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Snooker

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Prelims:	4 - 1 (Hall 6 win Hall 13)
	3 - 2 (Hall 6 win Hall 11)
Quarter-final:	4 - 1 (Hall 6 win Hall 5)
Semifinal:	3- 2 (Hall 6 win Hall 2)
Final:	2 - 3 (Hall 6 lose to Hall 11)

Snooker is the second recreation game for the IHRG, and our snooker team has done us proud by attaining 2nd in position after 5 tough matches.

In the preliminary round last Thursday, we were up against Hall 13. Having a comfortable win of score 4-1 over Hall 13 is a good warm-up for our players as the next game is up against last-year snooker champs, Hall 11 in the winner-bracket match. Despite all the doubts and fears, our players gave their full concentration and put up a strong fight against Hall 11. Our players’ efforts had paid off by having victory over Hall 11 with the score of 3-2, and Jeffrey to win his opponent by scoring 126 points within 30 minutes, qualifying to the quarter-finals.

With much more time to train and build up confidence, our team had another good match against Hall 5 with 4-1 score, moving up to semi-finals. The fourth match against Hall 2 is truly an exciting game. Initially we were down with the score of 1-2. Wen Han put up a strong fight against her opponent. Even though she was trailing behind in the start, she managed to force a tie at the end of the time limit. Given another five minutes extension, Wen Han used all her energy to focus on the game and give her opponent tough balls to hit. As a result, Wen Han put it off and won her opponent over a small margin. As for Alex, our last player is up against an IVP. With his 120% concentration on the game, Alex incredibly overcame his opponent and won the game. With the score of 3-2, we advanced to the finals, up against Hall 11, once again.

The last match for the day is the highlight of the day - The top 2 teams in Group A competing with each other from the preliminary round to finals. Hall 11, being the champions for last year, brought out a good fight with us. Our NTU number 1 Jeffrey played with his usual standard and won the first game, but our team was subsequently down 1-2 when Kok Leong and Kai Jian lost to their strong opponents. Despite that, Wen Han and Alex put up a strong fight in hope to overturn the tables. Just like the game with Hall 2, Wen Han was trailing behind with a gap, until her opponent began to make mistakes. That was when Wen Han slowly caught up and eventually won with a small margin. That overturn win gave our Hall supporters hope to win the champion, but were disappointed when Alex lost the last game. Nevertheless, everyone applauded as the great game ended, indicating the end of the Snooker IHRG.

We ended 2nd in Snooker IHRG. All these cannot be done with the dedication of the snooker players who spend their precious days for training, as well as our supporters who spend their time cheering and stand by our snooker team. Thank all of you! Without you all, we would not have made it so far! Hall 6 Snooker team, we are proud of you!

Story by: Eddie (Recreational Director)

Darts

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22^nd December 2008 signaled the start of the IHRG darts tournament. As always, the function hall in Hall 8 played host to the rest of the 15 halls in NTU for this event.

Before the start of this tournament, there was a buzz amongst the Hall 6 darts players and their aim to make it to the darts final this year. An overwhelming record high of 17 players attendance during one training, nightly darts practice in the TV room and on the corridors of Block 33, as well as, the “not-so-quiet” confidence of the darts captain, these signs were clearly pointing towards a good tournament for the Sixers’ darts team. The darts tournament starts of with a round-robin stage of 2 groups of 8 halls, where only the top 2 halls from each group will be able to proceed on to the semi-finals of the tournament. Our hall was placed in Group B, alongside last year’s finalist, Hall 9, semifinalists, Hall 7. Other opponents in Group B consisted of Halls 2, 4, 5, 15 and 16. Qualification for the semis will not be a walk in the park, as statistics has showed; you can only afford to lose at most 1 game to qualify within the top 2 at the end of the group stage.

Day 1, game 1, our opponents were hall 16. Despite a bout of some nervousness by the players, a simple yet effective pep talk by the team’s player cum bench coach, Jeffrey, to play to everyone’s best potential, certainly did the trick. The starting lineup consisted of Alex Chu, Karl, Kok Leong, Soo Huey and Kaiyan. Each player will have to win 2 boards out of the 3 that will be played with the opponent to earn a set point for our team. Our male players steamrolled their opponents, taking the first 3 sets with ease, without dropping a single board in the process. We will eventually overcome Hall 16 with a scoreline of 4-1 to kickoff our campaign with a good start. Game 2 pitted us against Hall 4. The starting lineup remained the same with the male players continuing to dominate their opponents with perfect 3-0 victories each. In the end, Hall 4 was dispatched with relative ease with another 4-1 victory. 2 convincing wins out of the first 2 games, it is no wonder the team is brimming with confidence as we headed into the second half of Day 1.

Game 3 and our opponent will be Hall 7, one of the seeded teams in Group B. The arrival of Vanessa meant a small reshuffling of our starting lineup with her replacing Kaiyan. Perhaps it was the fatigue settling in, or perhaps it was due to the longer than usual interval between Games 2 and 3, as our male players lost a bit of their steam coming into Game 3 with Kok Leong losing his set 2-1, whilst Karl and Alex Chu rued missed opportunities as well with narrow 2-1 wins over their opponents. Nonetheless, Hall 7 was overcame with yet another 4-1 score and our team was looking good, going into the fourth and final game for Day 1.

Game 4, our team took on the challenge of Hall 15 who looked like serious contenders for the top 2 spots having picked up a sensational victory over Hall 9 earlier in the day. Although we would eventually overcome Hall 15 with yet another 4-1 score, all the players agreed that 15 was perhaps the toughest opponents we have played so far. With that, Day 1 was concluded with our team sitting pretty on top of Group B with 4 wins out of 4. But we all knew that this group stage is far from being wrapped up. Day 2, our first opponents came in the form of Hall 2. Karl’s friendship with the Hall 2’s best player gave him a good insight of the strength of our opponents. After all, Hall 2 are the only one besides us to boast a perfect 4 wins out of 4 in Day 1. A victory against them will put us in a really good position to qualify as top of the group for the semis. As we predicted, it was really a tough game as we have to squeeze out a narrow 3-2 margin to beat Hall 2.

Our opponents for Game 6 did not give us an easy time as well, for our team was required to work for the win again, edging past Hall 5 with a 3-2 win. News soon filtered through that Hall 2 lost their game against Hall 7. This meant that we have already qualified as top of the group because both our nearest rivals, Halls 2 and 9 having already registered 2 losses, can no longer overtake us. This was certainly good news to us for we can afford to relax for a while and look forward to the semifinal game. Game 7, our opponents were Hall 9, last year’s finalist. For this last game, Jeffrey came in for Alex Chu and Kaiyan replaced Soo Huey. Although the outcome of this game bore no significance to us, we were reminded to focus as usual because beating Hall 9 will eliminate them from the tournament. However, when a hungry team meets a less-than-motivated team, most people will place their bets with the hungry team, in this case, Hall 9. Indeed, they swept past us, and it is only because of Kaiyan’s win, did we manage to escape a 5-0 trashing. The challenge now for the team is to forget about this loss and focus on the semifinal game with Hall 10.

It would seem that the loss to Hall 9 served to be a blessing in disguise. Our darts players were given a wake up call, that we are not invincible. This became apparent as we stormed past Hall 10 with a 5-0 scoreline to stake our claims as a strong contender for the championship. As expected, Hall 3 overcame Hall 9 to advance to the final with us. Although we were up against the defending champions, our players were not to be fazed by the occasion. Alex Chu and Karl both produced commanding performances to take down their opponents. With the score tied at 2-2, both halls turned their attention to the final game where Vanessa is still tied 1-1 with her opponent. However, we did not have to wait long to celebrate as Vanessa confidently threw her dart into the “double 8” area to win the last and deciding set to win the final for us.

With that, IHRG darts came to an end as the Hall 6 darts team swept all before them to take down the first Recreation Gold for Hall 6. All the late night trainings, competitive heads-up games between players, drills and online research has finally culminated into the Gold medal for our team. Not only that, this season our team produced arguably one of the best players of the tournament, in Alex Chu (8 wins in . Vanessa won her first gold medal with her first appearance in a recreation game for Hall 6 and Captain Karl made good his proclamation that the darts team will be the first team to clinch a gold medal for Hall 6. To end off, the darts team would like to thank their captain, Karl, for the trainings he conducted, Kok Leong, for his online research, managers Alex Chu and Yoke Hwa for their phonecalls and smses, Jeffrey, for his coaching and scouting on match days 1 and 2, and the players, Vanessa, Soo Huey, Kaiyan and Yosef for their commitment to the team. We would also like to thank President JingLun and Rec Directors Eddie and Kaiyang for their support for the team throughout the season. Last but not least, the year 1 players who have been diligently attending training throughout the season.

Continue to train hard for the next season! Ovia!

Story By: Tan Kok Leong

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Hall 6 as Semifinalist in IHRG Contract Bridge 2009

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Prelim:	Hall 6 vs Hall 9 (3-25)
	Hall 6 vs Hall 10 (25-1)
	Hall 6 vs Hall 11 (24-6)
Quarter Final:	Hall 6 vs Hall 12 (16-14)
Semifinal:	Hall 6 vs Hall 9 (0-25)

It is a very great achievement of Hall 6 bridge players because last year we lost in preliminary. Thus, thank you very much for Jun Hong, Wei Lun, Fund, and Elizabeth Teo aka E.T for your hard work so that hall 6 can go to semifinal. And also thank you for Wilson, Eddie, Kai Yang, Angel, and Novi for their great support during the game

The journey of hall 6 bridge started at IBRG when Wei Lun, Fund, Wilson, Angel, and Novi were joining the hall 6 bridge team. Since October, we have undergone training every Monday night. Then, I decided to measure how strong our bridge players are, by involving them in NTU Closed competition against hall 12 and friendly match against hall 2. Consequently, we lost to hall 12 and also to hall 2. By then, I decided to make lecture session for the basic bidding system, declarer play, and defensive play.

We have intensive training for three days at morning and night. During the training, the players are learning how to bid correctly, basic defensive play, and advance declarer play. The players are listening very well and giving questions whenever they do not understand. As a result, we are ready to give our best for the IHRG. Our target is semifinalist.

The first match against hall 9 we lost very badly by 3-25. The formation is Kadiam-Jun Hong and Wei Lun-Fund. For us, it does not matter because hall 9 players are NTU IVP players from contract bridge club. For against hall 10 and hall 11, we used another formation which is Kadiam-E.T and Jun Hong-Wei Lun. This new formation can make hall 6 to win consecutively when against hall 10 (by 25-1) and hall 11 (by 24-6). Then, Hall 6 can go to quarter final as runner-up of group A.

At quarter final, we against Hall 12, which is the winner of group C. We used formation Kadiam-E.T and Jun Hong-Fund. Even though we lost to Hall 12 during NTU Closed, we do not give up when we face them in IHRG. We gave our best work, and it results in very tight point difference. We won by 16-14 against hall 12. Hall 6 go to semifinal, YEAHH!! We are very excited until E.T go to second floor of the function hall, and she screamed, “I love hall 6!”

During semifinal, Hall 9 has shown their strength again, and we lost more badly by 0-25. We are still proud as semifinalist in IHRG Contract Bridge 2008. Great job to Jun Hong, Wei Lun, Fund, and E.T for your great, great hard work.

See you again at IHRG Contract Bridge 2009. Our target for 2009 is Finalist.

Story by: Go Ka Diam (Captain Hall 6 Contract Bridge 2008).

Scrabble

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Contract bridge

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Weiqi - Overall Quarterfinalist

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Snooker

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Prelims:	4 - 1	(Hall 6 win Hall 13)
	3 - 2	Hall 6 win Hall 11)
Quarter-final:	4 - 1	(Hall 6 win Hall 5)
Semifinal:	3- 2	(Hall 6 win Hall 2)
Final:	2 - 3	(Hall 6 lose to Hall 11)

Snooker is the second recreation game for the IHRG, and our snooker team has done us proud by attaining 2nd in position after 5 tough matches.

In the preliminary round last Thursday, we were up against Hall 13. Having a comfortable win of score 4-1 over Hall 13 is a good warm-up for our players as the next game is up against last-year snooker champs, Hall 11 in the winner-bracket match. Despite all the doubts and fears, our players gave their full concentration and put up a strong fight against Hall 11. Our players’ efforts had paid off by having victory over Hall 11 with the score of 3-2, qualifying to the quarter-finals.

With much more time to train and build up confidence, our team had another good match against Hall 5 with 4-1 score, moving up to semi-finals. The fourth match against Hall 2 is truly an exciting game. Initially we were down with the score of 1-2. Wen Han put up a strong fight against her opponent. Even though she was trailing behind in the start, she managed to force a tie at the end of the time limit. Given another five minutes extension, Wen Han used all her energy to focus on the game and give her opponent tough balls to hit. As a result, Wen Han put it off and won her opponent over a small margin. As for Alex, our last player is up against an IVP. With his 120% concentration on the game, Alex incredibly overcame his opponent and won the game. With the score of 3-2, we advanced to the finals, up against Hall 11, once again.

The last match for the day is the highlight of the day - The top 2 teams in Group A competing with each other from the preliminary round to finals. Hall 11, being the champions for last year, brought out a good fight with us. The first game ended when Jeffery overcame his opponent by scoring 126 points within 30 minutes, but our team was subsequently down 1-2 when Kok Leong and Kai Jian lost to their strong opponents. Despite that, Wen Han and Alex put up a strong fight in hope to overturn the tables. Just like the game with Hall 2, Wen Han was trailing behind with a gap, until her opponent began to make mistakes. That was when Wen Han slowly caught up and eventually won with a small margin. That overturn win gave our Hall supporters hope to win the champion, but were disappointed when Alex lost the last game. Nevertheless, everyone applauded as the great game ended, indicating the end of the Snooker IHRG.

We ended 2nd in Snooker IHRG. All these cannot be done with the dedication of the snooker players who spend their precious days for training, as well as our supporters who spend their time cheering and stand by our snooker team. Thank all of you! Without you all, we would not have made it so far! Hall 6 Snooker team, we are proud of you!

Story by: Eddie (Recreational Director)

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Carrom

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Othello Day 1 - We’re Into the Semis!

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Score:
3 - 2 (Hall 6 win Hall 5)
5 - 0 (Hall 6 win Hall 4)
4 - 1 (Hall 6 win Hall 2)
5 - 0 (Hall 6 win Hall 12)
5 - 0 (Hall 6 win Hall 7)
3 - 2 (Hall 6 win Hall 9)

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Today marks the first day of the Inter-Hall Recreational Games and what better way to start this exciting period with starling winning streak in the preliminary rounds of Othello!

The first win against Hall 5 is a good warm-up and a wake-up call for our players. Winning 3-2 came as a shock as we expected a better outcome. Nevertheless, this being the 1st game is ironically the best match that we could have as our players were more cautious in the following games. During the second match against Hall 4, our players were evidently warm-up and we managed to beat them 5-0 without much obstacles.

Our team is picking up momentum with yet another good match against Hall 2 with 4-1 score. In the fourth match, with the return of Kang Chien, our team finally played against Hall 12 with our 5 best players and won them 5-0. The fifth match was the deciding factor for us to proceed to the semi-finals as Hall 7 is on par with us in terms of player strength and number of matches won. But the one week intensive training that Sing Phang, our Othello Captain, initiated paid off. Not only did we win the match, we won with a surprising 5-0 against them. Needless to say, we were elated and felt a renewed surge of confidence and energy that pushed us through the remaining games. The sixth match against Hall 8 came in good timing as we have time to cool down and prep ourselves for the final match against Hall 9. Now, it is a question of being seeded 1st or 2nd.

The last match for the day is the highlight of the day - The top 2 teams in Group A competing with each other for the placing of 1st seed. Hall 9, being the champions for last year, brought out a good fight with us. The last board ended 1st where Robin lost, but that was quickly compensated with the win from Kang Chien. Sing Phang’s defeat was covered by Henny’s victory. Now it is 2-2 and the last board playing is Eddie’s. Our Recreational Director did not disappoint us. Even when his board is the only one left in the arena, even when he is the deciding factor for our placing, even when he is playing against the Captain, Eddie managed to pull through and won the board, winning the match with an overall of 3-2. Everyone applauded as the great game ended, indicating the end of the preliminary rounds of Othello.

We are now 1st seeded, going against Hall 10 in the semi-finals and possibly, the finals. All these cannot be done with the dedication of the Othello players who spend their precious week for intensive training.

Story by: Kai Yang (Asst Recreational Director)