THE UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK
Singapore Society
Warwick Summer Games 2014
The 6th Annual Warwick Summer Games (WSG) was held on the 23rd of August 2014, at Raffles Institution (Year 5 and 6 Campus) and comprised seven sports (Soccer, Touch Rugby, Basketball, Netball, Table Tennis, Floorball and Ultimate Frisbee) and two games (Monopoly Deal and Scrabble). As usual, proceeds from the event were donated to the adopted beneficiary: the Children's Aid Society.
This year, WSG was proud to have Mr Baey Yam Keng, Member of Parliament for Tampines GRC, as our guest of honour. Mr Baey, an alumnus of both Imperial College London and University College London (UCL), kickstarted the day of inter-collegiate competition with a rousing opening address, before interacting with the Sports Officers and Representatives of the various universities. They then participated enthusiastically, along with over 700 other competitors and spectators, in a short filming coordinated by the Overseas Singaporean Unit (OSU) to celebrate Singapore's Golden Jubilee next year.
Ultimately, of course, WSG boiled down to fierce but respectful competition throughout the day, with dozens of exciting matches taking place throughout the campus, as the various Singapore Societies stepped up to defend their titles or claw their way to supremacy, one point at a time. Among the more interesting teams were the "Warwick Old Birds", comprising recent graduates of the University, who came back to show everyone that newer isn't always better, emerging as champions of the frisbee tournament over their junior batches. Similarly, WSG was happy to welcome back the frisbee team from the OSU, whose slightly more mature team members took to the fields with the young and spry undergraduates and gave them a good run for their money.
At the end of the day, everyone enjoyed themselves with plenty of friends and sunshine all around, despite the threat of rain in the late afternoon, and welcomed our freshmen into the community of overseas Singaporean students in the UK. After tallying up the scores, Team UCL were crowned champions of WSG 2014, a title they will have to defend at WSG 2015!
RESULTS
Basketball
1st - Manchester B
2nd - Warwick A
3rd - Team A
Floorball
1st - Imperial B
2nd - Imperial A
3rd - Manchester
Netball
1st - Manchester
2nd - Warwick
3rd - LSE
Frisbee
1st - Warwick Old Birds
2nd - Warwick A
3rd - Warwick B
Touch Rugby
1st - Manchester
2nd - Imperial
3rd - SMSI
Football
1st - UCL
2nd - LSE
3rd - Leeds
Table Tennis (M)
1st - LSE
2nd - LSE
3rd - UCL
Table Tennis (W)
1st - Durham
2nd - UCL
3rd - UCL
Monopoly Deal
1st - UCL 2
2nd - UCL 3
3rd - Imperial 2
Scrabble
1st - UCL 2
2nd - Warwick 1
3rd - UCL 1
OVERALL
1st - UCL
2nd - Manchester
3rd - Warwick
Warwick Singapore Society would like to thank Raffles Institution for allowing us to use their campus and facilities to host the games. WSG 2014 would also no have been possible without the help of our sponsors.
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