who, after the crosses, are in the lowest area of ​​the championship tournament will play a relocation match with those who are classified after the semifinals of the Ascent Tournament. In this way, matches will be played by permanence/ascent, which is expected to raise the level of the tournament, maintaining the prestige that the contest deserves”explained the Argentine Hockey Confederation in a statement.

“Championship” tournament:

• Male group:
  – Tucumán
  – Mendoza (current champion)
  – The coast
  – Salta

• Women’s Group:
  – San Juan
  – Mar del Plata
  – Buenos Aires (current champion)
  – White Bay

• Male group:
  – Tandil
  – Córdoba
  – Buenos Aires
  – San Juan

• Women’s group:
  – Córdoba
  – The coast
  – Mendoza
  – Salta

On Saturday 5 the crosses will be played between the teams that end in the 3rd and 4th place in areas A and B of the championship tournament. THE OBJECTIVE: Define the positions from 5 to 8th place. The teams that win these confrontations will not only ensure their permanence in the category, but will also play on Sunday the game for the 5th and 6th place.

On the other hand, the teams that lose these crosses will not have rest. On Sunday they must face the winners of the semifinals in areas C and D of the Ascent Tournamentin decisive matches for a place in the next edition of the Argentine Championship. Those who impose themselves in those matches will play in the championship tournament next year; The losers, on the other hand, will compete in the Ascent Tournament.

“Ascent” Tournament:

• Male group:
  – White Bay
  – Santiago del Estero
  – Neuquén
  – Chubut

• Women’s Group:
  – Southwest Buenos Aires
  – Tucumán
  – Tandil
  – Missions

• Male group:
  – Santa Fe
  – Rioja
  – Entre Ríos
  – Catamarca

• Women’s Group:
  – Chaco
  – Río Negro
  – Santiago del Estero
  – Santa Fe

The ascent tournament teams that do not reach the relocation match With the championship tournament explained above, will continue playing for the final positionstaking into account that The last two teams of the tournament descend to the “Ascent B Tournament”. The losers of the semifinals (crosses between the 1st and 2nd places in areas c and d) will play on Sunday 6 for the 11th and 12th positions.

Those who remain in positions 3 and 4th in the group stage will cross on Saturday 5 to define who remain and who descend to the Ascent B tournament B. The winners of the crosses between the classified 3rd and 4th in areas C and D will play, on Sunday 6, for locations 13th and 14th of the tournament, and the losers, already descended, will play for positions 15th and 16th.