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One of the largest annual Ultimate event in Japan (even in the world) "2008 Dream Cup" was held at Fuji city in Japan on March 14th - 16th by Club Jr. Inc., which is the flyingdisc-related company with a history of over 20 years, with backup of JFDA.
For 10th anniversary of the event, Sockeye and Fury (2007 UPA champions) were invited to play at Dream Cup. There were more than 2,000 players and 141 teams(including Korean & Chinese Taipei Teams) in Open, Women's and Mixed division.
To be expected, the finals were Japenese Buzz Bullets (2006WUCC Open champions) vs Sockeye, and Japanese Women's National team vs Fury, and well done to both Japanese teams for taking it over the U.S. teams.
Buzz Bullets won by 14-13, and Japanese Women's National team beat Fury at 15-9.
Chinese Taipei got 3rd place in Mixed Division, which was otherwise dominated by Japanese combos.
Once we get through Worlds2008, I guess Australian Ultimate should consider seeing if the Japanese would like to invite a couple of Australian teams - either our National teams or our current National champions!?
3 comments:
It would be cool if the current Aussie champions got to go. This would be a great extra to winning Nats, and you'd have nearly a year to prepare (from winning Nats in April through to going to Japan the following March).
Yes, the Aussie Nats champions probably wouldn't be as strong as the Buzz Bullets or Sockeye or the Australian National teams, but they'd still do pretty well in a tournament of 80 Open teams and 48 Women's teams. The could also pick up a handful of players to replace those who can't do a Japan trip.
Obviously thought, the invitation wouldn't be the same as the one extended to Sockeye and Fury: Paid airfares and accomodation.
I'm sure they'd love to have the winning club there, but they'll have to shell out their own couple of thousand dollars each.
To clarify the Australian team(s) was invited to go and there was some chat amongst the big names about attending however the timing clash with regionals meant that there were cheap options on the table.
Plus the main interest was from the perth boys as their regionals doesnt really happen.
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