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CAMO wins the 7th North American UW Rugby Tournament!

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Club CAMO the host team from the 7th North American Underwater Rugby tournament retained their Champion Title after winning all the group games, the semifinal and final games during the weekend of June 4th-5th. in the city of Montreal.

A total of 4 teams participated in this event, CAMO (Montreal) and Club Liberation (Brantford)  from Canada and the Quincy Nahrwals (Boston) and the NJ Hammerheads (New Jersey) from the USA .

Club Liberation from Ontario despite losing all their games came with a full 12 player team, most of new players from the Toronto area for which this was their first tournament experience. Ontario now has a new team in Toronto and the is the first province in Canada with two teams.

The Quincy Nahrwals came to the tournament with a total of 9 players, being a  mixed team with experienced, international and a couple of new players.  Quincy had a very strong group round, winning  two out of three games  losing only with the host team CAMO.  In the semifinals Quincy lost against New Jersey, having to play for third place against Club liberation.

The New Jersey Hammerheads participated with only 7 players and one of them was completely new to the sport. The Hammerheads won only one game during the group round but in the semifinals against the Quincy Nahrwals they had a great comeback. During the group game the NJ hammerheads lost 3-5 against Quincy in a very well played and even game, but in semifinals New Jersey won a spot into the finals winning 6-1.

Club CAMO with won all the group games and during the final game against New Jersey they took the advantage of being locals and having 12 players to win the tournament. The game was very strong and even and by half time the score was a 2-1 lead for CAMO. During the 2nd half, the defense of New Jersey got exhausted due to lack of players and the game finalized with a clear victory 9-1 from Camo.

Marco Cardona (Camo) and Max Van Recham (Quincy) got the top scorer award with a total of 13 goals.

Club CAMo won the best defense and best top sorer team awards.

All the teams are looking forward to the 8th North American Underwater Rugby Tournament to be held in Brantford or Toronto the 4th and 5th of October (to be confirmed).

Participant teams will include the newly formed Toronto Ontario UWR team and the San Francisco Bears UWR team

1st Place - Club CAMO

1st Place – Club CAMO

2nd Place - New Jersey Hammerheads

2nd Place – New Jersey Hammerheads

 

3rd Place - Quincy Nahrwals

3rd Place – Quincy Nahrwals

 

CAMO wins the “6th North American UWR Tournament”

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The past weekend (Oct 5-6) was held the “6th North American Underwater Rugby Tournament – Brantford 2013”. We have the unconditional assistance of club CAMO and The New Jersey Hammerheads, plus the local team Liberation.

It was a very successful event, where CAMO club from Montreal keep its leadership winning the tournament in an exciting final against the Hammerheads from New Jersey.

In this 6th version its was clear the improvement of new players that make the most of it after each tournament. Also all 3 clubs make they part promoting the sport having several new players that are now part of the growing UWR family in North America. Specially team liberation has a big improvement with 14 players compared from the last tournament when only had 7 players.

Future looks promising in North America for UWR and specially now that we have a new tournament next January in Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Looking forward to meet all of you in Milwaukee

Camilo Contreras López.

Club Liberation – Brantford Ontario

CAMO 1st place

CAMO 1st place

 

2nd Place. NJ Hammerheads

NJ Hammerheads 2nd Place

Liberation 3rd Place

Liberation 3rd Place

 

3rd. North American Underwater Rugby Tournament Results

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The third North American Underwater Rugby Tournament was hosted by Club CAMO Montréal the past June 23 2012. Despite several players and clubs couldn’t attend the event, the tournament was played with the participation of clubs from Canada and the USA: Hammerheads-New Jersey; Liberation-Brantford and CAMO-Montreal. It was a great opportunity to improve the level of the participants and motivate new rugby players to train harder for the next competition.

The tournament showed a high play level as well a remarkable technical advance in the participating teams. CAMO UW Rugby Club highlight by the event organization with a great scenario, logistic and a group of highly motivated new players who demostrated a remarkable progress.

Liberation team showed an outstanding improvement that allowed them to play an unforgettable match against CAMO; in the very last minute Liberation score and won this close game 4-3.ress in this tournament.

Finally the New Jersey Hammerheads who had the smaller team with a couple of CAMO players, proved that with few players but a lot of heart you can win a tournament.

Official Results here: http://wp.me/P241bZ-6i

The next Tournament is scheduled for October 13-14 2012  and hosted by Liberation UWR in the city of Brantford, Ontario.

2nd North American UWR tournament – Quincy, MA

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The 2nd North American Underwater Rugby tournament was a great event thanks to the people behind the organization process. The host, Quincy UWR, put a lot of effort into having a great event.

Having a league where Canadian and USA teams play together is helping the sport to have better visibility. Underwater Hockey has been for decades the predominant underwater sport in both countries but a well-defined set of dates for UWR tournaments could attract new players and even the media.

For this tournament we had a record number of 7 teams, including two from Canada. The tournament was played as a coed event since the number of women playing the game is still small.

The tournament was arranged in such a way that teams would play an equal number of games during the classification round (which was set to be 4 games) and then an extra game will be given to those teams which would make it to the final round.

The two Canadian teams present at the event were CAMO Rugby sousmarin (Montreal, QC) and Liberation UWR (Brantford, ON). CAMO had among its ranks players who have been part of the highly competitive UWR Colombian team. Liberation UWR showed progress in their training process by displaying great improvements in their strategy and technical skills.

East Haven Makos (East Haven, CT) is the latest team to join the league. They are a group of young players and showed the great progress attained by continuously playing with their NJ Hammerheads neighbors.

NJ Hammerheads (Newark, NJ) counted with the presence of experienced players who have been to UWR international events in Colombia and even world championships. Their experience was noticeable at the semifinal stages of the tournament where the games required a more strategic planning.

The hosting club, Quincy UWR (Quincy, MA), had two teams signed for the tournament. Quincy Red was a mixed of experimented players and newbies while Quincy Blue had amount its ranks players who have been to world championships. All the North American UWR community was really excited seeing the revitalization of the Quincy UWR team.

The “orphans” team was group of players from FL, DC, NY, and TX. These players don’t have a hosting team in their respective cities of origin and as such they were allowed to put a together a team. They struggled during the first games but their combined experienced took them to win the tournament.

Cesar Florez from CAMO Rugby Sousmarin took the first place in the Top Scorers ranking.

Results and stats related to the tournament can be found at
https://usauwr.wordpress.com/tournaments/north-america-tournaments/2nd-na-uwr-tournament/

Club CAMO from MontrealEast Haven Makos will be the host for the 3rd edition of the North American tournament in June. The dates are still in the works but they should be announced shortly.

See you underwater!

The real 3D sport!

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Have you ever played a game where three-dimensional is a real thing? Can you imagine playing with someone who is 15ft underneath you?

Welcome to the world of Underwater Rugby!

We are a group of people who felt in love with the game. Many of us have either played for the USA national team or practiced the sport in other countries.The biggest development of the sport is taking place at the East Cost. Teams in CT, NJ, and MA are taking the lead. Our counterparts in Canada are working hard to develop the game as well. Teams in ON and QC have regular practices and have already organized few tournaments.