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

 

Club Liberation announces the 6th North American Underwater Rugby Tournament

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Club Liberation from Brantford, Ontario invites teams and individual players to the “6th North American Underwater Rugby Tournament – Brantford 2013”
The tournament will take place on October 4th and 5th 2013 in the Wayne Gretzky Sport Center.

Official invitation: THE 6TH NORTH AMERICAN UNDERWATER RUGBY TOURNAMENT

CAMO wins the 5th North American Underwater Rugby Tournament

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During the weekend of May 4th, 2013, Club Camo from Montreal hosted the 5th version of the North American Underwater Rugby Tournament.

Participant teams from Canada (Camo A, Liberation and Camo B) and  USA (New Jersey and Quincy UWR) played a qualifying round robin from which the first two teams would play the final game for first place, while the other three teams would play a final round robin for the 3rd place.

Club Camo participated with two teams being CAMO A the most experienced and CAMO B,  a team of a few experienced players and mostly new and underwater hockey players participating on a UWR tournament for the first time.

Camo A team was very strong during the tournament and won the first place in the final game defeating the New Jersey Hammerheads 4.1

New Jersey was also strong during the tournament but lost twice against the host team Camo A, loosing their first game in the round robin by 0-3

Quincy UWR qualified third on the round robin and on the final round robin for 3rd place defeated Club liberation and Camo B.

Camo B, the team with mostly underwater hockey players was the surprise team when they won their only game in the final round robin against Club Liberation 4.3 in a very excitng game, getting the final 4th place of the tournament.

Club Liberation with only seven players got fifthplace, but defeated Camo B in the first round 6.2.

This was the first time that “top scorer “and “best defense” awards were given on a NA UWR tournament.

Final Standings

1st. CAMO A (Montreal, QB Canada)

2nd. New Jersey Hammerheads (New Jersey, USA)

3rd. Quincy UWR (Boston, MA, USA)

4th. Camo B (montreal, QB, Canada)

5th. Liberation (Brantford, ON, Canada)
Best defense was awarded to CAMO A with only one goal against.

Top scorer was awarded to Tim Burke from Quincy UWR (Boston) with 13 goals

The following confirmed NA UWR Tournament is as of today Brantford, ON, Canada on October 4th-5th 2013 and hosted by Club Liberation.

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UW Rugby arrives to San Francisco California!

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Natalia Silva and Balazs Nagy along with other underwater sports enthusiasts began formal underwater Rugby practices in the city of San Francisco, bringing underwater rugby to the west cost, thanks to the collaboration of the UW Hockey Club Sea Lions.

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For practice schedule, and additional information please write to:

sfuwr@googlegroups.com

join their google group

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/sfuwr

or like their Facebook page

https://www.facebook.com/sfuwr

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.

3rd. North American Underwater Rugby Tournament June 23-24, 2012

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CAMO Rugby Sousmarin is proud to invite you all to the 3rd North American UW Rugby Tournament (UW Rugby Tournament Montreal 2012). It will be set as an open category tournament. The tournament will be held at the Joseph-Charbonneau Pool on June 23-24,  2012.

Directions to the pool can be found by following the link shown below
8200 Rue Rousselot, Montréal, Québec H2E 1Z6, Canada

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!