Nations League final tally of points after 149th edition of the Saturday 06/05/2023 Practice Open Online Oware Tournament, 39th of the the 2nd season of the Nations Online Oware League (2022 / 2023)
1. Ghana 🇬🇭 (14) - 967.5
2. Uganda 🇺🇬 (11) - 533.0
3. Nigeria 🇳🇬 (11) - 491.0
4. Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 (3) - 295.5
5. Benin 🇧🇯 (10) - 208.5
6. United Kingdom 🇬🇧 (6) - 187.5
7. Colombia 🇨🇴 (8) - 112.0
8. Czech Republic 🇨🇿 (2) - 81.0
9. Mexico 🇲🇽 (1) - 78.5
10. Kyrgyzstan 🇰🇬 (4) - 71.5
11. Belarus 🇧🇾 (1) - 51.5
12. Portugal 🇵🇹 (1) - 31.5
13. Togo 🇹🇬 (1) - 12.5
14. France 🇫🇷 (1) - 12.0
15. Poland 🇵🇱 (2) - 10.5
16. China 🇨🇳 (1) - 9.0
17. Germany 🇩🇪 (1) - 8.0
18. Turkey 🇹🇷 (2) - 7.0
19. Austria 🇦🇹 (1) - 5.0
20. Costa Rica 🇨🇷 (1) - 3.0
21. Antigua & Barbuda 🇦🇬 (1) - 3.0
22. Serbia 🇷🇸 (1) - 2.0
23. Barbados 🇧🇧 (1) - 2.0
24. Ivory Coast 🇨🇮 (1) - 2.0
25. Sri Lanka 🇱🇰 (1) - 2.0
26. Spain 🇪🇸 (1) - 1.0
27. Cape Verde 🇨🇻 (1) - 1.0
28. Afghanistan 🇦🇫 (1) - 1.0
29. Azerbaijan 🇦🇿 (1) - 1.0
30. Russia 🇷🇺(1) - 1.0
31. Unknown (1) - 1.0
32. Turkmenistan 🇹🇲 (1) - 0.0
After the 39th edition of this season’s Nations Online Oware League, 97 players representing 31 known national teams in total have participated so far. 12 national teams participated in the last edition of the tournament. The teams with the most players still remains Ghana 🇬🇭 (14). Followed by Nigeria 🇳🇬 (11), Uganda 🇺🇬 (11) in 3rd place, which had the most players (7) participate in the last edition. Benin 🇧🇯 (11) is still in 5th position.
Uganda 🇺🇬 in 2nd position, is not making it easy for Nigeria 🇳🇬 in 3rd position to catch up. Stretching its lead to 42 points between them. Team Ghana 🇬🇭 with 14 players, has further stretched its lead to 967.5 points, a reduced lead of 434.5 points ahead of Uganda 🇺🇬 last season’s winner in the 2nd position, with 533.0 accumulated by 11 players. In 3rd place is Nigeria 🇳🇬 represented by 11 players, with 491.0 points
Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 is still holding its own with now 3 players in 4th position with 295.5 points. Whilst the Benin 🇧🇯 with 11 players has amassed 208.0 points, is mounting a late surge to overtake Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 for 4th place. However Kazahkstan 🇰🇿 has responded with the addition of msh76.
Congratulations to Ghana 🇬🇭 for maintaining its lead, and consistently fielding the most players for most of the tournaments, 3 last week. With 13 tournaments to go, can any nation rise to the challenge and organise its players to challenge the top three positioned teams. Approaching the last stretch, is there still enough time for organised teams to climb up the ranks?
39 tournaments into the new season, way past the halfway mark and having surpassed last season’s total of 25 nations, we are in record breaking territory. Let’s double our efforts to get players from other nations to participate in this league and make it past 35 nations.
*This is a geopolitical continental breakdown*
Afrika - 4
America - 2
Asia - 2
Europe - 4
Unknown - 0
Italy 🇮🇹 fielded a team for the inaugural season:. Let’s encourage them & other national teams to field players to represent their countries in this season’s league.
Take advantage of these practice tournaments to practice the signing up process in preparation for championships to come. Participate to gain points for your nations team and place it on the Oware map. Well done to all 31 known national teams that have participated so far 👏👏👏