This should enable the regular start of the intermediate round on January 22nd, announced the VBL management after their decision. In the past few days, numerous games had to be canceled due to the corona.
Missing games hardly affect the second round
The decision is “After an intensive exchange with the responsible persons of all clubs of the 1. Bundesliga men” been hit. The background for this is “that there was no realistic possibility of completing the large number of catch-up games before the scheduled start of the second round”. In addition, the games that have now been eliminated would have had little impact on the group assignment of the intermediate round.
Düren and Frankfurt swap places
The immediate termination of the main round means that the quotient regulation decides on the classification of the final table. So it stays with the current ranking, only the SWD powervolleys Düren and the United Volleys Frankfurt swap places in the table, so that the Frankfurters start the second round in second place. The schedule will be published shortly.
“We are very confident that we will be able to carry out the intermediate round and the subsequent playoffs from March 12 to May 8, 2022 as planned thanks to the unanimous decisions made today. We have thus found the best possible solution for continuing a fair competition“, said Julia Retzlaff, managing director sport of the VBL.
dpa
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Status: 11.01.2022, 7:09 p.m.