For three consecutive days from the 18th to 20th of August, Lufbru and BruLeics Society; two Bruneian Societies of university students from Loughborough and Leicester, UK respectively collaborated together to organise this year’s Lufbru Summer Games 2017. Lufbru Summer Games or otherwise well known as ‘LSG’ is a 3-day sports event and has been hosted in Brunei Darussalam for the eleventh time in a row. This year also marks the first time ever for Lufbru and their friendly neighbour, Bruleics, to collaborate for LSG.
Its main objective which caters to students studying overseas still remains the same for 11 years; to nurture students’ friendships through their passion for sports, to encourage a healthy fit lifestyle and to raise a healthy competitive environment amongst the youth. The motto for LSG 2017 was ‘Victory Through Determination’ as the LSG Executive Committee 2017 consisting of both Lufbru and Bruleics society members believe that it illustrates “how determination and enough of it, can and will lead to victory”
LSG 2017 completed successfully with the generous support and contribution from the following event sponsors. The gold sponsors included DST and Rainfresh whereas the silver sponsor was AIFA only. However, bronze sponsors involved Superwater Marketing Sendirian Berhad, Micronet, Seri Bumi Consultant, Aewon Brunei, Riza Printing, Kian Teck Earthworks co, Loughborough University and BW Deals. Other than event sponsors, LSG was approved and supported by the Ministry of Education and Ministry of Home Affairs.
On the first day of LSG, Ustazah Hajijah Binti Haji Moktal, acting director from the Islamic Studies section, Ministry of Religious Affairs, was invited to launch the games during the opening ceremony.
The first day hosted a netball tournament in UBD Sports Complex for almost 80 students which had included students studying abroad from the United Kingdom and Egypt. The netball tournament format was round-robin between eight teams followed by an elimination stage between the top four teams. By the end of the first day, BruNotts Kerupok and Stabilo were placed 3rd and 2nd respectively whereas Silver Lightning was awarded as the Netball Champion. Individual awards were also given on the day to Umairah Sanusi as the Best Defender, Umi Haziyah Mohd Norzairi as the Top Scorer and Dk Farah Syazana Pg Anak Hj Ya’akob as MVP.
On the second day of LSG, Cikgu Akandi bin Haji Razak, officer from the scholarship section, Ministry of Education, attended the opening ceremony to give an opening speech to another 80 students, different from the first day. The second day hosted a futsal tournament in UBD Sports Complex and the format was similar to the Netball tournament with a round robin between eight teams followed by an elimination stage between the top four teams. MDA FT and BruHall were placed as 3rd and 2nd respectively whereas Gün Squad was determined to be the Futsal Champion. For individual awards, Mohammad Azeezuddee’n bin Mohd Ismaon was awarded as the top scorer, Amir Darul as the best defender, Wan Waiz Muliai bin Wan Roslan as the best goalkeeper and Brian Lim as MVP.
On the final day of LSG, a badminton tournament in Dewan Sukan, Sekolah Sukan was hosted. Each badminton category had only a round robin format.
For the men’s single category, Wong Dee Yeong was awarded the champion whereas Muhammad Najmi bin D.P Hj Jaidin was the runner up and Jonathan Heng as the second runner up.
For the women’s singles category, Nuraina Izzati binti Othman claimed first place followed by Khairunnadya binti Sanay for second and Yvonne Lim Woan Jen for third.
For the men’s doubles category, Lufbris 2.0 took the gold medal, Curry Laksa took silver medal whereas BCR took bronze medal.
For the women’s doubles category, Since 1999 managed to outplay other teams to get first place followed by Little Senshi for second and Powerluff Girls for third.
For the mixed doubles category, BruNotts was placed as the number one team followed by JJ as second and Lib Geng as third.
Annually, during summer break, Lufbru Summer Games is considered as a platform where Bruneian students who are studying abroad especially from the United Kingdom, to come back to Brunei, gather and compete with hopes to rekindle a healthy competitive mindset and to tighten our relationships.
Written by:
Amirul Ehsan
LufBru President
