Question: In which country is bandy developed?

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Bandy, or ice ball, is played on ice and hockeya, or ground hockeya, on grass courts.


Question: In which country is bandy developed?

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Later, North Americans developed their own version based on the sport, in which the number of players was halved and the field as well as goals were reduced.


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Based on this, hockey was born.


Question: In which country is bandy developed?

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[1] The genesis of the present-form ice ball To its present form, ice ball developed in the 18th century in the Fen region of England.


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A game called bat and ball had been played in England for hundreds of years.


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It was also developed into a version played on ice and skates, which could be played during the winter.


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This was in an area called The Fens in the east of England, where low-lying swampy land received ice cover in winter.


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The centre of the game served as the village of Bury-on-Fen, where hockey played on ice was practiced at least as early as the winter of 1813—1814, but most likely the game had developed even earlier.


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[3] In the mid-19th century, the hobby of the species spread to cities as well.


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One of the first clubs was Nottingham Forest Football anf Bandy Club, founded in 1865, which later concentrated only on football.


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[3] [4] Another one of the early ice ball clubs still operating is Sheffield United, founded in 1889.


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[5] Common rules for the game were established in the FENS region in 1882 and the species' union was established in 1891.


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Accompanied by the British, the species spread across the European mainland beginning in the 1890s.


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[3] The first international match was played in 1891 when a team from Bury Fen travelled to Holland.


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[6] The species got the best foothold from Sweden, where Count Clarence von Rosen brought the species in the winter of 1895—1896.


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Stockholm was played among club teams for the first time at the 1901 Nordic Games.


Question: In which country is bandy developed?

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The Swedish championship was played for the first time in 1907.


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[3] The species also spread into the Russian Empire and St. Petersburg became another important base for the species.


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[3] In Russia, the Exalted had already played a similar game in the 18th century on the ice of the Neva River.


Question: In which country is bandy developed?

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[1] The current form of ice ball has been considered to have begun in St. Petersburg in 1898.


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[3] In the 1890s, the hobby of the species also spread to Central Europe.


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[1] Beginning of competitive activities International ice ball activities began in 1913, when the first international ice ball tournament was played when the European Championships were held in Davos, Switzerland.


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The tournament involved the Netherlands, Belgium, England, Italy, Austria-Hungary, France, Germany and Switzerland.


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The championship was won by the England team.


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However, World War I cut off the development of the species' international activities.


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[7] In the Nordic countries, national team activities began after the war years, when in 1919, Sweden and Finland faced in Helsinki, this was the first ice ball game for both countries.


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[8] [6] Since 1919 Finland and Sweden faced off in a country match each year.


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[9] Sweden began annual matches against Norway in 1927.


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Finland and Norway faced each other for the first time in 1940.


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During the 1920s—1930s, Finland also faced Estonia in friendlies.


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[10] [11] National championships began to be played in Sweden 1907, Finland 1908 and Norway 1912.


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[6] [12] [13] The national championship also began to be played in Estonia and the first competition was held in 1921.


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In Estonia, however, activity soured in the 1930s.


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[14] In the Soviet Union, the national championship was not played for the first time until 1936.


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[15] In the early 20th century, Canadian ice hockey also spread to Europe, which suppressed the budding development of ice ball in Central Europe, but the popularity of ice ball remained in the Nordic countries and Russia.


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Elsewhere, the game began to be played under Canadian rules.


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Crucial to the development was hockey's entry into the Olympic program in 1920, which suppressed the bandy game from Central Europe by the end of the 1920s.


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[3] [16] Russian Bandy History The modern rules of ice ball were written in England, but in a sense the sport has also developed in Russia, as a game like ice ball was played in St. Petersburg even before the spread of the game from the British Isles.


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[17] [1] A considerable influence on the spread of the game in the Russian Empire had on Brits working in Saint Petersburg.


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In St. Petersburg, common rules for the species were developed in 1898, in what is considered the year of the birth of Russian ice ball.


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[18] St Petersburg became the base of the sport and it started playing ice ball at the turn of the 18th—20th century, and as the species waned elsewhere, it maintained its popularity in Russia.


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[3] In 1900 there were eight ice ball clubs operating in Saint Petersburg, playing matches between themselves and also doing away game tours.


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The first game trip was to the Grand Duchy of Finland when Sport in St. Petersburg went to play a match in Vyborg.


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In 1905, play for the local championship began to be played in St. Petersburg, and the first clubs were founded in Moscow in 1902.


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Moscow developed into another center for Russian ice ball.


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Other cities where early ice ball competitions were held in the early 20th century were Blagoveshchensk, Vladivostok, Riga, Tver, Arkhangelsk, Kharkiv and Novgorod.


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[18] In the early 20th century, teams from Moscow and St. Petersburg played yearly matches in both cities and the first foreign trip was headed to Sweden in 1907.


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In 1914, there were more than 30 clubs in the country, but the war prevented play for the championship.


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[18] The Russian Revolution and Civil War slowed the development of ice ball in the country.


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After the war, the Russian Empire formed the Soviet Union and the development of the species in the country continued.


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The sport was also included in the national curriculum and competitions were organised for children and young people, as well as for women and men.


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In the 1920s, inter-city matches were played, but the Soviet championship was not yet played.


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[18] In 1928, the Soviet Union of Bicebo and Ground Hockey was founded.


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In the same year, the Soviet national team was also born and the team participated in the Workers' International Winter Sports Competitions held in February in Oslo.


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Subsequently, international contacts between the Soviet Union and the rest of the ice ball world were broken for a quarter of a century and international matches resumed in the mid-1950s.


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[18] The Soviet Championship was played for the first time in a tournament format in Moscow in 1936.


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The 12-team tournament was won by Moscow Dynamo.


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The next time the national championship was not played until 1950.


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In the intervening years, a cup format competition was played, with the exception of the war years when competitive activities were interrupted.


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The win in the cup competition was always shared with either Moscow Dynamo or the Soviet Army Central Sports Club TSSKA's ice ball team.


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[18] There were also national cup competitions and tournaments for women since the inter-world wars period.


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[18] [19] Despite its relatively high popularity, women's competitive activity waned for three decades in the 1950s.


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[19] Since 1950, the Soviet Bandy Championship was played annually.


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The Moscow CSKA won the championship three times in the 1950s, in other years right up to the 1970s the country championship was always won by either Moscow Dynamo or Sverdlovsk SKA.


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Only in 1977 the championship managed to be won by some other club, when Alma-Atan Dynamo won the Soviet Championship Series.


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In the 1980s, the country's series was dominated by the Yenisei of Krasnoyarsk, who won a record ten consecutive championships between 1980 and 1989.


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Its eleventh championship it won in 1991.


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In addition, the Soviet championship was capable of Krasnogorsk Zorki twice.


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The latter of the Zork championships came in 1992, when this was the CIS championship series following the transformation of the Soviet Union into the Commonwealth of Independent States.


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[18] In 1992, the Russian Bandy Federation was founded, which continued to operate the Soviet Bandy Federation.


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The Russian championship was played for the first time in the 1992—93 season.


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The championship was achieved by Krasnogorsk Zorki.


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In the early years of the series, Ska-Zens of Yekaterinburg and Sibselmash of Novosibirsk were also promoted to the championship, before Vodnik of Arkhangelsk won ten titles between 1996 and 2005.


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Only in 2001, Krasnoyarsk Yenisei achieved the championship, breaking Vodnik's championship streak.


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Since 2005, the series has been dominated again by Moscow Dynamo.


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In the 2010s, Dynamo-Kazan and Yenisei have also promoted to the championship.


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[20] Swedish Bandy history In Sweden, ice ball arrived in the winter of 1895—1896 and the sport immediately gained a solid foothold in the country.


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The first club, Hockeyklubben i Stockholm, was founded in 1896.


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The first match between clubs from Stockholm and Uppsala was played in 1901 on the Nybroviken ice.


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The following year, 1902, the first ever ice ball series was played among eight teams organised by the Swedish Ball Games Federation.


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In 1906, the Swedish Football Association was formed in place of the ball-playing federation to administer the country's ice ball operations.


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[6] The year 1907 was something of a breakthrough season for bandy in Sweden.


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That year Sweden got its first international touches when St Petersburg Eislaufverein, St. Petersburg, made a playing trip to Sweden, and Sweden's unofficial national team also travelled to Helsinki, where it played matches against the St. Petersburg and Polyteknikkot Sports Club.


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Further south in Sweden, Malmö's Hockeyklubb and Köpenhamns Skjötelöperförening also faced off in an international match.


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The first Swedish Championships were also held in 1907.


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Five teams participated in the competition and IFK Uppsala survived as champion.


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The early Sweden Championships were dominated by Stockholm and Uppsalan clubs.


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Women's ice ball activities also took off in the 1910s.


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[6] [21] In 1925, the Swedish Bandy Federation was founded, which took over administration of the country's ice ball operations instead of the football association.


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In the 1920s, public interest in the sport also grew, when in the 1910s the finals of the first championships were watched by hundreds of spectators, so in the following decade there was already talk of several thousand.


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The largest crowd was seen in 1925 when the final played at Stockholm Stadium was watched by more than 9,000 spectators.


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[22] [21] At the turn of the 1920s—1930s, Swedish bandy entered a kind of adolescence when the country's leading ice ball clubs no longer wanted to play a cup-shaped competition for the Swedish championship.


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In the cup competition there was a risk of dropping out of the competition early on, when only a few matches would have come for the team in the winter.


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Because of this, the country's leading six clubs did not participate in the cup-shaped 1930 championship organised by the country's federation, but played their own six-team series, the sexlagsserien.


Question: In which country is bandy developed?

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Clubs that boycotted the competition, organised by the Swedish federation, played their own series separate from the official championship.


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The national championship was won by SK Tirfing, but it is likely that would not have happened if six of the country's top clubs had entered the competition.


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The following year 1931, the Swedish championship was settled in a series-format competition for the first time and the clubs that boycotted the competition were back in the competition.


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The country's main series was played in two blocks, with the winners facing off in the final.


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Stockholm AIK went down in history as the winner of the first series-format competition.


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[22] [23] [24] By the 1940s, audience numbers continued to grow strongly and the final of the 1944 season already allowed over the 20,000 spectator limit.


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1948 saw the biggest reading of the decade when 26,617 spectators watched the final.


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[25] [21] [24] One of the most memorable and written finals of the decade, however, was the 1949 final between Edsbyns IF and Nässjö IF.


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Due to the mild winter, the match could not be played at Stockholm Stadium, so the match was played on the ice of the lake, the venue being Eksjön Perstorpgölen, in the middle of the forest.


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The official audience count for the match was 14,819 spectators, but in reality 17,000 spectators were present.


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The match remained the last final match played on Lake Ice.


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[25] [26] [27] The following decade already saw the arrival of artificial ice, when Rocklunda in Västerås became the world's first artificial ice field.


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[25] [24] [28] Subsequently, artificial ice tracks were built in Sweden at a high speed, in 1969 there were already 50 artificial ice tracks in the country that could be used to play ice ball.


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The construction of artificial ice tracks enabled the development of a high ice ball culture in Sweden.


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[29] In the 1970s, the country began hosting the Bandy World Cup, which was originally played in Ljusdal every year.


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The annual tournament became part of the ice ball culture in Sweden.


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[30] The ice ball culture was also spread to other countries as Swedes spread the sport specifically to the United States from the 1970s onwards.


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[31] In the 1970s, competitions for the Women's Swedish Championship were also started.


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[32] The national series was also developed and in the early 1980s, Allsvenskan, divided into two geographical blocks, was formed from the main series of the country.


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The most successful club of the decade was IF Boltic from Karlstad, who won the national championship eight times between 1979 and 1988.


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[33] [31] [34] In the 1990s, the country's main series was again dominated by Västerås SK, the country's most successful bandy club in terms of number of championships.


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[21] In the women's series, the most successful club is AIK.


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[32] In 2003, the first ice ball rink was completed in the country when the Dina Arena in Edsbyn was completed.


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[35] With Hall, Edsbyns IF emerged as the number one club in the country, it won the country championship five times in a row, between 2004 and 2008.


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[21] Since then, new ice ball rinks have been made in Sweden at a steady pace and there are already twenty ice ball rinks in the country.


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[36] The move to the halls has also generated criticism and crowd averages for home matches of many clubs that have moved to the halls have dropped.


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Critics say the shift of traditional open-air play to indoor facilities has affected the game and has changed the nature of the match event, as indoor rinks do not have the same ambience as open-air matches.


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[37] [38] Finnish Bandy history In Finland, ice ball came from St. Petersburg at the end of the 1890s and most firmly took root in Vyborg.


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The sport was brought to Finland in the winter of 1896 by Otto Wächter, a Vyborg merchant and chairman of Viborgs Skridskoklubb, who had become acquainted with the game during his business trips in Saint Petersburg.


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[16] [39] Wächter founded the first ice ball club in Finland, Wiborgs Hockeyklubb.


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The club played Finland's first international ice ball matches in the winter of 1900.


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[39] A multi-sport joint Winter Games was held in Helsinki in 1907, in connection with which a bandy tournament was played, also featuring Swedish and Saint Petersburg teams.


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After the Games, those who worked with the sport became convinced of the need to establish a national sport federation and in May 1907 the Suomen Palloliitto was founded, which included football as a summer sport in addition to bandy.


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The ball federation organized the first Finnish championship tournament in 1908.


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All matches of the tournament were played on sea ice off Helsinki.


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Later that summer, the Finnish championship was also played in football and water polo, so ice polo is honoured with the title of Finland's oldest Finnish ball sport competition.


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The historic championship was won by the Helsinki-based Polyteknikkot sports club.


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[16] [12] [13] [10] In the 1910s, Canadian ice hockey was not yet practiced in Finland, but there was a terminological discrepancy, as there was still little difference between the words bandy and ice hockey.


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In the Finnish-national spirit, the terms bandy and hockey originated abroad no longer qualified.


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In the 1910s, Suomen Sports Magazine started to refer to bandy as bandy, and ice hockey was developed as the name of ice hockey.


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By the time of the 1920s, Finnish denominations were already well established in use.


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[40] [16] [41] The first Finnish Championships were dominated by Helsinki and Vyborg clubs.


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However, the sport quickly spread throughout the country and ice balloons were already played in Vaasa in 1908 and in Tampere a year later.


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Soon Hanko, Oulu, Tammisaari, Lappeenranta and Sortavala also came along.


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However, it took until 1943 for a club from outside Helsinki or Vyborg to win the championship, with Warajan Pallo 35 winning the championship.


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[13] The capital of Finnish ice balling between the 1910s and 1930s was Vyborg.


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The most famous club of the time was Vyborg Sudet, who won 14 times the Finnish championship.


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[13] [16] As the species disappeared from Central Europe, an international congress was held in 1909 among the devotee countries of the species, at which it was decided to establish a Nordic federation.


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Sweden, Finland, Norway, Denmark and Russia registered as members.


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However, the Federation's activities soon faded, as World War I caused Russia to become isolated from the rest of the world and Finland and Sweden were the only ones left to play the sport at the top level.


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The countries played their first ground match in February 1919 in connection with the Helsinki Winter Games.


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The historic match was won by Finland with goals 4—1.


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The match was watched by 6,000 spectators, among them regent Mannerheim.


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[16] The popularity of ice ball in Finland has peaked in the 1950s, when, among other things, its early audience record in Finnish ball-series was set when the match between Oulun Palloseura and Veiterä in Lappeenranta was watched by 6,444 spectators in the 1957 SM-series.


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[16] [42] In the 1970s, the Biceball people felt discriminated against under the Finnish Pallfederation and in 1972 the division split off to become an independent organization, the Finnish Jääball Association.


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The 1970s also saw an increase in the popularity of ice hockey in Finland with the move to rinks.


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In Finland, however, ice ball has remained persistently vibrant.


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Conditions for ice ballers have only improved artificial ice tracks, of which the Oulunkylä artificial ice track was the first to be completed in Finland in 1977.


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[16] Rules A bandy match is played between two teams.


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The team is allowed to have eleven players on the field at a time, one of whom is a goalkeeper


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The match lasts 90 minutes and after the end of the match, the team that has received the ball as an instrument of play more often than the opponent's goal in accordance with the rules is the winner of the match.


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The rules of bandy consist of 18 rule items, which mainly as such are suitable for all age categories with certain exceptions.


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The game event is presided over by a referee.


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[43] [44] [45] Field An ice ball court is a rectangular area, similar in size to a football field, although there are slight differences in the tolerances of the dimensions of the fields.


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[46] [47] The ice ball court is between 90 and 110 metres in length and 45 to 65 metres in width.


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For international matches, the minimum dimensions are 100 × 60 metres.


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[46] [48] Each of the corners of the field has corner flags, and the corners have a radius of one-metre, quarter-circular angles.


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The edges of the field are marked by the side and end boundaries, which for goals acts as the finish line.


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In the middle of the field, a central boundary runs along the width, at the ends outside the metre field area the same as on the corners.


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At the centre of the central boundary is a central point 15 centimeters in diameter, around which is a central circle with a radius of five metres.


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[46] In front of the goals there is a semi-circular penalty area with a radius of 17 metres from the centre of the goal line.


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On both sides of the goal, two free punches located 17 metres from the intersection of the border between the end and penalty area are located on the line of the penalty area, which are circled in a radius of five metres.


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There is a penalty stroke point inside the penalty area at a distance of 12 metres from the goal.


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[46] Goals located in the middle of each end boundary.


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The paint is 3.5 meters in width and 2.1 meters in height.


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The side borders have a fifteen-centimeter-high side planking consisting of four-metre pieces normally made of aluminium.


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The planking ends 1—3 metres before the end boundary.


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[46] [48] Players and equipment The ball must be made of plastic or other approved material and be easily visible.


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Normally, the ice ball is dark red, orange or red-purple in color.


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[48] The ice ball must bounce from a height of 1.5 metres and not more than 15 centimeters and not more than 30 centimeters.


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The ball has a diameter of 63 millimeters +/-2 mm and a weight of 60-65 grams.


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[49] The ice ball bat is made of wood or other approved material.


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The maximum permissible width of the racket is 7 centimeters, and the maximum length of the outer arch is 125 centimeters.


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The shoulder should not be curled.


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[49] Players are required to wear skates on their feet and on their heads a helmet.


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On goalkeepers, a face covering is mandatory.


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[49] In a bandy match, a team is allowed to have a maximum of 11 players on the field at a time, one of whom is the goalkeeper and one captain.


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A match can be started if the team has eight or more players.


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In addition to the players on the field, a team is allowed to have a maximum of four interchange players, one of whom is a backup goalkeeper.


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The number of player changes in a match is unlimited and exchanges may be completed at any time during the match except for the goalkeeper, who must be replaced by game breaks with the permission of the umpire.


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[50] Player exchanges are performed in the interchange area marked on the side boards in the central area of the field.


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[46] If the number of players in a team due to match penalties or injuries is reduced to less than half the number of players in the opposing team, the match is suspended.


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[50] Goalkeeper The ball goalie must stand out from the field players and he always plays without a bat.


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In his own penalty area, the goalkeeper is allowed to play the ball with skates or any part of his body, to keep possession of the ball, feed, kick, steer, or throw the ball.


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The goalkeeper is allowed to hold the ball in his hand for five seconds.


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However, the goalkeeper must not stop with his hand or trap the ball he has deliberately played to him by the player.


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Outside the penalty area, the same rules apply to the goalkeeper as any other player.


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[51] The goalkeeper is the only player allowed to throw himself on the ice in front of the ball in the penalty area.


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A fielder while lying on the ice is not allowed to participate in the game.


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A fielder may also not throw a bat or participate in a game without a bat or with a broken bat.


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Only the goalkeeper is allowed to participate and influence the game without the bat.


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[52] [51] The goalkeeper may wear special gloves in his hands, which are, however, strictly defined in the rules.


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Goalkeeper leg guards should be no more than 80 centimeters high and 30.5 centimeters wide.


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Goalie equipment should only protect parts of the body, they must not cover the paint structurally.


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[51] Game time and interruptions A bandy match consists of two 45 minutes of half-time and extra time, with the game being equal overtime as determined by the rules of competition.


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Different from this, the younger ones play with shorter playing time.


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However, the match can be played in three 30-minute periods due to adverse conditions, for example severe frost or snowfall.


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The game time of the match runs throughout and the umpire takes into account non-game interruptions such as injuries and tactical delays when giving extra time.


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[43] [48] At the start of the match, the umpire performs a coin toss with the captains of the teams, which the winning team gets to choose either the field half or the starting punch.


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The initial punch is carried out from the centre and players must be in their own field half and players of the opposing team at least five metres from the ball.


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In the second half, the initial pass is performed by the opposing team.


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[43] Overtime is played if the game is equal after the actual playing time of the match and so required by the rules of competition.


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The length of time is 2×15 minutes and, depending on the rules, it is played until the end or by the so-called sudden death or golden goal method.


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If the match is still tied after overtime, the winner will be decided by penalty batting.


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[43] [53] Playing ball and opposing player A player may play the ball with the bat only below his own shoulder.


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The ball is allowed to be controlled with both skates on the surface of the ice on all parts of the body, except the arm, hand or head.


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A player has the right to jump in the air to stop, hit or divert the ball, provided there is no danger to other players.


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The ball is allowed to be played on the skate only one time, after which play must be continued with the bat.


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The ball is allowed to be kicked to the fellow player.


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[54] Physical contact with the opposing player is permitted when the ball is within playing distance.


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The ballless counter-player must not be prevented.


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Violent, dangerous and unsportsmanlike play against a counter-player is prohibited.


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A player on the opposing team may not be kicked, cranked or pushed, punched or blocked with a hand or bat.


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Holding and throwing a bat is also prohibited.


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Also, the opposing player's bat may not be pressed, raised, or otherwise prevented from being used.


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[55] The ball is considered to have gone into goal when the ball has crossed the goal line in its entirety inside the goal frames.


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If the ball has been played in accordance with the rules before this, the goal is considered to be done correctly.


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The attacking team's last touch with the ball must take place with the bat, otherwise the goal is not accepted.


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If the ball goes from a player on the defending team to the goal, the goal is accepted.


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[44] When the ball has been played over the end boundary and the ball has been touched last by a player from the attacking team, the goalkeeper of the defending team performs a goal throw to start the game.


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If the ball goes beyond the sideline, a free pass is performed by the opposing player at a distance of no more than one meter from where the ball went over.


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[56] If the ball goes over the end boundary and the ball is last touched by a player from the defending team, a corner stroke is performed by the player of the attacking team from the nearest corner punch area.


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Before performing a corner stroke, players on the field of the defending team must be behind their own goal or end boundary in their own penalty area.


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Players on the attacking team must be outside the penalty area and at least five yards from the end boundary, except for whoever performs the corner stroke.


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[56] Offside A player is in an offside position when the player is closer to the end boundary than the ball in the opponent's field half and between the player and the end boundary there are less than two players of the opposing team at the moment when the player plays the ball to him.


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You're allowed to be in an offside position, but you're not allowed to participate in the game from there.


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The referee breaks the game when a player in an offside position receives the ball, or if the player seeks a decisive advantage in his offside position.


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After a condemned offside, play is resumed with the opposing team's free throw.


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The offside rule applies even on special occasions.


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[57] Free and penalty strokes Free stroke is refereed in situations where the ball hits lighting equipment or disappears from view or goes over the sideline, or hits a side board moved more than one metre off the field.


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A free pass is also condemned if the player is playing without a helmet, a bat or otherwise in contravention of the rules.


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In addition, free punches follow for improper exchange, infringement on the starting pass or referee ball, fouls on the goaltender, fouls on the goaltender on the opening and goal throw, corner punches, free-throw or penalty punches, and umpiring offside.


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[58] [59] The umpire may comply with the benefit aspect and leave a free pass unjudged if the defending team has committed a foul and the attacking team has possession of the ball and still has a chance of scoring.


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[58] The free pass is performed by a player from the injured team.


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If a free pass is adjudicated to the attacking team in the defending team's penalty area, a free throw is performed.


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[58] [59] In a free pass, the person performing the free pass is allowed to move the ball after the umpire has given the starting permission.


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When performing a free stroke, opposing players have five seconds to move within five metres of the ball.


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The person performing the free pass does not have to wait for the opposing players to move if the referee has given the starting pass.


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[59] A penalty punch is adjudicated to the attacking team for violations committed by the defending team in their own penalty area that prevent the attacking team's goalscoring situation.


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A penalty punch is adjudicated for violent or irregular play, or if a player on the defending team blocks a player on the attacking team, or plays the ball in violation of the rules.


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[60] The penalty punch is performed from the penalty punch point.


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A penalty stroke can be performed by any of the fielders on the attacking team, not including the player on the ice.


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A goalkeeper cannot execute a penalty stroke.


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When performing a penalty stroke, only the goalkeeper and the puncher may be inside the penalty area.


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The position of the goaltender when performing the punch is at the goal line.


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Other players must not be inside the penalty area or behind the end boundary.


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The person who performs the penalty stroke shall not play the ball again until it has been touched by another player.


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[61] Penalties for violations of the rules prescribed by the rules, a player is sentenced to five or ten minutes of cooling depending on the offence.


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To mark the five-minute penalty, the referee shows a white card and a ten-minute penalty mark a blue card.


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The most common rule violations are judged by a ten-minute chill.


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A five-minute ice is adjudicated to a player for a repeated violation of the rules, but not a violent or dangerous offence against an opponent.


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The five-minute ice is also condemned for technical violations such as delaying a game.


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[62] A match penalty is condemned for aggravated violent gameplay or gross inappropriate conduct.


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Also, for the third cooldown he receives in the match, the player receives a match penalty and is removed from the game, regardless of the length of time he has received.


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The referee shows the player who received the match penalty a red card.


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The team of a player with a direct match penalty plays just under until the end of the match.


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In a match penalty of three consecutive ice, this is what is known as a mild match penalty, which is personal.


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In this case, a substitute sufferer is assigned to the player's third ice, who sits on a match penalty.


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[62] A yellow card is shown by the referee to warn an individual player or to issue a team warning.


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A team can only receive a warning once in a match.


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The subsequent violation will be judged to be cooled.


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[62] Bandy in the world Ice ball is a particularly popular sport in Sweden and Russia.


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In addition to these, notable enthusiast countries are Finland, Norway and Kazakhstan.


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Since the 1980s, international activities have also featured prominently the United States.


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[7] [63] Bandy in Sweden Sweden The main series of ice ball Elitserien is a high standard ice ball series and attracts the best players from Finland, Norway and Russia.


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A lot of people play ice ball as semi-professionals.


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[64] The Elitserien is the most followed sports series and its final is one of the largest annual sporting events in the country.


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The final is traditionally played as a one-leg on a neutral ground.


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The match was played before the 1990s many times in Stockholm.


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At Stockholm Stadium, the match was played 50 times until the event was moved to Söderstadion in 1967.


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Since 1991, the event has been played perinetically at Uppsala's Studenternas IP.


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The event was moved for five years back to Stockholm in 2013, when the final was played in an indoor hall for the first time when the match was played at the Friends Arena in Solna.


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The match garnered 38,474 spectators, which was a new finals audience record.


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The Friends Arena did not remain a permanent finals arena, instead the event was moved to the 2015 Stockholm Tele2 Arena.


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As of 2018, the final has been played again in Uppsala.


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[65] [21] Elitserien has been played in its current form as a 14-team series since the 2007—08 season, when it replaced the two-legged Allsvenskan as the highest league tier and Allsvenskan became the second highest league tier in the country.


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[66] The Elitserien is the following series of balls in Sweden, and especially the match round played on the Day of the Year, annandagsbandy is a traditional event.


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On Tapani days, local matches are played in the series, and traditional fighting pairs are matches especially between Hälsingland teams Bollnäs and Edsbyn.


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[67] The match round traditionally draws large audience numbers.


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[68] [69] Ice ball plays a significant role in the Swedish provinces, especially in Hälsingland, Småland and Värmland.


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However, Sweden's most successful bandy club in terms of number of championships is Västerås SK.


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[64] [21] Bandy is part of Swedish culture.


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[4] In addition to the match round on Tapani's Day, the Swedish concept is bandyportföljen, a briefcase containing a warm drink in a thermos bottle to enjoy in the stands.


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[70] [71] [72] The Swedish concept is also a nattbandy, nightly World Cup match.


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[73] [74] [30] Bandy is also a factor that unites cultures.


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In 2013, the Somali Ice Ball Team was formed in Borlänge, Sweden, in order to integrate Swedish Somalis as part of Swedish society.


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The country participated in the lowest league level of World Cup competitions for the first time in 2014.


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[75] [76] With the successful project a similar project has begun to be planned in Sweden also among Afghans in the country.


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[76] In Sweden, ice ball is increasingly moving indoors.


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There are about ten ice ball rinks in the country and the country seeks the situation that all teams in the main series will have access to rinks in the future.


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[36] [77] Bandy ball in Russia in Russia is a popular sport with a long tradition in the country.


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Bandy is the national sport of Russia and one of the largest public sports.


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There are about one hundred thousand enthusiasts of the sport in the country, and ice ball is played in fifty regions of Russia.


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Although the modern rules of the game are written in England, Russians consider themselves the developers of the species, the species is nicknamed Russian hockey there.


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The correct Russian name for the species is hokkej s mjatšom, which is freely translated as a hockey ball.


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[77] [7] [78] [79] [80] [81] Particularly popular is ice ball in the northern and eastern parts of the country.


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The sport was popular in the country as early as Soviet times, when championship matches could have between 20,000 and 50,000 spectators.


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[7] Traditional ice ball towns east of the Urals include Krasnoyarsk, Yekaterinburg, Irkutsk, Kemerovo and Khabarovsk, among others.


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In the northern parts of the European region of the country, Arkhangelsk is a major ice ball centre.


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In the capital of the country Moscow, the sport is not as popular, despite the fact that Dynamo is one of the most successful clubs in Russia in terms of the number of championships.


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[77] [15] The Russian Bandy League is a professional series and its level is tough.


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[81] In Russia, too, like Sweden, ice ball is moving into the hall age and several hall projects are underway for the national sport.


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[82] Jääpallo in Finland The Finnish Finnish Finnish Jääpallo Championships is Finland's first Finnish competition for team ball sports and since the 1991—92 season the series has been known as the Bandyliiga.


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[13] [10] In the pre-war period, the most successful club in the country was the 14 championships won by Vyborg Wolves.


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It was not until the 1990s that WP 35 reached the side of Vyborg in the number of championships.


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Later, the Oulun Luistinseura and Helsinki IFK have been promoted to the same title.


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[13] [10] [83] The Finnish Women's Championship was played for the first time in 1979.


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Activities faded in the 1990s, but in 2006 the competition activities of the Finnish Finnish Jääpallo Women's SM-sarja were resumed.


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[84] In Finland, ice ball has been most popular between the 1950s and 1960s, after which it has lost popularity to ice hockey, which grew past ice ball in that period to become the most followed ice sport in the country.


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[85] In many places, however, faithful to ice ball have remained.


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Traditional ice ball localities include Varkaus, Oulu, Helsinki, Porvoo, Kemi and Lappeenranta, as well as Tornio, Pori, Mikkeli and Jyväskylä, who have enjoyed success in the sport since the 1990s.


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[77] [13] On the other hand, in many localities, ice ball disappeared completely when clubs switched to hockey.


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In Tampere, local clubs switched the ball to the puck at an early stage.


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Part of the reason was the poor success of the Tampereans, because they were overshadowed by the Helsinki and Vyborg people in the sport, making the threshold for change of species lower.


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[86] In Sweden and Russia, ice ball is entering the hall age, but Finland does not yet have the first rink used by ice ballers.


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There are several large artificial ice tracks suitable for ice ballooning in Finland, the artificial ice of Oulunkylä, Kallio and Käpylä in Helsinki, as well as artificial ice tracks in Pori, Porvoo, Jyväskylä, Oulu, Lappeenranta, Varkaus, Seinäjoki, Turku and Espoo.


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The needs of Tornioans are served by Gränsvallen on the Haparanda side.


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[87] [88] Bandy in Norway Norway country ice polo is administered by the Norwegian Bandy Federation, which also acts as the country's country hockey and floorball species union.


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[89] The main set of Earth's ice ball is Eliteserien.


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The series has been played for a long time as an eight-team series, but for the 2015—16 season, the Norwegian Ice Ball Association decided to increase the number of teams to ten.


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[90] [91] In Norway, the hobby of ice ball is concentrated within 50 km of the capital Oslo and almost all the main league clubs in the country come from the region.


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[92] In the last couple of decades, the series has been dominated by Stabæk and Mjøndalen.


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In addition, Solberg and Ullevål have been promoted to the championship in recent years, as well as IF Ready, who won the national championship in 2015 after an 88-year hiatus.


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[93] [94] The most successful clubs in the country throughout the ages are Stabæk and SB Drafn.


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[93] Vikingskipet, the first ice ball rink in the Nordic countries, is located in Hamar, Norway.


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The hall was also for a long time the only ice ball rink in the Nordic countries, before the construction boom that began in Sweden.


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The hall served as the playing arena for the 1993 World Cup competitions.


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Norway achieved bronze medals in the tournament.


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[95] There are 19 artificial ice tracks in Norway including Vikingskipet.


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[96] Bandy in Kazakhstan The most famous and successful bandy club in Kazakhstan is Alma-Atan Dynamo, which won the Soviet Bandy Championship Series in 1977 and 1990.


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[97] [98] After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the club did not get its finances in order any more and the 1992—93 season in the Russian Championship League remained the club in last place, the following season the club withdrew.


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[99] Another Kazakh Soviet Republic team in the Soviet main league was the Karagandan Litejshik in the 1970s.


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[100] After the collapse of the Soviet Union and the independence of Kazakhstan, ice ball survived strongest in the country in the city of Uralsk and its ice ball club Akžaiyk emerged as the most prominent society in independent Kazakhstan.


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[99] Akžaiyk plays at the second highest league level for Russia in the championship series.


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[101] In Kazakhstan, the country's national competition activities are not comparable to the series in neighbouring Russia and the training conditions are nowhere near the same level as in Russia.


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There are different levels of ice ball competitions in the country, but the actual series action has not started.


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[102] [103] [104] The best Kazakh players apply to Russian clubs and many national team players also hold dual citizenship.


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[105] The most famous ice ball court in the country is Medeo near the capital Almaty.


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The track is set among mountains at an altitude of 1,961 metres, providing a fine setting for ice ball and speed skating.


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[106] Medeo served as the playing venue for the 2012 World Cup competitions and the 2011 Asian Winter Games ice ball tournament.


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[98] Bandy in North America Bandy spread to the United States in the 1970s, when the federation that controlled softball in the country started discussions with the International Bandy Federation to also introduce bandy into the sport federation program.


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The first ice ball match in the country was played in 1979, when the two Swedish teams played an exhibition match in the country.


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[107] Bandy spread to the United States mainly by Swedish forces.


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The species' largest novelist in North America served as Gunnar Fast, who introduced the species to the United States and Canada in the early 1980s.


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The first U.S. ice ball club, Minneapolis Bandolier, was founded in 1980 and the following year the United States Bandy Federation was founded and the United States Ice Ball League was started.


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The prize awarded to the winner of the series is named the Gunnar Cup.


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[108] [109] [110] The U.S. national team participated in World Cup competitions for the first time in 1985.


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[108] Bandy is played in the United States only in the state of Minnesota, the twin city area of Minneapolis and St. Paul.


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The number of enthusiasts of the species is over 500 in the country.


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[4] [111] The only artificial ice track in the country with a full-scale ice ball court is John Rose Minnesota Oval, which was completed in 1993.


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It served as a playing venue for the 1995 World Cup competitions.


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The occasion was the first and so far only that the tournament was played in North America.


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[4] [108] Through the United States, ice ball also spread to Canada, where ice ball activities began in 1986.


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As in the United States, ice ball in Canada has spread only to the province of Manitoba, where it is played in the Winnipeg and Flin Flon regions.


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[112] Over the past decade, efforts have also been made to launch ice ball activities in Quebec.


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[113] Ice ball activities are more small-scale in Canada than in the United States, the country participated in World Cup competitions for the first time in 1991, and the Canadian national team has not yet been able to beat the United States in the World Cup tournament.


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[112] Bandy in Central Europe In Central Europe, ice ball was a popular pastime at the beginning of the 20th century, but as hockey spread, the sport disappeared from many countries.


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[3] Since the 1970s-80s, the species has continued to spread in Central Europe and the longest time since the new coming has been practised in the Netherlands and Hungary.


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The Netherlands became a member of the International Bandy Federation in 1973 and Hungary in 1988.


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Countries participated in World Cup competitions for the first time in 1991.


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There is no full-scale artificial ice field for ice ball in the Netherlands, and enthusiasts of the sport are forced to practice rink ice ball played at speed skating tracks and hockey rink.


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In Hungary, too, you have to train mainly with rink ice ball.


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[114] [115] [116] There is one full-scale artificial frozen ice ball court located on Budapest's Városligeti next to Heroes' Square.


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[117] [118] In the 2000-10 centuries, small-scale ice ball activities have also been started in many other European countries.


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In Germany and the Czech Republic, the action has reached the longest, both countries had already lost ice at the beginning of the 20th century, but the countries have been seen again on international pitches.


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Germany participated in the bottom tier of the World Cup competitions for the first time in 2013 and the Czech Republic participated in the 2014 unofficial European Championships held in Davos, Switzerland, along with Germany, Hungary and the Netherlands.


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[119] [120] [121] [122] [123] from the European countries of Switzerland, Austria, Belgium, France, Italy, England and Denmark, the species disappeared in the 1910-1920s.


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Of these countries, Austrian ice ball history spanned the longest to the 1920s.


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[124] [125] Attempts have been made to resurrect the species and a national federation has been established in many European countries, which has become a member of the International Ice Ball Federation.


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[126] National Bandy Championships were played in Eastern Europe and the Baltics in Estonia and Latvia in the 1920s and 1930s, but before the start of World War II, the sport's hobby had already waned in the country.


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[14] [127] The Soviet Championship Series began to be played annually continuously since the 1950s and in the first seasons of the series played teams from the Soviet republics of Estonia, Latvia, Belarus and Ukraine.


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Teams came from Tallinn, Riga, Minsk, Kiev and Kharkov.


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The best was successful by the ODO of Riga, which achieved silver in 1953.


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[128] [114] In Soviet times, ice ball faded, but in the early years of the 21st century, ice ball activities have been resumed in Belarus, Estonia, Latvia and Ukraine.


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The national competition activity is very small in countries, and in Estonia and Latvia, the sport has started to be developed with the help of hockey players who have also taken ice ball in their variety.


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They also consist of the national teams of the countries.


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The Latvian team has seen some ice ballers playing in Russian kits who hold both Russian and Latvian citizenship.


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Players with discus backgrounds are also trusted in Belarus, but the body of the country's national team is made up by two-passport Russian players.


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[129] [114] [130] [131] [132] [133] Bandy Asia Bicyball activities have been started in the 2000-2010 centuries in Mongolia, Kyrgyzstan, Japan and China.


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The first action began in Mongolia, to which ice ball spread thanks to the activities of the Swedes.


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The Mongolian national ice ball team participated in the lowest level of World Cup competitions for the first time in 2006.


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Mongolia is a small country in ice hockey as well, there are only a few clubs in the country, and the same players make up both the country's hockey national team and ice ball team.


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There is no series action in the country and Mongolian ice ballers have picked up opponents from clubs playing at lower league levels in Russia.


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The national team of the country has missed the 2011-13 tournaments since its first World Cup participation, but otherwise the country has already been among the tournament's standard participants.


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[114] [134] [135] [136] Kyrgyzstan national team was established for the 2011 Asian Winter Games and the country appeared in the World Cup competitions held in Kazakhstan in 2012.


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There is a small social activity in the country, but national team activities have not started as strongly as in Mongolia, since the country has not participated in international tournaments since then.


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[137] [138] [139] ice ball operations began in Japan in 2011 and in China in 2014.


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The species has been introduced to the countries of the Far East, especially thanks to the activities of Swedes.


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[140] [141] [142] [143] International action International ice ball activities took on a new life in the 1950s when Russians returned to international fields representing the Soviet Union.


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The International Bandy Federation was founded in 1955, and its first and for a long time only member countries were its founding members Finland, Sweden, Norway and the Soviet Union.


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Bandy World Championships have been held since 1957.


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With the exception of one, all world championships in ice ball have gone to Sweden, Russia or its predecessor, the Soviet Union.


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Finland won its first and so far only championship in 2004.


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[77] [85] The tournament was played from the 1950s until the 1980s between the four founding members Finland, Sweden, Norway and the Soviet Union, in the 1980s the United States also joined as the fifth country.


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[77] [85] In 1991, the Netherlands, Hungary and Canada took part in the competitions for the first time.


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[144] With the dissolution of the Soviet Union, since the 1990s, the tournament has been attended by Russia as the successor to the Soviet Union, as well as Kazakhstan, which has emerged as a major ice ball country.


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[85] Until 2001, the World Cup tournament was held every two years and in the intervening years the Russian Government Cup tournament was played since 1972, but since 2003 the World Cup has been played every year.


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[85] [145] With the increase in the number of participants in World Championship competitions, the tournament has been played in several level groups.


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In 2001 the Games featured Belarus for the first time, 2003 Estonia, 2006 Mongolia and 2007 Latvia.


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[145] Since then, Kyrgyzstan, Japan, Ukraine, Somalia, China, Czech Republic and Slovakia have also participated in World Cup tournaments.


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[146] [147] [148] Women's World Cup competitions have been held since 2004.


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In women, Sweden, Russia, Finland, Norway, USA, Canada, Hungary, Estonia and Switzerland have participated in the World Cup tournaments.


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On the women's side, World Cup tournaments have also been dominated by the sport's major nations Sweden and Russia.


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[149] [148] At the 1952 Oslo Winter Olympics, the Olympic Bandy Tournament was also played as an exhibition sport.


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The International Bandy Federation is in the process of driving the sport to the Olympics and the sport became a member of the International Olympic Committee in 2001.


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An Olympic-eligible sport of bandy has been since 2004.


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[85] [150] Until 2001, the federation used the abbreviation IBF, when it was changed to FIB, since after the International Bandy Federation applied for membership of the International Olympic Committee, the Committee recommended that the abbreviation be changed since the previous name abbreviation was already in use by another sport federation.


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[85] [151] To become an official Olympic sport, the sport still has a long way to go.


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Twenty countries have participated in World Cup tournaments in recent years and the International Bandy Federation already has more than 30 members.


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However, the traditional hobbyist countries of the species are far ahead of other countries.


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[77] [87] [63] [126] Measured by the number of enthusiasts, bandy endures comparison with other Winter Olympic sports.


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Worldwide, ice ball has more than 35,000 enthusiasts.


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Of the Olympic Winter Games, only ice hockey is more engaged in ice hockey.


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[152] The next step closer to the Olympic Games will take the sport in 2019 when ice ball is included in the Winter Universiades in Krasnoyarsk.


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[153] Bandy competitions International ice ball competitions National team competitions Asian Winter Games European Bandy Championships (disbanded) World Bandy Championships Moscow Tournament (disbanded) Russian Government Cup Super Cup Winter Olympics (disbanded) Club competitions Champions Cup European cup Bandy World Cup Nordic series (disbanded) Nordic Games (disbanded) National ice ball competitions Historical relationship with other sports Historically the closest related species are Scottish shinty and Irish hurling, as well as English field hockey, in the manner of ice ball.


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The biggest difference to these is that ice ball is played on ice.


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British soldiers took these species with them to North America in the 1840s and in Canada, based on variations of ice hockey, developed.


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[1] [154] The rules of bandy have the most congruence with football.


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Bandy and football fields are equal and the number of players on the field is the same, as is the grouping of players on the field and playing time.


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As Canadian ice hockey spread to Europe from the 1910s onwards, it supplanted ice ball in Central Europe, but in the Nordic countries and Russia, ice ball remained a popular sport.


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In these countries, due to the long winter, the football season was much shorter than in European countries further south, so footballers needed another pastime for the winter.


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Football provided a good ice-free season training format for ice ballers and ice ball served as a good winter training form for footballers.


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In the old days, it was common for the same players to play football in the summer and ice ball in the winter.


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Until the 1970s, it was customary for the same men to play both football and ice ball at national team level.


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[155] [156] [77] Ice hockey spread from the 1920s and 1930s onwards to Northern Europe as well.


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Many soccer and hockey clubs also adopted new Canadian hockey into their program.


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The ice hockey players of the early days were almost exclusively hockey players.


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[157] After World War II, ice hockey also spread to the Soviet Union.


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Hockey activities began in the Soviet Union much later than the rest of Europe and when the Soviet national team participated in the World Ice Hockey Championships for the first time in 1954, the country immediately won World Cup gold.


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Soviet hockey players rose to the top of the world very quickly, as they had been playing ice ball for decades.


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[4] [80] [158] In the 1960s, a rink ball developed on the basis of ice ball.


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The rink ball developed in Sweden, from where it also spread to Finland.


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The sport has initially been a form of training for ice ballers.


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In the 1980s, rink ball began to differentiate more and more into its own sport.


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Its equipment evolved to fit the rink and the rules began to differ from the ice ball rules more and more.


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Enthusiasts of the sport no longer consisted exclusively of ice ballers either.


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[159] [160] Sources Citation error, replace with {{cite book| author = Anttinen, Pekka & Hoppu, Tuomas| title = A century of ice ball| publisher = Multiprint| year = 2011}} Citation error, replace with {{cite book| author = Kanerva, Juha; Tikander, Vesa| title = Birth of sports| location = Helsinki| year = 2012| isbn = 978-951-851-345-5}} Citation error, replace with {{cite book| author = Somppi, Heikki| title = Story of Wolves 1912—2012| location = Kouvola| year = 2012| isbn = 978-952-93-1370-9}} Check date values in: |dateaccess= (help) References * Category:Screening key articles


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Its first season aired on The WB channel in 2005—06.


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Since 2006, the series has aired on The CW network.


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The series follows the journey of brothers Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean Winchester (Jensen Ackles) as they hunt demons and other supernatural creatures.


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They also experience battles with angels, but often receive help from an angel named Castiel, for whom Dean later coines the name Cas.


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The series is being filmed in Vancouver, Canada.


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According to Eric Kripke, he planned the series to last only three seasons of production, but decided to continue with the series anyway.


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After the fifth season, Kripke gave up the role of showrunner to work on other series.


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Sera Gamble continued as the twirler.


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However, Kripke remained on season six as executive producer and in season seven as executive consultant.


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In his eighth season, Jeremy Carver started as a rounder.


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The CW ordered a 13th production season for the series in January 2017.


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[1] In Finland, Sub began airing its ninth production season on September 20, 2015.


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Blu-ray and DVD versions of the series have also been released per production season.


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Production Supernatural creator Eric Kripke developed the idea for the series over nearly ten years while himself interested in urban legends.


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[2] [3] Although Kripke had envisioned Supernatural as a film, he spent a few years offering the idea for the series to various channels.


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[4] [5] Fortunately for him, demand for so-called mythological series increased when Lost began to be aired in 2004.


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[5] The concept went through several phases before the series began to be produced.


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[3] Kripke wanted the series to be set “on the road” feeling it was “the best means of telling the stories because it's pure, unreasonable and uniquely American...


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These stories occur in small towns all over the country and it only makes sense to drive in and out to these stories.


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“[3] Since Kripke had previously collaborated with The WB, he was offered the opportunity to offer the channel a programme.


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It was spent by Kripke to market Supernatural.


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[4] However, the channel did not like Kripke's original idea of two news reporters travelling around the country chasing demons, so Kripke quickly decided to replace the reporters with brothers.


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Kripke decided the brothers were originally from Lawrence, Kansas, whose nearby Stull Cemetery Cemetery houses several local urban legends.


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[6] As the names of the main characters, Kripke decided to choose Sal and Dean, as in Jack Kerouac's novel Journey.


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However, he later traded Sal to Sam.


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[7] The brothers last name was originally supposed to be Harrison in honor of actor Harrison Ford.


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However, there was a Sam Harrison living in Kansas, so the last name had to be changed.


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Interested in the well-known Winchester haunted house, Kripke chose Winchester as his final surname.


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[8] Cast and Characters The series focuses mainly on the Winchester brothers, Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles), who travel across the country chasing everything supernatural.


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Padalecki's interest in horror series such as Secret Files and The Twilight Zone led him to become interested in the role of Sam.


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Padalecki also had previous experience working with producers McGn and David Nutter, [10] the former of whom convinced Padalecki to audition for the series.


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[11] Initially Nutter asked Ackles to audition for the role of Sam, [12] but after reading the script Ackles identified more with the role of Dean.


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[13] At the time of the audition, Ackles was already playing one of the main characters in Smallville and after he got the part of Dean, his role in Smallville had to be decided.


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[14] As there are not many main characters in the series, several minor parts are included in the series.


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Jeffrey Dean Morgan plays John Winchester, Sam and Dean's father.


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After his appearance in the pilot episode, John's character does not return to the series until midway through the first season and remains a minor character in the series until he dies, until the first episode of season two, although the character's spirit returns to haunt his sons still in the season's ending episode.


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According to screenwriter John Shiban, John's death was decided early in the series.


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The screenwriters felt that separating brothers and father from each other would “divide the series.”


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Shiban says: “... the boys are looking for their father, the monster of the week, whatever was carried on the road.


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It became difficult because the question arose 'What does Dad do?


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Does he do the most interesting things than his son, or what?


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'"[15] Morgan was initially unenthusiastic about returning to the series in its second season of production after getting a new role on the series Grey's Anatomy.


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[16] There is no certainty about the character's future appearances due to Morgan's busy schedule.


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[17] The first season also introduces a demon named Azazel as well as her unnamed daughter.


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Azazel appears in the first season only as silhouettes or shadows and takes on a physical state only when controlling John Winchester's body.


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Azazel's daughter uses a girl named Meg Masters (Nicki Aycox) as her body.


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In the second production season, Azazel appears as Frederic Lehne, who was originally intended to guest in only one episode.


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However, Lehne impressed the series' directors, so this was asked to return for the two-part closing sequence of the season.


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[18] Following the character's death, Azazel appears in the fourth season in the time-travel episode “In the Beginning” (with Christopher B. MacCabe and Mitch Pileggi), as well as in a flashback in the season ending episode (Rob LaBelle).


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After Azazel's daughter left Meg Masters' body at the end of the season, both the demon and Meg Masters herself continue in the series, but now as separate characters.


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The demon returns for one episode of the second season, briefly taking control of Sam's body as well as in the fifth season (Rachel Miner).


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Miner also plays the demon in the seventh and eighth seasons.


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Aycox appears as the angry spirit of Meg Masters in one episode in the fourth season.


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The scriptwriters of the series wanted to specify the concept of “hunters”, resulting in several new characters appearing in the series.


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[19] Actor Jim Beaver first appears in a first-season episode as the Winchesters' old family friend Bobby Singer.


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After the death of Sam and Dean's father, Bobby acts as if the brothers' surrogate father and the character remains in a minor part of the series for the next production seasons.


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[20] Other hunters are introduced in the second production season during the presentation of the Hunter-filled Harvelle Inn.


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The inn is owned by Ellen Harvelle (Samantha Ferris), whose late husband was a friend of John Winchester.


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Other staff at the inn include Jo Harvelle (Alona Tal), who works with her mother, and Ash (Chad Lindberg), who uses her extensive computer knowledge to observe supernatural phenomena.


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Tal was eventually written out of the series with this seeming just like Sam and Dean's “fourteen-year-old little sister.” [21] Ash was also written off the series in the closing episode of the second season after the inn was destroyed.


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Ellen was supposed to return to the series in season three, but due to a writers' strike, the episode was cancelled.


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[22] The screenwriters were supposed to include Ellen in the closing episode of season three as well, but Ferris refused to return.


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[23] [24] In the fifth season, however, both Jo and Ellen returned to the series for a few episodes.


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In the third season, the screenwriters decided to introduce a demon named Ruby, who had been a witch while alive and claims to be on the same side as the Winchesters.


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However, The CW requested that another female character be added to the series in addition to Ruby, so the screenwriters wrote Bela Talbot, a self-absorbed thief who sells her wealthy clients items with supernatural abilities.


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[25] Katie Cassidy and Lauren Cohan were chosen to play Ruby and Bela, although they initially auditioned for each other's roles.


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[26] Actors are listed in lead roles at the beginning of episodes.


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At the end of the third season, Bela was written out of the series as viewers reacted negatively to the character and Cassidy was replaced for financial reasons.


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[27] [28] In the fourth season, the cast of Ruby was cast as Genevieve Cortese, who played the character right up until her death, to the end of the fourth production season.


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[29] Cortese also played himself in the series' sixth season episode “The French Mistake.” The series' screenwriters wanted to bring more Christian mythology to the series and wrote Castiel's character.


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[30] In Kripke's desire to keep the introduction of the angels secret, the character was described as a demon during the auditions.


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[31] Misha Collins was chosen to play the Castiel Angel.


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In his debut appearance in the opening episode of season four, Castiel raises Dean from Hell following the death he experienced in season three, and hereby comes to the Winchesters' aid.


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The character was originally only supposed to appear in a six-episode long story arc, but due to the feedback the character received, Castiel's role was expanded.


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[32] Collins was promoted to the series' standard face in season five.


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[33] With Castiel, other angelic characters were introduced in the series: the “belligerent” and “narrow-minded” Uriel played by Robert Wisdom, [34] who secretly advocates Lucifer, Anna Milton played by Julie McNiven, and Zachariah, played by Kurt Fuller, who hopes for the Apocalypse to bring Paradise Down to earth.


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Although Wisdom's character is killed off, McNiven and Fuller continued in their roles in season five, along with Lucifer, played by Mark Pellegrino.


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Pellegrino had previously been in reserve for the role of Castiel, after which he was offered the role as Lucifer.


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[35] [36] Later, Fuller and McNiven's characters were also written out of the series along with Elle and Jo Harvelle.


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Because the series focuses mainly on the Winchester brothers, the screenwriters realised viewers knew the characters were not in danger of being killed off for good.


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To rectify this, screenwriters write frequently guest characters into episodes to add tension.


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[37] Viewers liked Castiel's character so much that the screenwriters could not definitively kill Castiel out of the series and Misha Collins (Castiel's actress) was nominated as one of the most outstanding cast members of the series.


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Protagonists Side Persons Production seasons First season The first season consists of 22 episodes that aired in the United States from September 13, 2005 to May 4, 2006 and in Finland from August 28, 2006 to January 15, 2007 [38].


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Brothers Sam and Dean Winchester join forces to find their missing father, John Winchester.


Question: When was the Coven series started to be presented in Finland?

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Apparently, however, John, who disappeared on a hunting trip, is no ordinary citizen of the line; as his life's work, he hunts supernatural creatures such as ghosts, vampires and demons and has trained his son for the same mission.


Question: When was the Coven series started to be presented in Finland?

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Along the way, Sam and Dean save innocent people's lives, fight supernatural beings, as well as gather clues regarding their father's possible whereabouts.


Question: When was the Coven series started to be presented in Finland?

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As the season progresses, mysterious psychic abilities emerge for Sam as well as visions of the future that carry the series' plot forward.


Question: When was the Coven series started to be presented in Finland?

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Eventually they find their father, and it becomes clear to them that the personification that killed Sam and Dean's mother years earlier is a yellow-eyed demon whose defeats only with a legendary weapon created by Samuel Colt.


Question: When was the Coven series started to be presented in Finland?

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After all, they don't get killed by a demon.