The IFF is excited to launch the first ever World Virtual Freestyle Floorball Cup (WVFFC) 2020. This is a competition where every floorballer can take part by showing their best tricks or skills within a certain time-limit. The competition is organised virtually and the winner will be crowned based on social media voting. 

– The aim of this new competition format is to activate floorball players around the world and organise events utilising new virtual concepts, especially now during the COVID-19 times. In addition, this event format gives the possibility for players from countries and young players with no national teams, to participate in an official IFF Event, says IFF Communications & Anti-Doping Manager Merita Bruun.

The IFF wants all skilful floorball players to film a video of their best freestyle floorball moves (for example include zorro moves and/or other tricks) and send them to the IFF media team (media@floorball.sport) before October 26th!

– As this is a new competition, we want to keep the format somewhat flexible. At this point, it is hard to predict how many participants we will have, so therefore we want to keep an option open for having a preliminary round with an IFF jury deciding about the finalists going to the final social media voting. We hope that our followers will participate actively since now they get a chance to show their individual skills! IFF Information Coordinator Mari Myllärinen adds.

World Virtual Freestyle Floorball Cup Rules

• Participants:
  • Anyone can participate from anywhere in the world (no age limit)
  • Participants to send in: video clip + full name, country, age
  • Only one (1) video per participant is allowed
• Format:
  • Video (landscape format)
  • Time: 15-30 seconds
  • Music (royalty free) or without music
  • To be sent to media@floorball.sport  by deadline (26th October 2020 at midnight CET)
• Timeline:
  • Videos can be sent in 12th – 26th October 2020 (at midnight CET)
  • IFF will announce the (final round) contestants and publish the videos on IFF Facebook & Instagram on 2^nd November
  • IFF Facebook & Instagram voting will take place 2^nd – 11^th November (at midnight CET)
  • IFF will announce the 1st World Virtual Freestyle Floorball Cup champion on 12^th November
• Competition/Voting platforms:
  • Winner is decided via social media voting on IFF Facebook & IFF Instagram
    • Video with most combined likes on Instagram and FB wins
  • Depending on the amount of participants there can first be a preliminary round to decide the finalists that proceed to social media voting
• Other:
  • Event hashtag: #FreestyleFloorballCup
  • IFF owns the right to all material that can be published and used for further floorball promotion
  • Top contestants will be interviewed and promoted on the IFF channels
  • Note: *FB does not participate in this competition

For more information, please visit the World Virtual Freestyle Floorball Cup 2020 page!