The 2006 Washington State Closed Tournament was held over the weekend
(Feb 17-19th)
at the Bellevue Badminton Club. There were about 97 entries which
made the tournament
fairly manageable. The weather did not fully cooperate, it was sunny
but very cold
(the artic front decided to visit Seattle first time for a while),
good thing we all
survived in the gym with winter clothing, electric blankets and lots
of badminton.

The t-shirts was not available until Saturday afternoon, since we
could not find the
key to the storage room. Thanks to we know who, we was able to open
the door.

The in-form and in-shape Geoff proved he's still the best by winning
all three events,
Mixed, Men's Singles, Men's Doubles. His sons, Curtis and Gary also
won the Men's
Singles B and C events.

The tournament ran smoothly and without too much delay this time
except mixed events
since some players wanted to finish the final on Friday night, we were
actually ahead
of schedule in men's singles event for a change. There was a few
scheduling glitches that
some players had to play the same opponents twice.

We want to thank everyone for playing, supporters for cheering and all
the volunteers
for helping out. We want to thank the following volunteers,

(coca cola) Joe - handling registration desk, Joe is moving back to
Hong Kong at the
end of March, we'll miss you.

Helen - for entering all entries and financials.

Jennie - designing the medals/t-shirts

Jenny and Joahnes - preparing the food/drink

Vu and Tao - running tournament desk

Villette - new announcer in the making (best voice)

Connie - helping out draw

Hopefully, I didn't miss anyone this time.

See everyone at Washington Open May 19-21st at ProClub.

By the way, Wendy was not at the tournament, because she was enjoying
the hot weather at
LIma, Peru and coached the US Women's team to win the PanAmerican
region Uber Cup in her
spare time. Congradulation !!!

Clinton

The results are posted at:

http://northwestbadminton.org/

Some photos are posted at:

http://sports.ph.groups.yahoo.com/group/SeattleBadminton/photos/browse/6bae

The A results are:

Mixed

1. Ufilya Davis/Geoff Stensland
2. Ying-Fang Lai/Greg Ung

Women's Singles

1. Brooke Lowry
2. Ying-Fang Lai

Men's Singles

1. Geoff Stensland
2. Kevin Yu

Women's Doubles

1. Ufilya Davis/Ying-Fang Lai
2. Grace Qiu/Evelina Shin

Men's Doubles

1. Rob Hankins/Geoff Stensland
2. Greg Ung/Renly Kojo