On November 21, the top teams from the 2009 Bundesliga preliminary round met again in Hanover to determine the champion. After the “Mokkei” team finished the preliminary round in fourth place—as they had in previous years—Johannes Maringer, Reinhard Kollotzek, Günther Dauner, and Volker Bruckmann qualified once again for the finals.

In the first round, Günther Dauner, Reinhard Kollotzek, and Volker Bruckmann took the lead with nine out of a possible twelve hits. Only the defending champions from “Kyudojo Berlin e.V.” managed to match that score. After a weaker round with only five hits, reigning European champion Johannes Maringer was brought in for the third and final round. It was the right move: with eight hits and a total score of 22, a tiebreaker was necessary against the “SG Bergmann-Borsig” team from Berlin, which was tied on points. While the Berliners failed to score a single point in the tiebreaker, the Rhinelanders kept their composure and confidently won the competition with two hits out of three arrows.

We’d like to take this opportunity to thank Volker Bruckmann, who strengthened the team for three years and helped lay the groundwork for these successes, and who, of his own accord, has decided not to compete in as many tournaments in 2010.

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