Photos from Google vs. Yahoo! Badminton Tournament

I played in 3 events: Men’s Singles A, Men’s Doubles A, Mixed Doubles A and lost all 3 and went into consolation rounds and won the Mixed Doubles A consolation. It was fantastic to organize it and meet so many people at Yahoo! and Google who all play badminton. Several of the matches were very close and I enjoyed toying with my opponents to put my training to practice.

The most memorable game was when I was down 10 to 3 and I started to get serious and dragged him out to a 17 to 16 lost. He was horrified that I was able to catch up. I was barely tired.

What I learned

• I am super competitive and could be very loud on the courts
• I love love tournaments, will need to play in more. This is the first one in 15 years
• I can’t be too relaxed in the beginning and give my opponents too much of a lead
• I need to finish a game to the end and take the win.

Here are the pics

• http://picasaweb.google.com/shared.photos2007/20071216GoogleVSYahoo
• http://picasaweb.google.com/chabiment/BadmintonGoogleVsYahooWinter2007