Rome will host the 2007 Kick Off 2 World Cup, the main tournament of the Kick Off Association, it'll take place on 10-11 November 2007. 

  TOTAL PLAYERS CONFIRMED: 51

ITALY
1 - Gianluca T - "Foxsoft" - confirmed 24/05/07 - Rank: 1
2 - Marco S - "Stox" - confirmed 24/05/07 - Rank: 92
3 - Filippo D - "filippodb" - confirmed 25/05/07 - Rank: 47
4 - Giacomo T - ?? - confirmed 25/05/07 - Rank: 35
5 - Franco C - ?? - confirmed 25/05/07 - Rank: 77
6 - Fabio A - ?? - confirmed 25/05/07 - Rank: 106
7 - Francesco L - ?? - confirmed 25/05/07 - Rank: newbie
8 - Lorenzo L - ?? - confirmed 25/05/07 - Rank: newbie
9 - Daniele B - ?? - confirmed 31/05/07 - Rank: newbie
10 - Stefano A - ?? - confirmed 06/06/07 - Rank: newbie
11 - Valerio M - ?? - confirmed 06/06/07 - Rank: newbie
12 - Emanuele M - ?? - confirmed 06/06/07 - Rank: newbie
13 - Rollo T - ?? - confirmed 25/07/07 - Rank: newbie
14 - Giangabriele F - ?? - confirmed 21/08/07 - Rank: newbie
15 - Alessandro C - confirmed 04/09/07 - Rank: newbie
16 - Flavio Z - confirmed 04/09/07 - Rank: newbie
17 - Luca F - confirmed 04/09/07 - Rank: newbie
18 - Gianni T - Torchiador - confirmed 21/09/07 - Rank: 1
19 - Sandro T - Italian Sex Instructor - confirmed 21/09/07 - Rank: 49
20 - Alessandro V - confirmed 21/09/07 - Rank: 43
21 - Mario F - Millemediane - confirmed 21/09/07 - Rank: 10
22 - Fabio F - confirmed 21/09/07 - Rank: 28
23 - Fabio M - confirmed 28/09/07 - Rank: newbie
24 - Alessandro M - confirmed 29/09/07 - Rank: newbie
25 - Giovanni S - confirmed 29/09/07 - Rank: newbie
26 - Alessandro G - candyman - confirmed 06/10/07 - Rank: newbie
27 - Simone C - CiacioZ - confirmed 06/10/07 - Rank: newbie

NORWAY
1 - Jorn F - "Freshmaker" - confirmed 24/05/07 - Rank: 33
2 - Knut L - "KnutL" - confirmed 25/07/07 - Rank: 75

GREECE
1 - Alkis P - "Alkis21" - confirmed 25/05/07 - Rank: 4
2 - Spyros - "Abyss" - confirmed 12/06/07 - Rank: 3 - Current World Champion
3 - Vasilis K - "VKafiris" - confirmed 05/07/07 - Rank:49

ENGLAND
1 - Mark B - "Bounty Bob" - confirmed 06/10/07 - Rank: 40
2 - Steve C - "Steve Camber" - confirmed 02/10/07 - Rank: 18
3 - Steve E - "Steve1977" - confirmed 15/08/07 - Rank: 100 (newbie)
4 - Sid - - confirmed 08/10/07

GERMANY
1 - Alex B - "Tripod" - confirmed 12/06/07 - Rank: 55
2 - Oliver S - "Oliver St" - confirmed 26/06/07 - Rank: 31
3 - Joerg P - "Pansen" - confirmed 25/07/07 - Rank: 50
4 - Peter S - "Peter" - confirmed 25/07/07 - Rank: 111
5 - Wolf H - wolfVOZ - confirmed 25/07/07 - Rank: 110
6 - Thomas N - _Thomas_VfL_Osnabrück - confirmed 04/09/07 / Rank> 85
7 - Thorsten B - confirmed 09/09/07 /
8 - Andreas K - confirmed 09/09/07 /

SPAIN
1 - Rodolfo M - "Rodolfo" - confirmed 12/06/07 - Rank: 29

AUSTRIA
1 - Michael M - "r.cross" - confirmed 29/06/07 - Rank: newbie
2 - Harald B. - "Webster" - confirmed 01/08/07 - Rank:newbie
3 - Michael F. - "coldie" - confirmed 27/09/07 - Rank: newbie

NETHERLANDS
1 - Astrid B - ?? - confirmed 25/07/07 - Rank: newbie

SWEDEN
1 - John H - hogstrom - confirmed 15/08/07 - Rank: 18

DENMARK
1 - Aksel - cinfirmed 04/09/07 - Rank: newbie

GAMING ROOM
The world cup should take place in a private room of a pub located in the heart of Rome. This means we should pay no money for the rental of room but we must pay our meal and drinks offered by the pub. Since the pub is well placed i cannot exclude that we'll have also some last minute players who wants to join us after going in the pub for a drink.

DATE and LOGISTICS
The date ais 10-11 November. Since we are in a central area of Rome we are looking for a cheap hotel so we'll give you more info soon. But please keep in mind Rome is generally expensive so you should expect a room
price much less than London but greater than Tromso.

FLIGHTS
Rome is very well connected especially by air. I suggest the two main low cost company covering Ciampino airport (Ciampino is a town really near Rome). I included all the routes to Rome (click on the picture).

www.ryanair.com

www.easyjet.com

TOURNAMENT RULES
These settings will be used in every game, with no exceptions:

- NO WIND
- PBD MIX
- NO RANDOM PITCH
- NO LINE UP CHANGES AT START
- RANDOM REFEREE
- AFTERTOUCH

Please refer to the forums for details on these keywords.

TOURNAMENT FORMAT
Seeding and group forming:
Seeding will be done as usually by the "seeding experts" on the KOA forums. Groups will be formed by the seeding results and extraction on Friday evening, at the Day0 dinner. Location will be posted ASAP.

Day 1 Format:
Groups depends mainly of the total number of players, but the target is to create groups of 8 players. The format will be TEAM A = TEAM B, 2x5 MIN, 1 LEG.
Each player should have the same amount of TEAM A and TEAM B matches.

Day 2:
This match day is charachterized by three parallel competitions, all TEAM A > TEAM B, 2x5 MIN, 2 LEG knockout matches. Both playoff and playout will be fully played until each player will have its unique ranking position (like Koeln05 and London06).

The TOP16 players will have access to the WORLD CUP.
The MID16 players will have access to the KOA CUP.
The other will access to the FUN CUP.
Qualifiying mode depends of group of day1. Generally, the same qualifying rules as London06 will be used. Organizers will post the final format for discussion after the preregistration.

In case of tie matches, extra times will be played. In this case, a coin will be tossed to decide Team A. The extra times are played in TEAM A = TEAM B mode, 2x5 MIN EXTRA TIME, PENALTY SHOOTOUT.

These games will be displayed on screen:
- SEMI FINALS WC
- FINALS WC (both 1st/2nd and 3rd/4th place)
- FINAL KOACUP
- FINAL FUN CUP
- GAME OF SHAME (1 leg TEAM A = TEAM B match, organizzers will decide the conditions, camber-windy game possible )

PRIZES
The prizes are:
1st WORLD CHAMPION the shield and a golden COLOSSEUM CUP
2nd RUNNER UP CHAMP a silver COLOSSEUM CUP
3rd a bronze COLOSSEUM CUP
4th a smaller bronze COLOSSEUM CUP

KOA CUP WINNER a small golden COLOSSEUM CUP
RUNNER UP a small silver COLOSSEUM CUP

FUN CUP WINNER a even smaller golden COLOSSEUM CUP
RUNNER UP a even smaller silver COLOSSEUM CUP

There will be THE GAME OF SHAME with prizes (Tshirts).

Obviously some special prices for best attack and defense too... and a special price to the 3 best ranked NEWBIES (definition of newbie: rome2007 should be your first WC attendance).

PS: gold, silver and bronze mean that the cups are painted not that they are made of 24k gold, pure silver or acient bronze

Registration
Each person can preregister at website on Contact us page.

- EXTRA TACTICS

This is the ONLY ONE RULE that can and will be polled. The rule will be voted by preregistered users.The poll starts on 10 July and ends on 10 October.
Please register also in this post so that I can keep the player list updated by posting: KO2 name - KOA forum name (if available) - nation - KOA rank (if available)