District - There has already been a lot of information in written form about the new game mode in the district of Zugspitze, which will be played in the coming season.
Nevertheless, many clubs did not miss the opportunity to have the most important key data of the system change explained again at first hand.
There was an opportunity to do so at the information event hosted by district game manager Heinz Eckl in the Gasthaus zur Post in Raisting.
"We wanted to decouple this from the playgroup conference so that it doesn't get too long," Eckl said, explaining the reason for this meeting.
The response proved him right.
Around 130 representatives from 66 clubs filled the hall.
"It's nice that you all came," said Eckl, pleased about the great interest.
The district game leader first looked back at the origin of the idea of converting the existing game system.
"In the spring round there were often games that weren't really about anything anymore," Eckl said, above all, the increase in tension was an important reason to downsize the leagues and to regroup the teams after the winter break in a promotion and relegation round sort by.
"We will all do our best to ensure that the system works and that it is good for you, otherwise we will go back after two years," promised Eckl,
who announced a fly in the ointment for the latter case.
"Then there will probably be more relegations," said Eckl, who will be challenged again with his game director colleagues during the winter break, because, for example, the three relegation rounds in the district leagues, each with six teams, have to be reorganized.
Depending on their placement, the teams take a different number of bonus points with them.
In contrast to the promotion round, in which the top three from district leagues 1 and 2 and groups 3 and 4 play off the champions in the spring round, this is not so clear in the fight for relegation, as 18 teams remain from four leagues, the then divided into three groups.
"We'll try everything to get the classification right," promised Eckl.
In the future it will not be as easy as in the season that just ended to move up via relegation.
The two runners-up from the district league championship round will form a quartet next season together with the 13th from the district league south and a second from the district league Munich, which will fight for a single free place in the district league.
"The lucky loser regulation in the relegation relegation with the additional decision game on a neutral place is no longer applicable," added Eckl.
While the classification of the 60 district class teams was relatively easy for Eckl and his team, the situation in the A classes turned out to be not so easy.
"It was a bit difficult with 109 clubs," admitted Eckl.
It got even more complicated in the B and C classes, where the loss of teams was really noticeable due to cancellations or the formation of new syndicates.
"In the B class we calculated with 94 teams, in the end we had 88, so some group sizes shrunk," explained the district director.
There is a special feature in the C-Class.
After the winter break, the respective group leader moves up into the relegation round of the B class.
"We wanted to create an incentive because there is no separate relegation round in the C class," explained Eckl, who also made it clear that
the meanwhile firmly anchored quotient rule, “only dig out if you have to”.
The rearrangement of the leagues in the new year will also have an impact on the common home game days of the first and second teams.
"There could be problems, it won't always work," said Eckl at the end of his presentation.
The questions from the committee were then limited.
They mainly revolved around the unloved start of the season during the holidays and the schedule for the spring round.
"It's not possible to start later," Eckl said, referring to the possible difficult space conditions in November if the starting signal is not given until mid or late August.
After the winter break, the ball will roll again on the last weekend in March 2023. The last day of the game in the Zugspitz district before the short relegation begins is on May 28th next year.
Roland Halmel