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  • Sports flash

    Matches
    counting towards the 11th round as part of the Champions League in Women’s
    Handball’s group stage are scheduled at the weekend. Romanian teams’ fixtures
    are scheduled on Sunday. Rapid Bucharest travel to Denmark for an away Group B
    match against Ikast. At present, Romanian vice-champions are 7th
    placed, with 7 points, and are in dire need of a good result if they want to keep
    their hopes alive they can still earn a place among the first six teams so they
    can go past the group stage. With 13 points, Ikast are 3rd-placed in
    the group. In Group A, CSM Bucharest play a home game against Swedish team
    Savehof, a bottom-of-the-table team with a record of ten defeats in ten games
    played. Holders CSM are 4th-placed in the group.


    Three other
    Romanian teams play in Europe’s second-tier competition, the EHF European
    League. On Saturday, Gloria Bistrița receive the visit of French top-flight
    team Nantes. According to group C table, Gloria Bistrita are 2nd-placed,
    with 4 points in two games played, the same as-top-of the-table French team,
    which has, however, a better goal average. Also on Saturday, CSM Târgu Jiu play
    an away game against Norway’s Sola. CSM Targu Jiu are at the bottom of the table
    in Group D, with zero points on their record sheet. In Croatia on Sunday, Dunărea
    Brăila play Lokomotiva Zagreb, a bottom of the table team in Group B. With two
    points, Dunarea Braila are second-placed in the group, after German team Thuringer.


    Matches
    counting towards the Romanian football Super League’s 22nd round are
    scheduled at the weekend. On Friday, Sepsi Sfântu Gheorghe play Poli Iași,
    while Rapid Bucharest play FC U Craiova 1948. On Saturday, Universitatea Cluj play
    a home game against FC Hermannstadt, while in Ploiesti, the local team Petrolul
    play a home game against Bucharest team Dinamo. On Sunday, CFR Cluj play an
    away match against FC Botoșani, while Universitatea Craiova play a home fixture
    against Farul Constanta. On Monday, FC Voluntari take on Oțelul Galați, while FCSB
    are pitted against UTA Arad. With 44 points, that is 8 points clear of the runner-up
    team, CFR Cluj, FCSB are at the top of the table.



  • Sports Roundup

    Sports Roundup

    The women’s handball sides
    representing Romania in the Champions League obtained some remarkable results
    last weekend. On Saturday, in the competition’s group A, CSM Bucharest secured
    a 35-26 win against Banik Most of the Czech Republic. Cristina Neagu scored
    most of the goals for the Romanian side, nine, helping them to consolidate
    their first position in the group’s ranking with 17 points. They are followed
    by the last year’s winner of the trophy, Norwegian side Vipers Kristiansand
    with 15 points. CSM will be up next against Danish side Odense.




    In group B, Rapid on Sunday
    clinched a 39-29 home win against Montenegrin side Buducnost Podgorica. The
    Dutch Estavana Polman scored six goals for the hosts, pushing them to the third
    place in the group with 16 points, the same number of points as the team on the
    second place, Hungarian side Gyor, and a point less than the group’s leader,
    Metz of France. Rapid will be up against Esbjerg of Denmark on the latter’s
    home turf.




    Romanian side SCM Râmnicu Vâlcea started
    off on the right foot in the European League with a home win against Hungarian
    side Vác, which they defeated 40 – 30, in group D. Iryna Glibko of Ukraine and Asma
    Elghaoui of Hungary were the hosts’ best scorers each with nine goals. Valcea
    will be taking on Paris 92 in an away game on Sunday.




    Australia is these days seeing a
    couple of tennis tournaments in preparation for the year’s first Grand Slam
    tournament in Melbourne. Irina Begu was the best Romanian player in the
    aforementioned tournaments. Begu made it to the semifinals of the Adelaide
    International 1, with more than 826 thousand dollars in prize money. The
    Romanian was stopped in her tracks by Arina Sabalenka of Belarus, who won the
    match in two sets, 6-3, 6-2. Begu won 43, 323 dollars and 185 WTA points while Sabalenka
    eventually won the tournament with a 6-3, 7-6 win against Linda Noskova of the
    Czech Republic. In the Adelaide
    International 2 tournament, Sorana Cirstea of Romania lost in the first round
    to Beatris Haddad Maia. The Brazilian won the match 7-6, 6-1. Irina Begu is
    directly qualified for the competition’s main draw and will be taking on Storm
    Hunter of Australia.




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  • Sports Roundup

    Sports Roundup

    The women’s handball sides
    representing Romania in the Champions League obtained some remarkable results
    last weekend. On Saturday, in the competition’s group A, CSM Bucharest secured
    a 35-26 win against Banik Most of the Czech Republic. Cristina Neagu scored
    most of the goals for the Romanian side, nine, helping them to consolidate
    their first position in the group’s ranking with 17 points. They are followed
    by the last year’s winner of the trophy, Norwegian side Vipers Kristiansand
    with 15 points. CSM will be up next against Danish side Odense.




    In group B, Rapid on Sunday
    clinched a 39-29 home win against Montenegrin side Buducnost Podgorica. The
    Dutch Estavana Polman scored six goals for the hosts, pushing them to the third
    place in the group with 16 points, the same number of points as the team on the
    second place, Hungarian side Gyor, and a point less than the group’s leader,
    Metz of France. Rapid will be up against Esbjerg of Denmark on the latter’s
    home turf.




    Romanian side SCM Râmnicu Vâlcea started
    off on the right foot in the European League with a home win against Hungarian
    side Vác, which they defeated 40 – 30, in group D. Iryna Glibko of Ukraine and Asma
    Elghaoui of Hungary were the hosts’ best scorers each with nine goals. Valcea
    will be taking on Paris 92 in an away game on Sunday.




    Australia is these days seeing a
    couple of tennis tournaments in preparation for the year’s first Grand Slam
    tournament in Melbourne. Irina Begu was the best Romanian player in the
    aforementioned tournaments. Begu made it to the semifinals of the Adelaide
    International 1, with more than 826 thousand dollars in prize money. The
    Romanian was stopped in her tracks by Arina Sabalenka of Belarus, who won the
    match in two sets, 6-3, 6-2. Begu won 43, 323 dollars and 185 WTA points while Sabalenka
    eventually won the tournament with a 6-3, 7-6 win against Linda Noskova of the
    Czech Republic. In the Adelaide
    International 2 tournament, Sorana Cirstea of Romania lost in the first round
    to Beatris Haddad Maia. The Brazilian won the match 7-6, 6-1. Irina Begu is
    directly qualified for the competition’s main draw and will be taking on Storm
    Hunter of Australia.




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  • Escape into a museum

    Escape into a museum

    Feel
    like playing a little bit? What would it be like if, as we’re playing, we can
    also find out various and diverse cultural pieces of information we can then
    memorize without even realizing we’re actually doing that? Challenging enough
    for you? That’s how the museum quest organizers thought it out: as a challenge.
    Museum Quest is a cultural project.

    The initiator of the project,
    Catalina Stanciu:

    Museum Quest took off in 2020 as a cultural project in its
    own right, financed by the Ministry of
    Culture. For six years now we have an Escape Room in Bucharest and we really
    like that sort of activities by means of which we’re having fun intelligently
    as we’re doing everything as team work. And we’ve given it a lot of thought as
    to what we could come up with on the Bucharest market, so that people can have
    fun in a cultural environment as well. We started up partnerships with museums
    as we wanted to develop treasure hunters in the museums across Bucharest. In
    effect, we’re also speaking about a team game where two to six individuals will
    have to visit museums and have a cultural race, where their discover traces and
    accomplish missions.


    Catalina
    Stanciu also spoke about the partner museums were and what happened during the
    race:


    As we speak, we have partnerships with the Antipa Museum, the Village
    Museum, The History and the Military Museum. Teams can register on our website,
    at www.museumquest.ro.
    There can book the hours when they want to come and make their cultural
    journey, at the date and time they’ve booked for themselves, they turn up at
    the museum they have chosen, one of our representatives, a game master,
    welcomes them, they are being briefed a little bit about what exactly treasure
    hunting means and what the purpose is for their prospective cultural race, and
    the very moment they take the start for the game, they all receive
    lock-fastened carrying cases, while the available time stands at 90 minutes,
    for the Village Museum, and at 60 minutes, for the other museums, when they can
    discover all the marks we thought out for them, and when they need to accomplish
    all the missions and finish the race..


    We
    asked Cătălina Stanciu to give us examples of marks, but she refrained from
    doing that altogether. However, she tempted us with the description of the very
    process of playing.


    Catalina Stanciu:

    They will have to interact a lot with the cultural elements in a
    museum and, resorting to the team spirit and to the logical thinking, but also
    using their intuition and the wish to discover things, they’re being tasked
    with solving a couple of mini-puzzles and mysteries, each member of the team
    has a lock-fastened carrying case, their job is to open the locks, one by one,
    so that they can discover new mysteries, The game is highly interactive, it
    relies heavily on team work and, in effect, it is a mix between the escape room
    and the classical treasure hunting. With the Antipa, History and the Military
    museums there can be at least two participants, while with the Village Museum
    there can be at least four. A team is made of no more than six people and the fun
    is guaranteed. So far, there hasn’t been single participant who was not
    literally fascinated with that new modality of discovering the museums.


    We
    were very happy to find out no previous knowledge was needed before taking the
    plunge into the discovery of the museums.


    Catalina Stanciu:

    We use the museum premises and the collections in museums to bring in
    fresh batches of visitors, so that, through a game, they can discover cultural
    a scientific information, also having fun as they’re doing that. They do not
    necessarily have to know the history of Romania before they enter the museum,
    but they’re sure to discover and definitely store info in their long-term
    memory, without perceiving such info as sheer museum-related info, they will do
    that as they take part in the game and accomplish certain mission we have thought
    out, so that they can also get their information as if they have visited the
    musem.


    Cătălina
    Stanciu assured us the activity was perfectly suitable for families with
    children aged 7, but also for team building, anniversary parties, since the
    game was very versatile and could be appreciated by people of all age brackets.
    It’s a game offer we can’t refuse!

    (Translation by Eugen Nasta)