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unusual facts about Doctor Who spin-offs



1996 Fed Cup Asia/Oceania Zone

The top two teams of each pool play-off in a two-round knockout stage to decide which nation progresses to World Group II play-offs.

2003 Fed Cup

The eight losing teams in the World Group first round ties and eight winners of the Zonal Group I sections will compete in the World Group Play-offs for spots in the 2004 World Group.

2004 Fed Cup Asia/Oceania Zone

The teams that finished first and second in the pools played-off to determine which team would partake in the World Group Play-offs.

2005 Fed Cup Americas Zone

The teams that finished first in the pools played-off to determine which team would partake in the World Group II Play-offs.

2006 Fed Cup Asia/Oceania Zone

The teams that finished first in the pools played-off to determine which team would partake in the World Group II Play-offs.

2007 Fed Cup Americas Zone

The top team of each pool played-off against each other to decide which two nations progress to the World Group II Play-offs.

2009 Fed Cup Asia/Oceania Zone

The teams that finished first in the pools played-off to determine which team would partake in the World Group II Play-offs.

2009 Premier League Darts

The tournament came to a conclusion with the play-offs on Monday 25 May at the Wembley Arena – coinciding with the Football League play-offs at the neighbouring Wembley Stadium over the same weekend.

2011 Fed Cup Americas Zone

The winners of both pools play off to decide which nation progresses to World Group II play-offs.

2011 Fed Cup Americas Zone Group I – Play-offs

The top team advanced to World Group II Play-offs, and the bottom two teams were relegated down to the Americas Zone Group II for the next year.

2011 Fed Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group I – Pool B

Four teams competed in a round robin competition, with the top team and the bottom two teams proceeding to their respective sections of the play-offs: the top teams play for advancement to the World Group II Play-offs, while the bottom teams face potential relegation to Group II.

2011–12 Liga Alef

Maccabi Yavne won the promotion play-offs and promoted to Liga Leumit.

2012 Fed Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group I – Play-offs

The winner of the round advanced to the World Group II Play-offs, where they'd get a chance to advanced to World Group II.

2012 Fed Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group I – Pool A

Three teams competed in a round robin competition, with the top team and the bottom team proceeding to their respective sections of the play-offs: the top team plays for advancement to the World Group II Play-offs, while the bottom team faces potential relegation to Group II.

2012 Fed Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group I – Pool B

Four teams competed in a round robin competition, with the top team and the bottom team proceeding to their respective sections of the play-offs: the top team plays for advancement to the World Group II Play-offs, while the bottom team faces potential relegation to Group II.

2013 Davis Cup Europe/Africa Zone Group I

South Africa and Denmark were defeated in the play-offs and were relegated to play the Europe/Africa Zone Group II in 2014.

2015 Davis Cup

Below are the eight teams who made it to the quarterfinal stage of the 2014 Davis Cup, as well as the eight teams who won in the World Group Play-Offs.

Aaron A. Brooks

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Adamos Chatzigeorgiou

He made his debut with Anorthosis on 24 August 2010 against CSKA Moscow on UEFA Europa League play-offs.

Al Murray's Multiple Personality Disorder

However, these views were not shared by the News of the World, which described the show as "just not that funny" and the characters as "a collection of Little Britain cast-offs...or Harry Enfield tributes".

Art Regner

Karsch and Regner were heavily promoted and often broadcast from locations, like the Tigers series in Chicago and 2006 play-offs in Yankee Stadium.

Broadcast encryption

Luby and Staddon have used a combinatorial approach to study the trade-offs for some general classes of broadcast encryption algorithms.

Carl Asaba

He returned to Brentford, scoring 23 goals in the 1996–97 season as the Bees lost out in the play-offs.

Chris Sulley

Bankrolled by Jack Walker, new manager Kenny Dalglish took the Lancashire outfit into the top-flight via the play-offs, as Rovers defeated Leicester City 1–0 in the final.

Estonia Fed Cup team

Estonia came through Europe/Africa Zone Group I and then edged Israel in a World Group II Play-off to qualify for World Group II for the first time just a year after promotion from Group II.

Grace Holloway

Grace's life after her encounter with the Doctor has not been explored on-screen beyond the television movie, although the Doctor did have to deal with the after effects of those events in the spin-off Eighth Doctor Adventures novel Unnatural History, by Kate Orman and Jonathan Blum.

Ibrahim Juma

Juma's most important contribution to Cray Wanderers was winning the free kick which was scored by Simon Osborn which resulted in Cray Wanderers winning the play offs and therefore getting promoted.

Israel Fed Cup team

In the 2007 Fed Cup, they qualified from the World Group II and World Group Play-offs to reach the elite World Group for the first time in the team's history.

Izzy Sinclair

In the 2008/2009 Tenth Doctor strip The Stockbridge Child, Izzy is mentioned as having gone travelling around the world by Max who also says she found something "amazing" in Kabul but cannot reveal what before being interrupted by the Doctor's new companion Majenta.

Julian Wheeler

Ivan Robinson won on points, this match was at the Box-Offs in Phoenix, Arizona.

Matthew Clarkin

Under Clarkin's captaincy, UBB finished 5th in the 2010–11 Rugby Pro D2 season and went on to win the play-offs to gain promotion to the Top 14.

Meighan Desmond

Meighan Desmond (born 7 October 1977, in Kaitaia, New Zealand) is an actress, best known by her role as the Greek goddess Discord on the popular American TV series Hercules: The Legendary Journeys and on its two spin-offsXena: Warrior Princess and Young Hercules.

RC Aachen

The club advanced to the quarter finals of the play-offs after opponend USV Potsdam Rugby canceled their first round play-off game.

RC Mainz

The club was knocked out in the first round of the play-offs after losing 131–3 to DSV 78 Hannover.

Rei Ayanami

Rei appears in many spin-offs and other media related to Neon Genesis Evangelion including video games such as Evangelion 64 and the popular cross-over franchise Super Robot Wars and the various manga adaptations, such as Yoshiyuki Sadamoto's manga adaptation of the anime.

Ricardo Ferretti

In 2000 he moved to UANL Tigres, a team that constantly failed to qualify for the play-offs, despite having a squad with many star players, including many from the Mexican national team, such as Jorge Campos and Luis Hernández, and from other national teams as well.

In 2004, due to personal differences with the player José Cardozo, and despite qualifying for the play-offs in all his seasons in Toluca, Ferretti was separated from the team.

Robert Holles

As well as published works he was a successful TV writer with credits for Coronation Street and Hine as well as one-offs for the prestigious Play for Today slot on the BBC's main TV channel (Michael Regan and The Vanishing Army), two episodes for The Man Outside (Drama series, BBC 1972) and several plays in Thames TV's Armchair Theatre series.

Scooby Snacks

They are used as a form of incentive payment for the cartoon characters Scooby-Doo and Shaggy from the Hanna-Barbera series Scooby-Doo and its various spin-offs.

The Idolmaster

Originally released as an arcade game in 2005, the franchise has grown to numerous ports, sequels and spin-offs across multiple video game consoles, including two social network games.

The Offs

The Offs are a punk/ska band from San Francisco, started by guitarist Billy Hawk and singer Don Vinil, and later joined by former Hot Tuna drummer Bob Steeler and a rotation of horn players including Bob Roberts, Richard Edson and Roland Young.

Three's a Crowd

When the series concluded in 1976, series producers Brian Cooke and Johnnie Mortimer devised two spin-offs of the series.

Tim Pritlove

He is also the producer of the spin-offs Chaosradio Express (which was renamed into CRE: Technik, Kultur, Gesellschaft in December 2011), Chaosradio Express International and Chaos TV, whose feeds are a member of the Chaosradio podcast network.

Top six play-offs

After a top five play-off system was used, a play-off structure involving the top six teams was used to determine the winners of the Super League competition in British rugby league from 2002 through 2008.

Victor Pemberton

In 1976 Pemberton wrote the audio drama Doctor Who and the Pescatons for an experiment in Doctor Who on vinyl record and an early spin-off from the programme.

Wario

In addition to appearances in spin-offs in the Mario series, he appears in cameos for Densetsu no Stafy 3 and Pilotwings 64.

Water World, Colorado

It includes steep downward spirals, sudden drop offs, and various dinosaurs, including an animatronic T. rex encounter at the end of the ride.

WMGF

When Clear Channel had another round of lay-offs through their stations in Fall 2012, the station's Programming Director was let go, therefore the station morphed back into a Mainstream AC under a new PD in which it had the station emphasis less on softer 70s, 80s, and 90s music by Spring 2013.

Yo Kan

They lost the semi-final match to the German team (led by Dimitrij Ovtcharov), with a sudden death set score of 2–3, but offered another shot for the bronze medal by entering the play-offs.


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