2006 Intercontinental Cup (baseball)
- 2006 Intercontinental Cup (baseball)
The 2006 IBAF Intercontinental Cup was held in Taichung, Taiwan from November 9th through the 19th. Eight countries contested the tournament, which was played in two different venues. Those venues were Taichung Baseball Field and the newly-built Taichung Intercontinental Baseball Stadium. The eight participating countries were Cuba, Australia, Italy, the Netherlands, Japan, South Korea, the Philippines in addition to the hosts from Chinese Taipei (Taiwan). The tournament was sanctioned by the International Baseball Federation.
Ticket Sales
Tickets went on sale at noon on Friday, November 3 for the games of the first four days over the Internet. Over following days, tickets for the next day not yet offerred will then become available. Internet sales of tickets will end at noon two days prior to the date the game is played. The Sunday, November 11 game between Taiwan and South Korea was the first game to sell out, having sold out within three hours of tickets being made available.
Round Robin
The eight teams will play a round robin format in which they will each play the other teams once. This means that each team will play seven games in this first phase of the tournament over the course of eight days.
Trivia
*This tournament marks the official opening of Taichung Intercontinental Baseball Stadium
*Asia's big three teams are all short-handed as 2006 Taiwan Series champions La New Bears, Japan Series champions Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters, and Korean champions Samsung Lions are all participating in the 2006 Konami Cup Asia Series in Tokyo, Japan, which started on the same day.
ee also
Intercontinental Cup (baseball)
External links
* [http://sports.yam.com/special/ic2006/ Official website] (Traditional Chinese)
*PDFlink| [http://www.baseball.ch/TPE06/Taipei2006.pdf Schedule] |77.3 KiB
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