{"id":69,"date":"2014-03-02T00:12:16","date_gmt":"2014-03-01T16:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tembusu.nus.edu.sg\/treehouse\/?p=69"},"modified":"2025-09-25T16:49:39","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T08:49:39","slug":"tembusu-wins-utowns-inaugural-inter-college-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tembusu3.nus.edu.sg\/treehouse\/2014\/03\/tembusu-wins-utowns-inaugural-inter-college-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Tembusu wins UTown\u2019s inaugural Inter-College Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, 23 Feb at 6.30pm, Tembusu College was announced champion of the Inter-College Games (ICG), one of NUS UTown\u2019s key annual flagship events. Tembusu earned a total of 32 points, with Yale-NUS getting 30 points, University Scholars Programme 24 points, and College of Alice and Peter Tan 18 points.<\/p>\n<p>Tembusu came out tops in Ultimate Frisbee, Captain\u2019s Ball, Badminton and Duathlon, with Tembusu teams placing 1<sup>st<\/sup> and 3<sup>rd<\/sup> for Ultimate Frisbee and Captain\u2019s Ball, 1<sup>st<\/sup> for Badminton, and 1<sup>st<\/sup> for Duathlon with a timing of 20 mins 15 secs.<\/p>\n<p>The Ultimate Frisbee teams played particularly well, scoring 15-2, 12-1 and 12-4 against the USP teams in the semi-finals. \u00a0As for badminton, some of the games were walkovers as USP sent only one team instead of two.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_73\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-73\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tembusu.nus.edu.sg\/treehouse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Tembusu-ICG-frisbee.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-73\" alt=\"Tembusu ICG frisbee\" src=\"http:\/\/tembusu.nus.edu.sg\/treehouse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Tembusu-ICG-frisbee.jpg\" width=\"460\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tembusu3.nus.edu.sg\/treehouse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Tembusu-ICG-frisbee.jpg 640w, https:\/\/tembusu3.nus.edu.sg\/treehouse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Tembusu-ICG-frisbee-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/tembusu3.nus.edu.sg\/treehouse\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Tembusu-ICG-frisbee-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-73\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tembusu&#8217;s Ultimate Frisbee teams celebrating after a win (Photo: Instagram)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Yale-NUS made a strong showing as well, winning Basketball, Soccer, Dodgeball \u2013 just beating Tembusu \u2013 and Tchoukball. USP placed first in Floorball, with Tembusu garnering the first runner-up position. CAPT won Table Tennis, and also got first place for Tug-O-War, as did USP.<\/p>\n<p>All the four colleges \u2013 CAPT, USP, Tembusu and Yale-NUS \u2013 got a base 3 points for fielding more than 10 teams. Subsequently, each college\u2019s standing in the Games depended on their performance during the matches.<\/p>\n<p>The ICG spanned two weeks, on the weekends of 15-16 and 22-23 February, and was held at various locations all over UTown. This inaugural event was organised by USP. Over 500 students are estimated to have been involved as players, volunteers or committee members.<\/p>\n<p>During the match, supporters could follow the scores on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nusicg.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">official ICG website<\/a>. There was also a promotional video made for the ICG by Tembusians, shown below.\u00a0Next year\u2019s Inter-College Games will be hosted by Tembusu College.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kHAwg_ufr3Y\" height=\"315\" width=\"560\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, Feb 23 at 6.30pm, Tembusu College was announced champion of the Inter-College Games (ICG), one of NUS UTown\u2019s key annual flagship events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","publication_type-miscellaneous","theme-college-affairs","theme-sports","scope-tembusu"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tembusu3.nus.edu.sg\/treehouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tembusu3.nus.edu.sg\/treehouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tembusu3.nus.edu.sg\/treehouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tembusu3.nus.edu.sg\/treehouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tembusu3.nus.edu.sg\/treehouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/tembusu3.nus.edu.sg\/treehouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":221,"href":"https:\/\/tembusu3.nus.edu.sg\/treehouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions\/221"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tembusu3.nus.edu.sg\/treehouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tembusu3.nus.edu.sg\/treehouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tembusu3.nus.edu.sg\/treehouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tembusu3.nus.edu.sg\/treehouse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}