Editing History of Buce (section)

===2009 Winter Buce League===
Soon after the end of the 2009 Buce League, the [[2009 Winter Buce League]] was planned, and kicked off at the start of May 2009. Some changes were made after analysis of the 2009 Buce League. The field was changed to 4v4 players instead of 5v5 and the size of the O.B square was changed from 2.1m wide to 2.9m wide, to stop scuffles around the square area. It also prevented larger players from being able to defend by simply having their foot held over the bin.

Of the veteran teams that maintained a position on the table ([[The Avalanches]], [[The Hawks]], [[Team Blek]] and [[The Sonic Force Buce Club]]), newcomers included [[The Scourge]], [[The Toecutters]] and [[Novice Strike Force]]. Guy Bevan renamed [[SFBC]] to [[The Sunflowers]] and re-entered it. Theo Rogers, younger brother of [[Charlie Rogers]], entered a team of representative basketballers, as [[The Scourge]], while [[The Toecutters]] was a seniors team of +35 year olds. [[Novice Strike Force]] was comprised of inexperienced new players, with little history in other sports.

By the end of the season, The Avalanches, The Sunflowers, The Toecutters and The Scourge made it into the semi finals (in those respective positions on the table), with Blek, Hawks and Novice Strike Force falling out of the top by the end of the season. After the semi finals, the teams' positions on the table remained the same, with Avalanches winning the Major semi final 11-3, and then Toecutters beating The Scourge in Minor semi final 4-3, before losing to Sunflowers 8-4.

The Avalanches and The Sunflowers, as both Quad Team descendants, played off in the Grand Final, the former winning 6-3. Having won both 2009 competitions, Charlie Rogers announced the disbandment of The Avalanches that night at the [[2009 Winter Buce League Awards|2009 Winter Buce League Awards Ceremony]]. The Sunflowers' future remained in question, while The Scourge, Toecutters, Blek and Novice would continue into the next league. Scourge was growing so fast that like [[The Quad Team]] and [[The Front Team]], they announced a possible split in 2010, while The Hawks announced that captain [[Nick Allan]] would be moving to the Buce Asia Cup and leaving The Hawks in the hands of ex-captain Michael Read.

After the 2009W League the [[League Balance Strategy]] was concieved and implemented, leading to the formation of new, strong teams such as [[The Giants]], [[The Wu-Tang Clan]] and [[The Snowflowers]] for the [[2010 Buce League]].

2009 became the first fully functional media year for Buce, with media coverage of all official Buce matches, broadcast through Youtube. BuceTV became the official media body of Buce and hosted its own Buce related news broadcast, [[National Buce News]], which became immensely popular for spreading the sport among potential players.



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