XILINHOT, China, May 21 (Xinhua) -- Chinese women's basketball team rolled to a 9-0 record in their preparation for Olympic Qualifying Tournament (OQT) with a 75-50 victory over Montenegro in 2016 Four-Nation Women's Basketball Tournament here on Saturday.
In their final warmup in homeland ahead of OQT, China dominated the game throughout, fueled by four players' double-digit points. Sun Mengran finished with a team-high 14 points. Veteran center Chen Nan added 13.
"We played with good energy today, better than yesterday. We had some nice plays," said China's head coach Thomas Maher.
China opened their scoring account from the paint, where Sun Mengran and Chen Nan, two starting post players, combined for the team's first 12 points. The hosts continued to execute the tactics of attacking from the paint after bench players went on, and built a 20-10 lead as the first quarter ran out.
Chinese players didn't find hot shooting hands as they just nailed 10 points in the second quarter, while restricting their opponents to four points on successful defense. Sun Mengxin's 3-pointer to beat the halftime buzzer gave the hosts a 30-14 lead at the break. China outrebounded at 24-12 in the first half.
"We started the second quarter trying to destroy them, while making many turnovers that hurt us," said Maher.
China heated up in the second half, recording a 29-13 third quarter, capped by Wu Di's layup. Owning a 32-point advantage in hand to begin the fourth quarter, China sealed their ninth straight win ahead of OQT.
Kristina Rakovic scored a game-high 15 points for Montenegro.
"We are a young team. Our players showed their aggresiveness in this match. We did well in defense, while underperforming on the offensive end," commented Momir Milatovic, Montenegro's head coach.
China is scheduled to head to France early in June for the final phase of preparation for OQT, which will be held from June 13-19 in Nantes. China is placed in Group D with Spain and Venezuela in the tournament.
"We are good enough to win the (Olympic) ticket if we play to our best. If we get distracted, it will a different thing, who knows," added Maher.
SHANGHAI cheap nike air max trainers china irealnd , Aug. 23 (Xinhua) -- A few weeks ago, Yuan Chaojun quithis well-paid job with a trade company in Shanghai and startedteaching people how to "escape from rooms."
Room escape is a real-life adventure game, during which"imprisoned" players are required to escape from "dungeons,""prisons" and mysterious cells by solving puzzles and connectingclues within a fixed period of time.
The venue where Yuan works is in downtown Shanghai, and his jobis to explain the plot of the game to players before the gamebegins wholesale nike trainers china irealnd , warn them of possible dangers and help the gamers if theyfind it difficult to "escape." After the game, he is alsoresponsible for putting all the equipment back where itbelongs.
"Room escape is very exciting because it allows people to playdifferent roles and experience another life for a short time," saidYuan, 29. "Although time is limited, it is very good way to releasestress from work and school."
Room escape reportedly originated in Silicon Valley in 2006 andis said to have been inspired by the novels of Agatha Christie.Mixed with excitement wholesale nike air max trainers irealnd , challenges and fear of the unknown, the gamehas become quite popular in China.
In Shanghai alone, more than 200 locations offer theseadventures. Across the country thousands of such escape rooms withvarious themes have sprung up.
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Room escape attracts people from all walks of life. Yang Shuyuis among them.
Yang previously worked for an online gaming company, but, alongwith with his wife wholesale nike air max irealnd , he switched to creating room escape games at"Magic Cube" in 2013.
"The industry is essentially about gaming, which I love, but itis utterly different from online games," Yang said.
Only four years later, his Magic Cube has shot to fame inShanghai nike shoes wholesale irealnd , and now Yang operates five Magic Cubes in Shanghai,Hangzhou and Nanjing, plus three franchises, including one inLondon. Each venue has a different theme, and two of them wonawards this year for originality.
"Tired, stressed-out Chinese urbanites, particularly youngpeople, want to meet friends, chat and find some interestingactivities nike air max mens wholesale irealnd ," Yang said. "That's why room escape has become a newway of partying, following karaoke, video and board games," hesaid.
Room escape often requires group thinking, making it a goodalternative for some companies' team-building activities.
Ye Kai works for a film production company. He and colleaguesrecently took on a room escape theme called "Assassin nike air max womens wholesale irealnd ," and onlymade it out "with the help of everyone."
"The game gave me a strong sense of involvement and teamwork,"Ye said. "I will definitely come back and try other themes."
But the escape games are not without their critics as theyexpand, even into residential districts.
According to Shanghai's "Labor Daily," a venue opened in abasement in a residential area in Shanghai's Jing'an Districtrecently, attracting a big number of devoted fans to the area. Asthe door is constantly open nike air max cheap wholesale irealnd , it irritated some local residents.
"How can our safety be guaranteed if they allow these randomstrangers into our community freely?" said one concernedresident.
The game developer apologized for the inconvenience after thenewspaper broke the story last week.
"We are thinking about employing security guards at the entranceto check on our customers," said the developer. "We want people tohave fun. It was never our intention to disturb the neighborhood."