Anybody knows about this Cuban Japanese mixed girl Merisa Valdes? How tall and how old is she? Can she make it to NT?
She is not mixed. She is pure Cuban. No way she make it to NT, she's horrible on the court when she doesn't spike. Way more to learn and improve.
Some consolation for Toray Arrows: they won the Uniform Championship, defeating V2 team Forest Leaves Kumamoto
Speaking of Toray, the All Japan High School Championship starts in a couple weeks and this is the second year in a row that three-time Champions in the last ten years, Shimokitazawa Seitoku, alma mater of Ai Kurogo and Mayu Ishikawa (and many others), didn't make it out of the qualifying round. The team is located in Tokyo, which is usually granted three spots. I guess the competition is tough. Like Euro-teams not qualifying for the Olympics I can hear them screaming: "We're better than some team from Okinawa!"
V.League is twit-breathing little videos highlighting current V.Leaguers from schools competing in the upcoming HS Championship. On average they're about 7 seconds long. The one for Osaka International Takii High School and the NoSmilers is about an hour and a half 
Thatdao suited up.
Did she get any court time?
Did she get any court time?
no ❤️
But I think she’s getting there. At least she’s suited up now and on the bench. NEC should be a perfect time for her to get into it and show her stuff. I hope she plays on the 16th.
Speaking of Thatdao, it seems she celebrated her birthday with Tanaka and Akutagawa yesterday.
Hisamitsu announced in a press release that once the new Saga Arena is finished in Saga, the team will move all of its practices Tosu in a new facility there. The new practice facility is currently a parking lot south of the soccer stadium in Tosu. Kobe looks to be going away, will still be a 2nd home game venue.
The new Saga Arena will seat 8,400.
Hisamitsu announced in a press release that once the new Saga Arena is finished in Saga, the team will move all of its practices Tosu in a new facility there. The new practice facility is currently a parking lot south of the soccer stadium in Tosu. Kobe looks to be going away, will still be a 2nd home game venue.
The new Saga Arena will seat 8,400.
Bad news for the SeaCats 
former national team middle blocker Kaori Inoue will be back as an analyst with DAZN this weekend. She’ll be paired with Yuka Yatabe on commentary. Kaori got married and now has ac couple of kids and will be back for the first time in four years with Yatabe.
V.League just sent out an announcement to the press tonight Japan time
*Google translated:
The Japan Volleyball League Organization (V League Organization) is adjusting to postpone all V League games scheduled for 8th to 11th, according to an interview with the people concerned on the 5th. Due to the spread of the new coronavirus infection, it is highly likely that it will not be held, including games outside the four metropolitan prefectures where the government is expected to reissue the state of emergency.
The men's first division has 10 games at the Sumida Ward General Gymnasium in Tokyo, and the women's first division has 4 games at Zip Arena Okayama. There are also 2nd and 3rd division games for boys and 2nd division for girls.
NoSmilers four home games in a row over two weekends, which is also part of some giant "We Love Okayama" festival with hot dogs and such going on. This is bigger than just a few volleyball games 
Sad news. Stay safe everyone 
what’s the likelihood of the season getting cancelled?
what’s the likelihood of the season getting cancelled?
right now, plenty of time left before VNL.
Likelihood right now is fairly low. Teams are already hosting "remote matches" without crowds. People are wearing masks at a high percentage.
The challenge is that some weekends have four or more teams in one venue. With the men's league, most often it is two teams in one venue over two days. The women's league schedule was not designed that way. Each only plays the others twice. Right now, there are only 9 games left in the regular season. There will be some weekends where teams will have more games played than others, based on the current schedule.
The reason for multiple teams is that you can swap partners over two days.
Luckily only two teams in the Tokyo area, Saitama and NEC. NEC is much closer to Tokyo (Kawasaki), where as Ageo is much farther away with the Medics.
The entire country has 3,332 new cases yesterday, which is would basically be comparable to Maricopa County (where is Phoenix is located). Just to show how much better Japan is doing. However, the numbers are now at their highest for Japan.
Hard part is if teams take public transit or their own buses to games. I could see where games will not have fans for the rest of the season. Men's league did it last year with the final.
Okayama has once again the highest rate of infections. Wth is going on over there
They should just make everything remote. Having a live audience isn't necessary and as much as they want to ~connect with fans~ there's no way that's going to happen smoothly if everything keeps getting interrupted.
since the emperor's cup is done they should probably just cut this whole thing short. instead of holding it until march, maybe first week of feb will suffice or... just stop. there's no point in continuing further if everyone is being gripped with constant fear and threat of the virus and teams are withdrawing.
Is there an official announcement from vleague that they will postpone?