Dragon Cup Badminton Championships 2005
Sunday 22 May 2005 Mansfield State High School, Brisbane.
Welcome to the Dragon Cup 2005 webpage. The event
was another success, competitors from as far as Coffs Harbour, big group from
Gold Coast all the way to Sunshine Coast, and of course our local Brisbane
players as well as our very own Dragon Club members. We
had a total of 99
competitors this year, a bit
shorter on our previous Dragon Cup with 147 entries, but as a one day event, we
are overwhelmed with the response, and a very nice number to have for a one day
carnival. One amazing note is that this year we attracted all the entries without using one
single stamp or envelop!
Shows what technology can do hey!
Thanks to our sponsors - Powerade,
Redbull
(Redbull sent their apology as the girl was sick, they promised to the there
next year though); Alan & Allen, Leon Chinese Restaurant, Betta Electronics, Webster World
of Fitness, Aqua Water, Coffee Square, Metro Buzz Stop Café, Sushi Station, Rebel Sports,
Mitre 10, So delicious, Yonex Australia, Carlton, Winex, Yang Yang, Racket
Sports, World News Weekly, Queensland Asia Business Weekly, Queensland Chinese
News and the Bridge Magazine, this year we bring all
competitors a goodie bag with loads of freebies,
free gym pass worth $95, free T-shirt, free Aqua water,
free chips, free Uncle Toby's bar, free souvenir (keyring, mini-shuttle or
grip), free Rebel Sports discount card, free lunch voucher, free Powerade,
we were told it's the best goodies bag ever seen in any badminton tournaments in
Queensland ever! We
handed out 106
trophies/plates in all. The free prize draw gave away over 80 prizes
including Racket bags, wrist bands, socks, grips, tumblers, restaurant vouchers and
even a latest Nano racket! We did our very best to
make each participant a very enjoyable and memorable event, and we think
everyone enjoyed the event tremendously.
This year, we trialed the Dragon Cup as a one day event,
and it certainly proved it is much more popular than a complete weekend event.
People these days have far too many other commitments. We will use a bigger
venue next time, but will keep to the one day event.
Hot favourite Wesley Caulkett took all 3 Open Grade
events and took the Dragon Cup 2005 with Shevan Moody and Wayne
Perkins. Shevan also took the Open Grade Ladies Singles and Ladies
Doubles with Karen Davey. Wayne also came runners-up in the A
Grade Mens Singles as well as runners-up with Dragon Club member Sheeba Vawda.
Our squads Sophie Chan came runners-up and Alvina Fung won the
plate in the Open Ladies Singles. Sophie & Alvina also came runners-up in
the Open Ladies Doubles. Horace Leung got Bronze in the Open Mens Singles
but won the A Grade Mens Singles. Horace also won the Open Mens
Doubles Plate with How Yin Ho.
Other Dragon Club Squads commending results include William Boo who won the A Mens Singles Plate with his brother Vincent as runners-up, Vincent also came runners-up in the B Grade Mens Singles. Our 12 years old Miriam Hannah came runners-up in the B Grade Ladies Singles and Christina Chan got Bronze in the same event. William and Vincent also won the B Mens Doubles Plate. Bradley Goeldner came runners-up in the C Mens Singles, and teammate David Lam won the plate of the event. Miriam came runners-up in the C Ladies Singles, whilst teammate Leona Chun won the Plate of the same event, beating another teammate Jean Wen only by a few points. In the C Ladies Doubles, squads Leona & Miriam took the titles and teammate Christina came runners-up. Jordan Wan came runners-up in the D Mens SIngles, whilst our squads dominated the D Grade Ladies Singles titles with Lisa Lam as the winner, Christine Newton runners-up; Katrina Robertson won the Plate with Miriam Lai runners-up. Gerard Lai partnering one of our members Phillip Neho took the D Mens Doubles, whilst Yannick Vaughan and Alastair Robertson took the Plate title with teammates Jordan & Jonathan Miu runners-up. Squads won all D Mixed titles too with Christine & Yannick winning, and Katrina & Jordan runners-up. Team mates Miriam Lai & Alastair got Bronze. In the Junior division, Gerard beat teammate Kieran Ganasan in the Boys under 12 Singles, and Jessica Miu came runners up in the Junior under 12 Girls Singles. In the Junior Mixed Doubles, Gerard partnered Gold Coast Georgie Davey and took the title and teammates Kieran & Keshia were runners-up. Gerard partnering Georgie took the Plate title with team mate Jessica (partnered Gold Coast Blake Davey) came runners-up. Georgie also won the Junior Girls Singles.
Other events winners we would like to congratulate here are Harry Senjaya who came runners-up in the Open Mens Singles, Peter Butler & Savane Praseutsith came runners-up of the Open Mens Doubles, we well as winning the A Grade Mens Doubles. Peter also came runners up in the Open Mixed Doubles partnering Dragon Club member Suzanne Townsend. Suzanne also took the A Grade Mixed Doubles with Savane, as well as getting Bronze with another member Sheeba Vawda in the Open Ladies Doubles. Chris Saeck and Donald Awa from Coffs Harbour were runners-up in the A Mens Doubles, whilst Coach Edmund Lai and Adrian Coggin got the Plate title. Adrian also won the Plate with Gold Coast Karen in the A Mixed Doubles.
UQ Student young gun Henmanto took the B Mens Singles, with member Eric Leung on the plate. Noosa competitor Kimberley Wheller took both the B & C Grade Ladies Singles. Coffs Harbour Chris & Donald won the B Grade Mens Doubles title, and members Norris Feng and Eric Leung settled for runners-up. All B Ladies Doubles were won by Dragon Club members - Mabel & Bernice Vidot took the title with Oi Hung Chan and May Dobie as runners-up; whilst Simone Edmondson & Wei Qi took the Plate. In the B Grade Mixed Doubles. B Mixed Doubles was a bit of a mixed winners, Coffs Harbour Donald Awa partnered our member Akiyo Fujimori and won the title in a 2 groups round-robin fight, taking out member Simone who partnered from Coffs Harbour George Graham.
Member and young keen new Dragon Club member also student at UQ Peter McCosker took the C Grade Mens Singles title. Gold Coast player Danny Davey partnered Coffs Harbour Stephen Boyle took the C Mens Doubles title with members Daniel and Tim Stephenson as runners-up. Raymond Ng and Bill Lee were the plate winners of the event. In the C Ladies Doubles, Bridget Bastian & Trudy D'Silva took the plate titles. Members Simone and Ly Tiang took the C Mixed Doubles title, taking out Flo Chan & Danny from Gold Coast. Henmento & Sheren won the plate. In the D grade events, Phillip Neho won the Mens Singles, taking out another member Marco Chan. Andy Cheuk took the plate. In the D Mens Doubles, Kenny & Andy Ng were the runners-up. Special mentioning of 7 year old John Taing taking the Juniors Boys Singles Plate title with Blake Davey from Gold Coast (another 7 year old) runners-up. It is good to see such young hopefuls in action. There is hope for our sport! For a full results list, please click on link at the bottom of this page.
We thank all the competitors for supporting our event, we thank all our Sponsors to help us make this event more delightful. Last but not least, we thank all our staff, coaches and squad members in making this event took place without any hiccups. We will see you again at the next Dragon Cup!
Dragon Badminton Club
Click to view the following docs:
- Tournament Players News1
- Tournament Players News2
- Competitors list
- Sample of Knock-out events with 'bye' and plate round
- Sample of Round-robin events
- Welcome letter for all competitors
- Results
- Photos from the day including Prize Presentation
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