The Georgie Pie Super Smash T20 tournament is the domestic tournament played in the country of New Zealand. It is in this tournament where the 6 teams play together. The teams that are part of this tournament are the Northern Districts, Auckland, Central Districts, Otago, Wellington and Canterbury. These teams are named on the various districts of the country and will be facing each other in the tournament to win the ultimate glory in the country for the shortest format of the tournament.
This tournament has certain rules which are followed by almost every domestic tournament. Each team will be playing against each other twice in this tournament to ensure a place in the knock out phase of the tournament. The teams will be facing each other once as a home game and once as the away game. These matches will be starting from 1st of November and will go onto the 30th of November. On winning each match in this stage the teams will be winning points that would be essential in order to gain the position in the final rounds of the tournament. As the format of the tournament only 3 top teams in the tournament will be gaining the access to the knockout phase of the tournament. The top 2 teams that will be qualifying for the next round will have an added advantage as they will be getting two shots to make it to the final of the tournament.
The final stages of the tournament will see the top 2 teams fight out against each other. The winner of this match will directly move onto the Final of the tournament while the loser will go to the next qualifier in order to face the 3rd positioned team in the league. So the team qualifying in the 1st and the 2nd position will be having a benefit and hence this makes the league matches quite a tough task as each point will be important for the teams in order to enter the comfort zone.
The matches of the Super Smash will be played in quite a few stadiums which include the Seddon Park in Hamilton, McLean Park in Napier, University Oval ground in Dunedin, Hagley Oval in Christchurch and Westpac stadium in Wellington. The final and the opening match will be played in the Seddon Park. The fixture of the tournament is so designed that the matches will be played over the weekends so maximum of the people can watch it.
The matches that will be played in this tournament will be available live on the television as they can be viewed pretty easily by the audience. If you are looking to watch these matches live from the stands and cheer your team then you can fetch all the details of the sale of tickets from the official website of the tournament. This is the place where you can get to know for the places where you can buy the tickets quite comfortably.
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