2017 BU Tournament

BUKA participated its fourth and last tournament of the spring semester in its very own 6th Boston University Tournament in FitRec on April 1st. We competed with other universities and athletes in our age group along with having some opportunities to compete against some alumnis. Schools that came to compete included Brown University, Harvard University, New York University, Northeastern University, and University of Connecticut. We had full four teams to participate. All BUKA members tried their best in this tournament. The final results were amazing!

Here are the results from BUKA.

Individuals

Beginners

  • Mike Ruan
  • Jake Lee
  • Sung Song
  • Caoyue Wang
  • Jialin Zhu
  • Evangeline Tsai
  • Ryan Shimizu
  • Cici Qi
  • Don Kim
  • Nawaf Alyousif
  • Chuqing Tan
  • Chao Liu

Advanced

  • Geoffrey Gaskins
  • Yumeto Shigihara
  • Helen Zhou
  • Reina Iwase
  • Hiroki Kawai
  • Billy Pratama
  • Jay Seabrum
  • Guanyi Ji

Results

Ryan Shimizu and Hiroki Kawai won bronze and silver in their respective divisions, beginners and advanced!

Highlights

  • Don Kim and Yumeto Shigihara advanced to the semi-finals in their respective divisions before they was eliminated in beginners and advanced.

Teams

A

  1. Senpo: Ryan Shimizu
  2. Jiho: Chuqing Tan
  3. Chuken: Cici Qi
  4. Fukusho: Yumeto Shigihara
  5. Taisho: Hiroki Kawai

 

B

  1. Senpo: Nawaf Alyousif
  2. Jiho: Caoyue Wang
  3. Chuken: Chao Liu
  4. Fukusho: Jay Seabrum
  5. Taisho: Billy Pratama

C

  1. Senpo: Jake Lee
  2. Jiho: Evangeline Tsai
  3. Chuken: Don Kim
  4. Fukusho: Helen Zhou
  5. Taisho: Reina Iwase

D

  1. Senpo: Song Sung
  2. Jiho: Jialin Zhu
  3. Chuken: Mike Ruan
  4. Fukusho: Guanyi Ji
  5. Taisho: Geoffrey Gaskins

 

Results

BU A placed second and BU C placed third in teams!

Highlights

BU D made it to the quarterfinals before getting eliminated.

Good job to everyone who competed at the 6th Annual BU Tournament! This year, we changed the format of the tournament compared to the past few years. We also increased the number of courts from two to three. We had four different divisions: Individual Beginners (those with 2 years of experience or less), Individual Advanced (those with more than 2 years of experience), Alumni Team Match, and Kachinuki Round Robin with Team Match. The Individual Beginners and Individual Advanced had round robin for the winners of each court. Alumni Team consisted of a three-people team match composed of an alumni and two students with single elimination matches. Kachinuki Round Robin with Team Match involved a two minute ipponshobu King of the Hill round robin for preliminaries and team match for quarterfinals. We invited Yoshida-sensei as Shinpan-cho and Hayashi-sensei as Fukushinpan-cho. We would like to thank both senseis along with all the shinpans who volunteered their time for this tournament. The tournament would not have ran smoothly without you all! Unfortunately, we ran out of time for godo keiko because we went overtime. Sorry for those who brought their bogu just for godo keiko. Next year, we will make it so that we can do godo keiko.

Here are the overall results from the tournament!

Individual Beginners

  1. Lary Yau (New York University)
  2. Shogo Senda (New York University)
  3. Ryan Shimizu (Boston University)

Individual Advanced

  1. Sung Hun Choi (New York University)
  2. Hiroki Kawai (Boston University)
  3. Chris Yoon (New York University)

Alumni Teams

  1. Team Brian: Shun Aizawa, Iggy Choi, and Brian Joo

Teams

  1. New York University A
  2. Boston University A
  3. Boston University C and New York University B

Congratulations to everyone!

The BU Tournament definitely showed how much we have achieved since earlier this semester. With great results and improvements from all the team members, we know that our efforts in training and practicing paid off. It was fun to see all of our friends from other schools and our alumni friends who came to help and support us! Shoutout to the alumnis who reached out to some of us to be in their teams for the Alumni Team Match. We really enjoyed to be on your teams!  Thank you to everyone who helped make this tournament possible! Huge thank you to all the volunteers who spent their Saturday with us from as early as 8 A.M. to late 6 P.M. We couldn’t have done it without your efforts. Thank you to the alumnis who showed up and participated in our alumni tournament! It was fun to bond and compete along with you all. Thank you to the competitors for participating and to the shinpans for giving your time to make this tournament run smoothly! A big thank you to our coach, Alex Eitoku, for all the support and everything that you do for us! We really appreciate you!

Last, but not least, thank you to our captain and co-presidents, Reina and Helen, for organizing this tournament and for leading BUKA in the 2016-2017 school year! You two have left very big shoes to fill for next year. We hope to do our best to continue your legacy for the years to come. To all the seniors who will be graduating, thank you for being part of BUKA. We hope that you have enjoyed your past few years in BUKA and that you would continue to reach out and visit us no matter where you go. We know that even if we may or may not see you in the future, you have influenced part of our lives already. Thank you again for everything! We will miss you.

As always, thank you all for your support this past school year! As next year comes, please continue supporting us! Faito, BUKA!

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