Evaluation

29 out of the 32 players completed the post tournament evaluation form. Their feedback can be found below:

What did you like the most about the World Cup?

• Shame match.
• Tournament room in hotel and organised excellent lunch. No waiting around for players who have disappeared for lunch.
• Sunday dinner.
• All well organized, all friendly and fair games.
• High-pro level of organization! Apron of shame, a fantastic idea! Also, this evaluation form!
• Organization was almost perfect. See next answer for why it was not perfect.
• The organisation was top quality. There could even be more games in the first day, as there were such a lot of good monitors and Amigas (a big success of this WC).
• Alessandro receiving the prize was the best moment.
• The fact that groups were 1 leg only, so the tournament never became boring, tiring, or went way off schedule.
• The organization.
• No drunk people in the room, excellent behaviour by all, perfect management.
• All of it! Perfectly organised. Well done. Respect.
• The Community.
• The ambient, everything well organized, nothing was improvised.
• Everything! It was so well organised.
• The friendly and fun atmosphere, greek cuisine, perfect organization, speeches.
• I loved everything from the first to the last moment.
• All well organized Alkis really impressive your attention to detail.
• Finishing above Alkis.
• Time management, format, mobile app.
• The organization is very precise and attentive to everything.
• The meeting between people who like playing kick off, and the organization of the event.
• All the people. Great great persons, and very nice moments.
• Alkis Organization.
• Thank you to our hosts for wearing masks. Hopefully we won't need to in future years but we might.

What was the weakest aspect of the World Cup?

• Hardware issues on three of the play stations.
• There was no really weak aspect. Even for things that didn't end up being perfect, I do not have a suggestion that would work. But I thing the weaker part of all WC cups is the game of shame looser award perspective. It should be more honorary IMO.
• I’d like to play more matches.
• On Sunday afternoon there were "dead times" there were no games.
• Amiga stations with TVs! I'm realistic about this point though as there is no way you can get so many Amiga monitors all in one place these days (especially if the next WC is in Malaga!). I've become a bit of a Amiga monitor snob depsite growing up using a TV!
• Not really weak, but mentionable: Bronze cup final seemed quite off. There should be some beverages in the lunch menu at 16€.
• My performance.
• Walking through the crappy area of Athens centre. Not a good image to remember from a very good world cup.
• Nothing
• Maybe dinner a bit earlier on friday and saturday. We travel far, are getting old, and need our sleep :)
• Some locations not optimal Audio video defects.
• After several minutes thinking, cannot say anything was weak. We could have used more players, but no one is to blame for that.
• Food on Friday not arriving until after 10pm.
• There had to be the semifinals for Silver Cup and Bronze Cup.
• Maybe the draws could have been done on Friday to create more suspense and in the application I would have liked to see the updated group rankings, but maybe that's too much to ask?
• The fact that throughout the 2 days, I played with almost every Greek I've already played with a billion times. On Day 1 half my group was an Alkis' House Tournament, not a World Cup... (see "improvements")
• Too many goals conceded.
• I think it doesn't have much sense that the loser of the game of shame ends in best position than the winner and finalist of the bronze cup. Maybe the bronze final cup should be played for the players who ended in 7th place in the first day.
• The alcohol thing during the tournament xD. But It wasnt a problem for me. Its ok.
• Some TV screens were not good, too bright or too fuzzy.
• Waaaaay too short. We need a week World Cup tournament, not just a week end. To be honest I was sad to see SteveC so busy. We definitely have to fix it.

What new ideas or improvements would you like to see in the future?

• Game of shame should be played on Sensible Soccer.
• I propose from the next few times to also stream the quarter-finals, because it is a pity that Gianni's with Mario and mine with Thor cannot be seen again because they were very tight challenges.
• Updated group standings in the app Maybe.
• I think on Sunday it would be possible to play more official games in the afternoon. It happens that in many world cups on Sunday we are just doing nothing or playing friendlies. So it would be better in my opinion, play other official games, like a bronze league or something.
• 1. in this WC we had unbalanced groups all the way through, as, due to covid, the rankings did not correspond to the level of the players. The results of the 2nd round show this clearly. Perhaps this could be fixed in the future with a preparatory round of games that add to the rankings, before the group sections. This could render useless the friendlies session, at no time impact for the tournament.
2. WC group draws should have locality restrictions, as it happens in most competitions. There are many reasons for this.
3. IMO if we want this to continue for another 10 years we must attract wider interest. Social media activation for instance not in closed groups.
4. Plan a-priori to stream publicly games from all players during next WC. One machine constantly streaming and all have to go through it for at least one game.
• Silver cup as Gold Cup. Rounds after the league for sunday because there was enough time on Sunday afternoon.
• Find a way to keep Steve C less busy with support work and maybe skip the Game of Shame in the future or change the format somehow.
• 1. Some measure to not let too many people from the same country end up in the same group on the first day.
2. Since Team A = Team B, the final should be 1 leg.
• Ooo, the only idea I can come up with is that people on the main YouTube Amiga station put in their names before playing.. would make it easier to follow online maybe. It's a bit of a hassle though.
• Coke and whores.
• Dedicated livestream operator, even just a player with no other duties to worry about.
• More games; maybe consider a Day 1 single round-robin tournament with 32 players (playing 31 games each), leading to a Day 2 Gold and Silver leagues of 16 players each, in single elimination tournament 1-16, 2-15, 3-14 etc, then W1-W2 etc, until the final.
• To have a person (not necessary an external but he could be a player) caring about the broadcasting aspect
• Maybe doing a group photo of players with joysticks in their hand.
• The Silver and Bronze Cup finals are a good way of letting the weaker players have a spotlight. However, I worry whether anyone in the shirt of shame game actually enjoys that experience.
• I would hate to give my future match results to anyone who is not Penny or Vicky.
• All workstations equipped with monitors and Amiga
• On the side unofficial fun tournaments.
• To play the matches in order and not choose opponents based on collecting points playing first against weaker opponents. Also avoid comments "I do not play on demand" when asked to play someone.
• More free chairs to put behind Amiga sets for viewers.

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• This was the best venue of the five World Cups I've been to. Everything went well with no snags and we had excellent hospitality from our hosts.
• Alkis, Panayotis, Penny, Vicky, and to all the other Greeks that helped out, thank you so much, was such a gret well organised event. Thoroughly enjoyed it. Looking forward to seeing you all again in Malaga :)
• As I said before, it has been incredible to share this event with all of you, I hope to be able to repeat it for many more years. Long Live Kick Off 2!!!
• Thanks again for everything. It was memorable. I suggest 5 World Cup in Greece straight! I want to reach 10 now 😜 Take care and share my hug to the other Athenians and of course your lovely family i forgotten to mention during the my speech.
• I'm sorry not to speak English and many times I would simply like to thank all the organizers and all the people behind for being able to realize the Kick off2 world championship, I did it too in Milan and I know what it means ... time, commitment, passion. Every year it is nice to meet and experience the same emotions that then every year seem to be stronger and stronger! In the end, even speaking Greek, Italian, Swedish, American or any other language, the one that counts and speaks for everyone is that of Kick off2 .. . An indissoluble community that remains over time!
• Athens 2022 WC was the greatest achievement in KOA history. I am both incredibly happy that I was there, and sad that in the future hardly will ever be the same.
• This was the most professionally organized world cup ever, down even to the smallest details.
• World Cup secretariat (Penny & Vicky) = 10+! 😍
• See you next year
• In group standing I believe should take in account goal difference instead own matches.
• Jawoll
• THANKS FOR ALL ALKIS hope to see you soon. I wish we could organize a tournament in addition to the world championship as in the top 10 tennis. Too hard for a day of play?
• Thanks a lot to all of the organizers who made this tournament possible, I enjoyed it so much. Now i suffer from the post Kick off tournament depression ;)
• I would like pillows as standard equipment at every WC! Or lower tables. I'm joking
• Good job, thank you!
• My first time in the world cup. You have hooked me and I will do my best to go to the next ones!
• I had a lot of fun and I was glad to see kick off friends, and I think it was an incredible perfect organization, great idea about the app.