My badminton tourny/RI camp
Theres good news and bad news.
Good news: I got into the quarter-finals (2nd round) of the badminton mini-tournament today! Yay! But actually it was more of luck than skill :p My friends who were more pro then me actually got eliminated in the 1st round.
So heres the format of gameplay: All competitive games will be singles. The semi-final and final game will be 3 sets, while the others will be a set each. First Round: Participants will be divided into 4 groups A - D, and each group will have a court to play amongst each of the others before the best 2 of their group are determined. The first to get seven points wins a match. Quarter-finals: The best 2 from each group will be grouped into 2 further groups X and Y, with each group having 2 1st-place and 2 2nd-place group representatives. Another round-robin will take place to determine the top 2 from these two groups to qualify for the semi-finals. There will be 2 sets of 11 points each(if there is a tie, there will be a 3rd match played). Semi-finals: Group X winner will play Group Y runner-up, Group X runner-up will play Group Y winner. Finals/3rd place: Semi-finals winners/Semi-finals losers (of cos)
How i was so tyco (lucky): My grp, D, had only 3 nubs-one from sec. 2, one from sec.1 and me :p Then there was one better than average sec. 2 player, and one sec. 3 (i think) pro. Then, after winnning 2 matches, the pro withdrew! wow.
so i lost to the btr-than-average sec.2 7-0 (it was my 1st match and i guess i was nervous), but thrased the other sec.2 7-1 and won the sec. 1 7-6 (still very nervous). So by winning 2 out of 3 matches, i got into the 2nd round! wow.
Obv, i got thrased by the best guy from grp C 11-2, 11-0 in the 2nd round. boohoo. His balls were dam fast and he smacks like hell. As one of my pro friends who lost to him describes him: "too good for a sec.1".
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Bad News: I envy the Rafflesians so much.
About the RI camp: WOW they're so dam lucky. it was a GEP only camp and they didnt have a sec.1 camp. They camped in the Sembawang Boys Brigade camp. 1st gd thing: they got to shower properly-the cubicles ALL had showerheads and they didnt have to rush and finish in 2 mins(the only bad thing was tt the toilets were smelly). 2nd gd thing: they had BEDS to sleep on! and there were no bedbugs either. 3rd gd thing: they had activities like war games and a mini amazing race. Cant say we enjoyed OUR activities as much as theirs. 4th gd thing: their food was nice. They actually had catering where the lay all the food out in a buffet style! we only got lousy oily food in styrofoam packets (u know the kind those hawker center aunties give u when u takeaway) 5th gd thing: they didnt haf to get dirty in any of the activities
The only bad things: Physical Training in the morning (they haf to run around the campsite) and bathing (they still complain about it?!)
They are so dam luky lor.
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Additonal couple of notes to my previous post: 1) our camp motto was "gold after fire". geddit? fire=torture :(
2) our instructor hinted to us that our CDANS campsite had a spooky history. ponder over this: while there was jungle growing all around our campsite, why was our campsite suddenly so empty and void of trees? there werent even any tree stumps. theres also a temple and a statue of the Goddess of Mercy across the road. *a shiver runs up my spine*
Good news: I got into the quarter-finals (2nd round) of the badminton mini-tournament today! Yay! But actually it was more of luck than skill :p My friends who were more pro then me actually got eliminated in the 1st round.
So heres the format of gameplay: All competitive games will be singles. The semi-final and final game will be 3 sets, while the others will be a set each. First Round: Participants will be divided into 4 groups A - D, and each group will have a court to play amongst each of the others before the best 2 of their group are determined. The first to get seven points wins a match. Quarter-finals: The best 2 from each group will be grouped into 2 further groups X and Y, with each group having 2 1st-place and 2 2nd-place group representatives. Another round-robin will take place to determine the top 2 from these two groups to qualify for the semi-finals. There will be 2 sets of 11 points each(if there is a tie, there will be a 3rd match played). Semi-finals: Group X winner will play Group Y runner-up, Group X runner-up will play Group Y winner. Finals/3rd place: Semi-finals winners/Semi-finals losers (of cos)
How i was so tyco (lucky): My grp, D, had only 3 nubs-one from sec. 2, one from sec.1 and me :p Then there was one better than average sec. 2 player, and one sec. 3 (i think) pro. Then, after winnning 2 matches, the pro withdrew! wow.
so i lost to the btr-than-average sec.2 7-0 (it was my 1st match and i guess i was nervous), but thrased the other sec.2 7-1 and won the sec. 1 7-6 (still very nervous). So by winning 2 out of 3 matches, i got into the 2nd round! wow.
Obv, i got thrased by the best guy from grp C 11-2, 11-0 in the 2nd round. boohoo. His balls were dam fast and he smacks like hell. As one of my pro friends who lost to him describes him: "too good for a sec.1".
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Bad News: I envy the Rafflesians so much.
About the RI camp: WOW they're so dam lucky. it was a GEP only camp and they didnt have a sec.1 camp. They camped in the Sembawang Boys Brigade camp. 1st gd thing: they got to shower properly-the cubicles ALL had showerheads and they didnt have to rush and finish in 2 mins(the only bad thing was tt the toilets were smelly). 2nd gd thing: they had BEDS to sleep on! and there were no bedbugs either. 3rd gd thing: they had activities like war games and a mini amazing race. Cant say we enjoyed OUR activities as much as theirs. 4th gd thing: their food was nice. They actually had catering where the lay all the food out in a buffet style! we only got lousy oily food in styrofoam packets (u know the kind those hawker center aunties give u when u takeaway) 5th gd thing: they didnt haf to get dirty in any of the activities
The only bad things: Physical Training in the morning (they haf to run around the campsite) and bathing (they still complain about it?!)
They are so dam luky lor.
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Additonal couple of notes to my previous post: 1) our camp motto was "gold after fire". geddit? fire=torture :(
2) our instructor hinted to us that our CDANS campsite had a spooky history. ponder over this: while there was jungle growing all around our campsite, why was our campsite suddenly so empty and void of trees? there werent even any tree stumps. theres also a temple and a statue of the Goddess of Mercy across the road. *a shiver runs up my spine*
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