Wednesday, August 12th, 2009
Tags: 09, isbt, norway, oppsal arena, oslo
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Sunday, July 26th, 2009
Me and Jay are in Terenure today for a badminton tournament. I’m writing this as I watch him playin’ singles! It’s a nice badminton-only club with about 6 courts,actual vending machines and an equipment shop. Heres a coue of pics so far!
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Monday, April 20th, 2009
ISBT Norway
Yuppppp, I’m goin’ to Norway in August!! 
Me, Mr. Kinsella and a few other from UCC Badminton club are heading to Oslo for the 17th Anual International Student Badminton Tournament (ISBT).
Heres some more info on what exactly an ISBT involves!!
International Student Badminton Tournament (ISBT) is a badminton tournament organised for students, by students. They take place all over Europe, including England, Ireland, Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Norway and Russia. ISBT’s promote both the sport of badminton and the social aspect of the game.
ISBT’s are open to all standards of player. Many of the tournaments allow recent graduates to enter under their former clubs. The players are divided into 4 categoriesEach player competes in two out of the three disciplines: singles, doubles and mixed doubles. Each match consists of 2 games, so that the result is either a win, loss or draw.
The tournaments are usually 3 to 4 days long and consist of playing badminton during the day and partying at night. Competitors often sleep in the same sports hall where the matches are played and are typically woken up in the morning to the sound of themed music and announcements of the first match of the day. A good example of such a wake up song is ‘Gutenmorgen Sonnenschein’ by Nina Miskouri. In the event that a player does not turn up for a match, their opponent will receive a walk-over and full points. ISBTs are usually themed, with a fancy dress party on the last night.
ISBT’s have grown rapidly in popularity over the last few years. One of the biggest ISBT of the year takes place from the December 28 to January 1 in Enschede, Netherlands; in 2008 over 240 players from all over Europe entered.
Source: Wikipedia
After playing in the ISBT Limerick before and having a bit of success (even tho I was more than tipsy the night before 
), I definetly cant wait for Norway!
ISBT’s are great fun and you meet all kinds of strange people, sleep most of the day, stay up most of the night and bring loads of sweeties to eat while yer waiting around. I bet Norweigan people are really strange! :p
This years theme is “Las Vegas”. Ah yes. I can wear a glitzy little number 
Check out some of the pictures from last year
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Pressure?
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Myself and Jay looking as gorgeous as ever
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Mairead, Kyla and emmmm?
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Liam sleeping between matches, its only secion A anyway.pffft
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Eoin and Colm
Tags: Badminton, isbt, norway, oslo, UCC
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Tuesday, March 31st, 2009
It’s not often I express great enthusiasm in the things I do but going abroad is the exception!
Myself and Mr. Kinsella have started the planning and are once again visiting The City of Lights in November to watch some superseries badminton!
Featuring all the top players and our personal favourite, Donna Kellogg!! (our Donna). Its a great chance to get a few autographs, see the city, meet other fans, buy the all important exclusive merchandise!! (yonex, anyone?) and most importantly, be up in all the players “mouches” as they walk around the grounds!
The tournament is held in the Stade Pierre de Coubertin not long outside of the city. Its a cool venue with a relaxed atmosphere and its near the Stade Jean-Bouin(the training grounds of Stade Francais, with even more opportunity for merchandise, see the trend here?!) and Roland Garros.
Any badminton fans fancy comin’ along? (we only fly Air France btw)
Maybe these pics from last year might entice ya! Hope ta see ya there
A trip down the Moulin Rouge
See, top players! :O Alez!
Us with Pi! The french number one!
Players lounge behind the sign, and all the fancy merchandise!
Tags: Badminton, paris, superseries
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