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Apparently the Romans played unicycle basketball. (Seen in the main piazza in Trento)

After losing in the semis, we were paired in the consolation game against AOC Rond, the team we’d tied in the preliminaries. They’d lost to WOOM (the reigning world champions) by 3 points in the other bracket. (That was quite a game, with AOC coming back from a 10-point deficit, and getting a good 3-point

We easily handled Cycl’hop in the quarter finals, setting up a semi-final match against AOC Square, one of the top French teams. They have two brothers, Adrien and Jeremy, who play a lot like our own Jeremy; extremely fast and aggressive, going for steals in a full-court press. We started out well, using solid passes

We started off our championship run with a shootout against AOC Rond, the team we tied on Monday. The format was like a soccer shootout; the teams took turns sending their best 5 shooters to the line for one free throw each. After 5 shots, the shootout was tied 3-3, so we got down to

The tournament is on! The preliminaries were set up with four divisions of four teams, with a round robin within each division. Each game was two 12-minute halves (running time, no clock stoppages until the last 2:00). We got a crappy draw, having to play one of the three good French teams (AOC Rond) in

Yesterday we had six solid hours of basketball, and got to play against most of the people we’ll be competing against in the tournament.  Things start tomorrow, the 23rd; we’re playing three games in our round robin bracket.  The tournament is structured so that no one will be eliminated on day one; the round robin