MIT managed to successfully take home first in both the Men’s and the Mixed tournament. And in doing so, extended our winning streak to four years in a row (since 2006)! Great job guys!

Some more photos from the event (and previous year’s tournament) can be found here: CNASA Photos

The CNASA badminton tournament is taking place this coming Sunday (Nov 1), so we will not be having our normal team practice. We do have a few teams competing, so please feel free to come by and cheer us on.

Dates: Sunday November 1, 9:00am – 7:00pm

Venue: Rockwell Cage, M.I.T., Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA 02139

Alright team, we’re going to mix it up a little up this week.  We don’t have the courts reserved, but we are going to have practice anyway because the courts are supposed to be open for badminton open play use.  We only have the courts from 9AM until 12PM, so PLEASE be on time/early.

We are also introducing a new structure to practice: splitting up the practice by skill level.  Here’s the schedule:

8:30 to 9:00 – Advanced players get to courts, warm up.
9:00 to 10:00 – Advanced players train
10:00 to 10:30 – Beginner Players get to courts, warm up.
10:30 to 11:30 – Beginner Players train; Advanced players play games
11:30-12:00 – Everyone plays games

A separate email with who we recommend for each category will be sent to the team.

Of course, beginner players are welcome to come early and play games or warm up if there is room.

See you Sunday!

First Round Results:

U. Montreal beats New York: 7-4

DC beats Northeast Juniors: 10-1

Boston Metro beats Cornell: 11-0

Maugus beats MIT: 10-1

Round 2

DC beats Cornell 11-0

Maugus beats U. Montreal 6-5

MIT beats New York 6-5 (YEAHH!!!!)

Boston Metro beats Northeast Juniors 8-3

Round 3

Montreal beats MIT 7-4

Northeast Juniors beats Cornell 6-5

Boston Metro beats DC 6-5

Maugus beats New York 9-2

Semifinals

Boston Metro beats Maugus 7-4

MIT beats Cornell 7-4 (YAYY)

DC beats U.Montreal 6-5

Northeast Juniors beats New York 8-3

Finals

(1st) DC beats (2nd) Boston Metro 7-4

(3rd) Maugus beats (4th) U. Montreal

(5th) Northeast Juniors beats (6th) MIT 6-5 (so close!!!)

(7th) New York beats (8th) Cornell 7-4

The team, after our match with Cornell

The MIT Team Tournament will take place this Saturday and Sunday in Rockwell Cage.  That means that there will be no regular practice, but all team members are encouraged to come watch!!

Dates: Saturday October 3rd 8.30 am – 9.00 pm | Sunday October 4th 9.00 am – 5.00 pm

Venue: Rockwell Cage, M.I.T., Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA 02139

Participants:

TEAM-TEAM CAPTAIN

Boston Metro – Neil Davies
Cornell University – Mike Hsu
D.C. – Amy Nguy
Maugus – Andy Choong
M. I. T. – Heymian Wong (WOOOH!!!)
University of Montreal – Jean-Robert Quevillon
New York – Chibing Wu
Northeast Juniors – Kirill Boyarin and Bob Malaythong

Continue reading Team Tournament: October 3rd-4th

All court times are open to the community until next Sunday, when practice will be from 10:30-12:00AM.  Thanks to everyone who made it out for our first practice on Sunday.

If you attended the activities midway and entered your name and email on the laptop we had set up, we may have lost it when the battery died. Please get in touch with us so we can get you up to date about our upcoming first practice.

The calendar has been updated with the available court times for the fall 2009 semester.

The first practice for the intercollegiate league will be from 10AM-12PM on September 13th, 2009 in Rockwell Cage South Courts.  Practice will be led by coach Marc Lai.  Practice is open to all MIT students (exchange students too).  Please contact us if you’d like to join the team and receive team emails.

We’ve made most of the court reservations for the fall semester, but they aren’t up on the schedule page yet.  We’ll post them shortly.  Sunday, September 6th will be open play for the community, not intercollegiate league practice.

The Bay States Games badminton tournament will take place Saturday-Sunday, 7/11 and 7/12. You can register (the deadline is MONDAY 6/29/09) by following
the link:

http://www.baystategames.org/html/bsgwww/summergames/sports/badminton.html

This year the entries are divided into different levels according to skills:

A – Advance players
B – Intermediate players
C – Recreational players (players with little to no tournament experience)

There are also separate categories for juniors, masters, and seniors.