Hihi, Twilight crews, I saw you guys did a very great job in Alive : The Final Evolution manga.
(Btw, if you guys are wondering where's the volume 18, well, its just released in mid-June and still ongoing, so this volume will take months to release. And I heard this year will complete the whole series.
http://www.murasakien.com/2009/06/18_1.html)

(Anyway, back to the topic) So I, as a new member, hereby need a request from you guys. I hope you guys love this series.

The series is called Smash! manga. Its a badminton manga and its one of my favorites.

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*UPDATE* Sry, I forgot to put in the MangaUpdates link. Here.... http://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=5083 As you can see, the average score is 8.5/10 with 50 votes. So, this will give you an insight on how good this manga is~~~

Anyway, since I'm sucks at both scanlation and translation, so I'll just give you the raws. Here is the link.
http://mangahelpers.com/search?q=smash

And here are the details of the progress....
Latest chapter : 30 (Volume 4, picture no. 38 (From Raw Version)) since Dec 2008
Latest raw chapter : 113 (Volume 8? )
Latest volume (In Japan) : 14 (Ongoing)

So you must be wondering, why not let the other fansub groups who are working on this series do the job? Here's the story....
Once, there are two fansubs groups collaborating with this project, Bado-Scans and Chibisuke. As for the Bado-Scan, the group was almost closed due to personal reason.

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http://pezyuan.net/badoscans/?p=33 My real life has been taking its toll… Unfortunately, I’m not sure if I’ll have any time in the foreseeable future to do scanlation work. I’m looking for a replacement. We have a few chapters translated and are looking for scanlators and a coordinator. I can provide hosting for any group willing to pick smash up. Once again, I’m sorry. I started this project because nobody else would, and am very sad that nobody will continue on with this wonderful manga. (I was very much appreciate this group cos this group has done a good job in his work. )

And for Chibisuke, they are voting whether they wanna drop this project or not this May. And the result is 13 votes, 8 wanna drop and 5 wanna continue. (I was too late to vote cos I've just registered in that forum this month. )
http://chibisuke.darkbb.com/general-talk-f2/to-drop-smash-or-to-continue-on-it-poll-t409.htm

Then few days ago, I made a post in that forum, just to bring the series back. And here's the shocking truth behind the vote poll story. Here's the details.

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http://chibisuke.darkbb.com/general-talk-f2/i-want-smash-to-be-back-t523.htm Dark-san : Haha ______, For certain, please refer to this topic. http://chibisuke.darkbb.com/general-talk-f2/to-drop-smash-or-to-continue-on-it-poll-t409.htm Unless we get better raws and more staff to work on it. I won't even bother of picking it up. Me : Yes, I went there before, but I can neither vote nor reply there cause the mods lock it so I made a post here. Anyway, hope that you could find some recruitment for this work. And btw, screw the people who said no to Smash! cause they don't really appreciate what this manga is really all about...... . : Haha, you just told probably half the staff to screw off, so I dunno if we'll really pick up the project... And, as Dark-san said, we don't have the resources to do this work. Go recruit some of your fellow fans or something; I'll bet you can find a few good QCers and editors in the mix. Me : So you mean that some of the staffs are the one that said 'no'? How ridiculous.....I mean, how come you guys who started off this project for the past few months, and then suddenly said 'no'? Kaze : there were only 1-4 staff members who were interested when this project was picked up. The rest had little enthusiasm for it. (That time, I was pissed and found no hope from this group. )

So I hope you can understand this situation and hope that you guys will accept my request. Thanks a lot.

Hmm......I'm not into sport manga's but it's not for me to decide, If you can find a TL willing to do it, I sure we can get the project going

We don't have a spare TL for it, at least not until another project is cleared up

Kuro has other projects and only helps us on Alive, if you really want him to translate then try PM'ing him.

He's going on leave for a few weeks

Well it seems chapter 31 is out, and I love Smash! too...