Intramural table tennis came in hot with 16 players trying to win the crown. The players were War Elephants, Big T, It’s Called Ping-Pong, Cubit. Phil Gaughan, Slam King Dave, Slam Squad Marlin, Captain Carlin, Scammer v. HN10, and Lord Colin.
In the quarterfinals, the matches were Cubit v. Carlin, HN10 v. Phil Gaughin, The Engineer v. Big T, and Block Party v. Slam King Dave. Four of the players advanced to the semifinals.
Cubit and Gaughan faced off as the No. 1 and 5 seeds. The Engineer and Block Party battled it out in the second match. Cubit and The Engineer secured their spots in the championship round and The Engineer was eventually crowned the champion of the intramural table tennis season.
Abdalla Elsout, who played under “The Engineer” name, believed the match went well.
“It went pretty well…I [just] needed it. It’s been a while for me. Actually, I haven’t been practicing for the last year,” Elsout said.
“I broke my wrist so this is my first time going back but I should have definitely practiced this a little bit more, but it went really well,” he continued.
After table tennis concluded, badminton began its playoff matches. In the quarterfinals 4 matches were played and 4 of the 8 players advanced to the semifinals. In the semifinals No. 1 seed Grounder faced off against No. 5 seed GGBond and No. 7 seed Couch Potato faced off against No. 6 seed Runa. The winners of the matches were GGBond and Couch Potato. Both advanced to the finals.
In an early morning battle GGBond triumphed and was the champion for the intramural badminton season. Hoachen Huang, who played as GGBond, was pleased with his path to victory.
“It’s the first time I play[ed] abroad and it’s the first time I [won] the championship. During the game, I felt, like, angry for a bit. I didn’t think I played very well during the game,” Haung stated.
Intramural volleyball was the next sport to kick off its matches following the conclusion of table tennis and badminton.
