No. 9 2011 February - March Description of the ninth number We‘ll introduce you with Argentinean community in our game. You will also find the 21st season‘s review of the World league 1-3 divisions. We will tell about the problems in Lithuanian 1.1 league and present our new member in Bballzone time team. You will find results of the contest „True or false?“ and you will find a new contest in our newspaper. Announcement from the editors! You are invited to join Bballzone time team. All you have to do is write an interesting article and give it for the editors. Or maybe you think you could improve the appearance of the newspaper? You have a chance to receive Premium package (from 1 week to 1 month, it depends on number and complexity of articles you write). The First thing you have to do is write a message for the general director of our newspaper – rudupis ( team rudupis, Lithuania 2.2 league) and he will explain everything more detailed. Bballzone time 1 Articles in the ninth number Description of countries 3-4 - We continue descriptions of countries, this time: Argentine community. 21st season’s review of the World league 1st- 3rd divisions 4-5 - 21st season’s winners in the highest divisions of the World league and achievements of the best teams that are not from Lithuania. Crisis in Lithuania 1.1 league 6 - What happened in the strongest Lithuanian league in the end of 21st season? Presentation of newspaper team 6-7 - More and more new people come to our newspaper’s team. Meet one of them. Jokes about basketball 7-8 - Enjoying basketball in one more way. Contest “History of basketball” 8 - Presentation of the new contest and its first round. Contest “True or false” 9-10 - Results of the 1st tour and questions for the 2nd. Bballzone time 2 Argentina (Article by: rudupis) Argentina (officially called as the Republic of Argentina) - the 2nd largest country in South America and 8ht largest country in the world. We all know Argentina as a great football country, but Argentina’s achievements in basketball are great, too. Unfortunately, Argentinean community is one of the smallest in our game. The community of Argentina only consists of 2 divisions which has 3 leagues (32 teams). There are only 11 active teams in it (5 active teams play in Argentina 1.1 league and 6 active teams play in the 2nd division). The oldest playing team in Argentina is Loch Ness; it plays from 10th season of this game. Loch Ness won 5 gold, 2 silver, 3 bronze medals during this time. Los Camellos team plays from 14th season. It won 2 gold, 4 silver, 1 bronze medals. C.B. Malvinas Argentinas is the champion of 21st season. It plays from 16th season of this game. The achievements of Argentina’s teams in the World league are modest. Only 1 team C.b. Malvinas Argentinas plays in 5th division of the World league, 2 teams play in 6th division, other teams play in lower divisions. C.B. Malvinas Argentinas team receives the biggest income from sponsors per week. (30 585 Euro per week). There are not many high- label players from Argentina. The best player by RT is Alfonso Barovero, who plays in Jungenai team (Lithuanian 2.2 league). The best Argentinean player who plays in Argentina is Diego True (Los Camellos team, Argentinean 1.1 league). Javier Fiz receives 18 000 Eu salary per week, it is the biggest salary from all Argentinean players in our game. Javier Fiz plays in Kriapst team (United Kingdom 2.2 league). I was able to talk with Fabricio the manager of Besters team. This team is practically rookie in this game; it plays only the second season. Besters team won gold in the Argentinean 2.2 and in the World 8.92 leagues in the last year. You can read a little interview with Fabricio. Rudupis: please introduce yourself. Fabricio: my name is Fabricio, I‘m 17 year old, my hobby is play and watch basketball and I like ice hockey too. Rudupis: How did you start to play this manager? Fabricio: I‘ve searched the basketball managers in Google search system and I‘ve find Bballzone and I like it. Bballzone time 3 Rudupis: What options of this game do you like and what options don‘t like? Fabricio: I like coefficients of values, but don‘t like that in Argentina market in day be only 1-4 players, bur in Lithuanian market is 10-15 players. This game maybe would be more interesting if we can to substitute players during the game. Rudupis: Write about your team a little. What are your future plans in this game? Fabricio: My team is playing in the strongest Argentina league and in 7.46 the World league. I want that my team will be strongest team of Argentina and maybe in TOP15 in the game. Rudupis: What can you say about your main opponents in the Argentinean 1.1 ant in the World leagues? I played in Argentina 2.2 league in the last year and my team was only one of active teams in the league. I‘ve claimed the gold very easily. There are maybe 5 active teams in Argentina 1.1 league so will be harder than last season. Besters need to fight with strong teams in the world league so will be very hard too. Rudupis: Do you have the manager like this in Argentina? Fabricio: No, we have not. Rudupis: What is your favorite player ant favorite team in real life? Fabricio: My favorite players are: Fabricio Oberto, Carlos Delfino, Manu Ginobili, Pablo Prigioni. My favorite team is Atenas. Rudupis: Thanks, have a good game. * * * * * * Review of World divisions 1-3 in the 21st season (Article by: ElisZz) This is a review of the three strongest world tournament‘s divisions. You’ll have a chance to see who are the champions and the runner-ups of all three divisions. You’ll see some information about teams from different countries and their achievements. We hope you will enjoy this article. So let’s get started. World League 1.1. You can’t disagree that this league is the strongest league. Unfortunately, here aren‘t representatives from a lot of different countries. In the 21st season all of the first division teams were from Lithuania. The World league 1.1. champions were Gaudytojai. Silver medals went to BC Paupis JR. The battle for third place was between Linksmai.lt and BC Tauras. Linksmai.lt won the first bronze medal in World league, but this team had the worst season ever because Linksmai.lt fell down to the second Lithuanian division. In 22nd season there is only one foreign team playing in this league. That’s Miami Rainbow from USA. This team won the silver medal in the World league 2.1. Maybe we will see the first WL 1.1 champion not from Lithuania? World League 2.1. As you know, the runner-ups of this league were a team from USA – Miami Rainbow. They only needed one step and they could have been the champions of WL 2.1, but Miami team lost the final against Zalgiris. The bronze medal went to Klaipeda-93 and BC “ByviZ” ended the season with the fourth place. However, they got a special invitation to the World League 1.1. Bballzone time 4 World League 2.2. The first three places went to Lithuanian teams. The gold medal winners were Etalonas, the silver medal – BC Pacany and the bronze medal went to BC Sh4rKs. There were two Latvian teams contending in this league last season. They were ASK/VEF RIGA (this team took 19th place) and Ventspils Vilki (23rd place). There are now four foreign teams playing in this league: two Latvian, one from the USA and one Italian team. World League 3.1. Interest in the lower divisions is usually not as big as compared to the first two divisions, but there were many interesting matches, too. Among Lithuanians, three teams from Russia, Latvia and the USA will try to show what they are worth and they will try to take high places in WL 3.1. The teams from Russia and USA went to the TOP 16 last season, but they couldn‘t make it to the finals because the Lithuanian teams were stronger again. The champions of the 21st season were Pimpongai. World League 3.2. Last season this league had a bunch of Lithuanians, two teams from UK and one from Italy. This season there are seven teams from non-Lithuanian tournament and they are trying to get the champion‘s name of the World League 3.2. These teams should ask for some advice from WL 3.2 champions of the 21st season - Mėsgaliai or second the place winner Country_boys. The third place winner was kobe n1 from Italy. Two teams from this sunny and well known country are playing in league 3.2 this season and these teams would probably appreciate kobe n1‘s help to win a medal. World League 3.3. This league has the two strongest teams from Portugal and the Philippines. Furthermore, you can see two Latvian teams playing here, too. One of them played here last season. It‘s Sigulda. This team ended the season in the 20th place. Maybe this season will be more successful for this team. One more foreign team had a perfect season and won the second World League‘s silver medal in team history.