Rugby World Cup 2011 Roadshow kicks off in New Zealand
The Rugby World Cup 2011 (RWC) Roadshow is starting its journey on July 4 from the city of Bluff. The Roadshow is a promotional RWC 2011 tour which will visit 27 towns and cities of New Zealand, providing its many fans a taste of the Tournament and a chance
to view the Webb Ellis Cup.
The tournament preparations are well on their way to completion as confirmed by Bill Beaumont, the International Rugby Board (IRB) Vice Chairman on July 1. He stated, “Preparations are well on track. Tomorrow, I will visit the magnificent fully enclosed
Otago Stadium which will be handed over to Tournament Organisers in August as planned.”
The Roadshow is moving from Bluff across New Zealand and finally finishing off in Auckland on July 31. The RWC 2011 Roadshow will be traveling in a 72-square-metre long truck, designed specifically to cater to the promotion of the RWC Tournament, exhibiting
the Rugby World Cup history through a series of videos.
Accompanying and covering the Roadshow will be the television personality, Tamati Coffey, a weather reporter of Television New Zealand (TVNZ) fame. He will be following the Roadshow along with the TVNZ’s Breakfast Show, and will present the RWC 2011 Roadshow
live to its audience.
This Breakfast Show has revealed recently that one fan will be engaged to appear as a sous chef on air with Coffey, and prepare a live breakfast, when the RWC 2011 Roadshow hits the town of Blenheim. This is one of the scheduled 20 stops by the Show and
its host Coffey.
The contest will also engage its live audience with several festivities, which includes different prize categories such as the best-dressed category, the food tasting category and many more. They will also get the opportunity to have their pictures taken
with the Webb Ellis Cup, residing in the truck.
The cooking segment of the Show will be organised by Wine Marlborough Ltd., airing live from the Marlborough Convention Centre on Tuesday, July 12, in Blenheim Wine Marlborough Ltd. has decided to provide the live audience with laptops so that they can further
spread the word about the competition.
The winner of the competition will earn the opportunity to work with Hotel d'Urville chefs Luciano Zuchetto and Pravin Singh, in preparing a meal of Cloudy Bay clams and Marlborough smoked salmon. Also, the winner will bag about $600 worth of gifts.
With the Rugby World Cup 2011 inching closer, the excitement is reaching a fever pitch. Rugby fans have ample opportunity to experience the RWC 2011 festivities through the Roadshow during the month of July even before the tournament starts. Hope fully this
will wet their appetite for some real rugby action during the RWC.
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