2010 Grace Ping-pong Tournament Results, Stories and Gratitude I:Results Women’s Group Gold Medal: Hongyu Meng Silver Medal: Amy Lin Bronze Medal: Eva Pastor Wendy. Fourth Place: Pastor Wendy th nd 5 to 22 : (not in sequence) Liping Wang, Jialun Yuan, Stephanie, Miaohua Zhang, Xiaoxia Tan, Yinghua Tan, Jin Shen, Yuanyuan Li, Rosie Sheng. Men’s Group Gold Medal: Jinkai Yu Silver Medal: Younong Xu Willian Kuo Bronze Medal: William Kuo Fourth Place: Jiecheng Yu 5 th -8 th Place:Jian Zhang, Huisheng Ren, Kevin Hao, Wenhui Huang 9th to 48th Place (not in sequence) Chao Liu, Xuebin Li, Xiaojiao Li, Zhanxin Wang, Chris Fong, He Li, William Cheung, Pastor Hao, Shiqun, Joe, Liangong Yu, Billy, Jimmy Huang, Yifan Xu, Liwei Peng, Beijing Men, Yann, Zijun Liu, Chad Fong, Dylan Xiao, Xianwu Li, Jack… Note: Three Black Horses in this Tournament 1.Billy: In the game from 16 to 8, Billy defeated uncle Beijing Men, last Silver Medalist, by 2:1. Amazing, Each wave in Long River is pushing forward, the following wave is higher and stronger than the previous one. Billy dumped uncle Beijing on to the beach 2. Pastor Wendy is talent and good at playing pingpang and entered the 4th place after defeat many strong players. 3. Professor Hongyu Meng kept the winning streak from the small group up to the championship. Register Player: Men 48, women 22, total of 70 Participants: Men 34, Women 15, total of 49 II:Match Stories Samamish players Liwei Peng and his father in law were drawing in one group. Chao Liu begged Younong Xu for 5 handicaps. Shame on you, Charlie! Are you going to do it again Seed player, Elizabeth, forgot the match. Her cell phone was on silent, did get the phone remind and was eliminated. What a pity! Sammamish player, Liping Wang, was too nervous about the game and her calf muscle was fighting hard on strike. Upon negotiation, the calf muscle agreed to enter the matches Staphanie entered group 4th place without playing even one game. All her competitors was scared to play with her Xiaoxia Tan was hurried to finish one game due to a family guest. Though she lost the chances of final matches, we thank her for her positive attitude and participation. Seed player, Miaohua Zhang, was so excited about the tournament and about the Saturday church lunch that she couldn’t sleep until 5:00am. Maiohua was very successfully eliminated the first round He li with the front rubber paddle was defeated 9:11 by the champion Jinkai Yu in third game of second play off. He almost dumped uncle Yu on the sand beach Lulu was defeated two 9:11 by the Silver Medal holder, Amy Lin, due to the high heel shoe. She was too shy to go without shoes. She might have a winning chance with proper shoes. This is all Pastor Hao’s fault. Pastor Hao, would you please buy her a pair of nice Ping-pong shoes for the nest tournament Though brother Ren’s lower back was on strike, he still played hard and won the six place in this 40 player tournament. Admirations Pastor Hao’s pre-game practice had made a great deal of improvement. He was fully prepared for the game but still shied over his two sons in performance. At Kevin and Billy can pad Pastor Hao’s head to comfort the pastor On the registration book, there’s an item, “Do you want to name yourself from a bible verses?” Like “Love each other”, “Faith”, “Peace” “Fire of Hope” ”Hope of the tree at the river”…… Couple players: Lulu and Pastor Hao, Jerry and Eva, Liping Wang and XiaoJiao Li, Wenhui Huang and yinghua Tang, Miaohua Zahng and Yi Yang (Referee) Father Son Players: Xueping Li and He Li, Pastor Hao and Billy/Kevin, Liweipeng and Zhanxin Wang(in-law) III:Gratitude Thanks God for the brothers and sisters communications through ping-pong matches and the successful completion of the game! Thanks for the participations of brothers and sisters! Special thanks go to Mother Sheng, 82 years old and Gege, 12 years old and brothers and sisters from Sammamish, visiting scholors, friends and Younong Xu from Evangelical Chinese Church! Special thanks to Jian Zhang, Ken, Joe, Will, Hong Li, Miaohua Zhang, Lucy, Priscilla, Beijing Men, Uncle Zhang, Yi Yang, Zhifeng Wang, Liwei Peng, Pastor Hao and Pastor Wendy for their organization, planning, purchasing the souvenirs, transportation, food supplies and preparation, cleaning, grouping the players, preparing the forms, referees, photography and prayers. Thanks again from the bottom of our heart! All the glories and thanks to the God who loves us! IV:Notes The souvenirs (T-shirt) and the rewards will be distributed in two weeks. All the game photos, www.gracechineselutheran.org please visit: