A-Pack
The Asian-African Alliance, or "A-Pack" as very well known in Hattrick, is an international competition between countries from both continents. The original tournament consisted of eight teams: Malaysia, China, Singapore, India, Thailand, South Korea, Japan, South Africa.
Egypt entered in the first edition for NT and the following season Indonesia and Pilipinas became the 10th and 11th members before the inclusion of Hong Kong and Taiwan that completed the historical core.
Other countries, reaching a total of 19, enrolled over the years. New entries: Georgia, Iran, Israel, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Morocco, Nigeria, Pakistan, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, UAE, Vietnam and Oceania.
History
The project was started on 23/01/2002 by two Malaysian users: -Strong-, manager of team RY FC, together with ngsc78 of Phantom. The idea was born very trivially when both managers decided to host a competition between their clubs and those of other countries from Asia, Africa and Oceania zone.
Clubs edition
A-Pack was initially a two events competition with a League and a Cup, each with 16 clubs from 8 countries (2 clubs for country). The league had a two-groups format where the top two winners advanced to semi-finals. This was not the case in the first edition, after two of the teams withdrew (two replacement teams have been put together to play a knockout style in Group B). However, China representatives won both league & cup, and advanced to play the A-Pack Champions' Cup.
The success of the tournament pushed organizers to continue preparing more events with the same fair structure in grouping and the "no seeding" formula (and this time it was the clubs from Singapore that flexed their muscles and made it a clean sweep).
National Teams edition
Also in 2002, with the introduction of NTs in Hattrick, A-Pack organized the A-Pack Championship (or NT A-team) and A-Pack Youth Championship for U20 players. Both events had a single league formats with 9 teams, with India and Egypt U20 that scored a victory in their respective categories.
A-Pack Federation
Since 07/06/2002, A-Pack has been upgraded to official Federation to bind close relationships between its members and plan future competitions. Few weeks later, A-Pack decision-making team had appointed users Chinky and KluangMan with the title of "Ambassadors" and then "Aiyaiyai". The hard work and dedication of the Ambassadors in promoting the Fed made A-Pack well-known.
To make the format more competitive, enjoyable and to expand its structure to accommodate the increasing number of teams that want to join, A-Pack has appointed roberto83 in-charge of the organizing of the A-Pack Cup, whereas Chinky has came out with A-Pack Champions' League idea.
From the content point of view, NuTsZ has taken on the role of providing a website in which to publish all the events. As "webmaster" he is said to be recruiting among others journalists, reporters and columnists.
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