2008 THIESS BALI 10’s RUGBY TOURNAMENT

The Thiess Bali 10's Rugby Tournament are a tournament that gathers 16 club from indonesia and abroad to compete for the cup. The competition includes the indonesian cup, that compete the teams from indonesia for the cup. Rugby in Indonesia are getting improve every year. This year there are 6 teams that are compete for the indonesian cup. Those teams are tha Jakarta Banteng, the Karakas, the Kotekas, the Sengata Hornbils, Bali stiff chili and the sumbawa nagas. The indonesian cup were won by the kotekas. I was really upset, because i played in the game against them, and they really play dirty. They are tend to punch the enemy in a ruck, which make me very pissed off. In the game between the Bentengs and the kotekas, a fight almost set off. One of my team mates were really angry of the way they play and try to start a fight, but the referee stop it so no harm done.
Other than the Indonesian cup, we were also competing for the cup, plate, bowl, shield and jug. It sort of the divition of the competition, the cup is the main divition, the plate is second divition and so on. My team the Jakarta Bantengs were the runner up for the bowl competition. But it was ok to lose in the final. We were beaten by a team from Australia, the Liendfield Barbarians. But we were playing really well against them, we hold them in the first half but run out of gas in the second. But stil, we can still be happy with the way we play against them. They were having problem getting trough the defence despite the significant diffrence in size.
The whole competition were really fun, we play in this amazing sport club called the canggu club that have wonderful sporting facilities. And i felt very greatful to be able to take part in this competition. There were some celebrities that also playing. Like Mike Lewis, if you go to senayan city, he is the only male model for senayan city. Andrew White also took part in the competition, he is my team mate in jakarta banteng. And Tamara Blezinsky also spotted in the spectator area.
The competition were really tiring. We play 6 games in 2 days, it really exaust us a lot. But i come home with pride of being the runner-up of the bowl competition. I really looking forward for the next tournament in bali next year. Hopefully next year, the bantengs could win the indonesian cup.