2011 Arafura Games

Today the Arafura Games are officially open!
The opening ceremony starts at 6pm this evening.

Tomorrow we will see the start of the Volleyball Tournament. This year we have 8 men’s teams and 6 women’s teams.

The men’s teams are:

Australian Defence Force
Northern Territory
Macau
Papua New Guinea – NCD
Papua New Guinea
South Adelaide
Timor Leste
Torres Strait Island
The women’s teams are:

Australian Defence Force
Northern Territory
Macau
Papua New Guinea – NCD
South Adelaide
Torres Strait Island

The teams will play a round robin during the week before the playoffs on Friday and Finals will be held on Saturday.

The Arafura Games website has a full draw which you can find here.

So if you have some free time, come down and check out the Volleyball.

Each morning we will also broadcast on our facebook and twitter pages the times that the NT teams will be playing.

If you want to come down and support the NT side, then these are the times you will want to be down at the Marrara Indoor Stadium.

Sunday 9th

NT Men: 9 am and 12 noon
NT Women: 3pm

Monday 10th

NT Men: 9 am and 1:30pm
NT Women: 12 noon

Tuesday 11th

NT Men: 8pm
NT Women: 6:30pm

Wednesday 12th

NT Men: 6:30 pm
NT Women: 6:30 pm

Thursday 13th

NT Men: 6:30 pm
NT Women: 6:30 pm