Japan - 7th V9 Women's Champ League 2021

  • Japan - 7th (Reiwa 3) V9 Champ League
    (Women's First League) 2021


    Panasonic Bluebells
    (Champions 2020)

    Denso Ten Red Phoenix
    (2nd Place 2020)

    Mazda Cross Nine
    (3rd Place 2020)

    Ibiden Regulus
    (4th Place 2020)

    Kagoshima Bank Regionwings
    (5th Place 2020)

    Tokyo Higashi Shinkin Bank Blue Rabbits
    (6th Place 2020)


    Hita Kenshin White Dolphin
    Sanden Blue Ecores


    This year's Women's First League Tournament --usually contested during the summer months-- has been condensed and rescheduled so many times it's dizzying


    Regular Round (Round Robin)

    Final Round

    • Kagoshima Tournament • December 11–12 -- Miyanojo Gymnasium Satsuma City Kagoshima
      • Top four teams from Regular Round do a 1<>4, 2<>3 Semifinal, Final and 3rd place match
      • Bottom three teams do a three team round robin for final ranking

    First League team Sanden Blue Ecores appears to have hung up their towels for good. They did not participate last year and are officially out this year. Hence, the first place finishing Second League team will automatically promote to bring the First League back to eight teams


    First League team Hita Kenshin White Dolphin also did not participate last year. They are a medical care company and declined out of an abundance of caution. The Blue Ecores are a car parts company


    Panasonic Bluebells have won this all six times it's been contested


  • The rapscallions at V9 volleyball snuck in a warmup tournament a couple weeks ago without telling me :cursing:


    Heralded as "V9 Champ Exchange Tournament", it had four teams from First League and three teams from Second League. All matches were two sets, tie-breakers be damned


    Final Result:

    #TeamSets W
    Sets L
    Points W
    Points L
    Point Spread
    1stPanasonic Bluebells111248128120
    1stDenso Ten Red Phoenix111250130120
    3rdIbiden Regulus66205219– 14
    4thPanasonic Tsu Advance57194242– 48
    5thTWCPE48196229– 33
    6thShinkin Bank Blue Rabbits39172239– 67
    7thNSSU210164242– 78


    There is video of all the matches here for those into that kind of thing. They are youtube videos also located on the 9volleyball youtube channel but easier to locate at their web site. The videos are all end of court single stationary camera, but fidelity is top notch, about the equivalent of Coach YURI BULYCHEV's analyst view videos. (small bummer for me is that since the teams don't switch sides, we get only one view of a team, and every single Bluebells match has them far side of court --and they are wearing masks)

  • This is not a good sign. Panasonic Bluebells just updated their match schedule with a strikethrough on the 1st Round:


  • The Osaka Tournament First Round scheduled for September 18–20, 2021 has been canceled. The official 9-ball people haven't fessed up to it but both Panasonic Bluebells and Denso Ten Red Phoenix (the only teams with web sites) have removed the Osaka Tournament from their schedules


    No word yet on how they will restructure the remaining three rounds. Color me bummed

  • How lame. The tournament was scheduled to start last night and didn't, and the official web site and twitter crap have nothing to say about it

  • Apparently they sacked what was scheduled as the First Round and are instead making it into its own separate tournament with teams from Division 1 & 2 and a few University teams, similar to the group that contested the "Exchange Tournament" a month or two ago. The official 9-ball web site has nothing to say about it. Thanks to Denso Ten Red Phoenix for the Info:


    The 11th Water City Cup 9-person Women's Volleyball Selection Championship
    * No spectator match


    October 23–24, 2021 - Ogaki City Gymnasium (Gifu Prefecture)


    Participating teams

    • Panasonic Bluebells
    • Denso Ten Red Phoenix
    • Mazda Cross Nine
    • Ibiden Regulus
    • Tokyo Higashi Shinkin Bank Blue Rabbits
    • Panasonic Tsu Advance
    • Tokyo Women's College of Physical Education
    • Japan Women's College of Physical Education
    • Nippon Sport Science University

    Schedule
    10/23 (Sat) 9: 30- Match start



    10/24 (Sun) 9: 00- Match start

  • So ... Four matches a day for two days. Two set matches and that's it. No tie-breaker. That's how the "Exchange Tournament" went down. Ranking will be by set ratio/point ratio in case of ties. The Exchange Tournament ended in a tie for first place. No big deal. This is not important for any of the teams that will finish in the top half. I'm not sure if the Uni teams or Division 2 teams can upgrade. There is an opening in Division 1, as one of the teams seems to have vanished


    Panasonic Bluebells will livestream matches on their Tweetbox. Tweetstreams aren't usually worth watching but I may look in just for the rush of live knowing who wins


    Starts at 9:30 Japan Time, so I can get in a match before the Uni games start


    Go Bluebells :super:


  • 11th Annual Water City Cup Day 1

    2021.10.23 Results

    Court A
    Court B Court C

    Bluebells 2–0 NSSU — 21-6, 21-11

    Red Phoenix 2–0 JWCPE — 21-6, 21-8

    Cross Nine 2–0 TWCPE — 21-8, 21-18

    Regulus 2–0 NSSU — 22-20, 22-20

    Blue Rabbits 2–0 JWCPE — 21-13, 21-18

    Tsu Advance 1–1 TWCPE — 21-12, 10-21

    Bluebells 2–0 Regulus — 21-9, 21-8

    Red Phoenix 2–0 Blue Rabbits — 21-6, 21-7

    Cross Nine 2–0 Tsu Advance — 21-11, 21-9

    Bluebells 2–0 JWCPE — 21-8, 21-11

    Red Phoenix 2–0 TWCPE — 21-11, 21-6

    Cross Nine 2–0 NSSU — 21-10, 21-5

    Regulus 1–1 JWCPE — 21-13, 18-21

    Blue Rabbits 1–1 TWCPE — 23-21, 13-21

    Tsu Advance 1–1 NSSU — 23-21, 12-21

    Regulus 2–0 Tsu Advance — 21-9, 21-12

    Bluebells 2–0 Blue Rabbits — 21-6, 21-3

    Cross Nine 1–1 Red Phoenix — 21-17, 17-21

  • 11th Annual Water City Cup Day 2

    2021.10.24 Results

    Court A Court B Court C

    Bluebells 2–0 TWCPE — 21-7, 21-3

    Red Phoenix 2–0 NSSU — 21-9, 21-7

    Cross Nine 2–0 JWCPE — 21-9, 21-16

    Regulus 2–0 TWCPE — 21-18, 21-11

    Blue Rabbits 2–0 NSSU — 21-5, 21-17

    Tsu Advance 0–2 JWCPE — 18–21, 16-21

    Bluebells 2–0 Tsu Advance — 21-6, 21-7

    Red Phoenix 2–0 Regulus — 21-14, 21-9

    Cross Nine 2–0 Blue Rabbits — 21-18, 21-10

    Bluebells 1–1 Cross Nine — 21-14, 19–21

    Red Phoenix 2–0 Tsu Advance — 21-4, 21-8

    JWCPE 1–1 NSSU — 18–21, 21-12

    Cross Nine 2–0 Regulus — 21-6, 21–12

    Blue Rabbits 2–0 Tsu Advance — 21–16, 21–14

    TWCPE 1–1 JWCPE — 20–22, 21–16

    Bluebells 2–0 Red Phoenix — 21-18, 21-17

    Regulus 1–1 Blue Rabbits — 21-17, 21-23

    TWCPE 1–1 NSSU — 19–21, 21–11

  • 11th Annual Water City Cup Final Results

    Rank
    TeamWLTie
    set Wset L

    GOLD

    Panasonic Bluebells

    701151

    SILVER

    Mazda Cross Nine

    602142

    Bronze

    Denso Ten Red Phoenix

    611133


    Rank TeamWLTieset W
    set L
    4th Place
    Ibiden Regulus33288 (Pts.0.92)

    5th Place

    Shinkin Bank Blue Rabbits

    33288 (Pts 0.86)

    6th Place

    JWCPE

    143511

    7th Place

    TWCPE

    044412

    8th Place

    NSSU

    053313

    9th Place

    Panasonic Tsu Advance

    062214


    Bluebells lost a set =O

  • V9 Champ Regular Round starts today. A couple teams took a picture of a piece of paper with the schedule on it and posted it to their tweetboxes. Lame :down:



    Friday starts 10:00am jst
    Saturday starts 10:00am jst
    Sunday starts 10:00am jst
    Bluebells – White Dolphin
    DensoTen – Blue Rabbits
    Mazda X9 – White Dolphin
    Ibiden Regulus – Regionwings

    DensoTen – White Dolphin
    Ibiden Regulus – Blue Rabbits
    Mazda X9 – Regionwings
    Bluebells – Blue Rabbits
    Regionwings – White Dolphin
    Blue Rabbits – White Dolphin
    Bluebells – Regionwings
    Ibiden Regulus – White Dolphin
    DensoTen – Mazda X9


    These three teams may shit-stream things on their tweetboxes

    Denso

    Ibiden

    Bluebells


    Maybe the 9-ball youtube will stream some (they said they were going to but they have no competence)


    [-] Bluebells are streaming their match. They have a billion dollars in the bank and opt for the ghetto bullshit that is tweetboxing :wall: It's not worth watching. Hopefully V9 are filming the matches and will upload them to their youtube at some point. "We will continue to develop it as a sport loved by more and more enthusiasts and fans"


    [--] If this tweetfart is any indication, if/when V9 uploads videos they look quite watchable

  • Round 1 Day 1 •• 2021.11.12 - Kagoshima Bank Gymnasium

    Home [-] Away

    Set 1

    Set 2

    Set 3

    Video

    Bluebells 2–0 White Dolphin

    21–7

    21–6


    YT & YT

    DensoTen 2–0 Blue Rabbits

    21–10

    21–8


    YT & YT

    Mazda X9 2–0 White Dolphin

    21–15

    21–10


    YT & YT

    Ibiden Regulus 2–0 Regionwings

    21–18

    21–18


    YT & YT


    The videos are good fidelity but they remain stationary, single, end of court camera. I had hoped by the teaser they tweetfarted that they may have moved up in the world. This first round is going to be the teams in blue beating the crap out of the three weaklings


    [Edit] V9 people uploaded what they call "referee" versions of the matches, which are stationary, single, net line camera

  • Round 1 Day 2 •• 2021.11.13 - Kagoshima Bank Gymnasium

    Home [-] Away

    Set 1

    Set 2

    Set 3

    Video

    Densoten 2–0 White Dolphin

    21–11

    21–11


    YT & YT

    Ibiden 2–0 Blue Rabbits

    21–18

    21–17


    YT & YT

    Mazda X9 2–0 Regionwings

    21–9

    21–15


    YT & YT

    Bluebells 2–0 Blue Rabbits

    21–5

    21–10


    YT & YT

    Regionwings 2–0 White Dolphin

    21–9

    21–14


    YT & YT

  • Round 1 Day 3 •• 2021.11.14 - Kagoshima Bank Gymnasium

    Home [-] Away

    Set 1

    Set 2

    Set 3

    Video

    Blue Rabbits 2–0 White Dolphin

    21–13

    21–15


    YT & YT

    Bluebells 2–0 Regionwings

    21–8

    21–12


    YT & YT

    Ibiden 2–0 White Dolphin

    21–16

    21–18


    YT & YT

    Densoten 2–0 Mazda X9

    21–10

    21–18


    YT & YT

  • Round 2

    2021.11.27–28

    Yonago Industrial Gymnasium ... 10:00am Start Time


  • Round 2 Day 1 •• 2021.11.27 - Yonago Industrial Gymnasiu

    Home [-] Away

    Set 1

    Set 2

    Set 3

    Video

    Mazda X9 2–0 Blue Rabbits

    21–11

    21–15


    YT & YT

    Bluebells 2–0 Mazda X9

    21–16

    21–14


    YT & YT

    Densoten 2–0 Regionwings

    21–16

    21–10


    YT & YT

    Bluebells 2–0 Ibiden Regulus

    21–13

    21–17


    YT & YT


    I wish they'd do stats for v9. but that's a big ask. I didn't watch any of the matches because the tweetboxer streams aren't worth watching (and the V.League matches were too exciting). They should have the usual videos up soon

  • Round 2 Day 2 •• 2021.11.28 - Yonago Industrial Gymnasiu

    Home [-] Away

    Set 1

    Set 2

    Set 3

    Video

    Densoten 2–0 Ibiden Regulus

    21–17

    21–10


    YT & YT

    Regionwings 2–0 Blue Rabbits

    21–17

    21–15


    YT & YT

    Mazda X9 2–1 Ibiden Regulus

    19–21

    21–16

    21–14

    YT & YT

    Bluebells 2–1 Densoten

    21–11

    19–21

    21–13

    YT & YT

  • Regular Round final ranking


    1. Panasonic Bluebells

    2. DENSO TEN Red Phoenix

    3. Mazda Cross Nine

    4. IBIDEN Regulus

    5. Kagoshima Bank Region Wings

    6. Tokyo Higashi Shinkin Bank Blue Rabbits

    7. Hita Examination Center White Dolphin


    Final Round Schedule:


    * If the team with the lower ranking wins only in the final match, one set match will be played 15 minutes later

  • Final Round DAY 1 •• 2021.12.11 Miyanojo Gymnasium

    Home [-] Away

    Set 1

    Set 2

    Set 3

    Video

    Regionwings 2–0 White Dolphin

    21–17

    21–14


    YT & YT

    Bluebells 2–0 Ibiden Regulus (SF)

    21–7

    21–12


    YT & YT

    White Dolphin 2–0 Blue Rabbits

    21–15

    21–19


    YT & YT

    Densoten 2–0 Mazda X9 (SF)

    21–18

    21–9


    YT & YT


    NEXT UP :


    10:30 Regionwings v Blue Rabbits (5th place match)

    13:10 Mazda X9 v Ibiden Regulus (3rd place match)

    14:30 Bluebells v Densoten (Gold Medal Match)


    This is the 7th V9 Champ League and the Bluebells are going for their 7th Gold Medal

  • Panasonic Bluebells do it again :cup:

    FINAL STANDINGS

    GOLD

    Panasonic Bluebells :cup:

    SILVER

    Denso Ten Red Phoenix

    Bronze

    Mazda Cross Nine

    4th place

    Ibiden Regulus

    5th place Kagoshima Bank Region Wings
    6th place Hita Kenshin White Dolphin
    7th place
    Shinkin Bank Blue Rabbits

    INDIVIDUAL AWARDS

    Best Player

    Homare Fushimi

    Panasonic Bluebells

    Fighting Spirit

    Saki Hirata

    Denso Ten Red Phoenix



    Kagoshima Tournament Final Day Results

    Final Match Miyanojo Gymnasium

    Set 1

    Set 2

    Set 3

    Video

    Bluebells 2–0 Densoten

    21–16

    21–15


    YT & YT

    3rd Place Match Miyanojo Gymnasium
    Mazda X9 2–0 Ibiden Regulus 21–12 21–19 YT & YT
    5th Place Match Miyanojo Gymnasium
    Region Wings 2–1 Blue Rabbits 21–12 19–21 21–17 YT & YT