{"id":2825,"date":"2010-07-09T10:59:31","date_gmt":"2010-07-09T14:59:31","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-07-09T11:00:26","modified_gmt":"2010-07-09T11:00:26","slug":"england-claims-victory-in-inaugural-rock-town-hall-world-cup-of-rock-n-roll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/england-claims-victory-in-inaugural-rock-town-hall-world-cup-of-rock-n-roll\/","title":{"rendered":"England Claims Victory in Inaugural Rock Town Hall World Cup of Rock &#8216;n Roll"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"image_block\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/rthworldcup2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/rthworldcup2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"349\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>It may have been inevitable that the heavily favored <strong>Team England<\/strong> won the inaugural <strong>Rock Town Hall World Cup of Rock &#8216;n Roll<\/strong> over <strong>Team Jamaica<\/strong> &#8211; and there is less joy in Mudville than English fans had hoped &#8211; but congrats to England for its victory.<\/p>\n<p>Congrats are also due to Jamaica and coach bostonhistorian for a masterful tournament run. It was interesting, throughout the tournament, to follow the exploits of &#8220;tournament-built&#8221; underdog teams like Jamaica and Sweden and contrast their approaches with some of the struggling deep-catalog nations, like USA and Canada. I think a lot will be learned as coaches look ahead to the 2014 RTH World Cup of Rock &#8216;n Roll, which will only allow currently active artists to enter play.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks again to all who played along, as coaches, commentators, and whatnot. At this point I invite you to add your post-tournament analysis to the record!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It may have been inevitable that the heavily favored Team England won the inaugural Rock Town Hall World Cup of Rock &#8216;n Roll over Team Jamaica &#8211; and there is less joy in Mudville than English fans had hoped &#8211; but congrats to England for its victory. Congrats are also due to Jamaica and coach <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/england-claims-victory-in-inaugural-rock-town-hall-world-cup-of-rock-n-roll\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[125,263],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2825"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}