The RPI Badminton Club successfully hosted the Fall 2004 RPI-Syracuse University badminton competition on the past Saturday, November 6 in the ’87 Gym. The competition consists of 15 official best-of-three matches, including 10 men’s double’s, two women’s double’s, one mixed double, one men’s single and one women’s single. RPI won the competition 12-3. More than 30 members from RPI’s club participated in this event. Besides enthusiastic students, Professor Malik Magdon-Ismail from the computer science department won the men’s single and two men’s double matches.
As the first inter-college badminton tournament at RPI, the RPI-Syracuse competition started in fall of 2003 and is scheduled to be held at RPI in the fall and Syracuse in the spring. It has become a very important event to the both clubs and significantly contributed to skill improvement and inter-club friendship development.
Jie Wan and Gehua Yang contributed to this report.
