Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Badminton Tournament in Pictures - Combo











Photo Credits: Papz, Md. Jais and Md. Tommy.

Tuesday, July 8, 2008

Final Matchday

The Final Matchday will be on Thursday, 10 July 2008.

Four matches will be played; two from the Premier League and two from the Super League. In the Premier League, EC Shuttlers A will meet OM All Stars and TM Riders will meet Combo A; while in the Super League, OM Star-Less will play RM Sprinter and Combo B will play EC Shuttlers B.

In the Premier League, all eyes will be on both matches, as EC Shuttlers A and Combo A play catch-up with RM Spartan who plays their final match today. The Premier League standing at the end of the matches on Tuesday will probably be the most looked at data in BLNG tomorrow!

In the Super League, the door is still open for all teams to stake their claim as the Champions of the Super League. It will be clearer to see after the fourth round of matches on the Super League which will take place on Wednesday, 9 July.

All staff and players are invited to the Final Matchday. The first game of all matches should start by 5.00pm. Prize presentation to winners will take place at the end of the evening.

Come and support your teams. And please do bring your banners and make some noise!

Results from Matchday 6

Matchday 6 saw actions from the third round of matches in the Super League, where OM Star-Less met TM Kapcai and EC Shuttlers B met RM Sprinter.

In the first match, TM Kapcai narrowly lost their match against RM Sprinter. TM Kapcai lost 3 players as they had to attend training in various parts of the world. As a result, TM Kapcai was forced to concede one mens' double game. However, the rest of the team played a spirited match, where they won 3 games outright out of the remaining 6 games. In the end, OM Star-Less beat TM Kapcai with a 15-12 scoreline.

The other match was no les pulsating and exciting. Both teams won three games each and the score was tied at 12-12 before the final game of the match. It was up to the final mens' double teams to win the match for their team. As it turned out, the game was a tense and stomach-renching on its own. The game had to be decided in the rubber set, where RM Sprinter eventually won the game with just 4 points to spare. The final scoreline was RM Sprinter 15 and EX Shuttlers B 13.

The Super League standing is:
team (number of matches played) (number of points)
RM Sprinter (3) (46)
TM Kapcai (3) (39)
OM Star-Less (2) (28)
Combo B (2) (28)
EC Shuttlers A (2) (24)

Today will see matches from the Premier League where TM Riders will meet RM Spartan and EC Shuttlers A will meet Combo A. It is the final game for RM Spartan and they will look forward to cement their position at the top of the Premier League. The result at the end of today's matches will set the scene for the Final Matchday. The first games of both matches will start at 5pm.

The Premier League standing as of now is:
team (number of matches played) (number of points)
RM Spartan (3) (43)
OM All Stars (3) (39)
EC Shuttlers A (2) (30)
Combo A (2) (30)
TM Riders (2) (24)

Come and support your favourite team.

Saturday, July 5, 2008

Results from Matchday 5

Matchday 5 saw actions from the third round of matches in the Premier League, where Combo A met OM All-Stars and RM Spartan met EC Shuttlers A.

Combo A won their match against OM All-Stars with a score of 15-13. Both teams consists of some of the best badminton players in BLNG and the match produced some outstanding display of badminton from both teams. The end could not have been better, where the game had to be decided in a rubber-set game.

RM Spartan beat EC Shuttlers A also with the same scoreline. RM Spartans started the game strongly by winning their first two games before EC Shuttlers and RM Spartan took turns to win the final five games. The ladies' double game was easily won by RM Spartan. It was clearly seen that the lady players of RM are among the strongest in the tournament. In the final five games, EC Shuttlers won all their mens' double games and lost all games involving their lady players.

The Premier League standing at the end of first week of the tournament is:
team (number of matches played) (number of points)
RM Spartan (3) (43)
OM All Stars (3) (39)
EC Shuttlers A (2) (30)
Combo A (2) (30)
TM Riders (2) (24)

The tournament will break during the weekend and reconvene on Monday, 7 July for the third round of matches in the Super League, where RM Sprinter meets EC Shuttlers B and TM Kapcai meets OM Star-Less. The first games of both matches will start at 5pm.

Come and support your favourite team.

Friday, July 4, 2008

Results from Matchday 4

Matchday 4 saw actions from the second round of matches in Super League.

TM Kapcai team played in EC Shuttlers B team in a one-sided match, where TM Kapcai team won five games and lost two. The final score was TM Kapcai 17 and EC Shuttlers B 11.

In another match, the RM Sprinter played against Combo B team, where RM Sprinter narrowly won their match 14-13. RM Sprinter conceded one mens' double game due to the unavailability of players.

The lastest table for Super League is:
team (number of matches played) (number of points)
RM Sprinter (2) (31)
Combo B (2) (28)
TM Kapcai (2) (27)
OM Star-Less (1) (13)
EC Shuttlers B (1) (11)

Today will see the third round of matches from Premier League, between Combo A and OM All-Stars, and between RM Spartan and EC Shuttlers A.

Thursday, July 3, 2008

Results from Matchday 3

Yesterday saw the second round of matches in the Premier League. TM Riders was against OM All Stars and Combo A was against RM Spartan.

OM All Stars narrowly beat TM Riders 15-13 in one of the closest match of the tournament. Both teams could not have asked for a better climax to the match. Both teams were tied at 12-12 at the end of the sixth game and it was up to the last mens' double partnership to give the winning points. In the end, OM All Stars triumphed over TM Rider, with a straight set victory.

Combo A beat RM Spartan with similar scoreline. In the final game of their match, RM Spartan was playing to reduce the gap between themselves and Combo A, which they did eventually.

Matchday 3 saw some tightest games played by all four teams. Three out of seven games in both matches went to the rubber set, setting scenes of loud support and wild celebration at the end of the games.

The current league standing is:

Premier League:
team (number of matches played) (number of points)

RM Spartan (2) (30)
OM All Stars (2) (26)
TM Riders (2) (24)
EC Shuttlers A (1) (17)
Combo A (1) (15)

Today's matches will see TM Kapcai playing against EC Shuttlers B and Combo B playing against RM Sprinter. All matches are due to start to 5.00pm.

Come and support your favourite team!

TM Teams in Action

Some pictures of the TM Teams (TM Rider and TM Kapcai) in action from Matchday 2 and Matchday 3.

The opening game of the match between TM Kapcai and RM Sprinter.

Victory was sweet for the Captain of TM Kapcai as she and her partner won their game against RM Sprinter.


The group photo of TM Rider (not in picture was the Managing Director, Hj Salleh Bostamam)

Many thanks to ZHAR for submitting all pictures to be published.


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