2013 Amway Canadian Championship details released

Discussion in 'Toronto FC' started by atlanticTFCfan, Sep 29, 2012.

  1. atlanticTFCfan

    atlanticTFCfan Moderator
    Staff Member

    Mar 14, 2007
    Sydney, Nova Scotia
    Club:
    Toronto FC
    Nat'l Team:
    Canada
  2. ArteEtLabore

    ArteEtLabore Member

    Dec 16, 2006
    Club:
    Toronto FC
    Nat'l Team:
    Canada
    And despite winning the championship 4 years in a row, TFC gets seeded 3rd.

    To be honest, though now that the CCL format has changed, this championship means less to me. The winner gets to play in a tournament designed for a USA v Mexico final.
     
  3. Kingston

    Kingston Member+

    Oct 6, 2005
    Then just call it the Canadian Championship or the Voyageurs Cup and ignore the corporate sponsor de jour.
     
  4. Polygong

    Polygong Moderator
    Staff Member

    Apr 8, 2007
    Toronto
    Club:
    Toronto FC
    Nat'l Team:
    Canada
    The fact is though that it is pretty clear that VWFC and IdM are far better clubs than we are. I seriously doubt that the title will be ours next year.
     
  5. DavemTFC

    DavemTFC Member

    Apr 4, 2012
    Toronto
    Club:
    Toronto FC
    Nat'l Team:
    Canada
    You have to remember though...we won it this year while going 0-9 in the league at the same time ;)
     
  6. atlanticTFCfan

    atlanticTFCfan Moderator
    Staff Member

    Mar 14, 2007
    Sydney, Nova Scotia
    Club:
    Toronto FC
    Nat'l Team:
    Canada
    And had a decent coach. Next year? Too many questions with Mariner (and yes, there is another thread for that discussion :sneaky: ).
     
  7. TheChoker

    TheChoker Member

    May 6, 2007
    Toronto
    I hope you're not referring to De Winter...

    The Canadian Championship in my eyes is a so over bloated...there are only 4 teams yet two of those teams play 4 games a piece.
     
  8. nlsanand

    nlsanand Member+

    May 31, 2007
    Toronto
    Club:
    Toronto FC
    Nat'l Team:
    Canada
    Kinda sucks that we don't get Edmonton in the first round. I could have sworn that Voyageurs Cup records from previous year was determined first. That's how the seeds were set 2009, 2010, and 2011. When they switched from league format, I thought preference was still given to finalists.

    Either way, this is still a fun tournament, and if Canada is lucky enough to draw a US group next year, then the prize is worth something. I will admit CCL has lost some of its luster this year, because the group stages seem less competitive.
     
  9. nlsanand

    nlsanand Member+

    May 31, 2007
    Toronto
    Club:
    Toronto FC
    Nat'l Team:
    Canada
    Do you not find it nice to have a Canadian only tourney? Based on that, you need a home and away format to keep it fair. Like I've said, if Ottawa comes in, they should go back to a league format with 4 matches.
     
  10. Kingston

    Kingston Member+

    Oct 6, 2005
    The problem with the four match league format is the imbalance in home and away matches. There is a definite skew toward winning at home. If I'm a TFC fan, it makes a huge difference if I play Vancouver and Montreal at home while playing Edmonton and Ottawa on the road as compared to the opposite.

    How do you keep things fair for everyone? Home and away, I suppose, but eight games is a lot to ask.
     
  11. Polygong

    Polygong Moderator
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    Apr 8, 2007
    Toronto
    Club:
    Toronto FC
    Nat'l Team:
    Canada
    I think the solution to that is to balance it out from year to year. If you play 2 home games in one year, you play three the next and vice versa.
     
  12. nlsanand

    nlsanand Member+

    May 31, 2007
    Toronto
    Club:
    Toronto FC
    Nat'l Team:
    Canada
    My view in a 5 team league like that would be, each MLS team gets one road game v. Ottawa or Edmonton and one home game. That would balance it enough. Everything else would in God's hands.

    It would still be a lot more fair than a bracket tournament since you have to play every team.

    8 games would likely not be possible, so it has to be ruled out as an option.
     
  13. Kingston

    Kingston Member+

    Oct 6, 2005
    I'd actually be more concerned about the games against MLS opposition since you'd have to assume you'd beat the NASL teams no matter where you play them. Your idea of ensuring a balance of home and away by league would still be valid, though, and probably the most workable option.
     
  14. nlsanand

    nlsanand Member+

    May 31, 2007
    Toronto
    Club:
    Toronto FC
    Nat'l Team:
    Canada
    If each MLS team is guaranteed one home and away versus NASL, the related corollary is that each MLS team will have one home and away versus the other MLS teams, as you'd have to have 2 home and 2 away.
     
  15. atlanticTFCfan

    atlanticTFCfan Moderator
    Staff Member

    Mar 14, 2007
    Sydney, Nova Scotia
    Club:
    Toronto FC
    Nat'l Team:
    Canada
    BTW, for those interested, here is how the teams will be seeded for the tournament next year, based on how the Canadian teams finished the regular season:

    1. Vancouver Whitecaps FC
    2. Montréal Impact
    3. Toronto FC
    4. FC Edmonton
     
  16. DavemTFC

    DavemTFC Member

    Apr 4, 2012
    Toronto
    Club:
    Toronto FC
    Nat'l Team:
    Canada
    Looking forward to beating Vancouver in the final again :p
     
  17. Polygong

    Polygong Moderator
    Staff Member

    Apr 8, 2007
    Toronto
    Club:
    Toronto FC
    Nat'l Team:
    Canada
    Why it is we continue to dominate this competition despite being the crappiest MLS side in Canada is beyond me. I'm starting to suspect that the other clubs aren't even trying.
     
  18. Kingston

    Kingston Member+

    Oct 6, 2005
    The sample size is still small enough for statistical flukes to affect the outcome significantly.
     
  19. TOareaFan

    TOareaFan Member+

    Jun 19, 2008
    Greater Toronto Area
    Club:
    Toronto FC
    Nat'l Team:
    Canada
    It may be an indication that the team, head to head, is not as far away from Montreal and Vancouver as we like to think we are....we may have talked ourselves into being miserable. Yes it is a small sample, but if you turn the 9 matches (all competitions) between Canadian based MLS clubs in 2012 into a league format....Toronto wins the league.

    Toronto would be W4-L1-D3 for 15pts (62.5% of available points)
    Vancouver wld be W1-L2-D1 for 4pts (33.33% of available points)
    Montreal would be W1-L3-D2 for 5pts (27.78% of available)

    Even if you expand it to include the two matches involving Edmonton (who end up with a 0%) Vancouver's two wins take them to 55.56% winning percentage.

    So if the other Canadian MLS squads are "not trying" against us, they extended that to the league too ;).
     
  20. mikey99

    mikey99 Member

    May 15, 2007
    I am surprised that ML$E has bought up the sponsorship, and renamed it "the playoffs"
     
    crazypete13 repped this.
  21. scarborotfcfan

    May 26, 2008
    I'm going to go with statistical fluke. Earlier this season, I posted that I think this tournament was lame and that we should just use the MLS standings. Some valid criticisms of that idea were posted such as the unbalanced schedule but the high probability of a statistical fluke where a crappy team qualifies for a tournament supposedly made of champions is precisely the reason I posted that.
     
  22. Polygong

    Polygong Moderator
    Staff Member

    Apr 8, 2007
    Toronto
    Club:
    Toronto FC
    Nat'l Team:
    Canada
    I still don't see that as a reason to abandon it. That's a reason to improve it, by bringing more clubs in NASL.

    And it can happen in even the most respectable of tournaments, look at Portsmouth winning the FA Cup a few years ago.
     
  23. ArteEtLabore

    ArteEtLabore Member

    Dec 16, 2006
    Club:
    Toronto FC
    Nat'l Team:
    Canada
    If you are going with the premise that Canada should only be entering its best team into the tournament, then yes you could argue that the tournament is a failure in doing that. But aside from the unbalance schedule argument, picking the top team in the MLS standings is a boring way to go about doing it.

    And sure, the worst mls team qualified. But it also gave some interest to an otherwise pointless season for TFC fans. So from that point of view I see it as a good thing to keep the tournament going.
     
  24. RetreadFC

    RetreadFC Member

    Sep 8, 2008
    Oshawa
    Club:
    Toronto FC
    Nat'l Team:
    England
    oh for sure we should keep it. Don't forget MOntreal made it quite far before they were even in the MLS. I look forward to a day when there's even more teams.
     
  25. Kingston

    Kingston Member+

    Oct 6, 2005
    Not to mention the relative silliness of choosing your Canadian champion based on how they perform against (mainly) American teams.
     

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