There is a new Microsoft Badminton Club internally at MS.
If you are MS employee, please join it and share information with other
colleagues.
The MS bad club is also interested to join local games.

2006 WA State Open Badminton Tournament will be held at ProClub
on May 19th - 21st, 2006. The entry deadline will be 6 PM, Monday,
May 8th (received by Helen).  Note the Open mixed double event will
start at 6 PM for local players due to ProClub closing at 11 PM.

The entry form can be downloaded at:

http://northwestbadminton.org/

The 57th 2006 Tacoma Daffodil tournament will be held at Tacoma
Badminton Club
on April 22 & 23, 2006. Deadline postedmarked by April 12th. Download
details
tournament info at http://www.northwestbadminton.org/

Hello badminton aficionados,

The new Mercer Island Community Center is now open and offers
badminton on Friday evenings.

Address: 8236 SE 24th Street   (206)236 3545   www.miparks.net

Six courts with good lighting

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

The draw is available at:

http://northwestbadminton.org/

All matches will be 2 out of 3 games to 15 points.

The starting time for each event:

Mixed Doubles - 7 pm Friday
Men's Singles - 8 am Saturday
Women's Singles - 11 am Saturday
Men's Doubles - 3 pm Saturday
Women's Doubles - 5:30 pm Saturday

Finals on Sunday

Mixed Doubles - 10 am
Women's Singles - 10:45 am
Men's Singles - 11:15 am
Women's Doubles - 12 pm
Men's Doubles - 12:30 pm

The warmup time will be limited to 3 minutes.
As usual the draw and scheduled matched time are subject to change.

Clinton

Connie,

Both of us were at bbc last night, don't know if i'll be there on Thursday.
Yes, you can email the entry form first and send the check later.

Clinton


>From: Connie Ho <kwonglai13@...>
>To: Helen@..., clintonc111@...
>CC: seattlebadminton@yahoogroups.com
>Subject: State Closed Entry Form
>Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2006 12:36:13 -0800 (PST)
>
>Hey Badminton Competitors,
>        There are only TWO days left to turn in your entry forms. The
>deadline is Thursday 02/09/06 received by Helen Roome or Clinton Chen.
>
>
>   Helen, Clinton,
>       When will you be playing at the Bellevue Badminton Club?
>    Bellevue Badminton Club
>   13405 SE 30th Street, Suite B, Bellevue, WA 98005
>http://www.bellevuebadminton.com
>
>          Can you receive entry forms by emails?
>
>   Please reply as soon as you can. Thanks.
>   -Connie
>
>
>
>
>
>
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I'll be at the club tonight, email entry is fine

Helen
   ----- Original Message -----
   From: Connie Ho
   To: Helen@... ; clintonc111@...
   Cc: seattlebadminton@yahoogroups.com
   Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2006 12:36 PM
   Subject: State Closed Entry Form


   Hey Badminton Competitors,
        There are only TWO days left to turn in your entry forms. The deadline is
Thursday 02/09/06 received by Helen Roome or Clinton Chen.


   Helen, Clinton,
       When will you be playing at the Bellevue Badminton Club?
    Bellevue Badminton Club
   13405 SE 30th Street, Suite B, Bellevue, WA 98005
http://www.bellevuebadminton.com

          Can you receive entry forms by emails?

   Please reply as soon as you can. Thanks.
   -Connie






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Hey Badminton Competitors,
        There are only TWO days left to turn in your entry forms. The deadline is
Thursday 02/09/06 received by Helen Roome or Clinton Chen.


   Helen, Clinton,
       When will you be playing at the Bellevue Badminton Club?
    Bellevue Badminton Club
   13405 SE 30th Street, Suite B, Bellevue, WA 98005
http://www.bellevuebadminton.com

          Can you receive entry forms by emails?

   Please reply as soon as you can. Thanks.
   -Connie






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The Highline Badminton Club will be closed on Monday, January 16 for Martin
Luther King., Jr.'s birthday holiday;on Monday, January 30 because of a school
activity, and Monday, February 20 because of President's Day holiday.  The gym
is open on all Thursdays into April.

   Thanks,

   Steve Ellis




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2006 Washington State Closed will be held at Bellevue Badminton Club from
February 17-19, 2006. Check out http://www.northwestbadminton.org/ to download
entry form and details...

NW Badminton

Hello, My name is Brooke Lowry.
I just moved to Seattle and I am looking to find a place to teach
badminton. I am a National Champion in singles and doubles in Canada.
I have just moved to Seattle and I'm looking for a job. I have
experience teaching junior summer camps, I have also taught lessons at
the Glencoe Club in Calgary, Alberta. I love teaching young people and
women how to play badminton.
If you could pass my name on to anyone who is looking for a coach or a
part-time badminton instructor, I would appreciate it.
Thank you!
Brooke Lowry

The 2006 WA Closed Badminton Tournament will be Feb 17-19th.
The entry deadline is Feb 3rd, 2006.

You can download the entry form at:

http://www.northwestbadminton.org/

If you like to help out the tournament, please let me know.

Thanks,

Clinton

Hi ladies and gentlemen,

   There WILL NOT be courts open at Highline tomorrow, Monday the 2nd of January.

   Highline WILL re-open Thursday the 5th of January.

   -Connie Ho


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Steve Ellis announced that "Highline will be re-open after the holidays on
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The BCD tournnament results are posted on northwestbadminton.org
set site.

You can also view some tournament pictures at:

http://sports.ph.groups.yahoo.com/group/SeattleBadminton/photos/browse/6348

I forgot to mention and thank Helen Roome for all the work she did in
entering all the entries and taking care of the money.

Clinton

BCD tournament results are up in http://northwestbadminton.org/.

-northwestbadminton

The Bellevue Badminton Club Is Now Open!!!!

   All are Welcome to Come Down Tonight For Some Cake and see the Club 8:00 PM.

   Go to Bellevuebadminton.com for a map.

   Geoff Stensland


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The result will be posted on www.northwestbadminton.org within next
few days.

The new facility was ready just in time and the weather more or less
cooperated for the 2005 WA BCD tournament.
There were about 130 entries, there're players from Alaska, Oregon,
Vancouver and many local players.
It was great to see so many players and there're quite a few players
we don't recoginze.  One of these days,
I'll get all the junior name/face correctly.  Carol Gitttins's
students from Edmond high school district
played their firsts tournament (besides school tournament) and they
seem to enjoy the experience.

The new facility turns out to be a great venue for the tournament.
The floor and lighting are good
and it's great to play on courts with only badminton lines.  The
second floor mezzanine is a great
place to observe the match.  We do wish for more courts, the last
match on Saturday finished after
1 am in the morning.  The gym was still a little cold even with close
to 60 entries in the men's singles
event, it did warm up quickly in the evening with 42 entries in men's
doubles event plus all the
spectators.

We do want to thank Bellevue Badminton Club to let us use the facilty
and break in the floor/courts.
The Club also had cake for everyone on Saturday evening to celebrate
the openning.

Keo Saopasueth and Diana Tran of Vancouver won the mixed event, Shu
Ito and Tomomi Shibahara
had to default the match due to Shu's knee injury from the singles
event.  Shu was able to walk
off the court, hopefully Shu will recover soon.

Greg Ung won the men's singles against Arun Chitrapu, this is Greg's
first tournament in singles.
Watch out for Greg in the coming WA closed.

Ming Ye of ProClub took the women's singles crown from Bonnie Carroll
of Alaska.

Ming also teamed up with Mei-Chin Tasi to win the women's doubles
against Bonnie and Wei Liu.  Ming and
Mei-Chin did practice together last few weeks for the tournament and
Mei-Chin had to skip a party to
play the event.

Robert Chan and Zhang Yi of Orgeon took the men's doubles crown from
Kevin Yu and Jaikannan Ramamoorthy
in 3 games.  They had hard fought first 2 games, Kevin/Jaikannan took
the first game, lost the 2nd and
ran out of juice on the third game.

We want to thank all the players for participating, the matches did
run longer than we anticipated, most people
were patiently waiting for their match to be called.
We also had to limit some men's singles and doubles matches to 1 game
to 21 points.  There were also some residual paint fume in the gym,
since the gym floor coat was finished on Monday.

I want to thank everyone who helped to make the tournament succsessful
and the following people:

Chef Jenny and Joahnes Jies for the food/drink.
Jennie Chan topped herself on the fun design (did everyone guess the
idea behind the design ?)
Joe Leung, Daryl Yao, Connie Ho, Carla Furukawa, Hentley Liem to run
the registration desk.
Hentley (never retired) Liem for getting the t-shirts and medals.
Tao Yuan for running the tournament desk, calling the matches.  He did a
great job on his first time ever.
We wouldn't be able to run the tournament smoothly without him.
Bellevue Badminton Club staffs/volunteers for keeping the gym in top
shape.

Hopefully, I did not miss anyone.  See many of you at Wa Closed.

Clinton

The gym is ready to play, but the facility is not 100% finished yet.
Bring a chair if like, so you won't have to sit on the floor
during the tournament.

Note, drink/food are not allowed and indoor court shoes only
on the gym/court floor.

Saturday's open gym from 12pm-4pm is in Seatac C.C.

   Any other places to play on the website
www.northwestbadminton.org/washington.php will be open this weekend as usual
times if the road condition is safe enough due to snow. Please call the
community centers at around 5 to check out if they will be open that very day.



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For those who check their email often enough, haha
   Tonight:
   Steve Ellis, organizer of Highline Badminton Club, have not heard anything
from Highline High School about any change; Therefore, gym is OPEN tonight.

   Seatac Community Center is also OPEN tonight. 7-9:45pm

   Friday:
   Mercer Island Gym WILL BE OPEN tomorrow Friday the 2nd. 7-12am

   Saturday:
   Badminton from 12-4pm resumes this week.

   Other gyms are unknown for now.

   TOURNAMENT will happen on expecting days. Dec. 2-4
   Nothing has changed at this moment.

   -Kwonglai13



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Just in case the draw does not get updated on www.northwestbadminton.org
site, you can access the draw at the following:

http://mysite.verizon.net/resr97lo/Washington%20State%20BCD%202005-Mixed%20Doubl\
es-B.html
http://mysite.verizon.net/resr97lo/Washington%20State%20BCD%202005-Mens%20Single\
s-B.html
http://mysite.verizon.net/resr97lo/Washington%20State%20BCD%202005-Mens%20Double\
s-B.html
http://mysite.verizon.net/resr97lo/Washington%20State%20BCD%202005-Women%20Singl\
es-B.html
http://mysite.verizon.net/resr97lo/Washington%20State%20BCD%202005-Women%20Doubl\
es-B.html

The draw is finished and is in the process of posting to
www.northwestbadminton.org web site.  Hopefully, the draw will be up
soon.  Note the draw and time are all subject to change.

There're record 128 entries.  The scheduled startinig time of each
event is (please show up 30 minutes before the first scheduled match):

Mixed Doubles - Friday 7 PM
Men's Singles - Saturday 8:30 AM
Women's Singles - Saturday 12 PM
Men's Doubles - Saturday 4:40 PM
Women's Doubles - Saturday 5:30 PM

The warm up time will be enforced and we'll try to move the match
along.  Please be ready
to play when the match is called.  The last scheduled match for
Saturday is around midnight.

Due to the number of entries, the first two round of B flight and the
first round of D flight
will be one game to 21 points for the men's singles and men's doubles.
  The rest will be 2 out
of 3 games to 15 points.

The finals for mixed doubles, women's singles and women's doubles will
be on Sunday.
The semi-finals and finals for men's singles and men's doubles will be
on Sunday.

The following players are scheduled to play the men's singles match on
Saturday morning
at 8:30 am and 8:45 am, please be ready to play at the scheduled time.

Paul Chow, Yen-Chao Hsiao, Vikram Kotha, Steven Ip, Jaikannan
Ramamoothy, Kris Davis,
Jeffrey Ye, Hau Sun, Kosaku Ito, Jason Chen, Ronald Langingi, Richard
She, Anthony Wong,
Ralph Cervantes, David Lay, Nino Gonszles, Ed Robison, Randy Chen

For those who request female partner for the mixed double event, we
could not find
the partner for you.

The gym will be ready just in time for the tournament.  See everyone
at the tournament.

Clinton

For those who are curious of this Friday's badminton at MERCER,

   I was TOLD (by players who can be relay on) TO POST out that this Friday's
CLOSURE. I am just a middle person. EVERYTHING I post must be certain and
accurate unless some typos now and then haha.

   For everyone,

   SEATAC is still closed on Saturdays until next month, December.
   YES!! There'll be Badminton tomorrow Wednesday, November 22nd at North Seatac
C.C.

   ALL places will be closed on Thursday Thanksgiving Day.

   EVERETT - FOREST PARK INDOOR BADMINTON is CLOSED.

   I will ask more on clubs' schedules for this weekend.

   Stay tuned.
   Kwonglai



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Hi badminton fellows,
       Due to Thanksgiving week, Mercer Island Gym will be CLOSED for the coming
Friday, Nov 25th.  Enjoy the holiday everybody.

       Have you turned in your entry forms for the BCD tournament yet? You still
can. Deadline is the 23rd of November. Turn them in to Helen Roome.

   For any questions, please email Clinton Chen clintonc111@....

   Draws will be posted on the Wednesday, 30th of Nov.

   Have a good Turkey Week.
   -A Ho



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Just to remind everyone that the BCD tournament entry deadline is
coming up.  The entry needs to be post marked by Friday, November 18th
or received by Wednesday, November 23rd.

You can download the entry from:

http://northwestbadminton.org/

Clinton

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HI all,
     There will NOT be badminton scheduled for November on Saturdays. Will resume
in December.

Hope seattlebadminton members get this soon enough hehe... SeaTac notify me too
late.

Take care,
Connie Ho
Moderator of SeattleBadminton




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Hi,

I just want to let you know that Oregon State University will host Badminton
Tournmanet on November 19, 2005 (Saturday).

If you are interested or have any question, please email me.

To get the form: http://oregonstate.edu/groups/bos

Thanks

Haris Gunadi
President of Badminton Oregon State


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