{"id":433,"date":"2014-06-12T15:27:11","date_gmt":"2014-06-12T19:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/members.wykontario.org\/tabletennis\/?p=433"},"modified":"2014-06-12T15:28:37","modified_gmt":"2014-06-12T19:28:37","slug":"hkisaa-tt-tourney-draw-result","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/members.wykontario.org\/tabletennis\/?p=433","title":{"rendered":"HKISAA TT Tourney Draw Result"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is the good news:<\/p>\n<p>We are sending in 2 teams :<br \/>\n<strong>Team A<\/strong>: David Ho (captain), Mike Yam, Allan &amp; Michael Luk (as defending champion) seeded #1<br \/>\n<strong>Team B<\/strong> Wilfred Wei (acting captain), Bill Ip, Chris Tam, Jeff Mah.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The seeding was according to last tourney so #4 Munsang is in our A pool (CCD &amp; LSC in the other pool)<\/li>\n<li>All other teams were drawn to fit into 3 groups of 4 and 1 group of 5 teams<\/li>\n<li>Every player gets a nice teas set donated by LSC<\/li>\n<li>Every player gets a medal. Winners of Top Draw and Consolidation get a special medallion.<br \/>\n(DBS in charge)<\/li>\n<li>Each team also gets athletic tapes per team from Szeto and Di Tar Medline oil per player (donated by MSC)<\/li>\n<li>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).<\/li>\n<li>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.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>See below for rules &amp; participation schools in this 17 team event.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hkisaa.ca\/rules.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.hkisaa.ca\/rules.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>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.)<\/p>\n<p>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 &amp; Kennedy) starting at 7 PM. Need players and alumni to sign up. I am attending.<\/p>\n<p>Here is the not so great news<\/p>\n<p><strong>Group 1<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>WYK Team A<\/li>\n<li>King&#8217;s College (with Jacky Fok listed as a player, Tony Lam, Vincent Iu and our Tim Cheung)<\/li>\n<li>YWC Team A (Sidney&#8217;s team will relegate to play in Consolation for sure)<\/li>\n<li>SJASS (with Lam Hon, ditto join YWC Team A in consolation)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>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<\/p>\n<p><strong>Group 2<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Munsang Team A<\/li>\n<li>BRC (2012 sponsor Team)<\/li>\n<li>YWC Team B<\/li>\n<li>SJC Team B<\/li>\n<li>LSC Team B<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Group 3<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cheung Chuk Shan (2 players expected)<\/li>\n<li>TTC<\/li>\n<li>KCC (new entry, Chinese school)<\/li>\n<li>WYK Team B<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>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 .<\/p>\n<p><strong>Group 4<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>LSC Team A<\/li>\n<li>MSC Team B<\/li>\n<li>DBS<\/li>\n<li>SJC Team A<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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 &amp; schedule (who plays who after round robin as he is the highest rank official referee Kenny Wan was able to get for this tourney).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is the good news: We are sending in 2 teams : Team A: David Ho (captain), Mike Yam, Allan &amp; Michael Luk (as defending champion) seeded #1 Team B Wilfred Wei (acting captain), Bill Ip, Chris Tam, Jeff Mah. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/members.wykontario.org\/tabletennis\/?p=433\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/members.wykontario.org\/tabletennis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/members.wykontario.org\/tabletennis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/members.wykontario.org\/tabletennis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/members.wykontario.org\/tabletennis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/members.wykontario.org\/tabletennis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=433"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/members.wykontario.org\/tabletennis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":440,"href":"https:\/\/members.wykontario.org\/tabletennis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions\/440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/members.wykontario.org\/tabletennis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/members.wykontario.org\/tabletennis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/members.wykontario.org\/tabletennis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}