Baltic amateur championship in team games

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“Baltic rally” aims at integrating and strengthening relations between community amateur athletes from the SB region. The main vehicle to that end is organization of SB sport events in team games. The project participants have chosen volleyball. The reason is that this game is less commercialised than the others e.g. football. It is also typical adult amateur game and the project partners have very positive experience with organising regional volleyball championships in their countries. Volleyball is much more gentle than e.g. football or basketball but still picturesque, due to its inherent dynamics and dramaturgy.Volleyball is trickier than chess. It requires smart tactics, coordinated efforts of the whole team. Volleyball is powerful, explosive but elegant. Therefore people enjoy watching it. This is a family sport that can be watched by the young and the old, by men and women and is similarly attractive for different age and gender groups. This is the reason why volleyball games have always been trendy. Volleyball is an entertaining sport which can be played anywhere with very little equipment. The project main objective is integrating SB societies through organising joint sport events. Therefore the project will intensify intercultural dialogue and improve involvement of broader public in cross-border activities. First some parallel qualifier tournament will be organised in three locations in the SB region open for all SB amateur teams that would apply. The selected teams will compete for a South Baltic amateur cup in the SB finals. The final tournament will be organized by the LB. It will gather players and their fans. After the finals a SB volleyball team will be created from the best players from SB countries. Due to volleyball unique features a volleyball team can be easily composed of players from different countries and backgrounds. The SB volleyball team will attend different contest within EU - mainly in the SB region representing SB as a regional entity. After project closure the international SB volleyball tournament will be continued by the LB. It will be possible at low costs Thanks to the project the teams from different countries will start to become acquainted each with other and get sufficient incentives to enjoy attending joint sport events even if the players have to pay for travelling and accommodation themselves. So the SB project’s role is to put a “snow ball” into a motion. Parallel to the games the partners will take some efforts to inform local communities about the events and popularising physical activity among the local inhabitants. e.g. by side events or attractions for children. Expected outputs and results will be following: expanding awareness on the role of physical activity in everyday life, integration of athletes from the SB, creating a common communication platform for amateur teams and strengthening SB integration by intensification of sport interchanges.

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