More than 120 teams battled it out in a snowball fight tournament in a mountainous Japanese city in what the local weather bureau called the coldest air this winter to sweep the country's northern snow belt.
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Frosty face-off: Over 120 teams throw down in epic Japanese snowball tournament
Teams of five players competed in two-minute matches between two teams on a field the size of a tennis court, with points awarded for direct hits with a snowball.
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