Although we advanced from our group at last year’s World Championship, the level of our fighters wasn’t good. After a year of training, enlistment of new fighters and getting experience we are now much better prepared than last year.

We have a bigger team and we shall participate in every category, except for the female triathlon. I hope we will be decent rivals to all our adversaries. For this year’s “Battle of the Nations” our team has 25 fighters. Our strength will be the “5 vs 5” battles. But we’re all looking forward to the royal category of “21 vs 21.”

As for our goals for “Battle of the Nations”-2014, we would like to advance at least as far as quarter finals in the “5 vs 5” category. It is a daring task but I believe our fighters, representing the Czech Republic, will do their best to make it happen.

Josiph Pohl,
captain of the National Team of Czech Republic