Baseball at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Qualification explained

See main article: Baseball at the 2008 Summer Olympics. Eight teams qualified for the Olympic baseball tournament. The host nation qualifies automatically. Additionally, two teams qualified from the American qualifying tournament, and one team qualified from both the European and Asian qualifying tournaments. The field was rounded out by the top three teams from the world Olympic qualifying tournament. The qualifications were held in Taichung, Barcelona, and Havana.

Table

Event	Date	Location	Vacancies
Host Nation	-	-	1
Americas Qualifying Tournament	Aug 25 - Sep 7, 2006	Havana	2
European Championship	September 7–16, 2007	Barcelona	1
Asian Baseball Championship	Nov 27 - Dec 3, 2007	Taichung	1
Final Qualifying Tournament	March 7–14, 2008	Taichung and Douliou	3
TOTAL			8

Note

American qualifying tournament

Qualifying round

North and Central America

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	5	5	0	1.000	49	13	+36
	5	3	2	0.600	34	17	+17
	5	3	2	0.600	20	14	+6
	5	2	3	0.400	38	35	+3
	5	2	3	0.400	24	28	-4
	5	0	5	0.000	4	58	-54

Schedule

Home	Result	Away
November 15, 2005
	1-3
	23-0 (6 Innings)
	17-4 (7 Innings)
November 16, 2005
	12-0 (7 Innings)
	6-1
	5-4
November 17, 2005
	15-5
	7-4
	5-2
November 18, 2005
	7-2
	6-1
	9-3
November 19, 2005
	5-2
	4-2
	1-12

Caribbean

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	3	3	0	1.000	32	0	+32
	3	2	1	0.667	32	5	+27
	3	1	2	0.333	11	17	-6
	3	0	3	0.000	0	53	-53
	Withdrew
	Withdrew
	Withdrew

South America

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	4	4	0	1.000	24	12	+12
	4	3	1	0.750	26	8	+18
	4	2	2	0.500	14	15	-1
	4	1	3	0.250	14	19	-5
	4	0	4	0.000	12	36	-24

Notes

Preliminary round

Group A

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	5	5	0	1.000	64	10	+54
	5	4	1	0.800	38	17	+21
	5	3	2	0.600	24	18	+6
	5	2	3	0.400	31	31	0
	5	1	4	0.200	15	41	-26
	5	0	5	0.000	11	63	-52

Group B

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	5	4	1	0.800	46	27	+19
	5	4	1	0.800	23	19	+4
	5	3	2	0.600	24	18	+6
	5	2	3	0.400	27	39	-12
	5	1	4	0.200	27	32	-5
	5	1	4	0.200	23	34	-11

Schedule

Home		Away
August 25, 2006

August 26, 2006
	9-3
	11-0
	2-1
	3-2
August 27, 2006
	6-5
	8-7
	7-6
	5-4
	4-0
	13-1
August 28, 2006
	3-15
	5-7
	10-6
	17-3
August 29, 2006
	2-5
	1-2
	8-3
	11-0
August 30, 2006
	9-12
	7-3
	15-1
	6-4
	8-7

Final round

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	7	6	1	0.857	69	32	+37
	7	6	1	0.857	63	18	+45
	7	5	2	0.714	38	24	+14
	7	4	3	0.571	43	38	+5
	7	3	4	0.428	41	41	0
	7	2	5	0.286	39	51	-12
	7	2	5	0.286	16	33	-17
	7	0	7	0.000	21	61	-40

Oceania qualifying tournament

With withdrawing from the tournament, received an automatic berth into the World Qualifying Tournament.

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	0	0	0	0
	Withdrew

Schedule

Home		Time
February 8, 2007
	Cancelled	19:00
February 9, 2007
	Cancelled	19:00
February 10, 2007
	Cancelled	15:00
	Cancelled	19:00
February 11, 2007
	Cancelled	14:00

European qualifying tournament

Qualifying round 1

Group A

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	3	3	0	1.000	35	3	+32
	3	2	1	0.667	22	18	+4
	3	1	2	0.333	24	23	+1
	3	0	3	0.000	8	45	-37

Group B

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	3	3	0	1.000	33	10	+23
	3	2	1	0.667	29	17	+12
	3	1	2	0.333	28	43	-15
	3	0	3	0.000	22	42	-20

Group C

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	3	3	0	1.000	30	6	+24
	3	2	1	0.667	14	5	+9
	3	1	2	0.333	15	16	-1
	3	0	3	0.000	8	40	-32

Group D

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	3	3	0	1.000	25	2	+23
	3	2	1	0.667	18	11	+7
	3	1	2	0.333	17	17	0
	3	0	3	0.000	3	33	-30

Qualifying round 2

European Baseball Championship

See main article: 2007 European Baseball Championship.

The European Baseball Championship in Barcelona, Spain served as the qualifying competition for the 2008 Summer Olympics. The Netherlands won the tournament for the fifth consecutive time and qualified for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Great Britain and Spain advanced to a final qualifying tournament in Taiwan. Prior to the tournament, Greece was removed by the European Baseball Confederation and replaced with Austria. Czech Republic was downgraded to the last place at the end of the tournament and its wins in the preliminary round vacated.^[1]

Preliminary round

Group A

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	5	5	0	1.000	66	5	+61
	5	4	1	0.800	36	15	+21
	5	3	2	0.600	20	27	-7
	5	2	3	0.400	26	38	-12
	5	1	4	0.200	13	44	-31
	5	0	5	0.000	2	37	-35

September 8

1 - 9

0 - 9*

0 - 22 (5 inn.)

September 9

2 - 11

10 - 0 (7 inn.)

11 - 0 (7 inn.)

September 10

14 - 2 (7 inn.)

0 - 9*

8 - 7

September 11

6 - 3

3 - 8

1 - 2

September 12

6 - 1

0 - 13 (7 inn.)

4 - 1

* The Czech Republic's 4-1 and 6-2 victories over Croatia and Austria were vacated and the results recorded as 9-0 forfeits.

Group B

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	5	4	1	0.800	35	24	+11
	5	4	1	0.800	29	22	+7
	5	3	2	0.600	20	15	+5
	5	3	2	0.600	31	13	+18
	5	1	4	0.200	10	36	-26
	5	0	5	0.000	14	29	-15

September 7

12 - 8

September 8

0 - 13 (8 inn.)

4 - 2

September 9

5 - 4

1 - 5

7 - 10

September 10

6 - 2

4 - 0

6 - 0

September 11

3 - 4

4 - 3 (11 inn.)

4 - 6

September 12

2 - 7

9 - 0

6 - 2

Final round

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	5	5	0	1.000	54	14	+40
	5	3	2	0.800	35	24	+11	1-1, 0.833 RA/IN
	5	3	2	0.600	41	32	+9	1-1, 0.833 RA/IN
	5	3	2	0.600	29	24	+5	1-1, 0.889 RA/IN
	5	1	4	0.200	16	35	-19
	5	0	5	0.000	15	51	-36

* Tiebreakers: 1) W-L in games among tied teams 2) Runs against per 1 defensive inning among tied teams 3) Earned Runs against per 1 defensive inning among tied teams

September 14

18 - 0 (7 inn.)

3 - 11

7 - 10

September 15

10 - 0 (7 inn.)

8 - 10 (11 inn.)

5 - 7

September 16

7 - 1

5 - 8

6 - 1

Classification

September 13

Seventh Place Game

2 - 7

Ninth Place Game

2 - 1

Eleventh Place Game

2 - 7

2007 Asian Championship

The IBAF and IOC recognize Taiwan as Chinese Taipei. Internationally, the team plays as the Chinese Taipei National baseball team, however are referred to, in the country, as the Taiwan National baseball team and use the flag .

B Level

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	2	1	0	-
	1	1	1	-
	1	0	2	1-0
	1	0	2	0-1

Schedule

Home	Result	Time
November 27, 2007
	0-2	17:00
	4-8	18:00
November 28, 2007
	3-5	13:00
	4-1	18:00
November 29, 2007
	0-0 (F/12)	13:00
	6-8	18:00

A Level

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	3	0	-
	2	1	-
	1	2	-
	0	3	-

Schedule

Home	Result	Time
December 1, 2007
	2-5	13:00
	10-0 (F/7)	18:00
December 2, 2007
	0-9	13:00
	3-4	18:00
December 3, 2007
	13-1 (F/7)	13:00
	2-10	18:00

African qualifying tournament

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	5	0	-
	3	1	-
	3	2	-
	2	3	-
	1	3	-
	0	5	-

Schedule

Home	Result	Time
December 15
	22-0	9:00
	17-3	9:00
	1-18	12:20
	0-20	12:20
	0-29	15:30
	22-0	15:30
December 16
	Rained Out	9:00
	Rained Out	9:00
	1-16 (5 Innings)	12:20
	3-1 (6 Innings)	12:20
	Rained Out	15:30
	Rained Out	15:30
December 17
	2-12 (8 Innings)	9:00
	11-5	9:00
	19-11 (7 Innings)	9:00
	15-0 (7 Innings)	12:00
	5-22 (6 Innings)	12:00
	7-4	12:00
	Cancelled	15:00

Note: The final game between Lesotho and Nigeria was dependent on whether it had any impact upon the final standings. As South Africa had clinched the championship before the game was to begin, it was cancelled.

Final qualifying tournament

The final qualifying tournament will feature the third and fourth place teams from the Americas qualifying tournament, the second and third place teams from the Asian and European qualifying tournaments, and the Oceanian and African continental champions. However, European runner-up Great Britain withdrew from the tournament and were replaced by the fourth place team Germany.

Qualified Teams

(Americas 3rd)
(Americas 4th)
(Europe 3rd)
(Europe 4th; Replace Europe 2nd Great Britain that withdrew from the tournament)
(Asia 2nd)
(Asia 3rd)
(Oceania 1st)
(Africa 1st)

Standings

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	6	1	1-0
	6	1	0-1
	5	2	-
	4	3	1-0
	4	3	0-1
	2	5	-
	1	6	-
	0	7	-

Schedule

Home	Result	Time
March 7
	0-5	12:30
	10-15	12:30
	13-3 (F/7)	19:00
	1-4	18:30
March 8
	10-0 (F/7)	12:30
	1-6	12:30
	16-2 (F/7)	18:30
	0-1	18:30
March 9
	0-2	12:30
	10-5	12:30
	1-2	18:30
	6-1	18:30
March 10
	4-3	12:30
	5-14	12:30
	5-6 (F/10)	18:30
	4-7	18:30
March 12
	12-1 (F/7)	12:30
	11-0 (F/7)	12:30
	5-0	18:30
	5-0	18:30
March 13
	9-0	12:30
	0-4	12:30
	4-3	18:30
	0-4	18:30
March 14
	1-2	12:30
	11-13	12:30
	3-4	18:30
	2-1 (F/10)	16:30

Notes and References

Web site: Euro Baseball 2007 . Confederation of European Baseball . 27 July 2010 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100827122508/http://competition.baseballeurope.com/2007/barcelona/schedule.php . 27 August 2010 . dead .

Baseball at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Qualification explained

Table

American qualifying tournament

Qualifying round

Schedule

Preliminary round

Schedule

Final round

Oceania qualifying tournament

Schedule

European qualifying tournament

Qualifying round 1

Qualifying round 2

European Baseball Championship

Preliminary round

Final round

Classification

2007 Asian Championship

B Level

Schedule

A Level

Schedule

African qualifying tournament

Schedule

Final qualifying tournament

Standings

Schedule

See also

Notes and References