Australian coach Lasse Bundgaard said the group format of the tournament was to blame.
But the Arizona desert-pop group The Format chose to celebrate both times they got dumped from its label: Its members threw big parties and got to work releasing their own music.
In contrast, the UEFA Cup never produced such a star-studded field since it adopted the group-stage format in 2004.
Vinyl record sales are declining to be sure, another victim of digital downloading, but a new group of listeners are embracing the format: hipsters.
Of the three one-day competitions, the Friends Provident Trophy begins on 19 April with yet another change of format, now including quarter-finals after the group stage.
MP3.com in the past six months has gained notoriety as a proponent of MP3 (Motion Picture Experts Group, Audio Layer 3), a format for compressing audio data so that it can be downloaded easily over a network.
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The SNIA Long Term Retention working group has been working hard to develop a Self-Contained Information Retrieval Format (SIRF).
Soriano refused to confirm the G14's preferred format for a revamped Champions League but he floated the idea of a bigger initial group stage.
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The youth will be a format similar to a town hall where he'll be able to address a group of young Chinese and take their questions.
All matches are played on a best-of-five frames basis, with the top two in each group going through to the last 16 when the event reverts to a knockout format.
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Yukonori Kawauchi, general manager in charge of DVD formats at Sony's Video Group, said that "to provide the best service to the consumer one format is better than two, " which makes us wonder why they don't put this guy in charge when making decisions on other Sony storage formats.
The app that my group of girls created aims to prevent teenage pregnancies by providing resources and information in a format that is appealing, compelling and easy to use for teen girls.
The format of the competition, meanwhile, is to be changed with each county playing eight games in the group stage, three more than last year.
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For all its tortuous history, that's nothing compared to the competition's head-wrecking format, which welcomes teams at various points from June to February and features four qualifying rounds, a group stage, four more knockout rounds, then a final played in neutral territory.
For established brands, the format provides a direct way of interacting with customers, turning each day's trading into a consumer focus group.
The Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) has met to issue a draft international standard of a new video-compression format that is twice as efficient as current standards.
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