Dr Annuar (third right, back row) presents prizes after the Nangka Constituency bumiputera badminton competition while Jimmy (second right, back row) and winners look on.
SIBU: Nangka Sports, Culture, Social and Unity Secretariat will introduce challenge trophies for four games, starting this July.
According to Assistant Minister for Education and Technological Research Dr Annuar Rapaee, they will introduce the Nangka Futsal Challenge Trophy, Nangka 7-a-side Challenge Trophy (football), Nangka Basketball Challenge Trophy and Nangka Bowling Challenge Trophy.
Under the new format, tournaments will be held every month for the four games.
“We use the term challenge because we will have (tournaments) every month. For example, Futsal Challenge Trophy will be held every first week of the month for two days over the weekend.
“Then, the following week, it will be 7-a-side Challenge Trophy (soccer), and after that, Nangka Basketball Challenge Trophy and so on,” Dr Annuar, who is also Assistant Minister of Housing and Public Health, explained.
He told reporters this after officiating at the close of the Nangka Constituency bumiputera badminton competition at MMB here, Sunday.
The new format will run for next five months until November to be continued in the following year.
“From July until November this year, we will have five tournaments of each challenge trophy,” he added.
Dr Annuar said although this is Nangka challenge trophy – tournaments for all the four games are open to all Sibu folk.
Among those present was Nangka Sports, Culture, Social and Unity Secretariat chairman Jimmy De Rozario.