Naoki iketani biography samples

Japan has been crowned world champion in the WBIF Online Team Championship  which ran from September to January of this year.

In this tournament, teams of five from 33 countries squared off in a grueling gauntlet of 55 matches arranged in 11 best-of-five rounds. By the end of all matches on Jan 24, for the first time since , the winner was the Japanese national team, consisting of Masanori Ichikawa, Hideaki Ueda, Kentaro Meijo, Kiyokazu Nishikawa, and Naoki Iketani.

▼Iketani also goes by the handle “Ipetani” and commentates the YouTube matches via an animated cat avatar.

What makes this team’s victory extra special is that none of Japan’s top players were even on it. There is said to be only , competitive backgammon players in Japan compared to a global total of million — which amounts to about percent — and yet three Japanese players can be found in the worldwide top ten: first place Masayuki “Mochy” Mochizuki, Second place Mic Student biography samples.