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The New York Mini hosted by the New York Strangers, is one of the biggest tournaments leading up to the Labor Day weekend Nationals. It is held in Seward Park in Chinatown, averaging about 80 teams per year. Generally it is held in mid-July with teams participating from Boston, Washington D.C., Philadelphia, Toronto, Montreal and North Carolina.
The New York Mini hosted by the New York Strangers, is one of the biggest tournaments leading up to the Labor Day weekend Nationals. It is held in Seward Park in Chinatown, averaging about 80 teams per year. Generally it is held in mid-July with teams participating from Boston, Washington D.C., Philadelphia, Toronto, Montreal and North Carolina.
The [[August Moon]] tournament is played every August in Boston at Reggie Wong {{Cite news|url=http://archive.boston.com/bostonglobe/obituaries/articles/2011/04/07/reggie_wong_everyones_uncle_in_chinatown_68/|title=Reggie Wong, ‘everyone’s uncle’ in Chinatown, 68|first=Bryan|last=Marquard|newspaper=Boston.com |date=Apr 7, 2011|access-date=Jan 26, 2020|via=The Boston Globe}} Memorial Park (formerly Pagoda Park){{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2Yc9jHYE1k|title=Reggie Wong Memorial Park Dedication|access-date=Jan 26, 2020|via=www.youtube.com}} in Chinatown on Kneeland Street. This tournament features 9-man teams from the Boston area including the Boston Rising Tide, Boston Chinese Freemasons, Boston Knights, and the Boston Hurricanes.
The [[August Moon]] tournament is played every August in Boston at Reggie Wong {{Cite news|url=http://archive.boston.com/bostonglobe/obituaries/articles/2011/04/07/reggie_wong_everyones_uncle_in_chinatown_68/|title=Reggie Wong, ‘everyone’s uncle’ in Chinatown, 68|first=Bryan|last=Marquard|newspaper=Boston.com |date=Apr 7, 2011|access-date=Jan 26, 2020|via=The Boston Globe}} Memorial Park (formerly Pagoda Park){{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2Yc9jHYE1k|title=Reggie Wong Memorial Park Dedication|access-date=Jan 26, 2020|via=www.youtube.com}} in Chinatown on Kneeland Street. This tournament features 9-man teams from the Boston area including the Boston Rising Tide, Boston Chinese Freemasons, Boston Knights, and the Boston Hurricanes.
Toronto typically hosts a mini tournament during [[Canada Day]] in which teams from Toronto and Montreal play.{{Cite web|url=http://veenix.blogspot.com/2007/07/canada-day-9-man-tournament-day-2.html|title=Canada Day 9-Man Tournament Day 2|access-date=Jan 26, 2020}}
Toronto typically hosts a mini tournament during [[Canada Day]] in which teams from Toronto and Montreal play.{{Cite web|url=http://veenix.blogspot.com/2007/07/canada-day-9-man-tournament-day-2.html|title=Canada Day 9-Man Tournament Day 2|access-date=Jan 26, 2020}}
Chinese-American volleyball team sport
9-man (also nine-man, nineman, 9man) is a volleyball team sport utilizing nine players per side and a slightly larger court (10 by 20 meters). Historically, the sport was played by Chinese immigrants to the US, who predominantly hailed from Toisan (Taishan) city in Guangdong province of China.[1] In the late 1930s the sport was used as a means to socially connect the laborers in Chinatowns across the United States. Teams from Boston and Providence, RI held the first organized nine-man tournament in 1938 which later spread to Chinatowns in other large US and Canadian cities.[2] The North American version of 9-Man continues to grow today with a popular rotating tournament called the NACIVT[2] uniting thousands of players and spectators each September over Labor Day weekend. It is unclear whether the sport was also played in the Asian Games in 1958 and in 1962 held in Tokyo and Jakarta, respectively, or if they were simply playing volleyball with nine players. The sport has not made a reappearance in the Asian Games since, and many believe that the rules of nine-man are exclusive to the community that plays in North America. The sport is the subject of an award-winning documentary called 9-Man that was completed in 2014 and had its world premiere at IFFBoston on April 27, 2014 at 1pm.[3] The film was broadcast on the PBS World Channel series America ReFramed on May 5, 2015.
NACIVT rules stipulate that at any given time, each team must have at least six players of “100 percent” Chinese descent on the court. The
remaining three players must be of Asian descent; the NACIVT explicitly states who qualifies as Asian based on the country of origin of his ancestors – (Asian: origins from: Myanmar (formerly Burma), Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Laos, Malaysia, Mongolia, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam). In addition, only men are allowed to play 9-man.[2]
There are a number of ways in which 9-man rules differ from traditional Volleyball rules. As only men…