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CBA League has been suspended for more than a month due to the epidemic, Is planning to restart in early April. According to the news from Rilakkuma Sports, the CBA League has set the league reopening time on April 2nd. The game will consider suspending home and away games and adopting the game system. It will concentrate 20 teams in one or two cities. “text-remarks” label = “Remarks”> (one south and one north) , the game will be played in the open field and provided to the fans via TV and Internet live broadcast.
According to Rilakkuma ’s understanding, ideally, 20 teams will be divided into two divisions according to the current record. Each division will organize 10 teams to complete the remaining 16 regular season games. It means that the match time and opponents in the original schedule will change. According to reports from many domestic media and well-known media sources, Qingdao is currently considered as a very interesting place in the selection of candidate cities. Its hardware configuration has the basic conditions for closed competitions, and Foshan is another candidate city. If the CBA league cannot reach consensus with both cities, the possibility of concentrating all 20 teams in one city will not be ruled out.
To start the race on April 2, according to the existing isolation policy, all participating teams must arrive in the participating cities before March 18 to complete a 14-day quarantine. From this point of time, the time left for the preparation of the event organization is already very tight. At the same time, the league has to face many challenges at the practical level.
First of all, people, that is, the challenge of player assembly, especially foreign aid .
Most of the team ’s existing foreign aid is in the United States. According to the current domestic isolation policy, these people must first be quarantined for 14 days when returning from abroad. They will need to be quarantined for another 14 days in the determined city. Can’t keep up with the previous rounds. Direct foreign aid to the competition city is a solution, but the city has not yet been determined, the itinerary cannot be determined, and when and where to fly, the club needs to consider carefully.
According to Rilakkuma ’s understanding, some teams are still training abroad. Their return journey faces the same challenges as foreign aid.
The second challenge is the location .
From a practical point of view, the “game system” reduces the problem of fatigue and susceptibility to infection of the home and away boat cars, and avoids crowd gathering to the greatest extent in open games. However, under the current epidemic prevention and control conditions, an organization The tournament system in which 10 or 20 teams and hundreds of people participate will require considerable pressure and challenges for any host city.
The host city must not only prepare sufficient capacity reception sites and competition venues in advance, plan transportation routes, but also consider the “isolation” of these outsiders and group gatherings. Specific to the game, even if there is no audience at the scene, venue service, safety guarantee, event broadcast, sanitary logistics and other tasks require a certain number of people to participate, it will inevitably cause a certain degree of personnel gathering. This will inevitably require the strong support of the local public security and health systems to ensure the order of the entire project and the safety of the epidemic.
The third is the coordination of the club. The adjustment of the game involves their specific interests.
To gather together to play a tournament system, each club also faces many practical problems. First and foremost is the issue of safety and responsibility, especially whether athletes and teams that are closely related to the local sports bureau can take the team out to play games. It is not a matter for the club to take the lead.
The management of a CBA club told Rilakkuma Sports that for safety, the entire team has been closed and isolated at the training base, and the club staff have no right to enter the base. Even if the players who return home during the Spring Festival want to return to the team, they must be strict Isolation and approval procedures. It is not easy to convince the Sports Bureau to allow the team to go out to play without the epidemic situation being resolved.
At the same time, restarting the CBA league in a game-based empty-air mode, although it is important for the overall revenue of the league and the performance of sponsorship contracts, it does not stimulate economically for a single club.
Because of this, individual teams have not responded positively to the latest restart plan. They also want to wait for the epidemic to improve and even end, and play a normal game at home or make the next choice.
Before the Spring Festival, the CBA held 30 regular-season games in the 2019-2020 season. Without compressing the number of games, there are 160 rounds in the regular season and 160 games in the three rounds of the playoffs. Play 12 rounds and up to 21 rounds. Therefore, the remaining rounds of the season are between 28 and 37 rounds. If the match density of the previous three matches of the previous week, it will take about 9 to 12 weeks to play all the matches. In other words, the game will not end until mid-June or even the end of June.
However, the Chinese men’s basketball team will also have the task of losing the Tokyo Olympic Games on June 24th. The national team needs time to prepare for it. From this perspective, even if the league resumes, I am afraid that the schedule will face a certain degree of compression.
Tencent CBA, one of the broadcasters of the league, released information on Weibo on March 11 that if the league restarts in early April, the remaining regular season is scheduled to end in 5 weeks, and the playoffs are to be determined. All seasons end at the end of May or early June, leaving time for the national team to prepare for the Olympics. If this plan is followed, the playoffs will only have a total of about 20 days of play time. If the top eight players participate, each round of the duel may take three wins and two wins to complete.
Despite the difficulties, for the CBA League, restarting the league is imminent, and it is related to the long-term development of the CBA in the next few years.
The 2019-2020 season is called the first year of “CBA 2.0”. A series of reforms designed to improve the league ’s influence and commercial value. From the performance of the first half, progress and breakthroughs have indeed been made in all aspects. At the same time, this season is also an important year for the upgrade of the league value. Many of the contracts previously signed by sponsors will expire after the end of this season. The league is facing considerable business development pressure in the new business cycle.
(Related link: CBA enters the first year of the 2.0 era, the reform of the game system, and the acceleration of commercialization )
Currently, The league is interrupted because of the epidemic, and the CBA alliance faces huge performance risks for sponsors and copyright buyers. If the remaining leagues cannot be implemented through a reasonable plan, not only will this season face a certain direct economy Loss, even in the future sponsorship signing will fall into a passive situation . If it affects the development of sponsorship throughout the next business cycle, it will have a long-term adverse impact on the development of the league.
On the other hand, if this season hastily ended, it will also be greatly affected in terms of fan attention and media exposure. The league ’s influence and fan loyalty will also suffer.
Because most of the season is over, and the existence of the Olympic Games defeat at the end of June, the CBA cannot afford more time to wait for the epidemic to end like the Chinese Super League. Difficult choices were made in the direction of the rematch. However, in reality, the restart of the league is an extremely complicated project, and the decision of many aspects is not in the hands of the league itself.
After the Chinese men’s basketball team broke the World Cup last year, all parties put forward many reform plans in reflection, and the league is the core link among them. However, due to the sudden outbreak, “CBA2.0” stood at the crossroads from the beginning. In summary, to promote the restart of the league in early April under the current circumstances, it is necessary for the CBA alliance to skillfully balance the interests of all parties, as well as the wisdom and determination of all parties, in order to eliminate various difficulties in actual implementation To achieve the set goals.
CBA’s slogan for this season is to dare to dream, to dare to dream, to love and resolve, to dare to be, we need everyone to work together to overcome difficulties.
The article is from the public number: sloth bear PHYSICAL (ID: lanxiongsports) , author: Liu .