Volleyball Session Schedule - February

The schedule for volleyball sessions for the month of February 2009 as following:

Cyberjaya Beach Volleyball Tournament

It promised to be a hot Saturday when Urban Spikerz made their way to Cyberjaya for the first ever beach volleyball tournament organised by Cyberview Sdn Bhd in conjunction with the 51st Merdeka Carnival last August 23rd, 2008. Held at the Cyberjaya Community Lake Club, it was one of the 3 sport events open for participation to the public. The other 2 were 3-on-3 basketball and street soccer.

Urban Spikerz registered 3 teams for the tournament: Urban Legend, Urban Neo and Urban Elite. Each team consists of 3 guys and 1 girl. The organiser was expecting 24 teams to participate but on the tournament day, only 13 teams registered. During the game itself, one team pulled out — the organiser’s, no less, leaving only 12 teams in the end.

Preliminary rounds

The matches were played under the hot sun on a newly-made sand court (which the organiser plans to make permanent, I was informed, for future tournaments). They really need to do something about the sand, though. The type they use was definitely not suitable for beach volleyball. More like for building construction.

Anyway, here are the results for the preliminary rounds:

Quarter, Semi & Final

All Urban Spikerz teams got through to the quarter finals, although it was a bit unfortunate that Urban Legend and Urban Elite met each other here instead of at the semis. But at least we reached our minimum target: qualified to the quarter finals. Why? Because you win RM100 if you reach quarter final. So we got RM300 in hand already.

The weather turned bad just as the quarter final matches were about to start. It rained heavily and all games had to be put on hold. Half an hour later (it felt longer), the rain changed to a drizzle. Not wanting to delay the tournament further (it started a bit late), we continued with the quarter final matches.

Have you played beach volleyball on wet sand? Definitely not a good feel.

Anyway, here are the results for the quarter and semi-final.

Despite valiant efforts, none of the Urban Spikerz teams made it to the final. However, reaching the semi-finals itself was a major achievement since it was the first time ever we participated in a beach volleyball tournament.

It rained heavily again as Urban Neo and Urban Elite fought for the third place. After a fierce battle, it was won by Urban Neo with a score 20-18.

…pause…

Okay, the match was actually decided by a coin toss since none of them wanted to get wet. Kambing!

The final between Red and Gibaok A was pretty much even. In the end, team Red made more mistakes than Gibaok A resulting in the latter bagging the tournament with a score 15-12. They won cash money RM1,500. Congratulations! Second, third and fourth won RM700, RM500 and RM300 respectively while quarter final qualifiers received RM100 each.

So alltogether Urban Spikerz won RM900. Excellent work guys! Not bad for a one-day effort. Let’s hope we’ll do better next time. Esprit de volley! Yeaayy!!

In Memoriam...

HALIMUDDIN SUKAIMAN

10 September 1979 - 14 May 2008

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Words are just not enough to tell you how much we are missing you, my good friend. Our lives are made less without you. You were always the jester, the sun lighting up our days.. making us laugh with your antics. Things would never be the same without you around.

On behalf of the people from Urban Spikerz.. we love you, my friend. You will always be in our heart. Al-Fatihah.....