Well, we lost the final to Iran. I did everything I could against their formidable Look Inside Offense but didn't quite have the GS on our bigs and fell a bit short. Either way, we had a great result this season, far better than I could have expected. Our first silver trophy and we will play with the big boys in the World Championships next season.
If you haven't ever looked at the World Championships structure, there will be 12 teams divided into 2 groups. The first 8 teams are the finalists from each regional championship with the final 4 to come out of the Repechage. The top 4 teams out of the 6 in each group advance to the second round. From there the top 4 will play an elimination tournament.
Being realistic with what we can expect there, I'm setting our goal to finish with at least 2 wins in the first round and advance to the second round.