The first round of 2022 World Hot Air Balloon Championship ended and 8 teams qualified for the quarter-finals. In an enclosure conditioned with furniture, pots and a series of obstacles, the 16 representatives They played an intense first touch, in which the current champion was eliminated, the Peruvian Francesco de la Cruz.

Through his contraction channelthe Spaniard Ibai Llanos and his team of collaborators recounted the incidents of the tournament, which is already entering its quarter-final phase and with some interesting additions to the rules, such as the “Golden Globe”, an additional tiebreaker match in the one who cannot hit the ball with his hands.

So were the games

In the first match, Germany beat Chile in sudden death by 3 to 2, causing the elimination of one of the two participating women. Brazil then came back from two points to beat the United Kingdom 3-2.

The sad moment for Peru came with the defeat of Francesco de la Cruz, world champion of the 2021 edition, left on injury after being led by three points against his Canadian opponent Monte Doebel-Hickok. The same score was awarded in Argentina’s victory over Mexico.

This is how the bye to the quarter-finals is defined

After maintaining a tie for the two minutes of the match, the representatives of Turkey and the Netherlands met in the “Golden Globe” modality and the winner was the Dutchman Dion de Brouwer, who will face the Spaniard Miguel Imbrona, who beat Colombian Jorge Alba in a close 3-2.

The other two keys were occupied by Portugal and France, having beaten Italy 3-1 and the United States 4-1 respectively.

2022 World Hot Air Balloon Championship: Here’s how the quarter-final matches are going

After the first stage and eight matches played, the keys will be the following:

Germany – Brazil

Canada–Argentina

Netherlands – Spain

Portugal-France