The Toronto Macs recently appeared in the Newcastle Weekly after winning the Queensland State Championships. You can read the full article here:
Toronto Macs etch name in Gateball history books
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2017 Australian Gateball Championship – Blocks
The 24 teams competing in the Australian Gateball Championship have been drawn into three blocks as listed below.
The random draw was held with the following parameters:
- Two international teams in each block
- Three NSW teams in each block
- Two or three QLD teams in each block
- The two Chinese, Newcastle, Canberra and Southport teams were drawn in separate blocks.
Red block
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Toronto Torpedos
LIthgow Lightning
Jamberoo
Southport Red
Ipswich Snoopys
Woodville
Jasmine, Indonesia
Unicorn Club, Korea
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Yellow block
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Canberra Sparkers
Newcastle Sabres
EDSACC
Southport White
Redcliffe Roses
Blue Macs
Internationals
ShuangShuang Le
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Blue block
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Canberra Mavericks
Epstars
Newcastle Hornets
Broadbeach
Toowoomba
Kew
Zheng Bang, Jianxi
Paraguay
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2017 Australian Gateball Championship – Team List
Entries have closed for the 2017 Australian Gateball Championship.
154 players have nominated in the 24 teams listed below.Teams will be allocated into 3 blocks with the blocks to be announced on http://gateball.com.au/ at 8pm AEST on Thursday 14 September.
International Teams
Zheng Bang, Jianxi, China
ShuangShuang Le, China
Unicorn Club, Korea
Jasmine, Indonesia
Paraguay
Internationals
New South Wales
EDSACC
Newcastle Sabres
Newcastle Hornets
Toronto Torpedos
Lithgow Lightning
Epstars
Jamberoo
Canberra Mavericks
Canberra Sparkers
Queensland
Southport Red
Southport White
Broadbeach
Ipswich Snoopys
Redcliffe Roses
Toowoomba
Blue Macs
Victoria
Kew
South Australia
Woodville
Caricature – Gilon Smith
At the 2015 Australian Gateball Championship Gateball Australia’s previous National Director, Gilon Smith, was thanked for his contribution to the game and presented with a caricature drawn by Gateball’s Frances Wregg.
Gilon’s steady hand and unruffled manner will be missed in the national role. We will no doubt be calling on his advice and will continue to value his clear and analytic thinking.
The picture shows Gilon taking a swing to the accompaniment of raucous catcalls from some of his Canberra teammates.
The Canberra players included in the Caricature “in real life”. Can you guess who is who?
2015 Victorian Gateball Championships
Gateballers from Queensland, New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory and Victoria have arrived in Melbourne for the Victorian Gateball Championship. Seven teams will compete for the teams trophy on 2 May while 14 pairs will compete for the doubles championship on 3 May.
Results can be viewed on croquetscores.com.
Previous winners can be viewed here.
Good luck to all participants.
Saturday teams event
Canberra were the victors winning 5 of their 6 matches all by very close margins. The South East Queensland Cougars finished second with four wins and a positive 16 net points.
Sunday doubles: Congratulations to David and Gareth Hughes from Queensland on winning the doubles competition. They almost recorded a perfect game in the final defeating Glen and Kristina Whitehead from Canberra 23-10.
David and Gareth not only dazzled us with their gateball but also with their virulent fluoro orange shirts. These were souvenirs of a 2014 Qld Gateballers Cruise. They even told us that there is another cruise boat that has a croquet lawn on board.
