Here is the good news:

We are sending in 2 teams :
Team A: David Ho (captain), Mike Yam, Allan & Michael Luk (as defending champion) seeded #1
Team B Wilfred Wei (acting captain), Bill Ip, Chris Tam, Jeff Mah.

• The seeding was according to last tourney so #4 Munsang is in our A pool (CCD & LSC in the other pool)
• All other teams were drawn to fit into 3 groups of 4 and 1 group of 5 teams
• Every player gets a nice teas set donated by LSC
• Every player gets a medal. Winners of Top Draw and Consolidation get a special medallion.
  (DBS in charge)
• Each team also gets athletic tapes per team from Szeto and Di Tar Medline oil per player (donated by MSC)
• Every player also gets a lunch box sponsored by Fancy Restaurant (I have volunteers to bring these in as well as setting up at 7 am since Kenny Wan of TTC did 90% of the work organizing and getting sponsors. Kudos to him).
• Top 3 teams in top draw (first 2 teams in each group to advance on round robin to round of 8) as well as top 3 in Consolation Rounds (9 teams) get an individual trophy. We need to surrender our Annual Trophy back to HKISAA.

All school logo will be featured on the big banner (Kenny Wan in charge) we produced last year with the money gathered. We will bring our own Association banner.

See below for rules & participation schools in this 17 team event.

http://www.hkisaa.ca/rules.html

No waiver needs to be signed BUT every player MUST arrive at 9 am on 6/28 Saturday (we have keys to get doors open early for practice since we have many matches to finish by 6 PM.)

We need to submit names by latest 6/21 to form tables ($30 per head all inclusive) at the presentation banquet at Fancy Restaurant (14th & Kennedy) starting at 7 PM. Need players and alumni to sign up. I am attending.

Here is the not so great news

Group 1

• WYK Team A
• King’s College (with Jacky Fok listed as a player, Tony Lam, Vincent Iu and our Tim Cheung)
• YWC Team A (Sidney’s team will relegate to play in Consolation for sure)
• SJASS (with Lam Hon, ditto join YWC Team A in consolation)

If we lose to KC in round robin, we play top team from Group 2. MSC Team A for final 4. If we emerge as winner, the journey is much easier and we get into final 4 for sure with a shot of playing for gold against LSC Team A

Group 2

• Munsang Team A
• BRC (2012 sponsor Team)
• YWC Team B
• SJC Team B
• LSC Team B

Group 3

• Cheung Chuk Shan (2 players expected)
• TTC
• KCC (new entry, Chinese school)
• WYK Team B

If our Team B comes out 2nd in this group , we get into final 8 but face LSC Team A. If we beat CCS (good luck to us ) we could potentially beat DBS to get into final 4 .

Group 4

• LSC Team A
• MSC Team B
• DBS
• SJC Team A

Above are all pre game predictions every team is betting on but we had a bad draw for Team A last year and came out as the first winner on this HKISAA Cup.

We need all the cheer leaders and photographers to present that day and volunteers to join the Presentation dinner (last year Jeff, Andrew, Chris (not available this time) and I attended.

Ben Zhao Ping Cheng (CCTTA) has agreed to be Referee (replacing the less experience Vincent from last year. Jeff Wong has to officiate a Butterfly main tourney at MTTC that day, not available. Ben calls all games & schedule (who plays who after round robin as he is the highest rank official referee Kenny Wan was able to get for this tourney).