tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55435342012-01-25T19:12:59.162+13:00News and other things.... ( <em>Location: New Zealand</em> )NZPC Editor (Tom)http://www.blogger.com/profile/09454982276836088039noreply@blogger.comBlogger1361100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5543534.post-2953964981453834182012-01-16T12:14:00.000+13:002012-01-16T12:14:25.419+13:00

I was surprised to learn that the Hawke's Bay summer doubles has been cancelled because of lack of interest. This long established tournament has always been so well supported by most North Island clubs. I myself have very fond memories of large well organised tournaments in typical gloriously hot Hawke's Bay weather. The excelent terrain has great facilities, drinks, ice-cream slices, plenty of

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You may have seen this on our Twitter page. Anyway, I just couldn't resist putting this up on our Blog. It really appeals to my sense of humour. We may see these signs at our major tournaments. "Please do not play petanque behind the dog"

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Hi there People   The Vikings Petanque Club and is Members would like to wish everyone a '' Merry Christmas '' and '' Happy  New Year 2012 '' be safe and we will see you on the Piste again for another year of Petanque in 2012.   ‘’ Don’t drink and drive, otherwise I want see you in the new year in the Petanque Grounds if you do Drink & Drive.’’   Club President Georgio Vakauta

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With Christmas so close it can be hard to find something useful and practical for your petanque obsessed partner, friend or whatever. I found two great gift ideas for you to consider. They would certainly serve me well during my petanque tournaments. Have a great Xmas and even better new-year.

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This event is sponsored by WBS Players around New Zealand are looking forward to one particular petanque event on the playing calendar next year. It is the annual iconic WBS Triples tournament. Just playing in it is everyone's wish and entry applications are normally received by the organisers months before the event. Wairarapa Building Society Triples Tournament is organized by the

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In the past I have looked at audio messages as a means of keeping the petanque community informed about important things. I remember Graeme Morris helping me out with a test using a standard mobile phone. This is years ago and things have changed, so it is time to try out some new technologies. I made a test recording with AudioBoo (see below) and I would like opinions from people. Do you think

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I am happy to see that the World Women and Juniors Petanque Championships website now has professional graphics. In an earlier post I stated that the graphic looked like it belongs to a "family beach petanque party - slinky tops and straw hats". One commentator replied: "Nothing wrong with the graphics". Well, it's great the organisers have seen it my way and have made changes. This looks

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Was listening to this and thought that I should share this with the wider petanque community. A lot can be learned from this interview and I highly recommend it. Either listen to it by following the link, or better still, download the interview to your mp3 enabled device - that way you always have it (It's 34 minutes long). "Gary Hermansson - Sports-Minded Sports psychologist Gary Hermansson

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Today was the day of the Christchurch Singles, and the day dawned with a minus 2 and a clear sky. Well, it turned out to be one of the best days, absolutely no wind, clear blue sky with a blazing sun to quickly warm us up. It wasn't long before we were in Tshirt and shorts - truly fantastic petanque weather. Lorraine and I look as though we've come from the ski fields - both sporting a glamorous

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The community of Lyttleton (Christchurch) has suffered enormous damage to their township infrastructure and community spirit from the numerous major earthquakes. It is also this Lyttelton community spirit and resilience that makes this place very special. Lyttelton is friendly and close knit - I know it from the farmers market, the vibrant music scene and the numerous quality coffee shops that

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I came across BigBlueButton the other day, and thought it would be good to share this with the wider petanque community. BigBlueButton is an open source web conferencing system that enables organisations to deliver a high-quality learning experience to remote members. I have done some test runs and it seems an excellent free tool for PNZ, coaches and trainers. It would also be good for AGMs when

NZPC Editor (Tom)http://www.blogger.com/profile/09454982276836088039noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5543534.post-91199267349456329532011-07-29T15:58:00.001+12:002011-07-29T16:00:48.550+12:00

Looking at the graphics on the Women's and Junior World Championships website, you'd think it is a promo site for a family beach petanque party - slinky tops and straw hats. A shame that such unprofessional graphics have been signed off by whoever is in charge. This is after all a World Championship.

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The new PNZ website is great. It is good to see its functional design and general consistent layout. It is equally great to see the strange collection of unrelated links at the bottom of the home page have been removed. My compliments also go to Brian Smith who has put untold hours into building and maintaining the previous PNZ website.

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Date: Saturday 22 & Sunday 23 October 2011 Venue: Weird Entertainers & Pétanque club, Sydney Pargeter Recreation Area, Power Raod, Endeavour Hills, Sydney Entry fee: $60 per player Closing date: 24 September 2011 Maximum 44 teams. Download entry form here Interesting to see the $60.00 entry-fee per player. If players want decent prize money they will of course have to pay hefty entry fees. All

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"Dear All, What a great Trans Tasman New Zealand retained both the Open and Senior trophies at the weekend in Melbourne. But: We had a lot of Fun and every game was a challenging battle against the best players from New Zealand......" Read more>>>

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It is great to see how NZ petanque players have taken to the Web. Two additions are Twitter and more recently a new space for petanque players was created by Ruby Vakauta at Facebook PATONKAZ. PATONKAZ seems to have a good future with already over 40 members and a good number are active participants. Petanque players doing it for themselves has to be a good thing. I encourage everyone to take

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"MASTERTON PETANQUE CLUB: Masterton Petanque Club have been in existence since the early 1990s and have provided many of the country's top players. Four national titles have been won and no fewer than eight members have represented New Zealand. Masterton has the highest representation of any club - five - in the Kiwi line-up to take on Australia in a transtasman battle this month." Taken from

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It's on again! MASTERTON PETANQUE CLUB MID-WINTER DOUBLES TOURNAMENT Saturday 4th June and Sunday 5th June New Zealand’s Unique Undercover Petanque Tournament Held at the WAIRARAPA A & P SOCIETY SHOWGROUNDS (Chester Road, Carterton) ENTRIES CLOSE:30th May START TIME:Games commence at 9.00am. ENTRY FEE:$50.00 per team CASH, WINE and TROPHIES to be won! Timed Games: 1 hour plus 2 ends. Download

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Could I please ask a question to the readers of the blog - I desperately want to do something to help improve tournament participation at our 2 day tournaments, I have serious concerns over participation numbers and the future of our tournaments. I am seeking feedback as to why people are not participating? Ideas on how we could stimulate growth of these tournaments? What is keeping people away?

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It really pays to look at how other counties deal with membership / affiliation fees. People in New Zealand may well have done this but have not shared information. Thanks Rita for shining a different light on this fee issue and making it available to all. Read more>>>

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Rita de Beer from the Cockle Bay Petanque Club has written down some of her thoughts on this page. It makes for rather sad reading and I sincerely hope PNZ will allow the Cockle Bay remit, and at the same time give the club some space and time to decide what they want to do with regards to staying affiliated to PNZ. Please do not give these good people from the Cockle Bay Petanque Club deadlines

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I see, only just posted on the PNZ website, where this years organiser, of the PNZ Club Championships, to be held in Rotorua, next month. Now requires, that "all" members of a team, must belong to the same club. Begs the Question: regardless of where one lives, is "multi memberships" of clubs allowable? If Not, and in recognising the fact, that the vast majority of club members are purely social

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"Please find attached the agenda for the 2011 Annual General Meeting of Petanque New Zealand. I also attach the Minutes of the 2010 AGM (previously circulated April 2010). I would appreciate it if you could let me know (a) if you intend to have a Club representative at the AGM - if you have a member who is competing at the Triples they could fulfil this role; or (b) if you will be authorising

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I received four emails (one last night and three this morning) and all are the same forwarded corespondents about a "fourth player". No intro text was provided by the four senders apart from FYI. The corespondents is basically about the fourth player in the Nat triples. I am going to remove all names from the emails and will put them later today on our Wiki. Please remember if you are commenting

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"To inform all interested what is behind the Cockle Bay Petanque Clubs decision to withhold payment of P.N.Z. Affiliation fees." Go to this page

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During their AGM last Sunday the members of the Cockle Bay petanque club have decided to withhold all payments to PNZ until PNZ comes around and answers some of their questions. This is as far as I know the first case in New Zealand of direct action against PNZ by an affiliated petanque club. Will we see a domino effect? It remains to be seen if this will change the way PNZ communicates with its

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Power has just returned. No water yet. We are ok for water. House is good. We have not slept during night. Unbelievable aftershocks every twenty minutes. Extremely frightening on my work 6th floor. Was thrown about. Hurt my knee - getting better now. When I got up from the floor all I could see through our windows was rapidly rising large and dense dust clouds in all directions - so many

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Subject: Rotorua Doubles tournament 5/6 March 2011 "I regret to inform you that this year’s tournament which you have entered has failed to attract the number of entries needed to make the tournament successful. It is appreciated that there is still a week before the close off date but to avoid people making arrangements we felt it was necessary to cancel the tournament now. To date we have

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Nice time at the Christchurch club played a triples round-robin within 45 minutes plus one end. The one end after 45 minutes reduces the possibility of teams deliberately using delaying tactics towards the end of the 45 minutes when they are ahead - I like it! Lorraine and I had the good fortune to be teamed up with Theo Westerbeek a visiting Dutch player with 30 years international competitive

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I was surprised to see this line on the WPA website: "A new Pétanque blog, Petanquestuff has come to our attention. The owner has invited comment on the first posting regarding the Dwindling Entries at tournaments." The owner? Who is the owner of this Blog? Does the WPA webmaster know who the person behind this Blog is? How was this mystery Blog discovered on the WWW? The Blog was born with a

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Had a great time at our Christchurch Petanque Club this morning. Doubles in two groups of six teams. We played a five game round-robin. Each game is concluded after four ends have been completed (great for my short attention span - I blame computers and the internet for this infliction). We started at 9.30 and all was done and dusted just after 12.00 - I like it. If you are a dedicated follower

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To all the members of the different Petanque Clubs who sent Tony, Nigel and myself beautiful cards of sympathy and letters expressing their thoughts at the sudden passing of Bill. We were overwhelmed at your kind thoughts. To those who attended Bill's funeral service, a sincere thank you. It was a testament to his popularity. To those who wrote Tributes on the Internet, I have been unable to get

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"Changes have been made to the selection process for the 2010 – 2011 petanque season. The changes have come as a result of feedback from the survey last season, the ideas of a working party and PNZ Board discussions..." Go to changed Representative Selection Process

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It is always great to get our NZ Petanque magazine in the mail box. It usually has two or three extensive articles that are fun to read. I have however noticed a lot of typos in our magazine. On the Web this would be easily fixed but in a printed publication these typos remain forever, and make for an unprofessional look. There is no excuse for typos and authors should take more care before

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Congratulations to Georgio Vakauta for again retaining the number one spot. Ron Sandilands who no longer plays at a competitive level is/was our top ranked senior player, and Nico Toyne our top ranked junior. Joanne Lippard is our top ranked female player. The ranking list is based on results from the National Singles, Doubles & Triples Championships over two years. Points are awarded to players

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Nine people took part in our survey and as you can see our Twitter page is not much cared for. I will nevertheless continue with the NzPetanqueClub twitter page. Thanks to those who took the time to participate in this survey.

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Another year has gone and I think we all agree that 2010 has been a quiet and peaceful Petanque year. One highlight has been the good results posted by our world championship team.On a less positive note, I am hoping that the PNZ board keeps us a little better informed during 2011 about the things the board is working on and things still in the queue. A dedicated news page on the PNZ website

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Napier City Petanque Club Inc. is sad to announce the passing away of Bill Billings. Bill passed away peacefully at home on th 9th December 2010. He had been a member of the club since its early days and was the first to be awarded Life Membership of the club. He was still playing the game of petanque that he loved right up until 10 days ago. He will be sadly missed. -Barbara Lucas

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SUNDAY 9th January 2011. 9.00am REGISTRATION 9.30am START. ENTRY FEE $10.00 per player. LIMITED TO 26 TEAMS. PRE ENTRY ESSENTIAL Entries may be accepted on the day providing they do not create a bye and the 26 team limit has not been reached, Five rounds of random draw followed by pool play, Each complete pool to play off for three places. Cash Prizes. PLUS PRIZES FOR: TOP non prize winning

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PERENNIAL CONTENDER: Ron Sandilands is swapping his boules for bowls.. From the Howick and Pakuranga Times: "JUST as the dust is settling on his career in one code, Ron Sandilands is proving he’s an unstoppable force. After more than 60 years of sport, he’s retiring from petanque, the sixth sport he’s excelled at having represented New Zealand in open competition for the past six years. The

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"It was my pleasure to provide support to the New Zealand team at this year’s World Championship in Izmir, Turkey. The team was made up of four successful and experienced players … Maurice Belz, David Lippard, Michael Rocks and Richard Swaney. A month prior to the competition the players and coach got together for a training weekend at the Herne Bay Club. This assisted in the preparation of the

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"Marcel Pagnol often wrote about pétanque and his 1932 film, Fanny, includes a famous scene in which a tram is stopped in its tracks in order to allow the game to continue (the clip is unsubtitled but, as ever in Provence, the gestures speak volumes). Note that the players are following the "old" rules, and run before pitching, rather than the "anchored feet" version of pétanque generally

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The World Championships Petanque in Izmir was run using computer software by SPORT Software. Is this (or any other) software being looked at or evaluated for use in NZ? "SPORT organises events, players, clubs, matches, referees and rankings in an easy to use manner. The SPORT software enables you to generate all necessary printouts: Standard letters to all clubs or players (with MS-Word), Draws

NZPC Editor (Tom)http://www.blogger.com/profile/09454982276836088039noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5543534.post-80457783021243010582010-10-07T13:00:00.001+13:002010-10-07T13:02:28.054+13:00

Any info that comes my way from or about Izmir will be made available on our Twitter page over the next couple of days.

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To the New Zealand World Championship Team, All the best for Turkey, play your hearts out, represent New Zealand with dignity and have a great experience. Also, best wishes for an enjoyable and smooth running trip to Lorraine Brock (manager), John Targett (coach) and Joanne Lippard (supporter) - hope you all have a wonderful time. Liz Rocks

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Trophy 1st Maurice Belz Bayview and Ron Sandilands Cockle Bay 2nd Denise Bavidge Bayview and Geoff Greer Bayview 3rd John de Gueldre Tauranga and David Bosley Napier Club 4th Lee Tafford Bayview and Ian Baker Herne Bay 5th Christine Strichen Wanganui East and Shirley Selwyn Wanganui East 6th Dean Norman Windy Hills and Claire Wilson Masterton 7th Barb Lucas Napier Club and Barb Johnston

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I am contacting you on behalf of the Horowhenua Petanque Club Committee (I am not a member) to try and get as wide a distribution as possible for the attached paper (see link at end of this post). The paper is self-explanatory. It deals with a decision by the PNZ Board to only run National tournaments at the 3 main centres – Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch. The Board has even made a

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The Oceania Championships 2010 … a report from the Coach. Six nations with one goal … to win the Oceania Championship. Tahiti, Australia, New Zealand, Wallis & Fetuna, Vanuatu and hosts New Caledonia came together to compete for the title in Noumea on a terrain that was flat, hard and super quick like the Christchurch Petanque Club terrain in mid summer. Read more>>

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Sat 2nd / Sun 3rd October. At the St Kilda Petanque Club. 33 Royal Crescent Dunedin. Download entry for here St Kilda welcomes you and hopes you will have an enjoyable two days.

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I am using twitter to provide any news that comes my way. Two items up already. Great stuff and well done. Go well New Zealand!

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Please download the outline of the revised Representative Selection Process and Registration Form for 2010/11. These documents will also be available on the website shortly. Barbara Whittington Secretary Petanque New Zealand

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Hi everyone, it is two days till  the official start of spring and our Napier City Petanque Club Inc HB Classic tournament is one of the best places to experience a great spring petanque tournament. The date for this is September 11th and 12th. We would love to see you here in the sunny Hawke's Bay. Closing day for entries is 3rd September 2010.  Barbara LucasSecretary Napier City Petanque Club

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Congratulations Wellington for your resounding win over Auckland. You can find the results on the WPA website.

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"As the Tauranga Open Doublettes is a new tournament, I'd like to remind you and your club's members that this tournament is coming very soon on 28th and 29th August, entries will close on Tuesday 24th August, this mean that if you wouldn't like to miss the first doubles tournament of the new season and haven't sent your entry form and fees yet you have only 9 days left to do it, (details and

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Here are the results from our survey. As you can see most would like some money. Even though I asked, not one person has been able to explain why a small amount of prize money at national tournaments would be undesirable. I suppose that from our national petanque body's (PNZ) point of view it is more lucrative to not provide prize money - more cash in the coffers. Regional bodies would

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We need a volunteer to send text messages about this event to our twitter page. We need someone who will be at the tournament for a part of each day. A supporter would be ideal. I would set you up and you simply text short 140 character twitter reports about the tournament from your phone (between 5 or 10 per day) to 8987. These textings will immediately appear on our twitter page. People can

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"....Some players reach extraordinary levels of skill: the great Christian Fazzino was capable of shooting 992 boules out of 1,000 in the space of an hour. The undisputed young star of the moment is Dylan Rocher, barely 18, who earlier this month ousted 12-time world champion Philippe "Le Dieu" Quintais and his team to take the Mondial triplettes in Marseille. He's now famous for life in France..

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"Please note that the 2010 Women's National Championships (September 18/19) are being held at the Manawatu Pétanque Club in Palmerston North.This is important for those needing to make travel and accommodation arrangements for this event. Regards Barbara Whittington Secretary Pétanque New Zealand"

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AucklandOpen: Niau RutaCharles PeniEddie IniaWalter de ThierryCliave BartleetLouis MesnageJames Inia  (R)Dez Grant  (R) Senior: Ray PierceCharles BrockPaul BicklemanFrank PinderMargaret MaherAlain CoulombMyrine Gilbert (R)Eileen Lippard  (R) Wellington Open: Morgan ChoveauxYvonne Futcher Annick Le GuenBarbara Nicholls Richard Turfrey Dirk Winnie Senior: Pete Hamilton Doug Hay Helene Hay 

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NZPC is now also active via twitter and will be used to alert the wider petanque community to what is happening in NZ. I will also use it for general international petanque news rather than using our Blog as I have done up until now. There is a permanent link in the right-hand column. Enjoy.

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Introducing Petanque as an alternative sport into the Primary School system. Counties Manukau Sport invited the Cockle Bay Petanque Club to take part in an Emerging Sports Have A Go Day in Otara on the 20th November 2009. Ten schools of year 5 & 6 children were involved. Regards Warren Barrett President Cockle Bay Petanque Club. Complete story and photos on this page. -Tom.

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"A proposal from the Auckland Petanque Association that prize money should be offered for National Championships was discussed and rejected as inappropriate for these events." (taken from this page). "Inappropriate for these events" What does this mean? PNZ should be clear and state why this would be inappropriate. Part of any tournament entry fee goes to prize money, so why can't the winners

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Notes from the PNZ Board Meeting 22 & 23 May 2010. More>> See also the PNZ Strategic Plan 2010 - 2013. This is a link to a PDF file.

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Nice little TV Petanque news item. It's informative to listen to these young people and see what it is they like about this game of ours. More>>

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"The next world championship in Triplettes 2010 will be in Izmir (Turkey) from 7th until 10th of October. For your information we send to you the provisional agenda. The turkish Federation will send to you the usefull informations for your accomodation asap." IZMIR Our team is: Maurice Belz, David Lippard, Richard Swaney, Michael Rocks More>>

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Can you please inform all your members of the end of winter tournament: the TAURANGA OPEN DOUBLETTES 28th & 29th of August. Details and entry form attached, thank you. Cheers, John

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The New Zealand team for the Oceania Championship is:Women: Roberta Campbell (Bay View_, Pam Jenkins (Herne Bay), Barbara Johnston (Masterton), Christine Strichen (Wanganui East), Tina Targett (Christchurch), Christine Taylor (Christchurch)Men: Maurice Belz (Bay View), Christian Fouquet (Herne Bay), David Lippard (Herne Bay), Michael Rocks (Khandallah), Ron Sandilands (Cockle Bay), Richard Swaney

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Congratulations to Dirk Winnie and Maurice Belz for winning this prestigious event. Dirk and Maurice won the final against Michael Rocks and Nico Toyne. More>>

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The PNZ Board is pleased to announce that the following players have been selected to represent New Zealand at the 45th World Championships to be held in Taipei, Taiwan, 30 September - 3 October.The team is:Maurice Belz, David Lippard,Richard Swaney, Michael RocksLorraine BrockPresident, PNZ01/06/2010 FIPJP has announced that the Taiwan Federation has withdrawn as hosts for the 2010 World

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"29 responses were received, mostly (72%) from those who had been involved in the process since its inception. A large number of helpful observations and suggestions for improvement were also made." More>>

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Twelve players are venturing to the UK in August and September 2010. The players are: Jean & Charles Parley, Diane & Andrew Findlay,Bryan & Chris Wells, Bob & Colleen Bridge,Bill Peachey & Lynn Mason, Trevor & Sue Neilson.

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8/5/10 Open: New Zealand 48 points, Australia 12 points Seniors: New Zealand 48 points, Australia 12 points 9/5/10 News just in: New Zealand has won both divisions with two rounds still to go! Congratulations New Zealand Images by Sandy Austin. More>>

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Division (1) 1st: Bay View; 2nd: Central Combined; 3rd: Masterton Division (2) 1st: Mainlanders "It’s official, the Bay View Club is now the best in the country. Twice National Triples Champion, Hawke’s Bay’s Mr Petanque - Murray Porter, has been flying Bay View’s flag for well over 10 years – and now he can prove it. Over the Anzac Weekend, Bay View defeated 10 other club teams from around the

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THEY THOUGHT they might win one game, but together Waikowhai Primary School students Ce-Wade De Thierry, Sam Pau and Seli Fuimaono beat the lot. The 10-year-old boys are revelling in the glory of being the youngest team of triples to win the annual Auckland All-Schools Petanque Championship. More>>

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Congratulations to Andre Noel, Georgio Vakauta, Charles Peni for winning the PNZ National Triples. They won the final against Christian Fouquet, David Lippard and Lee Taffard. Follow the link at the end of this post to view the complete results. More>>

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Congratulations to PNZ and Dirk. This is an overwhelming endorsement and gives the new board a clear mandate to move the running of our sport in a new and more inclusive direction. I hope the board will adopt a firm yet open and democratic style of leadership. Go well PNZ!

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When you click on the link at the end of this post you will download the report as a PDF (4 pages, 164 KB). Download

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As promised here are the results of the web based survey. The survey finished on 31/03/10. Remember, the numbers 1 to 5 are what people selected as their answers to the questions (see image). There are also a number of freestyle questions - respondents provide their own text. To see the results follow the link at the end of this post. More>>

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Congratulations to Myles Cowper, Michael Rocks and Peter van Heusden for winning the final against Grant Bray, Pete Hamilton and Dirk Winnie. More>>

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The New Zealand Representative team to play against Australia in the Trans Tasman match in May is:Women: Sharon Cannon (Bay View), Pam Jenkins (Herne Bay), Barbara Johnston (Masterton), Christine Strichen (Wanganui East), Christine Taylor (Christchurch), Tina Targett (Christchurch)Men: Maurice Belz (Bay View), Christian Fouquet (Herne Bay), David Lippard (Herne Bay), Michael Rocks (Khandallah),

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"news just in from Singapore - Andre Noel Bronze Medal in the shooting - he qualified with 35 - best effort ever by a NZ player.Stop your bickering and play the game - Ricardo at large in singapore. PS David Jasrrod and Andre in the quarter finals, cross your fin gers for a great day tomorrow!"

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Not only has Obama got a nicotine addiction, he is apparently also hooked on petanque. I hope that if PNZ goes ahead with the rumored invitation for him to take part in one of our PNZ national events, PNZ will not make an exception and let him smoke during play. If the no smoking rule is good for us, it should be good for Obama too.

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" The inaugural PNZ Representative process concluded at Herne Bay with the second selection camp in March.The full process is available on the PNZ website, but essentially comprised individual baseline skills assessments and assessment camps where players were scored in doubles or triples combinations, in their preferred positions.It is a good time to reflect on the process, to look at what went

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1st Brian Smith & Andrew Joe2nd Dirk Winnie & Graeme Morris3rd equal. Bruce Jeffery & ClareCusack - Richard Lawson & Peter DennettFollow the link at the end of this post to see the full results.

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As we all know the Hawks Bay is an extremely active Petanque region. We now have a wiki page which will have regular news from the HB. Simon is kicking it off, and other HB players will help provide a variety of news items. If this is successful we will invite other regions to do the same.Follow the link at the end of this post.

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The 1st National Clubs Tournament held in Rotorua at the weekend. It was an awesome event enjoyed by all, with tons of camaraderie and team spirit, and lots of good natured ribbing between clubs! The weather mostly behaved itself, and the surrounds in Rotorua were stunning!It was well attended by 14 teams of 6, and played in two divisions based on the triples results from day 1, with doubles

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The new PFA president Sylvio Jolicoeur has released a statement showing a new direction for petanque in Australia. We wish him and his team all the best.

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Now that we’ve had the PNZ 2009 AGM it’s time for PNZ to come clear over the minutes from last year which PNZ claims are incorrect. When will they now publish the correct version?

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The month of September has seen the most visitors to our NZPC Blog ever. September has broken all records and has helped with placing our Blog in second place (7181 hits) on petanque.org in the "most popular links" section. We've also seen large numbers of visitors from other shores. I like to think that this is due to the World Chamionships and the up-to-date reports and contributions from our

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Hi Tom, sorry this is a bit later than I thought it would be.Pool Play:NZ 6 Belgium 13NZ 1 Italy 13NZ 10 Japan 13 NZ 13 Taipei 0Lost to Australia but don’t know the score.Because Japan lost to Taipei NZ qualified for the top 32 on point for and against.First game in second round NZ lost to Germany but don’t know the score.Second game is against Seychelles. If we lose that one we will play in the

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The results of the first round of the World Shooting Championships have been posted.1st Yann Nauta - Tahiti with 52 points2nd Jean Claude Bedi - Ivory Coast 48 points3rd Thaleungkiat - Thailand 46 points36th Ron Sandilands - New Zealand 17 points37th Oscar Sorio - Australia 16 pointsGraeme MClaire received a link from Ian Baker to a French site that should be good.Couple of interesting photos

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Just had the draw as follows:Poule EAustraliaJapanTaiwanItalyBelgiumNew Zealand Top four go through to next round. Our poule looks good and our first game is against Belgium (past World champions).We need to win two games to go through so we will be going for it. The terrain is concrete with big stones so all the practice the team has been putting in should put us in good stead. Terry is here and

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Email from Dirk Winnie. To read it, follow the link at the end of this post.

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Dear All,My one and only missive to the blog, since my mad snake comment is attached, for those who are interested...My name is attached and Tom clearly states: I say it again: no post or comment with a verifiable name has ever been refused or altered.My posting was sent to Tom yesterday at 3pm before two other postings went up, so why isn't it posted. Tom tells lies and he should resign as blog

NZPC Editor (Tom)http://www.blogger.com/profile/09454982276836088039noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5543534.post-40789188966880296172007-09-07T10:43:00.001+12:002007-09-07T11:50:46.068+12:00

The move to Auckland has done wonders for your dress sense.Image from Cockle Bay page.

NZPC Editor (Tom)http://www.blogger.com/profile/09454982276836088039noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5543534.post-15570653787339649002007-09-03T17:39:00.000+12:002007-09-04T20:01:38.680+12:00

A person has been spamming the post "PNZ Council Meeting (Oct.)". I am not sure why this person (without a name) is so disgruntled with this particular post. I have no time to continually remove his/her unsavory nonsense, so I have invoked our Blog's "comment moderation" again. This means you can still make comments in the usual way to any posts on our Blog, but they will go through a moderation

NZPC Editor (Tom)http://www.blogger.com/profile/09454982276836088039noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5543534.post-44139516395938836832007-08-31T17:15:00.000+12:002007-09-03T17:46:27.781+12:00

The Regional Representatives will be meeting early October in Wellington. It is now a good time to submit your questions, proposals, submissions, or whatever you have on your mind to them. Post or email it to Michael Rocks.You can submit material as an individual or as a group.I received word that the date for the PNZ Council meeting is being rescheduled from Sep.15/16, probably to the first

NZPC Editor (Tom)http://www.blogger.com/profile/09454982276836088039noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5543534.post-55389828033970082892007-08-28T19:05:00.000+12:002007-08-28T19:07:19.916+12:00

"At a meeting at Pattaya City Hall, discussions took place to discuss problems relating to the 43rd Petanque World Championships 2007 which are due to take place at the Pattaya Indoor Stadium in Jomtien between 18th and 23rd September. Khun Niran, the Mayor of Pattaya chaired the meeting and was told that the park which needs to be constructed in the grounds of the Indoor Stadium to accommodate

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These shots were brought in by John Underhill - a customer of Chris Priestley. Chris emailed them on to me (not bad for a self-confessed computer illiterate). They show Petanque in Laos (or is it Lao). Well, what can I say - just look at that scorer! (last image).The scorer is a bit difficult to see. If you click on the image you'll get a slightly larger version. Apparently John said that at any

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