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Inaugural “Massey International Badminton Team Tournament PN”

Saturday afternoon May 12, all 6 badminton courts at Massey Recreation sports hall PN were centre stage for the first International Badminton teams Championship tournament. For more than 5 hours, international students from 12 different countries were involved in fierce competition for honours in their respective grades. Top favourite badminton team Malaysia, was well represented in grade 2 and proven to be the team to be reckoned with. So it was “no surprise” that at the end of the day team Malaysia-2 lifted the trophies in its respective round robin grades. Brunei and Mauritius team comes the second. This dominance was certainly not without fierce resistance from other high skilled team performance such as: India, Brunei, Philippines, Germany, Sri Lanka New Zealand-2 and China-2. In the top Grade-1 event, the competition was even closer with one mixed game between team China-1 versus team Indonesia going the full length of maximum score 30-29 in favour of China. But at the end of the day it was the team combination of Indonesia/Sri Lanka that overcame their nerves and carried away the trophy from China-1, Malaysia-1 and New Zealand. Team members at the end of the day have expressed their view in favour for the continuation of such an event perhaps on an annual basis.