Nov 20th 12:02am


And it begins!


Kiwis for lunch at 12:30 and Koreans for supper at 17:30.

The day before the competition was highlighted by team meetings and some R&R before the action starts. Guys look focused and primed to kick some serious U know what! The team is healthy and ready to go! The staff is prepared and will make sure that the players sole focus is on the game. We should be playing in front of over 1,000 to 3,000 school kids that will be screaming their lungs out.

Kiwis are led by standout 3.0 Dan Buckingham and he’s surrounded by a veteran crew and they always play smart, composed and together in harmony and have given Canada a hard time on the international scene, I think our last victory against them would be in ? Its been awhile ;) I’m sure Don could research it and give U some info on this matter.

We will have a break after and then we will play the Koreans which should be quite interesting. China will play their 1^st ever international game against the same Koreans. Vegas reports that Korea is +12 and the over under is at 59 ;)

I will try to send out the scores ASAP although the OC says they will have the scores posted FAST so check out http://www.oceaniawrc.com.au/results.htm. Games start at 19:00 (EST) 16:00 (PST) on November 19^th;)

Today we had the 1^st classification results, China led the way with 8 preliminary class changes led by Jun Chen who went down from 3.5 to 2.5 and the rest of the players went up or down by 0.5.

South Africa has some very interesting athletes ;) and I cannot wait to see this motley crew in action. South Africa is coached by Kiwi Peter Martin. Under Peter’s guidance South Africa has improved greatly from the 1^st time we saw them in 03 to 05 in Brazil and with an influx of youth let’s see how far they have come since 05.

The tournament kicks off with Australia and Japan with the Aussies looking for revenge after their loss at World’s in September 06.

Talk to U later ;)