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Toshiba Brave Lupus Tokyo is a Japanese rugby union team in the Japan Rugby League One.They are based in Fuchu, Tokyo, as is their local rival Suntory Sungoliath.They won the second ever Top League championship in the 2004-5 season and the Microsoft Cup in 2005 under their innovative and inventive coach Masahiro Kunda, himself a former hooker for Toshiba and Japan.
10: 243: 495-252: 4: 2: 10 • The top 8 teams qualified to the Microsoft Cup play-offs. • The top 4 teams also qualified to for entry into the All-Japan Rugby Football Championship. • Teams 9 and 10 went through to the promotion and relegation play-offs against regional challengers. • Teams 11 and 12 were automatically relegated. [1]
The top four teams in the league were Toshiba, Suntory, Yamaha, and Toyota. They played in the Microsoft Cup (2007) knock-out tournament to fight it out for the Top league title, which was officially integrated into the league from this season as the "Top League Play-off Tournament Microsoft Cup".
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The 2003–04 Top League was the first season of Japan's domestic rugby union competition, the Top League. Toshiba Brave Lupus won the league by finishing on top of the round-robin competition.
Robbie Deans will coach serial winners Saitama Wild Knights while Todd Blackadder will guide Brave Lupus Tokyo in the JRLO final in front of an expected crowd of more than 50,000 at the National ...
^α Toshiba Brave Lupus won the Top League and Microsoft Cup double. [ 13 ] ^β The number of tries and goals being equal, the result was decided in favour of Yamaha over Toyota by a lottery at Hanazono after the game.
The Toshiba Brave Lupus defeated Sanyo Wild Knights by 17–6 in the final of the Microsoft Cup to claim the 2008–09 Top League championship. The Top League is a semi-professional competition which is at the top of the national league system in Japan, with promotion and relegation between the next level down.