City pool Štrand in Sombor was last night a place where the best teams from Vojvodina
gathered together and competed for the two tickets that leaded into the national final of City
Games. There were 6 teams fighting for the best positions – Subotica, Odžaci, Sombor, Ruma,
Inđija and Kikinda. They all gave their maximum and the fight was very tight until the final
game.

There were 6 different games to play and the teams showed great amount of sports skills and
desire for the win. Spectators were cheering for their favorites and some of them even made
up special team anthems for this occasion. Positive vibrations were spreading around the pool
and we even noticed that teams started to encourage other competitors.

Kikinda took a lead after first game flying water polo and remain there until the end. Great
fight for the second place cleared up in the last game paddle and the silver medal took
Subotica. Home team Sombor came third, while Ruma, Inđija and Odžaci came from fourth to
sixth.

“This year we decided to represent Serbia in international final. So far we are on the half way
there and we are ready for Zlatibor. We hope to stay in a shape and to bring to Kikinda one
more gold medal,” said the captain of Kikinda.

The captain of second-placed team Subotica was also very happy: “We are just so excited that
we managed to bring our city into the final. We will give our best in Zlatibor and we hope for
the best result.”

The proof of the unbelievable atmosphere in Sombor was also the fact that after the victory
ceremony all of the teams jumped into the water and together celebrated the conclusion of the
first semi-finals night.

City Games will continue to search the best Serbian teams already today in Valjevo in the
pool Petnica, where qualification will start at 7.30 p.m.

Subotica won on their home ground, tonight half-final of City Games in Sombor

City Games tour has last night stopped in Subotica, where another qualifications for today´s
semi-final in Sombor was organized. There were 4 teams from 4 different places competed on
city pool ´Dudova šuma´ – all of them with one goal – to qualify for the semi-final. Bečej,
Sombor, Inđija and Subotica were competing and the most successful in this adrenalin games
were Subotica. The second place won Sombor, since bronze medal went to Bečej which has
the youngest team on this year´s competition. The less lucky was Inđija that came as fourth
but the team was not sad at all since the entertainment in Subotica was just too good.

The great atmosphere, fair play and team spirit drove away the bad weather that collected
above Subotica, but it didn´t have a chance to spoil the party for all generations. Spectators –
young and old one cheered for their teams and expectedly the most support came for home
team which won the competition in the end.

“We are ready for the half-final. We´ve heard that Kikinda is very good team but we will give
our best to win and to get the ticket for the national final for Zlatibor,” was well determined
the captain of Subotica.

Every team that qualified for the semi-final was practicing really hard and each one of them
expect to win and represent their city in the final in Zlatibor on 22. July. The thing is that only
two of them will succeed so we are expecting a great battle between teams tonight at 7.30
p.m. on city pool Štrand in Sombor. You can´t miss this spectacle!

Sports spirit overcame rain in Inđija, Ruma is the second semi-finalist

City Games tour was yesterday in Inđija, Serbia, and the weather was once again not on our
side. Rain that hasn´t stopped through the whole event couldn´t break the great atmosphere
and team spirit. Four teams competed for one free place for semi-final – Inđija, Kikinda,
Ruma and Veliko Gradište. They were playing flying water polo, barrel race, water alka,
prosciutto, water basket and paddle. It was the last one – paddle that decided the team to
qualify – it was lucky for Ruma. Kikinda yesterday won, though, but since they had already
qualified in Vrbas, yesterday´s semi-final ticket for Sombor went to second-placed Ruma. The
third one was home team Inđija, while the fourth position went to Veliko Gradište. They were
having so much fun and were sure they would have win if the weather was nicer since they
are not used to cold. The home team almost passed through to the next round but were not
disappointed due to their first appearance on City Games.

Ruma was very excited about their result and announced hard battle for Sombor: “This was a
great experience. The games were great and we showed how skillful we are. We didn´t mind
about the rain, we had so much fun. We are starting the preparation for semi-final
immediately because we would like to win,” said the captain of Ruma.

The president of the city of Inđija Vladimir Gak was an award presenter and he thanked to
everybody to be a part of City Games: “Thank you to all of the cities that came to the Inđija
and fairly fought on the competition. Big thanks also to the spectators which were great no
matter the bad weather. We are pleasured to host such a great sport event and we hope to be a
part of it also the next year.”

City Games tour continue already today in the evening – at 7 p.m. the next qualification in
Subotica in the pool “Dudova šuma” will take place.

RESULTS:

1st place: KIKINDA, Bonatti tigrovi – 39 points (red)

2nd place: RUMA, Delfini – 22 points (green)

3rd place: INĐIJA, Inđija – 17 points (blue)

4th place: VELIKO GRADIŠTE – 2 points (dark blue)

The City Games event in Subotica, Friday 06.07.2018 was CANCELLED because of bad weather. NEW DATE: Monday, 09.07.2018, 19:00 h! See you soon!

Opština Vrbas was organizer of yesterday´s first City Games event in Serbia which were held
in the pool CFK Drago Jovović. There were five teams – Vrbas, Kikinda, Sombor, Kula and
Odžak competing in six different games. In the end of the two hours long battle a gold medal
and a place in the national semi-final of north region (Sombor, 10 th July) took a team Kikinda.

Many experiences from the past years Kikinda showed already in the first three games where
they achieved maximal amount of points. Dominant results in flying water polo (153 points)
and barrel race (2:07 min) proved that Kikinda is ready to achieve something big this year.
“Last year we lost in the final just for a little bit. This year we are very well prepared so we
expect to win in Zlatibor and to represent Serbia in the international final in Luxembourg in
2020,” said the captain of the winning team Borko.

Second-placed team Sombor took this performance as a good training as they have guaranteed
a place in a semi-final in Sombor being a home team. We are also sure they didn´t yet reveal
everything they are capable of for a tactical reasons.

Like in a Koper few days ago, also in Vrbas the battle for the third place was very tight
between Kula, Vrbas and Odžak. The most successful in the end was Kula and took bronze
medal in the 10 km faraway neighborhood.

Medals to the best teams were given by the president of the city of Vrbas Milan Glušac. He
thanked to the competitors for their fair play and the crowd for their great support in the first
City Games event in Serbia: “I am pleased that city Vrbas was a host of such a great sport
event. We are looking forward to also meet next year.”

The author of the project Miroslav Krzyk expressed his gratitude to city Vrbas for their good
organization: “Everything was perfect – the crowd was excellent, players were very good
prepared. For Vrbas I would give the mark 10! We are totally excited to come back here next
year.”

City Games will continue tomorrow in Subotica where second Serbian challenger will take
place.

 

RESULTS:

1st place: KIKINDA, Bonatti tigrovi – 46 points (dark blue)

2nd place: SOMBOR, Sombor – 38 points (red)

3rd place: KULA, Legende – 14 points (green)

4th place: VRBAS, Vrbas – 14 points (yellow)

5th place: OĐACI, Ođaci – 12 points (orange)

Koper hosted the first Slovenian challenger of City Games in this year. The competition was
held in Olympic pool in Žusterna and there were four teams, fighting for one ticket that leads
to national final, – Koper, Piran, Portorož and Lucija. After more than two hours long and
very interesting fight in front of crowd of people the gold took Piran, who won 34 points and
qualify for the Slovenian final in Kranj on 17. August.

Well-experienced team Piran – some of the members has participated on City Games for
many years – answered the question about the winner already after fourth game. They came
first in flying water polo, water alka, tourist rescuing and prosciutto and practically won the
competition and the first ticket for Slovenian final. We have to mention their impressive result
in flying water polo where they made astonishing 360 points.

Home team Koper ended with a silver medal around their neck after very good results in all of
the games except of water alka. They unfortunately didn´t receive points in that game, but
they made it up in the last game paddle, being the strongest and totally heated up the crowd.

It was very intense in the battle for the third place until the very last game between the team
of Morske klobase from Portorož and team Obala je zakon from Lucija. At the end the bronze
took team Lucija with 10 points.

City Games was organized with a big thanks to MO Koper, which once again showed how
amazing host they are and how amazing conditions for sport events they possess.

City Games tour is already moving to Vrbas, Serbia, where the first Serbian challenger will
take place on Wednesday.

RESULTS:

1st place: PIRAN, Piran – 34 points (blue)

2nd place: Spiaggia bar – 27 points (dark blue)

3rd place: Obala je zakon – 10 points (orange)

4th place: PORTOROŽ, Morske klobase – 9 points (red)