Volleyball

As I mentioned before, I have joined a volleyball circle here in Japan. For the longest time I did not post any photos of the group, but finally I got around to taking some pictures. We had a tournament the other week and actually did very well. It was a 16 team tournament and we entered two teams - a girl's team and a boy's team. It was an unfair tournament style system that immediately eliminated teams if they were to lose. Simply put, if you lose, you're out... that's it. Our girl's team was extremely strong and we had high hopes for them but since the girl's teams also played the boy's teams, they were elminated in the first round. This is because they played an extrremely strong boy's team. If the seeding were different, I would have no doubt that they would have made it to the top with no problems. Despite them losing, it was a close game that could have gone either way. It was ashame that they couldn't have gone further and I think that they were upset at how things turned out. But as for the boys, we did our best and had the opposite luck that the girls had. We played very easy teams in the beginning and made it all the way to the finals. Here we played the boy's team that beat our girl's team and we unfortunately lost in the end. Second place was pretty good though and though everyone was sad, I think that inside they were happy that we got this far.

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