2010 Victoria Cup
The 2010 Victoria Cup took place during June and July 2010, and was the inaugural Victoria Cup (rugby union), Victoria Cup with the national teams from Zimbabwe, Kenya and Uganda competing in a round robin tournament, with both home and away fixtures. Kenya was declared the winner after winning all 4 of its matches. Schedule Click on the date in the first column to see more details on that match. 2010 Final Table of Standings 2010 points scorers Match 1: Kenya v Zimbabwe The Kenya head coach Michael "''Tank''" Otieno is an ex-Kenyan international who had played against Zimbabwe four times in his career and lost each time (1981, 1985, 1987 and 1989). The captain, Innocent Simiyu, had previously played Zimbabwe twice and won each time (2002 and 2003). Though the last match between the two sides was won by Zimbabwe these results describe the changing relative strengths of the two sides over the past 30 years, Kenya are stronger than they were though in truth the great ...
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Round-robin Tournament
A round-robin tournament (or all-go-away-tournament) is a competition Competition is a rivalry where two or more parties strive for a common goal which cannot be shared: where one's gain is the other's loss (an example of which is a zero-sum game). Competition can arise between entities such as organisms, indiv ... in which each contestant meets every other participant, usually in turn.''Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged'' (1971, G. & C. Merriam Co), p.1980. A round-robin contrasts with an elimination tournament, in which participants/teams are eliminated after a certain number of losses. Terminology The term ''round-robin'' is derived from the French term ''ruban'', meaning "ribbon". Over a long period of time, the term was Folk etymology, corrupted and idiomized to ''robin''. In a ''single round-robin'' schedule, each participant plays every other participant once. If each participant plays all others twice, this is freque ...
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Harare
Harare (; formerly Salisbury ) is the capital and most populous city of Zimbabwe. The city proper has an area of 940 km2 (371 mi2) and a population of 2.12 million in the 2012 census and an estimated 3.12 million in its metropolitan area in 2019. Situated in north-eastern Zimbabwe in the country's Mashonaland region, Harare is a metropolitan province, which also incorporates the municipalities of Chitungwiza and Epworth. The city sits on a plateau at an elevation of above sea level and its climate falls into the subtropical highland category. The city was founded in 1890 by the Pioneer Column, a small military force of the British South Africa Company, and named Fort Salisbury after the UK Prime Minister Lord Salisbury. Company administrators demarcated the city and ran it until Southern Rhodesia achieved responsible government in 1923. Salisbury was thereafter the seat of the Southern Rhodesian (later Rhodesian) government and, between 1953 and 1963, th ...
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Mongers RFC
Monger may refer to: Traders * Peddler, a travelling vendor of goods * a merchant dealer, such as: ** Costermonger, a street seller of fruit and vegetables; in Britain also general (synonym) peddler ** Cheesemonger, a specialist seller of cheeses ** Fishmonger, a wholesaler or retailer of raw fish and seafood ** Ironmonger, a supplier of iron goods, or in the modern sense a hardware store Other uses * Monger (surname) * Lake Monger, a large urban wetland in Perth, Western Australia * Monger Lake, a watershed of the Ha! Ha! River in Quebec * Mongers Lake, a lakes in Western Australia See also * Fearmongering, spreading of frightening rumours to purposely arouse fear * Warmonger (other) A warmonger is someone who instigates war, or advocates war over peaceful solutions. Warmonger may also refer to: * ''Warmonger'' (novel), a 2002 novel based on the ''Doctor Who'' television series * '' Warmonger: Operation Downtown Destruction' ...

Pirates RFC
Piracy is an act of robbery or criminal violence by ship or boat-borne attackers upon another ship or a coastal area, typically with the goal of stealing cargo and other valuable goods. Those who conduct acts of piracy are called pirates, vessels used for piracy are pirate ships. The earliest documented instances of piracy were in the 14th century BC, when the Sea Peoples, a group of ocean raiders, attacked the ships of the Aegean and Mediterranean civilisations. Narrow channels which funnel shipping into predictable routes have long created opportunities for piracy, as well as for privateering and commerce raiding. Historic examples include the waters of Gibraltar, the Strait of Malacca, Madagascar, the Gulf of Aden, and the English Channel, whose geographic structures facilitated pirate attacks. The term ''piracy'' generally refers to maritime piracy, although the term has been generalized to refer to acts committed on land, in the air, on computer networks, and (in sc ...
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