Le Badminton Tournament was a success! Good job to everyone involved in the planning, set-up and execution of the tournament. Shout out to Peter's aunt for providing us with extra nets.
Without further delay, I would like to present you with the results from the championship.
Singles: 1st Place: Yehan Ranasinghe
2nd Place: Chern Lim
Finalists: Peter Thai and Devin Dobrowolski
Doubles: 1st Place: Yehan Ranasinghe and Chern Lim
This coming weekend is the Drexel Badminton Club's Fall term tournament and team tryouts. We will have 6 courts and feather shuttles to play with! As a reminder, all people who are interested in the Drexel Team must play tryout.Below is the lowdown for the events:
LE BADMINTON TOURNAMENT (check out the attached flyer!)
Date: Sunday October 4th Time: 12:00pm - 5:00 pm Location: South Gym of the DAC Type: Round Robin
- You will most likely play in 5 group brackets, so you will play at least 4 matches. - The totaled score out of 2 games (no set), will be recorded - The best teams from each bracket will advance to the final bracket - There will be a consolation bracket, but it may be abbreviated due to time constraints
Registration:
- To register, Email drexelbc@gmail.com. You will receive an email form to fill out - To play 1 event (either doubles or singles), the admission is $15 - To play 2 events (both doubles and singles), the admission is $25
Doubles:
- Teams can be mixed gender.
Prizes:
- ummm... not cash, but something much much better (of course)
TEAM TRYOUTS - You must play in the tournament - When you register, let us know you're trying out for the team - Your admission for the first eventis covered as long as you have joined Drexel Badminton Club - We will be watching you play and let you know :)
New York, New York, Big city of dreams; And everything in New York ain't always what it seems.
Who would've figured that Drexel Badminton would walk away from the NYC Badminton Club's annual tournament with 10 medals?
Here are two of them.
Held from March 27th - 29th, 2009 at John Bowne High School in Flushing, NY, this was their club's 13th annual tournament. To make things fun, half of the group travelled by car with Nisarg. The other half rode the Chinatown bus up to NYC, hopped on the subway, caught a bus, only to walk a fair amount to the actual gym. I also made the group walk about 3 miles to our hotel in Jamaica, NY, passing through a heavily Jewish neighborhood at roughly 1 in the morning. Good times.
Here are the Drexel Badminton team highlights:
Yehan Ranasinghe - Division A - Men's Singles - Bronze
Peter Thai & Zdravko Tyankov - Division B Consolations - Men's Doubles - Golds
Xiang Mao & Sara White - Division B Consolations - Women's Doubles - Golds
Vincent Kan & Artur Vieira - Division C Consolations - Men's Doubles - Golds
Chunyin Li & Sara White - Division C Consolations - Mixed Doubles - Golds
Artur Vieira - Division C Consolations - Mixed Doubles - Bronze
Some photos are here. The lighting was really orange and there wasn't a lot of space to shoot from.
Slide, slide, slippity slide; I do what I do just to survive…
In a bid to stay chronologically relevant, I am posting the details of our trip to the 2009 Badminton Collegiate Nationals a mere 17 days after it ended. That’s only a postponement of 1/26th of a year, or so. That’s such a small fraction, I may well have just stepped off the plane yesterday!
An annual gathering of the nation’s most dedicated badminton players who happen to be undergraduate college students, this year’s tournament was hosted by Irvine Valley College in Irvine, CA from March 20th to 22nd, 2009. Yeah, we went to California to play badminton. Jealous? You should be.
We have risen.
Our journey has us trapped in those giant Pringles cans with wings for about 3 hours at a time. Departing from Philadelphia International Airport (PHL), we have a short layover in Houston, Texas at George Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH). Well, it was scheduled to last about an hour, but extended to easily double that when our initial plane was found to have been malfunctioning mechanically. How naughty. Appropriately agitated and seated on a new plane, we finally take off for John Wayne Airport (SNA) in Orange County, California.
It’s pretty empty ‘cause it’s pretty late.
With not much time to practice on a Friday night, we grab our rental cars, check into our hotel rooms, and head out to gorge ourselves on Chinese buffet. We would easily burn off those calories the next day when most of the action would take place at Irvine Valley College’s gym. This is what we came here for. Not for the beautiful weather, flash cars, or sandy beaches, though there was plenty of that. No, we were here for domestic-class collegiate badminton.
Saturday arrives and we find ourselves on the courts awaiting our competition. I’m not sure how to write about our badminton matches except that West Coast players are formidable and relentless. Yehan played his Men’s Singles semifinals and finals matches on Sunday with his Drexel crew intensely cheering him on. And our support clearly worked. Yehan Ranasinghe became the 2009 Badminton Collegiate Nationals Men's Singles Champion. Drexel University placed 5th as a team.
Great sportsmanship from both players.
With the hard work over, we had some time to relax and enjoy ourselves at In-N-Out, the beach, Vietnamese restaurants and yogurt bars. Suffice to say, we partied with reckless abandon. (Hey, I don’t know who’s reading this thing.) We thoroughly enjoyed ourselves on the left coast and returned Monday evening to Philadelphia.
We got some pixels dedicated to the Drexel Badminton team in the latest Drexel Club Sports weekly newsletter thanks to our phenomenal performance at recent tournaments.
Click to embiggen.
A pat on the back for us. 'Cause we're egotistical like that.
A little behind on my posts, but, as always, it’s worth the wait.
Who am I kidding…
Your Drexel Badminton team traveled to Reading, PA on Saturday, March 7th, 2009 for the 2009 PA State Open.It’s hosted by John Lim of AlbrightCollege, brother of our club’s academic advisor, Dr. Teck-Kah Lim.
This year, Drexel made a definitive statement by taking home the Collegiate Team trophy.With a 23-point margin over 2nd place SwarthmoreCollege, Drexel was declared the 2009 PA State Open’s Collegiate Team Champion.
Here are some Drexel team highlights:
Yehan Ranasinghe – Division A – Men’s Singles – Runner-up
Chern-Hooi Lim & Yehan Ranasinghe – Division A – Men’s Doubles – Champions
Anna Luong & An Nguyen – Division A – Women’s Doubles – Runners-up
Chern-Hooi Lim – Division B – Men’s Singles – Champion
Zdravko Tyankov – Division C – Mixed Doubles – Runner-up
Vincent Kan – Division C – Men’s Singles – Runner-up
Photos are uploaded here for your gleeful viewing pleasure.
We will be back next year to defend our title and we look forward to tougher competition next year from our fellow Pennsylvanian colleges and universities.
What? Another one-post week? You ought to cut this guy's salary. That is, if he got paid for doing this. But no, he doesn't.
We were at Bryn Mawr College for Mid-Atlantic Classic 2009 from February 13th-15th, 2009. Somehow, we always seem to find our way back to the Main Line time and time again. Tournament results are here.
Drexel Badminton highlights:
Zdravko Tyankov - Men's Singles - B Level Quarterfinalist
Peter Thai - Men's Singles - B Level Quarterfinalist
Chern-Hooi Lim and Yehan Ranasinghe - Men's Doubles - A Level Quarterfinalists
Chunyin Li and Henrik Lam - Men's Doubles - B Level Quarterfinalists
Zdravko Tyankov and Peter Thai - Men's Doubles - B Level Consolation Quarterfinalists
Anna Luong and An Nguyen - Women's Doubles - A Level Consolation Quarterfinalists
Ta Lin - Mixed Doubles - B Level Consolation Quarterfinalist
Peter Thai and Xiang Mao - Mixed Doubles - B Level Consolation Semifinalists
The Drexel Badminton Team was at the University of Maryland once again for DC Open 2009 from January 9-11, 2009. The tournament ran like a well-oiled machine and competition was enjoyably intense.
We stayed at the Clarion Inn where bed bugs were kept to a minimum this time around. 70 bones a night for a double room with free breakfast but the free WiFi was inexplicably down.
The tournament results are here. Drexel Badminton highlights:
Chern-Hooi Lim - Men's Singles - B Level Semifinalist
Xiang Mao - Women's Singles - A Level Quarterfinalist
Anna Luong - Women's Singles - B Level Semifinalist
An Nguyen - Women's Singles - B Level Finalist
Peter Thai & Zdravko Tyankov - Men's Doubles - B Level Quarterfinalists
Henrik Lam & Chern-Hooi Lim - Men's Doubles - B Level Quarterfinalists
Anna Luong & An Nguyen - Women's Doubles - B Level Semifinalists
Xiang Mao - Women's Doubles - B Level Finalists
Chern-Hooi Lim & An Nguyen - Mixed Doubles - B Level Quarterfinalists
Peter Thai - Men's Singles - C Level Quarterfinalist
Vincent Kan - Men's Singles - D Level Semifinalist
Sara White - Women's Singles - D Level Quarterfinalist
Vincent Kan & Chunyin Li - Men's Doubles - D Level Quarterfinalists
Linh Thanh Bui & Artur Vieira - Men's Doubles - D Level Quarterfinalists
Sara White - Women's Doubles - D Level Semifinalists
Congratulations to our noted Drexel players and to all participants as well. Peter Teuben, tournament coordinator, has his photos here. My photos, centered mainly around Drexel, of course, are here.
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