Closing Ceremony of WPOC 2020
According to the report received from the organizing committee of the 1st World Petanque Offline Cup, the WPOC closing ceremony was held on August 09th in offline method through the social media in order to represent the champions. In this innovative event hosting by the Boules and Petanque Association of Iran, the national teams of Singapore, Indonesia, Islamic Republic of Iran, Kazakhstan, Netherlands and Wales rated first to sixth respectively and other participating nations who couldn’t rise to the finals, despite of their impressive performances, rated next and in a same level...
click on the poster to see the results & the champions
The event had a notable collaboration by 5 umpires who lived in a range of 14 hours’ difference between their home time zones. The most positive aspect of their jobs was the opportunity of playing and watching ambiguous moments several times to fill the score sheets correctly, compared with the normal shooting competitions that may be difficult to diagnose the same moments. Fortunately, the VFX team of the WPOC together with its verification commission found no deception in the videos, however, they keep verifying for all videos to ensure that these kind of competitions have enough health to be continued forever.
Dr. Jasem Manouchehri, Chairman of Organizing Committee of the WPOC declared that “in contrary to the public belief indicating that the COVID-19 will lead people to individualism, it is believed that the world is going to develop interactions and relationships between people in another way and we experience its reality in the amazing sport event of WPOC by our perceived collectivism. It wasn’t a simple event. I realized the excitement of umpires when they were judging accurately the videos of all villages, small cities and municipalities citizen players who had an equal chance to compete in a world level event regardless of their conditions. It was a real combating against the pandemic and we all felt our presence in serious competitions.
You can find the final results of the WPOC categories in below file and play the closing ceremony video of each in the provided links.
