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CMS Games 2011 Off To A Colourful Start

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Saturday 2 July 2011 Kuching – CMS Games 2011 got off to a colourful, noisy and exciting start this morning marking the beginning of over 3 months of games to be held nearly every weekend to find the Overall Winning House for the CMS Games 2011 Challenge Trophy. This year’s Games involves Kuching-based staff from all SBUs and operations numbering nearly 1,300. Staff have been fairly divided into 8 teams to compete in a series of tournaments in futsal, badminton, bowling, football, the CMS Health Run and more.

All 8 teams put their best foot forward at the Opening Ceremony to ‘scare’ the other teams. Some came with pom-poms and cheer leaders, one house had a tiger mascot, another had a Maori-like Haka introduction. With loud banners and even louder war-cries from the teams, it was a sight to see! In the end, it was the Black team led by Isaac Lugun and Danny Sim with their Haka that won the Best Cheer-leading prize.

Group Managing Director, Dato’ Richard Curtis, and Group Executive Director, Datuk Syed Ahmad Alwee Alsree, did the honours to launch the Games carnival and play a badminton match. After that, the professionals took to the court – badminton was the first of seven sports to be held.

CMS Games returns after a very long hiatus. Group-wide sports carnivals such as football, badminton, bowling and futsal were previously highly anticipated events in the annual staff calendar. These included the CMS Track & Field carnival held in September 2005, Trophy Cahya Football in 2006 and Cahya