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Contact us if you have an upcoming event! AJET Games Handbook For event organisers. Inquiries: games@ajet.net |
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It’s time for the AJET Games to get underway for another year!
In spring 2004, the first AJET Games season was run over a series of weekends between the spring school vacation and the first week of June, but this year there’s no limits! The AJET Games will bring teams of JETs, friends and Japanese people together to compete in sports tournaments at various locations across the country. Each location will host a specific sport and each event will include such things as full competition, opportunities for social sport, and organised social or charity functions.
The AJET National Council is looking for AJET Groups to take up the challenge of organising an event under the AJET Games umbrella. Groups that put their hand up to host an AJET Games sport will be responsible for organising their event in its entirety, leaving the Group free to attract sponsorship, generate interest in their activities, and possibly earn money for their Group or for worthy charities.
Issues for Groups to consider in planning such an event include sports venues and equipment, officiating, first aid facilities appropriate to the sport, transport, accommodation and catering for teams and support staff, social event venues and format, promotion, prizes, and of course, expenses and funding, amongst others. It is entirely conceivable that several Groups, within the same AJET block, for example, could host an AJET GAMES event as partners.
The AJET National Council offers its support to interested Groups in the form of logistic advice, assistance with gaining sponsorship through our established GAM framework and by other means, certain forms of promotion, and access to AJET’s huge network of JET contacts across Japan. We hope that AJET Games events will become regular fixtures on the JET calendar and grow to provide rewards for JETs, AJET Groups and our local Japanese communities in the future.
Groups or individuals interested in being a part of this AJET initiative should contact the AJET National Council’s Activities Liaison at games@ajet.net with questions or to register their interest in hosting a particular sport at a particular time. Sports and dates will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis to avoid conflict, so we recommend that you consider and register interest in several different dates.
Suggested Sports
Groups are free to choose from this list or suggest another sport.
- Touch Football
- Rugby
- Basketball
- Netball
- Ten Pin Bowling
- Chess
- Tennis
- Badminton
- Volleyball
- Billiards
- Softball
- Ultimate Disc
The AJET National Council recommends that events be designed to cater for men and women equally wherever possible. This consideration may affect your choice of sport.