Which world championships will you be watching in 2026?
international tournaments are for losers, I don't care about competing with people outside my city
>>152154407Hoggers and footy, both of which will go to Germany.
Go compete then faggot
>>152154407Japan will win all three
after fifa which is more popular competition, Rugby WC, FIBA , or IIHF? like which among those three cared more by the participants citizen?
>>152154483Japan winning all 3 would be insane
>>152154407The Olympic hockey tournament isn't the world championship, retarded yank faggot cocksucker.
>>152154407winter olympics
>>152155735it might as well be since it will be best vs best
>France, Australia, Korea and Japan in hockey>No Latvia or Slovakia That can't be right
>>152156119>No Latvia or SlovakiaNeither of those countries care about hockey. There's more Australian players in NHL than Latvians
>>152156173wtf are you talking those countries have participated in the IIHF world champs
>>152156119you're right on all counts except France qualified for milan>>152156173Latvia had a public holiday when they beat you for bronzeare you retarded?
>>152156219ignore that retard leaf bro
>>152156173Hockey is the most popular sport in Latvia and the 2nd most popular sport in Slovakia. Slovakia was one of the best countries in the sport in the early 2000s
>>152156173Latvia held parades to celebrate getting bronze in iihf a couple of years ago. They love hockey
>>152154407Hockey and football, don't care about any other sports.
>>152156251Poutine needs to end the war. I want to see ovi at one final Olympics
>>152156251you'd watch if you qualifiedbut France beat you 5-1
>>152156119regional qualifications i guess
what a year. My three favorite international sports events (the winter olympics as a whole, not just hockey. slightly ahead of the summer olympics for me). Baseball is my easy number one sport these days and I love international sports tournaments so nothing beats the WBC for me. I grew up in a soccer family so the world cup was the biggest for me growing up, I don't watch much soccer otherwise anymore but I still love the world cup. The winter olympics are what truly made me fall in love with sports, some of my best sports memories were watching the Turin olympics before school in the morning, the flying tomato was the first athlete I'd consider my favorite.>>152154853I enjoy cricket more than most sports these days too, though I prefer the ODI world cup
OP’s image is false, Japan and Korea aren’t participating
>>152156409hockey doesn't do that, the skill divide ends up being too bigthey just put teams together on skill in 5 groups and you get weird groupings towards the bottom end, think some of the tournaments are in malls because those are the only ice rinks in their country
>>152156569We have a hockey team? Also why are we with a bunch of asian countries lol.
>>152156554neither is Australia. makes the map a lot less interesting, USA, Canada and 10 European countries
>>152156272Like a true swede
>>152156714He just said why hermano, hockey isn't divided into regions. You're in the 4th tier of hockey basically.
all 3. Hope fully I'll be at the bar watching the WC with foreigners
>>152154407I'll be watching the WBC despite knowing Brazil won't leave the group stage. World Cup is a given since it's almost a holiday when Brazil plays
>>152154407I watch everything Germany is in. I would have even watched baseball! But alas, >we didn't make it. Kind of a shame, but for now, I know almost nothing about the sport and lack the motivation to change thatI am somewhat hyped for the Olympic Ice Hockey tournament because it will be the strongest German team ever ... and I hope that team can positively surprise us, even though they are destined to get molested by the actual heavyweights. Still, I imagine the tournament to turn out exciting, especially when Canada and the US face againAnd of course, the FIFA World Cup. I hate the new format and the triple host stuff, and I fully expect Germany to be mediocre once more. But you just have to see it yourselfI'll also watch the Handball World Cup, of course. This will be even more infuriating than football, though. Germany basically is the England of that sport, if not worse
>>152154407>World Baseball Classic I'll watch>Olympic HockeyI'll watch>soccer world cupI'll skip
>>152156554yeah i was wondering about that kek (japan does have a team in the women's tournament though)
>ice hockey
>>152156569>some of the tournaments are in malls because those are the only ice rinks in their countrySOVL
Why do yanks equal Ice Hockey with Hockey instead of Field Hockey
>>152164790No one here does that
>>152164790Ice hockey has multiple pro Leagues including the NHL where players make millions of dollarsField hockey has zero
>>152156569The next thing baseball has to catch up on is having proper tournaments and qualifying for the lesser teams. It took us long enough to finally have a proper world championships and it's quickly become great, but the qualifying for it is a total joke. Even fringe decent teams like Argentina and New Zealand weren't given a chance to qualify, both are probably better than China. Countries with surprisingly budding baseball scenes like Pakistan and Uganda weren't given a chance either, how the fuck is the sport supposed to grow if you don't even give these countries a chance to move up the ranks somehow.The problem is that the WBC is run mostly by MLB, whose owners are short-sighted bloodsucking parasites who don't actually care about growing the game, they only care about short term profits, they are never going to fund tournaments for Uganda, Philippines and Pakistan to participate unless they're forced to, and they're the ones calling the shots here unfortunately.
>>152160784It's a shame hockey never caught on in Japan
>>152164790isn't field hockey a girls' sport?
>>152154407>>152154853>italy qualifies in hockey, baseball, and cricket but not soccer(potentially)
>>152154407I've been looking forward to the WBC since the 2023 one ended so that for sure
>>152157883SOVLFVL audience
>>152158058The quali playoff was tight though, real good match
>>152154407>Ice hockey>AustraliaQue?
>>152164857https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men%27s_Hoofdklasse_Hockey
>>152168896They're in the third tier of ice hockey championships, that's a mistake
>>152164790You’re asking why the one that’s overwhelming more popular than the other is called “hockey”?
>>152164930Yeah, agreed. Them not being on the iihf championship level in men's tourneys also probably has to do with the fact that they're pretty short people. with women the difference isn't as big
>>152168815HowAll those sports are played by plumbers
