First round 2022 World Balloon Championship has ended and 8 teams made it to the quarter-finals. In a conditioned cage with furniture, pots and a series of obstacles, 16 representatives They played an intense first key, in which the current champions were eliminated, the Francesco de la Cruz from Peru.

Through it twitch channelSpain’s Ibai Llanos and his team of collaborators have recounted incidents of the tournament, which is already into the quarter-finals and with some interesting additions to the rules, such as the “Golden Globe”, an additional tiebreak match in which one cannot hit the balloon with his hand.

So is the game

In the first match, Germany beat Chile in sudden death by 3 to 2, leading to the elimination of one of the two women participating. Brazil then came back from two points down to beat England 3-2.

A sad moment for Peru comes with defeat of Francesco de la Cruz, the world champion in the 2021 edition, who left through injury after falling three points behind his Canadian opponent, Monte Doebel-Hickok. The same score was awarded in Argentina’s win over Mexico.

This is how qualifying for the quarter-finals is determined

After maintaining a draw for two minutes of the match, the representatives of Turkey and the Netherlands met in the “Golden Globe” modality and the winner was Dion de Brouwer of the Netherlands, who will face Miguel Imbona of Spain, who beat Jorge of Colombia. Alba strictly 3 to 2.

The other two keys are occupied by Portugal and France, after beating Italy 3-1 and the United States 4-1 respectively.

2022 World Balloon Championships: this is how the quarter-finals are

After the first stage and eight matches are played, the key is as follows:

Germany – Brazil

Canada–Argentina

Netherlands – Spain

Portugal – France