Japan - V.League V1 (Division 1, Women) 2022-2023

    Denso's Minami Nakamoto just announced that she had married Hitachi's Ruriko Uesaka's brother, Masaki, a year ago. Masaki plays for Men's V3 team Toyota Motor Sun Hawks


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    The National Sports Festival Final Round is October 7–10 this year. The Block Rounds just finished this weekend. Hitachi withdrew due to covid. Here's the teams who'll be representing in the Final Round


    Block

    Winning Team

    Prefecture

    		 Losers

    Hokkaido

    Artemis Hokkaido

    Hokkaido

    Students

    Tohoku

    Ligare Sendai

    Miyagi

    NEO AKITA


    Prestige

    Yamagata

    Tanabe Group

    Kanto

    Saitama

    Saitama

    Gunma, Yamanashi Chuo, Juntendo, Hitachi


    Shoin

    Kanagawa

    NSSU

    Hokushin’etsu

    PFU

    Ishikawa

    Kurobe, Brilliant Aries, UoHW, Fukui club

    Tokai

    Breath Hamamatsu

    Shizuoka

    JA Gifu, Veertien Mie, Shizuoka, Viore NAGOYA

    Kinki (Kansai)

    Toray

    Shiga

    Kyoto Tachibana, Tezukayama


    Kobe Shinwa Women

    Hyogo

    Nara, Wakayama

    Chugoku

    Okayama

    Okayama

    Shiseikan


    Hiroshima Oilers

    Hiroshima

    ?

    Shikoku

    Kagawa Selection ?

    Ehime

    Club Ehime

    Kyushu

    SAGA

    Saga

    Okinawa


    Forest Leaves

    Kumamoto

    Miyazaki


    Fukuoka Girasol

    Fukuoka

    Nagasaki

    Host Prefecture

    Tochigi Selection

    Tochigi





    Also, the University Autumn League Tournaments are starting in the next couple weeks. It's the first shot at seeing who's likely to show up in V.League this winter. Nothing scheduled yet at UNIVAS LIVE. Let's hope they stream the matches again this year

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    JT also withdrew but I'm not sure if it's for that event. They've withdrawn at so many tournaments already.

    I think you're right, but it was earlier at the Prefecture level. Info is scarce, and at the Prefecture level it's full on chaos with so many teams/tournaments I can't pay much attention because my head would explode

    Quote from sitenoise

    I think you're right, but it was earlier at the Prefecture level. Info is scarce, and at the Prefecture level it's full on chaos with so many teams/tournaments I can't pay much attention because my head would explode

    Hence why I don't follow them.

    Videoflow/stadiumtube are going to host the Empress Cup Block Round matches again. For some reason not live, but the day after, or so on VOD. These are the AI Camera people

    The Kanto University Tournament is on the UNIVAS Schedule :woohoo:starting 9/10

    I cry foul :!: Saitama is using Ota Ward Gymnasium to host a fake "home" game  :thumbdown:

    FWIW Himeji won the Kinki (Kansai) Comprehensive Championship. Beat Toray in the SF and Kobe Shinwa (Kansai Spring League Uni Champs) in the Final


    Minor bragging rites. I thought it was part of the Empress Cup Block Round, but it's not

    I miss the Empress Cup web site with rosters and roster photos X( :cursing: :wall: I need confirmation that #20 for Chukyo University is Ayane Soga. She's a player

    Do you know anything about the Sara Lozo case? :/

    When Time Out Floor Sweepers cheat:


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    Do you know anything about the Sara Lozo case? :/

    The latest 'rumor' I read was that she is, or may be, paying a penalty to Romania in order to play for Saitama. But who knows?