Gateball Championships - Results and Photos

Australian 4th Annual Gateball Championships
Sydney, Australia
November 4th - 6th 2005

Tournament Information
Teams
Playing Schedule

Results

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paraguay practice as the marquee is erected on friday

chinese taipei team leader wants ball here practice friday

chinese taipei at practice on friday

scorers ready for saturday block play

elizabeth and jack ready the barbie saturday

elizabeth and jack ready the barbie saturday

the barbie food saturday

teams queue up for barbie saturday

head of the queue barbie saturday

sossies and kebabs barbie saturday

koreans trying croquet after barbie saturday

cheltenham team barbie saturday

final standings at end of block play sunday

final game one skorea

chinese taipei game one spark

chinese taipei number one gets set to pegout team game one

chinese taipei miss first pegout

chinese taipei miss another pegout - only made one from five

chinese taipei gain upper hand by controlling gate 2 game two

opening duel game two sth korea miss the crucial touch down the tricky boundary

chinese taipei spark ball thru gate 3 game two

chinese taipei dont quite pull off getting team thru gate 3 game two
Photos courtesy of John Ballantyne  

japanese team

john

tony

all participants
Photos courtesy of Jun Nogami
 
Some notable wins for the Aussies - Canberra took the only game off the eventual winners, and also beat the South Korea team 3 and Japan; Brunswick beat Japan and South Korea team three; Sydney Eastcoasters beat Chinese Taipei Keelung City; Sydney Epping and Queensland both beat South Korea team two.
 

Results

Canberra 9 bt  Queensland Maroons 8
Japan 10 bt Sydney Cheltenham 8
Sth Korea (1) 19 bt Victoria Brunswick 8
Sydney East Coast 14 bt Queensland Barbarians 13
Sth Korea (2) 15 bt Paraquay 7
Victoria Burden Pk 13 bt Sydney Epping 12
Sth Korea 1 11 bt Canberra 9
Chinese Taipei 23 bt Japan 9
Queensland Maroons 12 bt Sydney Cheltenham 8
Sydney Epping 20 bt Sydney East Coast 10
Paraquay 20 bt Queensland 1 10
Sth Korea (2) 21 bt Queensland Barbarians 10
Chinese Taipei 14 bt Sth Korea (1) 11
Canberra 11 bt Sth Korea 3 9
Queensland Maroons 12 bt Victoria Brunswick 9
Sydney East Coast 21 bt Chinese Taipei Keelung City 11
Sydney Epping 12 bt Queensland (1) 10
Victoria Burden Pk 10 bt Queensland Barbarians 8
Sth Korea 1 21 bt Queensland Maroons 8
Chinese Taipei 21 bt Victoria Brunswick 6
Japan 11 bt Sth Korea (3) 11
Queensland Barbarians 13 bt Sydney Epping 10
Victoria Burden Pk 11 bt Queensland (1) 8
Chinese Taipei Keelung City 13 bt Paraquay 11
Victoria Brunswick 15 bt Japan 15
Canberra 18 bt Sydney Cheltenham 10
Chinese Taipei 18 bt Sth Korea (3) 7
Sth Korea 2 11 bt Sydney East Coast 8
Paraquay 12 bt Victoria Burden Pk 9
Chinese Taipei Keelung City 14 bt Queensland 1 6
Sth Korea 1 17 bt Sydney Cheltenham 10
Japan 14 bt Queensland Maroons 9
Victoria Brunswick 13 bt Canberra 6
Sydney Epping 12 bt Sth Korea (2) 8
Paraquay 23 bt Queensland Barbarians 10
Victoria Burden Pk 19 bt Sydney East Coast 15
Chinese Taipei 21 bt Queensland Maroons 6
Sth Korea (3) 10 bt Sydney Cheltenham 9
Sth Korea (1) 23 bt Japan 9
Queensland Barbarians 11 bt Queensland (1) 8
Sth Korea (2) 15 bt Chinese Taipei Keelung City 10
Paraquay 13 bt Sydney Epping 11
Victoria Brunswick 16 bt Sydney Cheltenham 8
Sth Korea 8 bt Sth Korea (3) 11
Canberra 11 bt Chinese Taipei 5
Sth Korea (2) 10 bt Victoria Burden Pk 9
Chinese Taipei City 11 bt Sydney Epping 11
Sydney East Coast 12 bt Queensland (1) 12
Canberra 10 bt Japan 10 (after a playoff)
Chinese Taipei 20 bt Sydney Cheltenham 5
Sth Korea (3) 15 bt Queensland Maroons 8
Paraquay 15 bt Sydney East Coast 12
Queensland (1) 17 bt Sth Korea (2) 14
Chinese Taipei Keelung City 13 bt Queensland Barbarians 10
Victoria Brunswick 18 bt Sth Korea (3) 9
Chinese Taipei Keelung City 11 bt Victoria Burden Pk 9
   
Final  
Chinese Taipei bt Sth Korea (2) 17-8 16-11