Cyprus advances therefore to the third stage of the qualification process for next year’s World Championship that is scheduled for January 3-5, 2014.
San Marino completed their campaign by besting Luxembourg 3:2 (25-20, 26-28, 25-14, 18-25, and 15-11) to finish second while Scotland rounded out the top three after cruising past hosts Malta in straight sets (25-22, 25-19, and 26-24) in the very last match of the tournament.
Luxembourg and Malta did settle for fourth and fifth place at the end of a memorable weekend where most of the participating teams were celebrating their World Championship debut.
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