71st All Japan Intercollegiate Women's Championship 2024

  • Aoyama freshman is killing it :box: and this overtime business is killing me

  • Damn, I wanted Aoyama to win because they smoked more crack and were happier

    Nothing against Tsukuba tho :)

  • ... but the blocking isn't :(

    I don't like blocking that much. Prevents digging and often ends the rally :)

  • Tsukuba's libero and OP are graduating, but the MBs have one more year, Niina, Akane, and Big Tank have two more years

  • If there was coverage like this for both Kanto Tournaments and all of this one I wouldn't need any other volleyball

  • The final is exciting and entertaining but it is cruel as well. The two teams were closely matched, but there can be only one winner. In fact Aoyama had stronger attackers... but its not just about attacking, there's defense, variations, stamina, strategy and a bit of luck thrown in. Tsukuba also has Niina who directs the flow of play like a traffic police, or an orchestra conducter, and whose setting skills remind me of Nootsara Tomkom the Thai legend. It's a pleasure watching this special young talent play. :cheesy:

  • Final Ranking:

    :cup: GOLD

    Tsukuba :cup:

    SILVER

    Aoyama

    BRONZE

    Kaetsu


    4th Place

    Tokai

    5th Place

    Nihon

    Juntendo

    TWCPE

    Chukyo


    Individual Awards Source

    MVP

    Haruka Nakamura

    Tsukuba 4

    Dare Fighter

    Kako Yajima

    Aoyama 4

    Best Scorer

    Urara Yamamoto

    Tokai 3

    Best Spiker

    Emili Iiyama

    Tokai 2

    Best Blocker

    Rin Honda

    Tsukuba 3

    Best Server

    Emili Iiyama

    Tokai 2

    Best Receiver

    Mai Samura

    Aoyama 3

    Best Setter

    Niina Kumagai

    Tsukuba 2

    Best Libero

    Haruka Nakamura

    Tsukuba 4

  • I didn't really notice Emili bringing that much game, but there you have it. Tokai played a lot of Urara-ball

    In case anybody questions/wonders why Tsukuba libero snagged MVP, it seems to be a rule that Team Captain wearing jersey #1 gets the MVP Award (same for Dare Fighter). Niina has to wait a couple years

  • I didn't really notice Emili bringing that much game, but there you have it. Tokai played a lot of Urara-ball

    In case anybody questions/wonders why Tsukuba libero snagged MVP, it seems to be a rule that Team Captain wearing jersey #1 gets the MVP Award (same for Dare Fighter). Niina has to wait a couple years

    :(

    I think everyone knows Niina is the outstanding player here and the one who did the most to win the C’ship for her team. The award ceremony at the end of the match says it all. It must have been a special moment for her... and just watching it gave me great satisfaction. It was a joyous, memorable occasion for me too :heart:

  • :(

    I think everyone knows Niina is the outstanding player here and the one who did the most to win the C’ship for her team. The award ceremony at the end of the match says it all. It must have been a special moment for her... and just watching it gave me great satisfaction. It was a joyous, memorable occasion for me too :heart:

    It's a weird tradition. You have to be a senior (to wear #1). I think I told you about Miho Yokota (over Minami Mandai) winning MVP when she didn't even play

    The only Uni team I can think of who didn't have a senior wearing jersey #1 is a few years ago Reina Kawasaki (PFU) was Captain as a freshman. Don't remember her # but it wasn't #1. I guess that was their way of saying "we're not planning on winning" :white:

  • UNIVAS is taking their sweet time getting the VODs up for SFs and Final. It's such a crime they stuck with the crummy single stationary end of court camera until the Final :down:


    Speaking of awesome coverage that no one will care about except me, the 9-Ball SFs and Final are beautiful 1080 proper frame rate multi-cam zoomin like a mofo cool

  • My guess is that the SF and Final will never be seen again ;( The UNIVAS deal is that on their free plan you can watch VOD for one week after broadcast. It's now been a week and they never became available for free on the web. I imagine they were available to free users who use the app

    Still says "preparing for missed distribution" but I've stopped holding my breath :white:


  • It's official. The SF and Final went straight to UNIVAS PLUS ;(;(

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    Japan is taking everything I love the most away from me, one by one, year after year

    V2 streams - gone

    Hugh School matches behind a paywall

    Summer League - gone

    Empress Cup Block Round - No streams

    National Sports Festival - A little sketchy

    No streams of the first two Rounds of All Japan Uni and shit coverage until the Final only, and now no VOD

    Kurowashiki up in the air given SV.League's schedule

    Foreigners taking over V.League to become the best league in the world :down:


    Way to grow the game Japan. I mostly enjoy the U-Squad stuff now but I think my love affair with Japanese volleyball is not long for this world