The Shuttlers…

The day was really long. We started at 9am with round robin game against 4 other teams. When we were drawn to Group B, we were actually quite relieved as there’s only another strong team to play against. Group A is Group of death. Yes..in fact it was a tough fight there.

We started our game well, scoring maximum points for 1st & 2nd game. Confidence begin to build on our side. Then 3rd game, we lost mixed double by a close margin (due to lots of mistakes…sigh). We won the 4th game, though we lost mixed double again (playing against state player…sure die lah).

Unexpected, we emerged 1st in Group B. So our opponent will be winner of Group A, Red Devils. Oh by the way, our team name is The Shuttlers.

Semi Finals started at 3pm.

• Red Devil vs The Shuttlers
• B8 United vs Captain Holbrook

Red Devil is a very strong team, whereby one of their men’s double was our office SRC Semi-finalist. Our team considered as underdog, though we have pretty good players. But we played strategy since it’s points system. Team that collects most points goes to Final.

And we won our Semi Final against Red Devil and proceed to Finals.

B8 United was no doubt the winning team. On papers, it’s already mentioned they are favourites. Hence they beat Captain Holbrook in Semis and meet our team in the Finals.

We started playing finals at 4pm. Won 1st game (men’s double). Hopes were high. We know we’d loose in Mixed Doubles as the opponent is pretty strong, hence we were there to collect maximum points for the team. We manage to close the gap up to 11 points, with the last pair our hope. They have to play 2 matches, so if they beat the opponent under 15 in each match, we will be the winner!! Whoa…..so excited and so nervous.

It was very tense…everyone watching. We can see both sides players so tense up. They kept making mistakes.

1st match, we won by 21-18. Meaning 2nd match, we have to beat them below 12 to win the match. If not it will be a draw :|. But 2nd game, our team lost the steam…and when opponent start to gain points and confident, we started dropping points.

The made a comeback after dropping some points, but it was already too late. Hence…the champions go to B8 United (my team’s opponent).

Well, to have gone that far to finals, was already something unexpected. I’m happy lah that I got 2nd prize. No monetary prizes haha…But a nice glass Trophy for everyone of us in the team.

We shall be back next year…hopefully…as a stronger side.

End of report for the badminton tournament :). 7 matches in a day, by the time it finished, I was so darn tired. My legs were aching, so does my back. I only took some shots here n there since I was playing. Gotta wait for photos from our official photographer to see what he has got.