Paarl Boishaai will miss out on “their” World Schools Festival in 2019
Paarl Boys’ High were fortunate enough to initiate and host the very first World Schools’ Festival at Brug Street this year. We will , however, miss out on next year’s event in Stellenbosch.
Our initial contract with the event organizers, Carinat, gave us the option to extend the hosting for another two years, but after lengthy discussions, it was decided rather to move the tournament around among schools, similar to the Craven Week.
Unfortunately, Boland Landbou School missed out on a place in next year’s tournament due to initial uncertainty and late changes. As a result, Paarl Boys’ High withdrew from the 2019 tournament to give Boland Landbou school a place as we felt they were the innocent victims of these very late changes.
Paarl Boys’ High will always be grateful for the opportunity to create and host the first tournament as part of our 150 year festivities. A huge thank you to Sean Erasmus who initiated the idea to create a world class tournament such as this. We would also like to thank all parties involved in making this initial tournament such a huge success.
We had the privilege to see 21000 spectators come through our Brug Street gates during the week of the tournament and thanks to a very successful media team, more than R12 million worth of media value was created across the world.
We would also like to thank Wimpie van der Sandt and his Bok Radio team for their huge contribution with the event and sponsorships, making it such a huge success.
We would like to wish Paul Roos the best of luck with next year’s event and would like to see the World Schools Festival become the best showcase of schoolboy rugby in the world.
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