Will pots be announced prior to 12/9?

[Kilmer17]

Sorry if this has been answered, I searched but didnt see it.

Will the pots be announced prior to the draw?

[voyager]

Sorry if this has been answered, I searched but didnt see it.

Will the pots be announced prior to the draw?

Pots? What have you been smoking?

[tab5g]

There is a FIFA organizational meeting on Dec 6, I believe they will be deciding on Seeds and Pots (sounds interesting) during that meeting.

There will be an announcement of the procedure for the draw (the announcement should contain the seeds and pot designations) on Tuesday Dec 6 (during the 7am US Eastern Time Press Conference).

The draw is on Friday Dec 9 (with the broadcast of the actual draw starting at 2:30pm Eastern).

From: http://fifaworldcup.yahoo.com/06/en/051117/1/5a4d.html

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Appointments, meetings, press conferences, the official FIFA banquet, a media party with the theme "A time to make friends in Leipzig"… all these are in store for guests of the final draw in the week from 5-9 December. The first FIFA delegates, representatives of national associations and members of the press will be flying in from around the world to the Leipzig Congress Center from 9.00am on 3 December, when the accreditation booth opens.

The most important body in world football will also be convening in Leipzig – the FIFA Executive Committee. The procedure for the draw will officially be published on 6 December after a meeting of the FIFA Organising Committee for the 2006 FIFA World Cup, chaired by Vice President Lennart Johansson.

Main media events (subject to changes):

Monday 5 December:

Opening of the accreditations centre (8.00am) and media centre (12.00pm)

Press conference for the FIFA Club World Championship (3.00pm)

Tuesday 6 December:

Meeting of the Organising Committee for the 2006 FIFA World Cup (9.00am – 12.00pm)

Press conference held by the Organising Committee for the 2006 FIFA World Cup (1.00pm)

Wednesday 7 December:

FIFA Marketing & Television Partner Workshop

FIFA Executive Committee meeting

Press conference with the Executive Committee of the Organising Committee of the 2006 FIFA World Cup Germany (12.00pm)

"A time to make friends in Leipzig" party in the Moritz bastion (8.00pm)

Thursday 8 December:

Stadium tour for media representative (10.00am – 12.00pm)

FIFA press conference (1.00pm)

Friday 9 December:

Extraordinary assembly of the German FA (DFB) in The Leipzig Opera House (11.00am – 1.00pm)

Media briefing for TV and radio (11.00am – 12.00pm)

Media briefing for print and photography (4.30 – 5.00pm)

Final draw welcome (8.00pm)

Final draw live broadcast (8.30pm)

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[CCTX SoccerFreak]

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did someone say pot?? :p

[swedust]

There will be an announcement of the procedure for the draw (the announcement should contain the seeds and pot designations) on Tuesday Dec 6 (during the 7am US Eastern Time Press Conference).

Cool. Good find, tab5g.

I don't know if this will raise or lower my anxiety in the days before the draw.

Hey all you statisticians, will knowing the seeds and the pot designations (ha ha ha, etc.) in advance improve the accuracy of mock draws to a significant degree?

Also, our odds of going into a Group of Death decrease if Mexico is not a seed, correct? Because it's one more pot we could be drawn into?

[tab5g]

Cool. Good find, tab5g.

I don't know if this will raise or lower my anxiety in the days before the draw.

Hey all you statisticians, will knowing the seeds and the pot designations (ha ha ha, etc.) in advance improve the accuracy of mock draws to a significant degree?

Also, our odds of going into a Group of Death decrease if Mexico is not a seed, correct? Because it's one more pot we could be drawn into?

knowing the draw procedures on Dec 6 will give those mock drawers some actual hard/published facts on which to base their scenarios. currently, not knowing the seeds and pot alignments, there are 2-4 reasonable ways things can be set up for a mock draw.

a lot does depend on who the 8 seeds are and how the 3 pots outside of the seeds are established. those questions will be answered on Tuesday. The US will know on Dec 6 which pot they are in, and therefore will be able to say with certainty who (beyond Mex, CR and T&T) will not be in their drawn group of four.

If Mexico (or the US) is not seeded and the seeds are BRA, ARG, and 6 UEFA nations, then I think it makes sense to place into one pot the 4 Concacaf and the 4 Asian teams. In that scenario the US would know that they would be in a group with one of the seeds, a non-seeded team from UEFA and one from the pot of AUS, PAR, ECU, and the 5 African sides.

Again, it is just speculation until we see the seeds and pot designations, which will be published (should Fifa stay on schedule) on Dec 6.

[djdustmite]

Pardon if this has been posted elsewhere.

The draw the Uli comes up with here actually got me pretty stoked:

http://soccernet.espn.go.com/columns/story?id=350665&root=worldcup&cc=5901