Freshers’ Badminton 2019

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“Work Hard – Play Hard”

We are halfway through freshers’ tournament and the Faculty of Management and Finance is leading the points table so far. However, the Faculty of Science and the University of Colombo School of Computing are not ready to give up the months of practices they had done prior to this moment.

The day was the 6th April 2019 and the indoor gymnasium was filled with all the victory hungry players from all 07 faculties. It was the day of the badminton tournament of the Inter Faculty Freshers’ Tournament 2019. The tournament began with the grouping of the men’s and women’s teams to 4 groups fair and square. After that the group matches began. Everybody was trying to top their group because only the top two from each group would qualify for the quarterfinals, where the top team from one group will face the 2nd placed team in another group.

After a tough group stage and quarterfinal round, the following teams were selected for the semi-finals:

Men

  1. Faculty of Technology vs Faculty of Management and Finance
  2. Faculty or Medicine vs University of Colombo School of Computing

Women

  1. Faculty of Medicine vs Faculty of Nursing
  2. Faculty of Science vs Faculty of Law

The semifinals seemed much more competitive than the group stages with everybody trying to qualify for finals.

In the men’s tournament, the Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of Management and Finance failed to qualify for the finals. Hence, they played for the third place where the Faculty of Medicine took the third place throwing Management players out of the podium position.

In the women’s tournament, the Faculty of Medicine and the Faculty of Law played for the third place. Here too, the Faculty of Medicine took the third place,  throwing the Faculty of Law out of podium position.

The Finals were much more tense than all the other stages, specially in men’s tournament. UCSC and the Faculty of Technology both tried their best to grab the championship, and after a fabulous match UCSC emerged victorious while the Faculty of Technology settled for the runner’s up place.

In the women’s tournament, the finals were between the Faculty of Science and the Faculty of Nursing. After 3 singles matches, the game went to a double matches and girls of the Faculty of Science took that opportunity to grab the championship of women’s tournament leaving the Faculty of Nursing to settle for the the runner’s up place.

To summarize the day,

Men’s Tournament

  1. Champions – UCSC
  2. 1st Runner’s Up – Faculty of Technology
  3. 2nd Runner’s Up – Faculty of Medicine

Women’s Tournament

  1. Champions – Faculty of Science
  2. 1st Runner’s Up – Faculty of Nursing
  3. 2nd Runner’s Up – Faculty of Medicine

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