2009 BCD Badminton Tournament Director Note
Thanks for all the
players who played in the 2009 Washington State BCD Badminton tournament! We
had 120+ players played in all 5 events. All of you together presented a great
show from 11/13 to 11/15 in the Bellevue Badminton Club. The past three days passed
by so fast without a blink. We are so impressed by so many badminton
enthusiasts gathering together for another ‘badminton festival’. Welcome to the
new faces from
One thing we have
noticed is that the BBC junior team came out really strong in this tournament.
4 out of 5 B level medals were taken by the team members, including Curtis Stensland/Amy Jin, Herman Wu, Renata
Baker, and Jenny Jin/Vicky Chen. Congratulation to all of you! Awesome job!
Also, we want to thank Karthikeyan Erode and Ajay Dilip Majgaonkar who defended the
men’s double title for the ‘non-junior players’. Congratulation as well!
From the tournament
desk, we would like to thank all of you for your patience and support for the
BCD tournament. We are so impressed by your passion and dedication to
badminton. Scheduling was still the top issue for the tournament. There were
many cases that players waited for hours and were forced to have very short
warm up for the next game. Here I would like to express my sincere apology to
all of you for the long haul on Saturday. We tried to improve scheduling this
time but it turned out to be not very effective. What impressed me most was how
cooperative and tolerant you were to us during the tournament. The only thing
which made it happen is your deep love to badminton. Thank you! We understand
that nobody wants to wait for long hours to play one
match. We are working hard on it to find out a solution!
Lots
of thanks to all the volunteers who helped out in this tournament. We can’t have a badminton festival without your
help. One person I would like to give special thanks is Jasmine Lau who were the designated tournament announcer for all three days.
You have done an excellent job, Jasmine! Here is a list for the volunteers. I
apologize if I missed anybody’s name.
Registration – Masaco Cochran, Florette Lam
Announcer – Jasmine Lau
Score Keeping – JK and Soloman
So
T-shirt/Medal design –
Natalie Sun
Tournament Software -
Katherine Ip, Patrick Ip
Tournament Desk – James Lau, Katherine Ip, Patrick Ip, Clinton Chen, Tim Moon
Finance - Helen Roome
Score Update – Daniel Jones, Pasco Mesh, Solomon So, Amy Jin, Lee Yan
Food/Drink/Snack/Lunch box – Johanas Jie, Jenny Jie, Tim Moon and Andy Lau
Dinner - John Yuen,
Pauline Lo, Grace Yuen, Janet Lee
Again, thank you
very much and hope to see you again next year!
Best regards,
Tao