Tournament Director Katherine Ip wrote a letter to sum up the fabulous BCD+A tournament that took place two weekends ago. Big thanks to her and all the volunteers that made it happen! Hope to see all of you (and more!) in 2011!
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I don't know when we started to have BCD tournament in the Seattle area. For sure, this is the first BCD+A tournament I experienced. To commemorate the inauguration of Seattle Badminton Club (SBC), WSBA not only postponed this tournament to December (usually this happens in November), but also decided to add an "A" or "Open" category to this year's BCD tournament. This is how we come up with BCD+A. It was an exciting weekend for 124 players and many, many spectators.
With 8 courts available for the tournament (SBC reserved 2 courts for their members), things really run fast and smooth. Especially on Friday, we only needed 3 hours to finish all the Mixed Doubles (except Finals). On Saturday, we are done with all the matches (except Finals) at 6pm, which is a record compared to the tournaments in the last few years. On Sunday, there were some challenges with traffic due to flooding. A lot of players were late due to the "Road Closure", we were all done at 2pm.
Apart from our usual Seattle supporters, we have lots of out of town guests this year. Barbara and Henry from Westbank, Lindy, Siu-Imm, Leslie and Johnny from VRC, Wendy and Dave from Kootenay, Eric and Kris from ShuttleFreaks Spokane, Chungfung and Shuichi from CWU, Robert and Adrian from Portland, Leslie, Calvin, Tomohiro, Huy, Noel and Phu from PSU. Hello, Welcome to Seattle!
With the A or Open events separate from the BCD events, all the A players are challenged from the very first game. There are no more easy first round matches. At the same time, BCD players had lots of fun playing tight matches with players of the same level. Hmm, this seems to work out pretty well. I will think about using the same format next year.
There are lots of good comments about our T-Shirt design this year. Natalie told me it is a Chinese "Yin Yang" idea added to two of the most sacred animals in ancient China – tiger and phoenix, chasing shuttlecocks. Great job, Natalie! We have around 20 T-shirts left if you want to purchase them for $10 each. Please contact me at katherine.sm.ip@gmail.com or katherine@seattlebadminton.com.
As for the tournament results, Curtis Stensland and Victoria Chen are no surprise to all of us for taking the Mens and Womens Singles A Champions. Vicky, turned 13 in May, is fearless. At this rate of improvement, she may one day be representing US in one of the Olympic Games. No pressure, Vicky. Open Mixed Doubles was won by Curtis and Amy, defeating Leslie and Siu-Imm in three games. For some reason, Siu-Imm just couldn't get her "net" magic to work today. Hmm, must be distracted by her shopping on Saturday, hehe…. Open Women's Doubles is the battle between experience and youth. This was happening for the last few tournaments now. Hurray, experienced Wendy and Anette won Jenny and Vicky again this time by losing the first game and winning the next two. In this year's Open Mens Doubles finals, we have a new pairing of Kevin and Paco vs usual pairing of Long and Neat. One game each and then third game, led by Kevin and Paco 20-19, 20-20, 21-20, 21-21, 22-21, 22-22, 23-22, 23-23, 23-24, 23-25. Game! Long and Neat won. Thanks Patrick for umpiring and making a decisive "let" call.
Thanks to all of you for coming to the tournament and the unveil of Seattle Badminton Club. Many thanks to Seattle Badminton Club's management and staff and all the volunteers including Clinton Chen, Melissa Tang, Solomon So, Joyce Chung, Joe Leung, Tina Jiang, Nino Gonzales, Raquel Gonzales, Jason Lin, Fred Yu, Ying-Fang Lai, Toru Takayanagi, Patrick Ip…….. Oh, of course to Jasmine Lau for her beautiful voice as announcerJ See you again on February 25-27, 2011 at SBC for Washington Closed Badminton Tournament.
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Any ideas for future Tshirts? Share some ideas by posting comments, or send me an email at onattyso@gmail.com
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Both PSU (Portland State University) and tournament directors for the state of Oregon are having tournaments for the start of the new year!
Copied from NorthwestBadminton.org
"Winter Oregon Open 2011
Date: January 28/29, 2011
7275 NW Evergreen Parkway, Hillsboro OR 97124.
Li Ning sponsored Winter Oregon Open. Events: Open/Jr1/JR2. More than $2,000 worth of Li Ning equipment to be given away! If you are a Badminton player, you can not miss this new years tournament. Li Ning discount booth available to all.
www.portlandbadmintonclub.com"
Winter 2011 PSU Open Badminton Tournament
Date: January 14-15, 2011
Location: Academic & Student Rec Center at Portland State University
1800 SW 6th Ave. Portland, OR 97201.
Entry form at: https://orgsync.com/forms/show/25927
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Both tournaments sound like great opportunities for roadtrips...anyone up for it?
the last Husky Open had some students from Eugene, OR visit...so hopefully some of us can do the same for them! PSU has plenty of great players, and it's about time for us to help them build an even greater badminton community. Sign up soon!
slacking on your post...
ReplyDelete._. you were the only one who noticed...
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