Taiwan International Rugby 10s Tournament

The Taiwan International Rugby 10s Tournament has confirmed the participating teams, pools and schedule for this weekends tournament from June 1st-2nd 2019. The Tens tournament forms part of the Taipei Rugby Week we announced back in February which is set to include the Asia Rugby Championship Division 1 competition.

Taiwan International Rugby 10s 2019 teams and format

The first Taiwan Tens was held in 2011. The tournament has attracted 24 rugby teams in 2019. These are broken up into 12 men’s social tens teams, 6 ladies tens teams, and 6 veterans men’s teams.

The Men’s are split into 3 pools of 4. In the initial posting of the tournament, there were prizes of up to $5.000 being offered, but we can’t see any mention at the current time.

Men’s Rugby tournament

The pool games are played as a one ten-minute half game and are completed on Saturday 1st June for the Men’s pools.

The playoffs and Cups will be contested on Sunday 2nd June 2019 with the finals contested over two 7-minute halves.

Ladies and Vets rugby tournament

From what we can see, the Ladies and Vets are played as a round-robin format over the two days with the team winning the pool declared the winner.

Taiwan International Rugby 10s 2019 pools

Men’s Group A

• Taipei Baboons
• Chang Jung U
• Singapore Cavaliers
• Taiwan Ronins

Men’s Group B

• KeeLung City
• Tapei Giants
• Taiwan Fivewoods
• Kanagawa Tamariva

Men’s Group C

• Taipei Chien-Kuo OB
• SAFFAS Snotties
• Shiodome Melanins
• Samurai Pacific Warriors

Ladies Group D

• Seoul Sisters
• Singapore Barbarians
• HK Baptist U
• Kowloon RFC
• Taipei Babeboons
• Saigon Lady Geckos

Veterans Group E

• SAFFAS Blesbokke
• USRC Tigers
• The Great Ballers
• Taiwan Ronins
• Taipei Silverbacks
• Shiodome Melanins

For the full schedule and for more information, you can visit the tournament’s Facebook page.

• Date: 1-2 June 2019
• Venue: Taipei Municipal Stadium

The 2019 Rugby Dinner: Jake White

BCCT (British Chamber of commerce Taipei) and the Taipei Baboons Rugby Club have organized an exclusive dinner with International Rugby Hall of Fame Coach and Springbok World Cup-winning coach Jake White. Jake White will be the guest speaker and there will be a Q&A session at the dinner.

• Individual tickets NTD 2,400
• Table of 10, NTD 22,000

The evening Includes a 5-course dinner, beer, wine and whisky.

• Date: Friday 31st May 2019
• Venue: 台北西華飯店 The Sherwood Taipei

Proceeds go toward The Bali Trust Fund. For more information see here.

Division 1 Asia Rugby Championship

The ARC Division 1 will be contested on Wednesday, 29th May and Saturday 1st June as part of the Taipei Rugby Week and includes the Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka and Chinese Taipei. The finals on Saturday will take place after the Taiwan International Rugby 10s at the Taipei Municipal Stadium.