National Championships 4th - 9th July
Green and Gold reporting
The National Championships start next Monday, July 4th at Riverview, and end on Saturday 9th July.
I am putting this post in a few threads in the hope I can cast a bigger net. I hope some Queensland folks are going down during the week and have the facilities to write a few reports.
It will be grand if we can get some reports from a Queensland point of view.
Depending on how many writers volunteer to help, we will try to write brief reports on all the Division I matches. These will be played on Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday.
The schedule for Div I matches is:
Monday 4th July
10:00am - NSW II v WA
11:30am - Vic v Qld I
1:00pm - ACT v NSW I
2:30pm - Qld II v Combined States
Wednesday 6th July
10:00am - NSW I v CS
11:30am - Qld I v WA
1:00pm - Qld II v ACT
2:30pm - NSW II v Vic
Thursday 7th July
10:00am - Vic v WA
11:30am - CS v ACT
1:00pm - Qld I v NSW II
2:30pm - NSW I v Qld II
Saturday 9th July - Finals Day
9:00am - 7th place playoff
10:15am - 5th place playoff
11:30pm - 3rd place playoff
12:45pm - Championship match
I will probably be able to write two games per day, but I would rather not because I will have to edit the work of a few inexperienced writers as well, which takes a lot of time; so I hope some people can share the load.
So if you are going to the Championships during the week and would like to write please tell me which day, and which game you would like to report on.
Since most writers reading this will be Queensland supporters they may wish to write reports on games that involve Queensland - but in the past others have said that they'd rather not write on the team they are following closely. They preferred to write on other matches so they could concentrate on games they wanted to follow and not have to take notes.
So I hope that some will offer to write on any game and be able to get there early.
I hope some people are able to write on the first two games on Thursday morning because it usually takes me until the early hours to finish my work from the day before, and I may not be able to be at the ground in time that day.
If you are able to attend and to write on a couple of matches during the week please let me know here and I will give you some guidelines.
One of them will be that the reports will be just 350 words long; so it is just half as big an ask as for the normal 700 word reports we do every weekend in Sydney for the CAS and GPS matches.
This is a long shot request; so there is no need to advise that won't be at the Championships, or if you are, you won't be able to contribute.
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