* Saturday, Nov 13th *
Rally Niagara hosted its first large scale tournament in two years. 80 participants (54 teams) competed in 5 events - MS, WS, MD, WD, and XD across all skill levels. It was an exciting day filled with many surprising and intense games. Participants included players from CA, OH, NJ, NY, and PA along. It was good to see various clubs join us and included Club28 in Philadelphia, PA, the Filipino Badminton Club of NJ and Guilderland. In the state of NY, participants from the colleges at Binghamton, Buffalo, Albany, Syracuse, and both Rochester institutions (U of R & RIT) were in attendance.
Winners of each event detailed below as well as photos and tournament brackets:
* Photos can be found under the Rally Niagara Badminton Facebook page under photos:
https://www.facebook.com/RallyNiagaraBadmintonClub/
Men's Singles:
"A" division:
1st place - Jordan Nivers-Johnson (Guilderland) 21-16, 21-18 over Alex Wang (U of R)
"B" division:
1st place - Sandeep Yalamanchili (Rally Niagara) 21-15, 16-21, 21-14 over Yawar Abbas Hakim (Rally Niagara)
"C" division:
1st place Marvin Zhu (U of R) 21-11, 21-17 over Karthik Dantu (Rally Niagara)
"D" division:
1st place Jon Hacker (Rally Niagara) 8-21, 21-14, 21-18 over Manoj Yedururi (Rally Niagara)
Women's Singles:
"A" division:
1st place - Shaw-Ree Chen (Badfans) 21-14, 21-19 over Emily Baskind (Guilderland)
"B" division:
1st place - Ting Kang (Syracuse) 21-15, 21-15 over Magree Wang (RIT)
Men's Doubles:
"A" division:
1st place - Jaysen / Marvin (U of R) 27-25, 17-21, 21-18 over Zarni / Jerry (Rally Niagara)
"B" division:
1st place - Dan / Sal (Rally Niagara) 21-13, 21-15 over Aditya / Chris (Binghamton)
"C" division:
1st place Tanish / Hetram (Rally Niagara) 21-14, 22-20 over Pradeep / Nitin (Rally Niagara)
"D" division:
1st place Aniruddha / Yu-Wei (Syracuse) 21-16, 21-15 over James / Stanley (Ind. / Rally Niagara)
Women's Doubles:
"A" division:
1st place - Alisa / Shaw-Ree (Rally Niagara / Badfans) 21-13, 21-14 over Wendy / Disha (Rally Niagara / Ind.)
"B" division:
1st place - Mabelle / Emain (Club28 / FBCNJ) 21-19, 21-18 over Christine / Jyotsna (Ind. / Rally Niagara)
"C" division:
1st place Ella / Yanping (Rally Niagara) 21-19, 21-16 over Qige / Magree (RIT)
Mixed Doubles:
"A" division:
1st place - Zarni / Alisa (Rally Niagara) 20-22, 21-16, 21-18 over Mat / Shaw-Ree (RIT / Badfans)
"B" division:
1st place - Kyle / Emain (FBCNJ) 17-21, 21-19, 21-16 over Dan & Disha (Rally Niagara / Ind.)
"C" division:
1st place Po Yen / Ting (Syracuse) 21-19, 21-16 over Christophe / Joyce (Syracuse)