Name-the-team Contest (Super Rugby from the 2016 Season)
We are pleased to launch a “Name-the-team Contest” for the new Japan Team, which will be participating in Super Rugby from the 2016 season.
The new Japan Super Rugby team will be mainly composed of the Japan National Team squad and challenge against the world’s top teams. The purpose of competing in Super Rugby is to strengthen the Japanese National Team and what it more, to increase the attention towards rugby and contribute to the success of the upcoming Rugby World Cup 2019 in Japan.
Japan SR Association believes that involving everyone in naming the newest competitive and brave Super Rugby team from Japan will enable the team to generate a wide support base.
(Name-the-team Contest for Super Rugby New Japanese Team)
- Contest Guideline: Calling for a team name, which is easy to pronounce, powerful and befits the new Japan Super Rugby team.
*Both Japanese and English are acceptable.
*Any work(s) already copyrighted by third parties or offensive to public order and morals or same with already existing nick names for other sport’s national team are not eligible for selection.
*Copyright and any other intellectual property rights related to the selected team name will belong to Japan SR Association.
- Organiser: Japan SR Association
- Period: May 29th, 2015 – June 19th, 2015, 24:00 Close
- Application Procedure: Application can be made through the association’s website; <https://super-japanrugby.com/>
- Qualification: Individuals only. You may apply as many times as you wish.
- Selection: The Super Rugby Japan Team Name Selection Committee will select a name.
- Announcement: The scheduled date is the end of July 2015.
- Prize: A prize gift will be offered to one of the applicants who applied and whose name was selected.
(We will contact the winner by only sending the prize gift.)
Concept of the new team name:
1) Name that describes a brave Japan team challenging the world’s top teams with passion and pride
2) Name that is internationally recognized and enables us to attract international rugby fans
3) Name that represents the imagery of Japanese culture, tradition and history
Click here <https://super-japanrugby.com/>
(Message from Eddie Jones, Director of Rugby)
Japan will partake in Super Rugby 2016, the foremost provincial rugby competition – fast and exciting featuring the best players in the world. Please become the 24th player and help Japan build a team to challenge the best. Our team needs to play uniquely Japanese. We need to be fast, courageous but also smart and play rugby that the world has not seen before. Joining the Super Rugby competition allows Japan players the opportunity to play high level rugby consistently so that the players will go to the RWC 2019 with 40 test + caps, and 50-60 Super Rugby caps. Players do not get this now, one of the reasons I believe Japan has struggled to win at the RWC. For team names, I like names that are uniquely Japanese. Thank you very much and hope we can get many ideas from you.
Super Rugby Japan team, Director of Rugby, Eddie Jones (Head Coach of Japan National Team)(What is “Super” about Super Rugby?)
The premier southern hemisphere rugby union competition with games held in Australia, New Zealand and South Africa from February to July each year attracting rugby fans from across the world.
An international league that will span 4 continents, 5 countries and 18 teams from 2016.
Broadcasted to 120 countries and reaching 160 million households world-wide.
A record match attendance of 61,823 and 2.55 million fans attending games every year.
Australia, New Zealand and South Africa have won 6 of the 7 World Cups held to date between them.
Super Rugby is known for its expansive, attacking style with a trying average of 5 per game.
(Tournament information about Super Rugby)
The new Japan Super Rugby Team will participate in Super Rugby from the 2016 season. 4 or 5 of the Japan team’s home games will be franchised at the Prince Chichibu Memorial Rugby Ground in Tokyo, Japan whilst three home games will be held at the Singapore Sports Hub in Singapore. The regular season will be played by 18 teams across 2 groups and 4 conferences, with the top 8 teams from the regular season proceeding to contest the knock-out stages which culminate in the Final. The Japan team will participate in the South African conference (See below).
＜Contact Information＞
Japan SR Association PR
2-2-5, Valenna, Kitaaoyama, 3F, Minato-ku, Tokyo
TEL：03-5771-1101 FAX：03-5771-1102 E-mail：<a href="mailto:%20%
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