The competition truly brought the East and West together. The team members from across Canada worked as one team cheering each other on, bonding both in and outside of the arena and generally setting up a spirit of cohesion. The team played, ate and trained together. Although, overall, Canada did not do particularly well, some of the best moments came from BC’s Tan Nguyen and Khyber Barnett. Tan was given the honor of being selected Co-Team Captain. He did a great job of leading cheers and keeping the team cohesive.
Canada and the US showed their strong friendship by playing with each other with their back and forth cheers and songs. At one point, the US team (all in the spirit of fun and play) stole the Canadian cheer that was created by Tan, causing Tan and some of the other experienced Canadian competitors to lead Canadian cheers from the US Seats.
The competition began with great promise and excitement as Khyber Barnett was victorious (4-1) against Peru in the first match of the competition. Khyber was eventually knocked out of medal contention in a 2/3 split decision in favor of Ecuador. Excitement built again as Tan won match after match to miss making it to the podium with a loss to Peru in repacharge.
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