Countdown to the Cup II

To help put this new for AC 32, compressed racing schedule into perspective, three months from today Valencia Louis Vuitton Act 13 will be ending. Only four months from today, the Round Robin phase of the Louis Vuitton Cup will be over.

So there is only a month between the end of Act 13 and the end of the Rounds Robin.

More importantly, only four months from today seven of the eleven Challengers are, as the NYYC used to say to their unsuccessful defense candidates, "excused from further participation".