{"id":61046,"date":"2024-11-20T16:27:37","date_gmt":"2024-11-20T14:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=61046"},"modified":"2024-11-20T16:27:37","modified_gmt":"2024-11-20T14:27:37","slug":"montego-champs-4-change-tournament-carries-an-important-message","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/?p=61046","title":{"rendered":"Montego Champs 4 Change Tournament carries an important message"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-37078\" src=\"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Dangerous-Darkies-FC-400x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" \/>The <a href=\"https:\/\/ssschoolsplus.co.za\/montego-cares-u9-champs-4-change-empowering-youth-and-addressing-violence-against-women-and-girls\/\"><strong>3rd annual Montego Champs 4 Change Tournament<\/strong> <\/a>kicks off on Friday. It&#8217;s being held in support of the <strong>National 16 Days of Activism for No Violence Against Women and Children campaign.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The action starts at 13:00, with the last game scheduled to be played at 18:00, at the <strong>Botanics Sports Grounds<\/strong>, in Graaff-Reinet.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a unique tournament, providing an opportunity for u9 teams to showcase their skills.<\/p>\n<p>The primary focus, though, is raising awareness and contributing to a vital cause opposing violence against women and children violation.<\/p>\n<p>The event is held in the spirit of celebrating talent, sportsmanship, and community upliftment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tournament Format\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Group Stage<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>12 teams divided into three groups of four teams each<\/li>\n<li>Each group plays a round-robin (three matches each within their group)<\/li>\n<li>Matches last 22 minutes (10 minutes per half and a two-minute-halftime)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Knockout Stage\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Quarterfinals: The top two teams from each group qualify, plus the two best third-placed teams<\/li>\n<li>Semi-finals and Final: Standard Knockout format<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Group A<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jose Mourinho<br \/>\nDangerous Darkies<br \/>\nUnion Preparatory 1<br \/>\nIsibane 2<\/p>\n<p><strong>Group B<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>XI Attackers<br \/>\nBirds United<br \/>\nUnion Preparatory 2<br \/>\nLingcom Primary<\/p>\n<p><strong>Group C<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Summers Strikers<br \/>\nGraaf-Reinet United<br \/>\nIsibane 1<br \/>\nMountain View FC<\/p>\n<p><strong>Match Schedule: Group Stage (13:30 &#8211; 15:10)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Group A<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>13:30 &#8211; Field 1 &#8211; Jose Mourinho vs Dangerous Darkies<br \/>\n14:00 &#8211; Field 1 &#8211; Union Preparatory 1 vs Isibane 2<br \/>\n14:30 &#8211; Field 1 &#8211; Jose Mourinho vs Union Preparatory 1<br \/>\n15:00 &#8211; Field 1 &#8211; Dangerous Darkies vs Isibane 2<\/p>\n<p><strong>Group B\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>13:30 &#8211; Field 2 &#8211; XI Attackers vs Birds United<br \/>\n14:00 &#8211; Field 2 &#8211; Union Preparatory 2 vs Lingcom Primary<br \/>\n14:30 &#8211; Field 2 &#8211; XI Attackers vs Union Preparatory 2<br \/>\n15:00 &#8211; Field 2 &#8211; Dangerous Darkies vs Lingcom Primary<\/p>\n<p><strong>Group C<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>13:30 &#8211; Field 3 &#8211; Summer Strikers vs Graaff-Reinet United<br \/>\n14:00 &#8211; Field 3 &#8211; Isibane 1 vs Mountain View FC<br \/>\n14:30 &#8211; Field 3 &#8211; Summer Strikers vs Isibane 1<br \/>\n15:00 &#8211; Field 3 &#8211; Graaff-Reinet vs Mountain View FC<\/p>\n<p><strong>Knockout Stages (15:30 &#8211; 16:30<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>15:30 &#8211; Field 1 &#8211; Quarterfinal 1: 1st Group A vs 2nd Best 3rd<br \/>\n15:30 &#8211; Field 2 &#8211; Quarterfinal 2: 1st Group B vs 2nd Group C<br \/>\n15:30 &#8211; Field 3 &#8211; Quarterfinal 3: 1st Group C vs Best 3rd<br \/>\n15:50 &#8211; Field 1 &#8211; Quarterfinal 4: 2nd Group A vs 2nd Group B<\/p>\n<p>16:10 &#8211; Field 1 &#8211; Semi-final 1: Winner QF1 vs Winner QF4<br \/>\n16:10 &#8211; Field 2 &#8211; Semi-final 2: Winner QF2 vs Winner QF3<\/p>\n<p>16:30 &#8211; Final: Winner SF1 vs Winner SF2<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 3rd annual Montego Champs 4 Change Tournament kicks off on Friday. It&#8217;s being held in support of the National 16 Days of Activism for No Violence Against Women and Children campaign. The action starts at 13:00, with the last game scheduled to be played at 18:00, at the Botanics Sports Grounds, in Graaff-Reinet. It&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":37078,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.ssschoolsplus.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}